Is Lindy AI Free? $50 in Credits for 7 Days, Then a Seat

Lindy (often searched as Lindy AI) has no ongoing free plan. A new account starts with $50 in free credits and no credit card, and those credits last 7 days; after that, a paid plan is needed ^[1]. Lindy's pricing page starts paid seats at $29.99 per user a month for 3,000 credits; on some visits the same page instead opens at $49.99 per user a month for 5,000 credits. So the honest answer is a free week, not a free product. Used well, that week is enough to see whether Lindy earns a seat on your team.

Seven days, fifty dollars, no card

Lindy's pricing page says setup takes 2 minutes, and the signup asks for no payment details. The $50 lands as credits, which measure the work Lindy does: you spend them only while it is working, and bigger jobs draw more. The clock matters most. Whatever the balance, the free credits last 7 days, and Lindy's docs are plain that a paid plan is needed afterwards to keep using it ^[2]. That makes the first afternoon the expensive one to waste. Connect your email and calendar on day one, so the week tests real work instead of setup.

Some of Lindy stays out of reach during the free week. A phone line needs a paid plan. Computer use, where Lindy drives a browser the way a person would, is limited to Pro and Max. Live onboarding with Lindy's team starts at Pro, and Lindy's changelog ties choosing a model from the chat menu to paid plans. None of that blocks the work most people sign up to judge: email triage and drafts, meeting recaps, scheduling and the daily brief. Spend the week there, and treat the gated features as questions for the paid decision.

What fifty dollars of credits can cover

Lindy's pricing page gives ranges rather than a price per task. Everyday asks, such as answers, summaries, lookups, updates in a connected tool or drafting a reply, run 2 to 250 credits each. Deep work, such as a competitor research report, triaging a day's support queue or turning a week of calls into a proposal, runs 250 to 1,000. Big builds, such as complex HTML dashboards, decks pulled from CRM and analytics data, or internal tools, run 1,000 to 2,500. Plan the week in those bands. The everyday band tells you most, because it is the work a paid seat repeats every month.

Where you ask matters as much as what you ask. Lindy's docs rate the private assistant in your DMs as much lighter: a daily brief, email alerts, open-loop nudges and meeting prep are very low impact, while catch-up summaries and meeting recaps are low. The shared Lindy in Slack channels costs more, and a busy channel moves the balance faster than one person's DMs. Routines spend credits on every run. Lindy's docs also say every message in a thread re-reads everything above it, so long threads cost more credits with each turn.

Slack joiners get their own trial

Teams meet a second kind of free time. For teammates, Lindy's pricing page draws a line: people who join through Slack get a 7-day free trial before their seat is billed, while direct signups are billed right away ^[3]. The free week is one-time per teammate. A returning teammate goes straight onto a billed seat. And the trigger is broad, because anyone who uses Lindy takes a seat, whether they sign up, join the workspace or @mention Lindy in Slack for the first time. A colleague tagging Lindy once starts a trial. Nobody has to decide to buy.

That trial does not end quietly. Lindy's Terms say workspace trial seats, including those added through connected integrations, may convert to paid seats unless removed before the trial ends . Lindy softens this with an email to every admin carrying a one-click removal link for each Slack joiner, and a removed person who @mentions Lindy again is told it cannot help while an admin is pinged. A paid seat stays billed until an admin removes it, and a seat removed mid-cycle stays active through the cycle with no proration. Use the link early.

Free to install is not free to run

The Chrome extension is free to install, in three steps from the Chrome Web Store, and it works once Gmail is open. It runs on your account's plan and credits, though, so it does not make Lindy free. It covers Gmail only. Outlook is listed as coming soon. It adds triage labels, a morning brief card, draft replies with quick actions and a sidebar chat, and it is your personal Lindy: nothing in it is shared with the team. Our guide to Lindy as a personal assistant walks through what it does day to day.

The same rule holds for texting. Lindy needs no app on the phone: it is reached by iMessage on an iPhone or SMS on any phone, after a verified number is added at signup, and work asked for by text spends credits from the same balance. Teams that do not use Slack get the personal assistant, not the shared teammate, so a free week without Slack tests only half the product. Lindy's docs list Microsoft Teams as coming soon, with no date. A team on Teams chat should judge the free week on email, calendar and texting alone.

After day seven: the cheapest way to stay

Lindy bills every active user a monthly seat that comes with credits. Its pricing page groups the three paid plans under one card called Team, but the plans are Plus, Pro and Max, with Enterprise above them. Plus starts at $29.99 per user a month for 3,000 credits; on some visits the same page instead opens at $49.99 per user a month for 5,000 credits, so check the option in front of you before you pay.

Seats multiply, and credits pool. By our arithmetic, three people on the entry option pay $89.97 a month for 9,000 pooled credits on the $29.99 opening, or $149.97 for 15,000 on the $49.99 opening; five people pay $149.95 for 15,000 or $249.95 for 25,000. Monthly credits reset each cycle and do not roll over. Top-ups cost $10 per 1,000 credits and never expire. When the pool runs dry, nothing breaks and no surprise bill arrives: Lindy pauses credit-using work until the reset or a top-up. Admins can also set a monthly cap per teammate.

Moving up buys features as well as cheaper credits. Pro adds computer use and live onboarding, and connected inboxes rise from 2 on Plus to 3 on Pro and 5 on Max. By our arithmetic, Pro and Max credits cost between $5.71 and $7.50 per 1,000, against $10 per 1,000 on the entry options and top-ups. Lindy's Terms state that all purchases are non-refundable, and canceling takes effect at the end of the paid term; the full Lindy pricing breakdown covers every option. Before a team commits seats, our Lindy buyer's checklist lists the decisions worth settling first.

Who should spend the free week on Lindy

The week pays off for someone whose day already runs through Gmail or Outlook, a calendar and, for teams, a paid Slack workspace. That person can connect everything on day one, live with email triage, drafts, meeting recaps and a daily brief, and know by day seven whether a seat is worth it: $29.99 per user a month for 3,000 credits, or $49.99 for 5,000 when the pricing page opens there. It pays off less for anyone whose reason to buy is phone calls or computer use, because neither runs on free credits. Those buyers learn more from a first paid month than from the free week: a paid plan for the phone line, Pro or Max for computer use.