Lindy Alternatives: 10 AI Agent and Automation Rivals Compared

Lindy's alternatives split by the job you want done. Pick Zapier, n8n or Make for automations you design yourself, billed by usage rather than by each person who asks a question. Pick Manus AI or Genspark if one person needs an autonomous agent for research, builds or calls, Sintra if a small business wants ready-made AI helpers on one plan, Gumloop or Relevance AI to build and meter your own agents, CrewAI if your team writes Python and wants an MIT-licensed framework it can run itself, and Botpress if the agent you build will talk to your customers on a website chat or WhatsApp. Lindy starts at $29.99 per user a month for 3,000 credits, and on some visits the same pricing page opens at $49.99 per user a month for 5,000 credits.^[1] Keep Lindy when your team lives in Slack and wants one shared teammate that, by default, asks before any action with outside impact. Otherwise, shop around.

What pushes teams to look past Lindy

The first reason is the seat rule. Anyone who uses Lindy takes a billed seat, whether they sign up, join the workspace or @mention it once in Slack. People who join through Slack get a one-time 7-day trial before their seat is billed, unless an admin removes them before the trial ends. By our arithmetic, ten people on the entry option come to $299.90 a month for 30,000 pooled credits, or $499.90 a month for 50,000 credits on the higher opening. Spend caps help. They do not remove the seat.

The second reason is Slack. The shared teammate lives in Slack threads, new Slack installations need a paid Slack plan, and Lindy's docs list Microsoft Teams as coming soon. Teams that do not use Slack get the personal assistant, not the shared teammate. The third reason is the credit pool: monthly credits do not roll over, and when the pool runs dry Lindy pauses the work until the reset or a top-up, as our guide to Lindy's seats and credits explains. Lindy's docs also say every message in a thread re-reads everything above it, so long threads cost more credits with each turn.

Reviews point the same way. Trustpilot complaints describe credit use that felt unpredictable, billing that felt ambiguous and a wish for an unlimited plan, while the praise centers on email, calendar and thread tracking, Lindy Phone and responsive support. Read the scores below as a map of themes, not a trend; our full Lindy review weighs them against the product today. The table shows what each alternative bills by.

Zapier, n8n and Make: automations you design instead of a teammate

Zapier

Zapier's paid Zap plans are Professional at $29.99 a month billed monthly or $19.99 a month billed annually, for 750 tasks a month and one user, and Team at $103.50 a month billed monthly or $69 a month billed annually, for 2,000 tasks a month and up to 25 users.^[2] A Free plan covers 100 tasks a month, and a 14-day Professional trial needs no card. Zapier Agents is a separate add-on: 400 activities a month free, or a Pro tier at $400 a year ($33.33 a month) for 1,500 activities a month. Zapier connects 9,000+ apps.

Limits behave differently. At its task limit, a Zapier account moves to pay-per-task billing at a higher rate unless that is turned off; otherwise the Zaps pause. Lindy simply pauses. Zapier fits rule-based handoffs between apps that one person or a small ops group owns, where a task count is easier to forecast than credits per seat. Our Lindy vs Zapier comparison covers approvals, channels and security side by side.

n8n

n8n bills per workflow execution, not per step or per user, and every plan includes unlimited users and workflows. The n8n Starter plan costs $24 a month billed monthly or $20 a month billed annually ($240 a year) for 2,500 executions a month; the n8n Pro plan costs $60 a month billed monthly or $50 a month billed annually ($600 a year) for 10,000 executions. A free Community Edition exists if you self-host it and pay for the server. For a large team, that removes the per-person cost. The trade is building: someone technical designs every workflow.

Make

The Make Free plan gives 1,000 credits a month, 2 active scenarios and a 15-minute minimum interval between runs. Its Core plan costs $16 a month billed monthly or $12 a month billed annually ($144 a year), its Pro plan $28 or $21 a month ($252 a year), and its Teams plan $51 or $38 a month ($456 a year), each at 10,000 credits a month. Make AI Agents are labeled beta. It suits visual, multi-step processes that run the same way every time.

Manus AI and Genspark: agents that work for one person

Manus AI

For someone leaving Lindy over seat costs, Manus AI changes the math in two places. A single person can stay on Pro, which is one user only and starts at $20 a month billed monthly for 4,000 credits, or $17 a month billed yearly ($200 a year). A group moves to Team, from $20 per seat a month billed monthly or $200 per seat a year, and those 4,000 credits per seat go into a pool. The free tier is narrower than it looks: 300 refresh credits a day usable only in Lite mode, at most 1,500 a month, plus a one-time 1,000 at sign-up. Like Lindy, Manus will not quote a task's credit cost before it runs, and unused monthly credits are lost. Its payments are non-refundable unless the law says otherwise, though failures traced to verifiable bugs earn credits back.

