Lindy: review, pricing, security and alternatives

What Lindy does

Lindy belongs to the personal assistants family: general-purpose agents, often self-hosted and driven from a messaging app, that act for you on your files, accounts and services. The directory lists 46 agents in this family.

You use it from: web app and messaging (Telegram, Slack, WhatsApp…).

Who is Lindy for?

It targets individuals and freelancers who want an assistant able to act for them day to day, often from a messaging app. Typical tasks people give it:

• sort e-mail and draft replies
• manage a calendar and reminders
• look up information and summarise it
• run small recurring tasks

It is a good candidate if you want to talk to it from your usual messaging app, without opening another app, you prefer doing everything in a browser, with no install, and you want to try for free before paying.

Access and human control

According to its documentation, Lindy can:

• read and send messages
• read and edit files
• call online services and APIs

We could not establish whether it asks for human approval before sensitive actions: test it first on an unimportant account or folder.

Lindy pricing

The cheapest paid plan that gives access to Lindy costs $29.99 per month, according to the official pricing page checked on October 25, 2026.

Agent prices change often and frequently depend on usage (credits, tasks, steps): check the pricing page before committing, especially for a team.

Getting started with Lindy

1. Create an account on the official website: the free tier is enough for a first try.
2. Pick the platform: web.
3. Give it a first playground with nothing at stake: a test folder, a secondary account or a throwaway project. Only open your real accounts once you have seen how it behaves.
4. Give it a short, checkable task, review the result and its action log, then raise the difficulty step by step.

Security: risk level

A personal assistant often combines access to private data, reading outside content and sending messages: the combination that enables data leaks through prompt injection.

Points found for Lindy:

• Trifecta: access to private data, reading outside content and sending messages. That combination makes data leaks through prompt injection possible.

Three habits: least privilege (minimal rights, dedicated keys), human approval for irreversible actions, a sandbox for code execution. The AI agent security check reviews your setup in a few minutes.

Lindy's price vs other services

Of the 4 services in the family that publish a monthly price, 2 are cheaper than Lindy.

Note: at the same price, included quotas (credits, tasks, messages) vary a lot between services. The entry price tells you what access costs, not how much work it buys.

Lindy and other personal assistants at a glance

The 7 best-ranked agents in the same family, 7 of them open source. The score out of 100 only applies to open-source projects; for proprietary services we show the published entry price. A dash marks information the documentation does not state.

How we rated it

We do not give proprietary agents a score out of 100: there is no public adoption or activity data for them comparable to open-source repositories, and we will not make up a number. This page relies on the vendor's documentation and pricing page, checked on October 25, 2026.

The risk level follows the same rule as for open-source projects: access granted, default human approval and where data is processed. Details on the method page.