Lindy alternatives in 2026: Lindy pricing, Lindy vs n8n and Lindy vs Zapier

For teams whose Lindy requests have turned into a repeatable operation, such as client or supplier onboarding that has to chase people and be decided on your rules, Floowed is the strongest Lindy alternative, because it runs the whole case from request to outcome instead of waiting to be asked; for a like-for-like AI assistant in Slack, Viktor is the closest switch.

Lindy is a capable AI teammate, and most people searching for alternatives are asking one of three questions: what will it cost as the team grows, would n8n or Zapier be better, and what happens when the same request comes in for the fortieth time. This guide answers all three. Every competitor price and feature below was checked on the vendor's own site at the time of writing.

Lindy alternatives at a glance

What Lindy is, fairly described

Lindy's docs describe it as "an AI teammate that gets work done for you and your team". For you, it handles email, meeting prep, scheduling and follow-ups. For the team, it builds reports and dashboards, updates the CRM and answers questions from shared meetings, files and connected tools.

• Where it lives. Slack threads and mentions, iMessage and email, with a Chrome extension. Lindy's docs list Microsoft Teams as coming soon at the time of writing.
• What it connects to. Its pricing page lists 1,500+ integrations and MCP support, and Lindy says it can drive a browser where a tool has no integration.
• How it repeats work. Routines run on a schedule or when something happens, such as a daily brief or a Friday report. Skills are saved playbooks; Lindy ships 40+.
• What it remembers. Memory lives in plain files you can open and edit.
• What it will not do alone. "Anything with outside impact waits for approval", such as sending an email or updating a ticket.

Lindy also markets operational use cases. Its "run the month-end chase" page shows a finance lead telling Lindy in Slack to chase everyone blocking the close. It shows what an assistant does well, and where it stops: the chase starts when someone asks, and the state of the close lives in a thread.

Lindy pricing

Lindy charges per active user, with credits pooled across the workspace. At the time of writing, its pricing page shows:

Three details matter more than the headline price.

• Every user is a seat. Lindy's FAQ says anyone who uses it takes a seat, including someone who only @mentions it in Slack, after a 7-day trial for people who join through Slack. A five-person team on the entry size pays for five seats.
• Monthly credits do not roll over. They refresh at the start of each billing cycle. If the pool runs low, Lindy pauses credit-using actions until the reset or a top-up.
• The entry figure varies by page. The pricing page starts Team at $29.99 for 3,000 credits, while Lindy's homepage shows $49.99 for 5,000, and Lindy's docs and homepage refer to Pro and Max plans. Check Settings, Billing for the plan you would actually be on.

Lindy says a credit is "about a cent" and publishes typical ranges: 2 to 250 credits for everyday asks, 250 to 1,000 for deep work such as a competitor report, and 1,000 to 2,500 for big builds such as a dashboard. Fair value for a task.

Floowed prices differently. 1 credit is 1 cent at every size, there are no seats, and you start with $80 of credits that never expire. Paid sizes run from $100 a month for 10,000 credits, and paid credits roll over one month. You pay for the work Floowed does on each case: a light case uses about 80 to 250 credits, a standard case 250 to 800, a heavy one 1,500 to 4,000, and that covers gathering what it needs, reading documents, chasing people and applying your rules. A case already running is always completed, so nothing stops halfway. Full details are on our pricing page.

Why teams look for Lindy alternatives

• Seat cost grows with curiosity. Anyone who mentions Lindy takes a seat, so the bill follows how many people try it, not how much work it finishes.
• The team is on Microsoft Teams, which Lindy lists as coming soon.
• The same request keeps coming back. When the ask is "onboard this client" every week, someone still has to start each run, follow it and remember what is outstanding.
• Someone has to own the rules. When a request ends in a decision, it has to follow written rules and leave a record an auditor can read.

The last two are about the shape of the work, which is why Floowed leads the list.

The best Lindy alternatives, ranked

1. Floowed

Best for: operations that recur, span several systems and people, and end in a decision on your rules.