Genspark

Genspark pairs a personal plan with a per-seat Team plan. Plus starts at $24.99 a month billed monthly, or $19.99 a month billed annually ($239.99 a year), and the entry level carries 10,000 credits a month. Its Team plan works differently from Lindy's pool: $40 per seat a month, or $35 per seat a month billed annually ($420 per seat a year), with 10,000 credits that stay with each seat and a minimum of two seats. A buyer who wants a way back should note the refund rule. Genspark grants one refund per customer on web purchases, and a US buyer has 72 hours and must have used less than half; Team is not refunded for a partly used period.

Its Call For Me feature places AI phone calls at 500 credits a call, charged only when the call connects, on Plus or higher; marketing, sales and lead-generation calls are not allowed. A meeting bot joins Zoom, Meet, Teams, Webex and GoToMeeting. Lindy, by contrast, answers its own US or Canadian number and places calls from 25 credits a minute, plus a separate monthly number fee. It is not for cold calling either.

Sintra, and the inbox tools Lindy measures itself against

Sintra

Sintra answers Lindy's per-person bill with a single workspace plan. Sintra X bundles 12 AI employees and 250 credits a month, and the price depends only on the billing term: $48.50 a month billed monthly, $23.60 a month billed quarterly ($70.80 every 3 months), or $15.60 a month billed yearly ($187.20 a year). Payment is taken upfront. There is no free trial, but the first web purchase comes with a 14-day money-back guarantee. Unlimited team members share one workspace's credits, the direct answer to Lindy's seat rule. Sintra has no phone answering.

Fyxer and Superhuman

Lindy's own comparison pages take on two email tools. One says Fyxer sorts the inbox while Lindy also covers calendar, meetings and follow-ups; the other says Superhuman makes you a faster emailer while Lindy adds calendar, meetings and iMessage control. Both are Lindy's claims, not ours. If inbox triage is the only job, read about those narrower tools before you pay for a seat that also carries meetings, phone and Slack.

Gumloop, Relevance AI, CrewAI and Botpress: build your own agents

Gumloop prices credits at $0.005 each, so $1 buys 200 credits. Gumloop Pro costs $37 a month for the whole organization's shared pool of 20,000 credits, with unlimited seats; there is no free plan. The 14-day Pro trial needs a card, is one-time and rolls into paid Pro unless canceled. An agent chat bills model tokens at the provider's list price, at least 1 credit per successful connector call (data tools such as Apollo or Firecrawl add their own charge), 5 credits per session-minute of active compute and an 8% orchestration fee; with your own model key the tokens cost no credits but the fee rises to 16% of the full list cost. Overage is off by default; switched on, it costs $0.005 per credit and on Pro is always capped, by default at 1,000,000 credits ($5,000) a billing period, a ceiling you can lower. Our Gumloop review covers its agents, channels and Enterprise gates.

Relevance AI (4.01) bills two meters. Actions count each Tool run, failed ones included, while Vendor Credits cover the model and tool cost with no markup and stay available across cycles while you are subscribed. Your own model keys work on every plan, and concurrency is capped per tier. It suits teams that want to see every agent cost line by line and will build the agents themselves.

CrewAI goes one step further toward code. It is an MIT-licensed open-source Python framework for role-based agent crews and Flows that you can run on your own machines, plus CrewAI AMP, whose Basic plan is free with 2 automations and 50 workflow executions a month and whose Enterprise plan is custom-priced. Model and tool API bills go to your own providers, and the people who build need Python or AMP's no-code Studio. Our CrewAI review covers both layers.

Botpress fits when the agent you build talks to your customers rather than your team. Its browser-based Studio builds agents for a website chat widget, WhatsApp and other channels, and in new workspaces a handoff to a person goes to Botpress Desk, its own helpdesk. It bills by conversation, not by seat: the Botpress Free plan includes 100 conversations and 3 seats, Botpress Plus costs $150 a month billed annually or $189 a month billed monthly for 250 conversations a month, and Botpress Team costs $750 a month billed annually or $939 a month billed monthly for 1,500 conversations a month with unlimited seats. A conversation is any exchange with at least two messages from the end user, and once a paid plan reaches 95% of its conversations Botpress adds a 100-conversation pack automatically; that auto-recharge cannot be turned off. Our Botpress review covers Studio, Desk and the AI agents.

When the Slack teammate is worth the seats

Lindy earns its per-user price when the people who use it are the people who benefit: a team that already works in Slack, wants one shared teammate drawing on team memory, and values outside-impact actions waiting for approval by default. If most of your staff would trigger a seat for an occasional question, your work is a fixed rule between apps, or nobody uses Slack, a tool above fits with less waste. Lindy's Terms make all purchases non-refundable, so decide before you buy.