Lindy
Lindy is an AI teammate in Slack that runs agentic work, drafts your email, and builds the deck.
If your work leaks across Slack threads, inboxes, meetings, and a CRM, one agent answering in-channel beats another dashboard to babysit. Approvals-by-default plus a pause-when-credits-run-out policy kills the two failure modes that scare teams off agents. Skip it if you need line-by-line auditable trigger-action pipelines — Zapier and Make still own that.
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- Teams that live in Slack and want an agent answering in threads, not another tab to check
- Professionals buried in inbox triage, scheduling, meeting notes, and follow-ups
- Ops, finance, and marketing teams generating recurring reports from CRM and analytics data
- Builders who want to describe an agent, dashboard, or web app in a prompt and ship it
- Deterministic, high-volume trigger-action pipelines — Zapier and Make still win on step-level audibility
- Teams where only a few people occasionally @mention it — every active user takes a billed seat
- Workspaces where dozens of people would push credit usage past a modest Plus pool
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Skip Lindy if you need deterministic, line-by-line auditable automation at high volume (Zapier and Make own that), or if you can't accept a per-seat charge for everyone who ever @mentions it.
Credits don't roll over — your plan refreshes at the start of each billing cycle, so unused budget in a quiet month is simply gone.
Lindy fits teams where a handful of people get real daily leverage from an agent: Plus at $29.99/mo per user is comparable to a ChatGPT Team seat, Pro at $99.99/mo per user is where Autopilot and model selection land, and Max at $199.99/mo per user suits builders running 1,000–2,500-credit jobs. Against Zapier, Lindy is pricier per seat but does judgment work rather than fixed trigger-action steps.
In short
Lindy — Lindy is an AI teammate in Slack that runs agentic work, drafts your email, and builds the deck. Best for Teams that live in Slack and want an agent answering in threads, not another tab to check, Professionals buried in inbox triage, scheduling, meeting notes, and follow-ups, Ops, finance, and marketing teams generating recurring reports from CRM and analytics data. Free to start; paid plans from $29.99/user/mo.
What's new in Lindy
Checked 8 days agoAcross the latest 5 updates: 3 feature updates and 2 launches.
Retries, task search and filter, version renaming, copy and paste between agents
One-click retries for failed agent actions, search over the task list with errored/unread filters, version renaming, and copy-paste of steps from one agent into another.
Task sharing, terminate button
Any task can be shared via public link for teammate collaboration or public showcase; right-clicking a task terminates it and blocks any follow-up actions.
App builder — Introducing Lindy Build
Lindy Build generates full web apps, internal dashboards, tools, and websites from a prompt, and automatically finds and fixes its own issues.
Lindy 3.0 — Agent Builder, Autopilot, Team Accounts
Agent Builder creates agents from a natural-language prompt in real time; Autopilot gives an agent its own cloud computer for systems without APIs; Team Accounts deploy agents company-wide.
Autosave and drafts, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Agent edits autosave as drafts with a discard option, and Lindy added Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, Google's fastest and most cost-efficient 2.5 model, positioned for phone calls.
What people actually say about Lindy — is it worth it?
We scanned public community sources for Lindy on Aug 18, 2026 and could not establish that the discussion we found is about this tool rather than something else sharing its name. Our own analysis of that scan says the posts were off-subject. Rather than publish a sentiment score built on the wrong subject, we publish nothing here and re-run the scan.
Viability Score
How well maintained and how widely used is Lindy? Built from what the vendor actually publishes (docs, changelog, tutorials, integrations, pricing), whether the site is live, and how much real users discuss it. How we calculate this
Last calculated: October 2026
How we score →Key Features
- Slack-native teammate that answers in threads and @mentions
- Agent Builder creates agents from a natural-language prompt in real time
- Autopilot gives agents their own cloud computer for systems with no API
- Lindy Build generates web apps, dashboards, and tools from a prompt and self-fixes
- Team Accounts deploy agents company-wide (Lindy 3.0)
- Gmail drafting, scheduling, and inbox management across 2 to 5 inboxes
- iMessage chat with your assistant 24/7
- Chrome extension for browser access
- Meeting recording, transcription, and a shared team meeting library with folders
- Scheduled routines for daily briefs, Monday reports, and Friday marketing reports
- 40+ pre-built skills for research, data analysis, decks, and dashboards
- Create custom skills by doing a task once and saving it workspace-wide
- Memory stored in plain files you can open, read, and edit
- Public task-sharing links for teammate collaboration or public showcase
- One-click retries for failed agent actions and search over the task list
About Lindy
Lindy is an AI teammate that plugs into your stack, learns how your team works, and takes real work off the plate. You @mention it in Slack and it pulls data from the tools you already run — the vendor lists 1,500+ integrations including Gmail, Slack, Notion, and HubSpot — then posts the finished result back into the thread. Support triage across Zendesk and Intercom, a Stripe-vs-ledger reconciliation for month-end close, an all-hands deck assembled from CRM, support, usage, and finance numbers: all shown on the product page as real runs. The interesting part is how it handles work a rule-based pipeline can't. From a natural-language prompt, Agent Builder constructs an agent; Autopilot gives that agent its own cloud computer for internal systems that have no API; Lindy Build generates web apps, dashboards, and internal tools from a prompt and patches its own issues. Skills are named workflows — 40+ pre-built for research, data analysis, decks, and dashboards — plus custom ones you save by showing Lindy a task once. Memory lives in plain files you can open and edit. Beyond Slack, it records and transcribes meetings into a shared library anyone can query, schedules recurring routines like a daily ad snapshot or a Friday marketing report, manages 2 to 5 inboxes depending on plan, and answers over iMessage. It sits on top of any of the major models, so you can pick the model per task. Approvals are the default: sending email, updating a ticket, posting to another channel, or publishing a doc waits for a human. Read-only lookups from approved sources run without a prompt. Measured against Zapier's deterministic trigger-action pipelines, Lindy is the judgment-call layer — stronger on ambiguous, cross-tool work, not a replacement for high-volume linear automation.