Floowed is the operations platform. AI agents do tasks; Floowed runs whole operations. You describe an operation once in Slack, Microsoft Teams or the Floowed Dashboard, and it is live in minutes. From then on, every request is a case that Floowed carries from intake to outcome through five stages: Gather, Interpret, Chase, Decide and Act. Interpret, Chase and Decide circle until the case is ready, then Floowed acts.

When a piece is missing, Floowed chases the named person, system or agent who owes it, waits as a long-running case, and resumes on the answer. Your rules run in a deterministic, versioned policy engine, and you choose whether they decide every case, only routine ones, or none. Every case records what was read, who was asked, which rule and version decided it, and what was written where.

Pricing: credits, not seats. Start free with $80 of credits, no card and no sales call; paid from $100 a month; custom set-ups quoted.

Pick it if: you can describe the work as "every time this comes in, get these things, check them against our rules, then do that".

2. Viktor

Best for: a like-for-like AI assistant in chat, including Microsoft Teams.

Viktor lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams and works across 3,200+ tools by its own count. Like Lindy, you brief it in a thread and it asks before anything it cannot undo. Its Team plan is $100 a month for 40,000 credits shared across the workspace, unused credits roll over, and the free route offers up to $100 of credits with no card. It is still an assistant you instruct per task, so repeatable operations belong in Floowed; our Floowed vs Viktor comparison covers that split.

Pick it if: you want Lindy's shape without seats. Once the same request comes back every week, Floowed runs it as an operation instead of a fresh brief.

3. Zapier

Best for: fixed automations between SaaS tools, owned by people outside engineering.

Zapier connects 9,000+ apps and has added Zapier Agents and an MCP server. Zaps are priced per task: a free plan with 100 tasks a month, Professional from $19.99 and Team from $69 a month, billed yearly. Agents are billed separately by activity: free for 400 activities a month, Pro at $33.33 a month billed annually for 1,500. It runs the step it was built for, not a case that waits on someone outside your company. More in our Zapier alternatives guide.

Pick it if: the work is "when X happens, do Y" and never needs judgment. As soon as it waits on a person or a rule, Floowed carries the case.

4. n8n

Best for: technical teams who want to self-host and write code.

n8n prices its plans per full execution, however many steps it has: Starter $20, Pro $50 and Business (self-hosted only) $800 a month, billed annually, with Enterprise on quote. Every plan includes unlimited users and every integration, and the Community Edition is free to self-host. The chasing, rules and case record are yours to build. See n8n alternatives.

Pick it if: engineering owns automation and wants full control. Floowed gives operations the chasing, rules and record ready made, live in minutes.

5. Gumloop

We compare Gumloop in depth in our Gumloop alternatives guide.

Best for: teams that want to build many internal AI agents.

Gumloop is built around creating agents that work across your tools, with 35+ models, unlimited seats and unlimited agents on Pro. Pro starts at $37 a month with 20,000 credits and an 8% orchestration fee, after a 14-day free trial; Enterprise is custom. Each agent remains a task-doer someone has to design and supervise.

Pick it if: you have builders who enjoy making agents. Agents built elsewhere can execute steps inside a Floowed operation, while Floowed keeps the case, the rules and the record.

One name you may still see on older lists: Relay.app, often compared with Lindy, shut down in September 2026, and its homepage says all accounts, workflows and run history were deleted. Our Relay.app alternatives guide covers where its users went.

Lindy vs n8n

The two rarely compete for the same buyer. Lindy is for people who want to ask and get work back; n8n is for engineers who want to build exactly what runs. Both leave the same gap: neither is built around a case that waits weeks on a client, applies written rules and keeps a full record. Floowed is.

Lindy vs Zapier

Zapier suits fixed work: the same fields from the same form into the same CRM. Lindy suits requests that differ each time and need judgment. When the steps repeat but the inputs are messy and someone outside the company owes a reply, that work is an operation, and it belongs in Floowed.

Where the assistant ends and the operation begins

Take a recruitment agency onboarding a new client. Every time, it needs a signed terms of business in DocuSign, the client's company details checked against the registry, a billing contact, and the first job briefs. Its rules say: standard fee is 20%; anything lower needs a director; no roles go live until terms are signed and the company checks out.

