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Lindy AI review
Direct answer
Our Lindy AI review in short: Lindy is a capable AI assistant that lives in Slack, iMessage, and your inbox. It handles email, meeting notes, CRM updates, and scheduled routines, and it can drive a web browser when an app has no integration. It's a good fit for knowledge workers and small teams who are happy to instruct it and check its work. The weak spots are per-user credit pricing that's hard to predict and a small but very negative set of public reviews about billing and reliability. TeamShift sells a competing product, so weigh our view with that in mind. We point out below where Lindy is the better choice.
What Lindy is
Lindy calls itself an AI teammate. As of October 2026, Lindy's homepage describes an assistant that does the work rather than just answering questions: pulling reports, updating CRMs, clearing inboxes, and running recurring jobs like a daily brief or a Monday report.
You reach it three ways:
- Slack, where it answers in channels and works alongside your team
- iMessage, for asking from your phone
- Email, where it drafts and replies from your inbox
Lindy says it ships with 40+ built-in skills (research, data analysis, decks, dashboards) and connects to "1,000+" tools, including Slack, Notion, HubSpot, Stripe, and Zendesk. For tools without an integration, it can "drive the browser like a person would." Lindy's pricing page lists computer use on every plan, while its homepage FAQ says it's available on Pro and up, so confirm with Lindy before you rely on it at the Plus tier. You can also write custom skills and save workflows so teammates can reuse them.
On safety, the homepage says "nothing irreversible happens without your approval," meaning write and send actions wait for a confirmation. Lindy lists SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and PIPEDA compliance, plus HIPAA with a signed BAA on Enterprise.
How Lindy works day to day
Using Lindy feels like having a sharp assistant in your chat tool. You ask it for something in plain language ("summarize yesterday's sales calls and update the deals in HubSpot") and it works through the steps with the apps you've connected. Recurring jobs run on a schedule. Over time you build up a set of skills and saved workflows that fit how you work.
That flexibility is the main appeal, and it's also where the effort goes. Lindy does what you tell it. Someone on your team has to decide what to automate, write the instructions, connect the accounts, and notice when a routine stops doing the right thing. For a tech-comfortable team, that's a fair trade. For an owner who is already stretched thin, it can become one more system to look after.
Lindy pricing (as of October 2026)
From Lindy's pricing page, there are three self-serve plans, all priced per user per month: Plus at $29.99 with 3,000 credits, Pro at $99.99 with 15,000 credits, and Max at $199.99 with 35,000 credits. Enterprise is custom and adds shared usage plus bonus credits, SSO, audit logs, and HIPAA with a BAA.
Two things matter more than the sticker price:
- Credits run out, and then work stops. The pricing page says Lindy "pauses credit-using actions until your credits reset." There's no automatic overage, so a heavy month means waiting or upgrading.
- It's per user. Costs grow with headcount, not with how much work actually gets done.
People who join through Slack get a 7-day free trial. If you cancel, your workspace stays active through the paid cycle, with no mid-cycle refunds. We break down the credit bands and plan math in our Lindy alternatives page, so we won't repeat it here.
What users say
Lindy's public review base is small. On Trustpilot, as of October 2026, Lindy has 40 reviews and a TrustScore of 1.7 out of 5, with 78% one-star and 7% five-star. That's a small sample, and Trustpilot tends to attract unhappy customers, so don't treat it as the whole picture. Still, the complaints repeat:
- Billing and cancellation. Several reviewers say they couldn't find a cancel button and kept getting charged.
- Credits. Reviewers say real usage burned through credits much faster than they expected.
- Reliability. People report email parsing failures, Gmail labeling bugs, duplicate triggers, and tasks that didn't run as set up.
- Support. Some describe support as slow or dismissive.
The most common praise was a version of "when Lindy works, it works." We didn't test these claims ourselves. They're patterns from public reviews.