Behind the Verdict
Pick Lindy when the work itself is fuzzy. Triage 1,340 tickets into root causes, figure out why signups dropped 61% on mobile, reconcile Stripe against a spreadsheet with exceptions flagged — that's where this earns its seat. You describe the outcome, it picks the tools and reports back in the thread. Teams that spend their day in Slack get the most from it because there's no context switch: the answer lands where the question was asked. Pass when your needs are strictly linear and high-volume. Zapier and Make run deterministic trigger-action pipelines with per-step visibility that an agent won't match. If your problem is "when X happens, do Y 5,000 times a day," you already have the right tool. The cost structure is the thing to model before you commit. Every seat draws from one shared credit pool with a monthly allowance — 3k on Plus, 15k on Pro, 35k on Max — and credits refresh each cycle without rollover. Light jobs cost 2 to 250 credits; big builds run 1,000 to 2,500. A workspace where a handful of power users run deep work while the rest occasionally @mention it can burn through a Plus pool faster than the headline price suggests. Watch the seat math too. Anyone who uses Lindy takes a billed seat, including people who join through Slack — those get a 7-day trial first, direct signups bill immediately. That's fine for a 10-person ops team, awkward for a 200-person company where 15 people actually use it. Admins can set per-seat credit allocations and cap the damage. Where it bites: there's no Salesforce in the integration list the vendor publishes, and case-study footers on the site carry the line "we'd sign tomorrow if it synced with Salesforce." If Salesforce is non-negotiable for your stack, test that before you buy anything else. Credits not rolling over
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Real-world workflow fit
Concrete scenarios for the personas Lindy actually fits — and what changes day-one when you adopt it.
Asks @Lindy why ad spend doubled and to reconcile it against PostHog signups.
Outcome: Lindy pulls 14 days of Meta and Google spend, joins it to activation data, writes up a teardown with replacement creatives, and asks for approval before pausing the spiking campaign.
Asks @Lindy what's going on with the support inbox after a spike in tickets.
Outcome: Lindy reads the last 18 hours of Zendesk and Intercom tickets, clusters them by root cause, files an engineering ticket for the export timeout, and drafts the merge of 23 duplicate threads for approval.
Asks @Lindy to reconcile Stripe against the Google Sheets ledger for the close.
Outcome: Lindy matches 1,284 charges and 96 refunds line by line, surfaces the handful of exceptions (duplicate charge, refunds after cut-off), and prepares the close note for approval.
Use Cases
- An executive offloads email triage and scheduling to Lindy, saving 2+ hours daily.
- A salesperson uses Lindy to log CRM updates and send follow-up emails automatically.
- A busy parent manages school emails and appointment scheduling via iMessage.
- A remote team uses Lindy to record meetings and distribute action items from a shared library.
- A freelancer automates client onboarding and invoice reminders.
- A founder texts Lindy to research competitors and compile a brief.
- A team uses Lindy Build to create an internal dashboard from a natural-language prompt.
- A support team uses Lindy to triage a day's support queue and merge duplicate threads.
Models Under the Hood
as of 2026-10-08
Limitations
- Credit-based pricing starting at $29.99/mo for 3,000 credits per active user, with top-ups at $10 per 1,000 credits; every active user in a workspace is billed and credits are pooled, so heavy agentic workloads can consume the shared pool.
- The site advertises model selection ('Choose your model for each task', 'Model selection, all models') but names only Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite in the evidence, so the full set of underlying models is not verifiable.
- Computer use is available only on Pro and Max plans, and inbox connections are limited to 2-5 depending on plan.
as of 2026-09-29
Verification history
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12-month cost
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Plans compared
For each published Lindy tier: who it actually fits, and what it adds vs. the previous tier. Cross-reference the cost calculator above for projected annual outlay.
Free credits
$0
Plus
$29.99/mo per user
Ideal for
A solo professional or small Slack team starting with Lindy for inbox triage, meeting notes, and scheduled briefs.
What this tier adds
Starting tier: 3k credits per user/mo, Slack teammate, 40+ skills, meeting recording, up to 5 inboxes, iMessage.