With Lindy, a consultant asks in Slack to start onboarding. Lindy drafts the welcome email, waits for approval, and updates HubSpot. A week later the briefs are half done and the consultant asks Lindy to chase. Each step works, but the state of the onboarding lives in a thread, and the fee rule is applied by whoever remembers it.

With Floowed, the agency describes the operation once, and every new client becomes a case:

1. Gather. The signed terms, company details and briefs arrive by email, upload or Gmail.
2. Interpret. Floowed reads the contract, extracts the fee, checks the company against the registry and notes the missing billing contact.
3. Chase. It asks the client for what is missing, reminds them if nothing comes, and resumes the moment it arrives.
4. Decide. The policy engine checks the fee. At 20% the case passes; at 15% it goes to the named director, and the case waits for that answer.
5. Act. Floowed writes the client into the CRM, sets up billing and opens the roles.

The fortieth client goes through exactly like the first. See more operations like this on Floowed for recruitment and Floowed for agencies.

Underneath, Floowed is an AI-native, multi-agent runtime. It is model-agnostic, routing work between open-weight and frontier models on cost, latency and data residency, and runs long-running asynchronous cases over the API, MCP and 400+ integrations. It sits above your systems of record. The policy engine gives the same decision on the same inputs, while agents do the reading and chasing. Agents do the tasks. Floowed runs the process. That includes assistants: an assistant like Lindy can be an executor inside a Floowed operation, doing a step while Floowed keeps the case, the rules and the record.

How to choose a Lindy alternative

Running agents on your own machine instead? Our OpenClaw alternatives guide covers the self-hosted route.

1. List what repeats. Of what you ask Lindy for in a month, mark the requests with the same steps every time. Those are operations.
2. Mark who else is involved. If the work waits on clients, suppliers or colleagues, you need chasing that runs without being asked.
3. Mark who decides. If it ends in a decision that must follow written rules and leave a record, you need a policy engine, not a thread.
4. Model the bill. Count seats as well as credits.
5. Run real work free. Floowed gives $80 of credits with no card. Run one real operation and compare the cost of a finished case.

Also weighing Tasklet? Our Floowed vs Tasklet comparison applies the same test to its agents.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Lindy cost?

At the time of writing, Lindy's pricing page starts the Team plan at $29.99 a month per active user for 3,000 credits, pooled across the workspace, with top-ups at $10 per 1,000 credits and Enterprise on quote. Its homepage shows $49.99 for 5,000. The free route is $50 of credits with no card, lasting 7 days. Monthly credits do not roll over.

What is the best Lindy alternative?

For repeatable operations that chase people and end in a decision on your rules, Floowed. For a like-for-like assistant in Slack or Teams, Viktor. For fixed automations, Zapier. For self-hosting, n8n. For building many agents, Gumloop.

Is Lindy better than n8n?

For a different person. Lindy suits people who want to ask in Slack and get finished work back. n8n suits engineers who want to build and host exactly what runs, priced per execution. If the work is an operation that waits on people and must follow rules, Floowed fits better than either.

Is Lindy better than Zapier?

Lindy handles varied requests that need judgment; Zapier handles fixed automations across 9,000+ apps. For repeatable work with outside people and a decision at the end, Floowed runs the whole case.

Does Lindy work in Microsoft Teams?

At the time of writing, Lindy's docs list Microsoft Teams as coming soon; it works in Slack, iMessage and email today. Floowed works in Slack and Microsoft Teams, and every case is also visible in the Floowed Dashboard.

Is Floowed an AI assistant like Lindy?

No. Floowed is the operations platform. An assistant takes on tasks as you ask; Floowed runs a repeatable operation as a series of cases, under your rules, and an assistant can be one of the executors inside it.

Next step

Pick the request your team sends Lindy most often and run it as an operation. Start free with $80 of credits, no card and no sales call, or talk to us about a custom set-up. For more on how cases work, see how it works and pricing.