Strengths and weaknesses
Strengths
- Works where your team already talks: Slack, iMessage, and email.
- Wide reach, with 1,000+ integrations plus browser use for apps without one (Lindy lists computer use on every plan in its pricing table but says Pro and up in its homepage FAQ).
- Confirmation before irreversible actions, by Lindy's own description.
- Serious compliance options for larger or regulated teams (SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA on Enterprise).
- Custom skills and shared workflows let a team build up its own library.
Weaknesses
- Per-user pricing with a hard credit ceiling. It's hard to know what a month will cost until you've run your real workload for a while.
- You're the designer. Lindy is only as good as the instructions and routines someone on your team sets up and maintains.
- Public reviews raise billing, cancellation, and reliability problems, even if the sample is small.
- It's built around an assistant you direct, not a team that owns a process across several days and several departments.
Lindy vs a hosted AI team
The real question in any Lindy review is who does the thinking about the work. With Lindy, you do. You decide what to ask, write the routines, and check the results. That suits people who like being in control and have time to tune things.
TeamShift takes a different approach. A business gets nine AI workers, led by an Operations lead who sends a morning brief, keeps a task board, routes work, and checks it got done. Support sorts Gmail or Outlook and drafts replies. Sales prepares fast first replies to inbound leads and follow-ups on quotes. Finance chases invoices and cleans up QuickBooks. You hand off a job in a sentence, and there's nothing to build. Anything that would go to a customer, move money, publish, delete, or commit your calendar is drafted and waits for your OK before it goes out. Every step is recorded. Our guide on human-in-the-loop AI explains why we built it that way.
| Lindy | TeamShift | |
|---|---|---|
| How you work with it | Instruct an assistant in Slack, iMessage, or email | Hand off a job in a sentence |
| Who designs the process | You | The AI team, with your approval on anything that goes out |
| Pricing | Per user, monthly credits, work pauses when credits run out | Free workspace, usage billed at 3x compute cost, quoted with a maximum before work starts, spend caps |
| Long jobs | Scheduled routines you set up | Jobs that take days survive waits, retries, and approvals |
TeamShift has no published customer counts or public review scores, so we can't hand you a rating the way we can for Lindy. You can see how billing works on our pricing page.
Who Lindy is best for
- Knowledge workers and small teams who live in Slack and want an assistant there.
- Tech-comfortable operators who enjoy writing instructions and building skills.
- Teams that need its compliance options, especially HIPAA on Enterprise.
- People whose work is mostly email, meetings, research, and CRM updates.
Who should look elsewhere
- Owners who don't have time to design and maintain routines and want jobs taken off their plate. A hosted team fits better. Our guide to AI employees for small business covers the trade-offs.
- Builders who want full control of every step and predictable per-run costs. n8n or Make suit them better.
FAQ
Is Lindy AI legit?
Yes. Lindy is a real product with paid plans, a large integration list, and SOC 2 Type II compliance per its site. Its small set of Trustpilot reviews is mostly negative, with complaints about billing, credits, and reliability, so start on the trial and note your renewal date.
How much does Lindy cost?
As of October 2026, Lindy's pricing page lists Plus at $29.99, Pro at $99.99, and Max at $199.99, each per user per month, with 3,000, 15,000, and 35,000 credits. Enterprise is custom.
What happens when Lindy runs out of credits?
Lindy pauses credit-using actions until your credits reset at the next cycle. You can upgrade to a bigger plan to keep working.
Does Lindy ask before it sends emails?
Lindy's homepage says nothing irreversible happens without your approval, and write or send actions wait for confirmation. Check how this behaves for the specific routines you set up.
Is TeamShift a Lindy alternative?
For some owners. TeamShift fits better if you want a team that takes whole jobs (inbox, lead follow-up, invoicing, QuickBooks cleanup) and drafts anything outgoing for your OK. Lindy fits better if you want a configurable assistant in Slack and like directing it yourself.