Pro
$99.99/mo per user
Ideal for
Ops, sales, or marketing teams running real agent work — CRM updates, research reports, and recurring dashboards — who need more headroom and computer use.
What this tier adds
5x Plus credits (15k per user/mo), plus computer use / Autopilot, per-task model selection, and persistent workspace context.
Max
$199.99/mo per user
Ideal for
Builders and heavy operators running Big Builds — complex dashboards, multi-media decks, and end-to-end internal tools.
What this tier adds
~12x Plus credits (35k per user/mo) and headroom for 1,000–2,500-credit Big Build jobs.
Enterprise
Custom
Ideal for
Companies whose security review requires SSO, audit logs, or HIPAA handling with a signed BAA, and who want onboarding support.
What this tier adds
Adds HIPAA compliance and signed BAA, SSO, audit logs, shared usage plus bonus credits, and dedicated onboarding and enablement.
Where the pricing makes sense
The company stage and team size where Lindy's pricing actually pencils out — and where peers do it cheaper.
Lindy fits teams where a handful of people get real daily leverage from an agent: Plus at $29.99/mo per user is comparable to a ChatGPT Team seat, Pro at $99.99/mo per user is where Autopilot and model selection land, and Max at $199.99/mo per user suits builders running 1,000–2,500-credit jobs. Against Zapier, Lindy is pricier per seat but does judgment work rather than fixed trigger-action steps.
Setup time & first value
How long it actually takes to get something useful out of Lindy — broken out by persona, not the marketing-page minute.
Slack-first: add Lindy from the Slack marketplace in one click and the whole team gets it at once, then authorize your tools so Lindy sorts out permissions — no API keys or IT ticket. The docs put this at roughly two minutes to your own email, calendar, and phone. Gmail and iMessage connections are self-serve. Expect first useful output the same day; expect real payoff after a week or two, once
Switching to or from Lindy
How to bring data in from common predecessors and how to get it back out — written for the switcher, not the buyer.
- →From Zapier: keep your deterministic high-volume zaps running and move the judgment-call asks (research, triage, drafting) to Lindy in Slack.
- →From a personal ChatGPT or Claude habit: point the same requests at Lindy so answers and context land in shared channels instead of a private tab.
- →From Zapier/Make plus a separate meeting notetaker: consolidate meeting recording, notes, and the shared meeting library into Lindy alongside the agent work.
- →From manual inbox triage: connect up to 5 inboxes on Plus and let Lindy draft replies in your voice while you approve before anything sends.
- ↗To Zapier or Make: rebuild the deterministic, auditable trigger-action pipelines there if you need line-by-line review of every run.
- ↗To a general assistant (ChatGPT Team, Claude): route ad-hoc Q&A there if you don't need answers posted back in-channel or shared workspace memory.
- ↗To a dedicated meeting tool: move recording and transcription out if meetings are your only requirement and you don't want a per-seat Lindy subscription.
- ↗To a custom agent stack: Teams needing bespoke API wiring inside proprietary systems Autopilot can't click through are better served by direct integration work.
Integrations
Resources & Guides
- Resourcedocs.lindy.ai
Meet Lindy
One AI assistant for your inbox, meetings, calendar, and follow-ups.
- Resourcelindy.ai
Meet Lindy
One AI assistant for your inbox, meetings, calendar, and follow-ups.
- Resourcelindy.ai
The Lindy Blog - Sales, Marketing and Business Guides for the AI Age
Helpful link from lindy.ai
- Resourcelindy.ai
Changelog
Helpful link from lindy.ai
Tutorials & Learning
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Featured Head-to-Head Comparisons
Lindy vs Zapier
If your pain is calendar chaos and a flooded inbox, Lindy feels like a personalized chief of staff at your fingertips—just text it. But if you live across dozens of business apps and need to automate lead routing, ticket creation, or data syncs, Zapier's 9,000+ integrations and visual workflow builder are unbeatable. Choose Lindy for conversational admin, Zapier for structured automation.
Lindy vs Manus
If you're a busy professional who wants to tame email and scheduling without leaving your text or Slack, Lindy is the reliable, affordable choice. If you need an agent that can autonomously produce complete deliverables—from research reports to working apps—and have an enterprise budget, Manus is the powerful bet—but brace for vendor transition as it splits from Meta.
Lindy vs Superhuman
If you're an individual or small team drowning in meeting scheduling and repetitive email admin, Lindy's freemium model and Slack/iMessage integration make it the low-risk, high-agility pick. But if you live in your inbox, need deep CRM hooks, and want a unified mail + docs + AI workspace with proactive assistance, Superhuman justifies its premium price. Choose Lindy for workflow automation and custom agents; choose Superhuman for speed and context across email and documents.
Lindy vs N8n
Pick Lindy if you're drowning in email and meetings and want an AI teammate you can text—it's built for busy professionals, not coders. Choose n8n if you're a developer or IT ops person who needs complex, auditable workflows with full code-level control and self-hosting. For non-technical users, Lindy's natural language approach wins; for technical teams, n8n's flexibility and traceability are unmatched.
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