Lindy

Lindy has no free plan, so budget for it from the start. Here's how the pricing works.

• Slack-native teammate that answers in threads and takes @mentions from anyone on the team
• Routines on a schedule or on events: email received, Slack message, calendar event, meeting ended
• Meeting recording, notes, prep briefs and follow-ups in a shared meeting library
• Inbox management: labels, drafts in your voice, follow-up bumps and text alerts
• 40+ built-in skills, plus your own saved as playbooks for the team
• Artifacts: dashboards, reports and internal pages hosted on a link
• 1,000+ integrations and any hosted MCP server
• Model choice on every plan

The depth is in the shared context. One Lindy sits in your channels and meetings, so a question in #sales can be answered from last week's call transcript and the CRM at once. Routines are where recurring work lives; each has a trigger, a plain-English prompt and a destination, and a dry run shows what it would do on real data before it does anything.

1. 1

   Check which trial you'll get

   Signing up directly is billed right away. Joining through Slack gives a new person a free first week, and the homepage advertises $50 in free credits with no card. Confirm which applies before you invite the team.

2. 2

   Install Lindy in Slack

   A Slack admin installs Lindy from the Add to Slack screen, then adds it to the channels where you want it to help.

3. 3

   Set guardrails before anyone asks for writes

   In Integrations, set each tool to always allow, require approval, or don't offer. Start with require approval on email and your CRM, and remember DMs aren't guarded.

4. 4

   Connect your own email and calendar

   Each person links their Google or Microsoft account for inbox management, meeting prep and scheduling, and can add a phone number to text Lindy.

5. 5

   Write one routine and dry-run it

   Pick one recurring job, like a Monday metrics post to a channel. Give it a schedule, a prompt and a destination, then run a dry run on real data before turning it on.

6. 6

   Set spend caps and watch the pool

   Cap heavy users' draw from the shared credits and check usage after the first week, since plan credits don't roll over and the work pauses when the pool runs out.

If you're weighing Lindy against Zapier, both live in someone else's cloud, so it comes down to price, fit and how much you'd have to move.

Zapier figures are from its pricing page, checked 2026-09-30.

Lindy vs Squad

Squad gives you unlimited AI teammates, one job each, for $99 a month flat, running on the ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini plan you already pay for. Lindy is one shared assistant in Slack, $29.99 to $199.99 per user with the AI included. Lindy is the cheaper and simpler start; Squad suits a team that already pays for a strong AI plan.

Lindy vs Zapier

Zapier runs fixed trigger-and-action flows priced by tasks, from $19.99 a month, with a free plan of 100 tasks. Lindy decides its own steps from a plain-English request. For a flow that must do the same thing every time, Zapier is easier to trust.

Lindy vs n8n

n8n is a visual workflow builder you can self-host for free, with AI steps inside the flow. You build and see every step. Lindy trades that visibility for asking in Slack.

Lindy vs ChatGPT or Claude team plans

A ChatGPT or Claude team plan gives everyone a strong assistant with some connectors, but not one shared assistant sitting in your channels and meetings. Lindy's edge is shared context and routines; a chat plan is the simpler buy if people mostly ask questions.

Lindy vs a meeting notetaker

If what you need is only call recording and summaries, a dedicated notetaker does that job on its own. Lindy's meeting library matters when you also want it to act on what was said, like updating the CRM after the call.