Lindy alternatives
The short answer: Lindy is now sold as an AI employee in Slack, billed for every active user, and most people looking for an alternative want one of three things. If you want the same kind of AI employee without a seat for every person, or working inside Microsoft Teams, look at Sanaf. If you want to design and compose the agents yourself, look at Relevance AI or Runbear. If you want the underlying automation rather than an assistant, look at Make or n8n. Lindy itself is a good product, and if your team already uses it every day and the per-person bill is fine, the honest advice is to stay.
Last updated 2026-10-25. Every product here is described by its pricing model, not its current plans or prices; check their own site for those.
Lindy started as a tool for building automations and has relaunched as an AI employee: it lives in Slack, email and iMessage, ships with more than 40 skills, records meetings, and asks before anything with outside impact. Plenty of teams get real value from it, and this page is not an argument that they should not.
People go looking for an alternative for practical reasons rather than because the product is bad, and the reason you are looking decides which of the four below is right. So the list is grouped by reason, not ranked.
4 options, and who each one suits
Relevance AI
A platform for building AI teams: you assemble agents with tools and skills, then run them against your systems.
- Best for
- Teams who want to keep building, with more control over how each agent is composed than a teammate builder gives them.
- How it is priced
- Credit-based plans by volume, with enterprise pricing by quote
Runbear
An AI teammate that lives in Slack and answers from the tools your company already uses.
- Best for
- Slack-first teams who want something in the channel quickly and are not looking to build much.
- How it is priced
- Credits per model call on monthly plans, not per seat, with an enterprise tier by quote
Sanaf
That is usOne AI employee for the whole workspace, hired into jobs with a written description, working in Slack, Microsoft Teams and its own chat across the apps you already run.
- Best for
- A business that wants one colleague to delegate to, with rules per kind of action and a record of everything it did.
- How it is priced
- Free to start with $120 of credit and no card, then credits from $20 as you need them. They never expire, and you pay for the work, not per seat
Make
A visual automation platform where you draw a scenario module by module and it runs exactly as drawn.
- Best for
- People who want the underlying automation rather than a teammate, and who like seeing the whole process on a canvas.
- How it is priced
- Credits consumed per module action, on a free tier and paid plans, with unlimited users and an enterprise tier quoted by their sales team
Why people look elsewhere
- Every person who uses it becomes a paid seat, so the bill grows with headcount rather than with the work.
- The company runs on Microsoft Teams, where Lindy can post messages but is not a place you work with it.
- Monthly credits reset each cycle, so a quiet month is credit lost.
- They want each job held separately, with its own logins and rules, rather than one assistant with access to everything.
Stay with Lindy if
- Your team already uses it daily and the per-person bill is one you are happy with.
- You want meeting recordings, iMessage or calls from the same assistant.
- The integrations you depend on are ones Lindy supports well and the alternative does not.
- Your usage is steady and the bill is already predictable for you.
Frequently asked
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