Head to head

Calm Business vs Lyra Health

Same facts, side by side: starting price, free tier, MCP, API and what each one is actually built for.

Calm Business

Sales-quoted

Employer meditation and sleep benefit. Not the consumer Calm app. Pricing is sales-quoted.

Where Calm Business fits

  • Benefits teams adding a mental-wellness app
  • Employers that want meditation and sleep, not therapy
  • Companies already comparing Headspace for Work
  • HR teams that will take a quote for a per-employee benefit

Lyra Health

Sales-quoted

Clinical employer mental-health benefit with care navigation, therapy, and psychiatry. Pricing is sales-quoted.

Where Lyra Health fits

  • Large employers that want a clinical mental-health network
  • Benefits teams that need therapy and psychiatry, not only coaching
  • Companies with a global workforce and a navigation model
  • HR leaders replacing a traditional EAP

At a glance

DetailCalm BusinessLyra Health
Starting priceSales-quotedSales-quoted
Free tier–No–No
MCP server–No–No
Public API–No–No
Listed underWellbeingWellbeing

Where they pull apart

Calm Business

Stands out: The Calm content library as an employer SKU: sleep and meditation, not therapy.

Watch out: Do not buy the consumer subscription and call it a benefit. This is a quoted employer plan, and it is not clinical care.

Not the right fit for

  • Employers that need licensed therapy
  • Teams that want a public per-employee price
  • Buyers confusing this with the consumer App Store product

Lyra Health

Stands out: The network is built around matched clinical care (therapy and psychiatry, not a meditation library with a therapist bolted on), which is why large employers treat it as the mental-health plan, not a perk.

Watch out: This is a quote-only benefits contract. Lyra AI and Lyra Empower sit on the same brand; confirm whether the SKU you are buying is the clinical network, the manager/empower layer, or both before you compare PEPM to a coaching-only vendor.

Not the right fit for

  • SMBs that want a self-serve mindfulness subscription
  • Buyers who need a public per-employee price

Pros and cons

Calm Business

  • Recognised meditation and sleep brand as an employer SKU
  • Clear split from clinical therapy vendors
  • Easy benefits-team conversation
  • Quote-only
  • Not therapy
  • Consumer app and employer SKU are easy to confuse in procurement

Lyra Health

  • Therapy and psychiatry as the core benefit, not an upsell
  • Care navigation in front of a clinical network
  • Sold as a workforce benefit with employer reporting
  • Sales-quoted PEPM
  • Public partners page does not name ATS/HRIS products
  • Lyra AI is a separate conversation from the clinical network SKU

What each one costs

Calm Business

Sales-quoted

Sales-quoted employer plan. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 12 Sep 2026

Lyra Health

Sales-quoted

Sales-quoted per employee per month. Confirm current terms on the vendor site.

Checked 12 Sep 2026

Common questions

Can you try Calm Business or Lyra Health for free?
Neither carries a free tier on our listing.

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Editorial listings, never paid rankings. Prices checked 12 Sep 2026. Confirm current terms on the vendor site. Spot an error?