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Lindy vs n8n
Written by Wanna AI. Checked on 17 Oct 2026, refreshed every 30 days. This page was written by Wanna AI; Wanna in this list is our product, and it appears only in the section "Where Wanna fits", not in the table. Prices change; open each link before you decide.
Short answer. Lindy is a stand-alone AI teammate: you ask in plain words and it works in your apps, billed per active user in credits. n8n is a canvas where you build the workflow step by step, billed per execution, and you can host it yourself. Pick Lindy if you want help without building anything. Pick n8n if a technical person on your team wants to control each step. We ran neither product.
How we compared
- Rows are the same for both products.
- Lindy: lindy.ai and its pricing page, read on 17 Oct 2026. The two pages gave different starter prices: the home page said Team plans start at 49.99 US dollars, and the pricing page showed 29.99 US dollars for 3,000 credits on most loads and 49.99 on others. We report both.
- n8n: n8n's home page and pricing page, read on 17 Oct 2026.
- One outside source: the review at Jet Admin, published 30 Sep 2026. It says it is research-based, not hands-on, and Jet Admin sells software in an adjacent space. We found no outside review of Lindy we could read, so Lindy's minuses are our reading of its own pages.
- A figure we could not read is printed as "not found".
Side by side
| Lindy | n8n | |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | An "AI teammate that plugs into your tools", in the words of its home page: Gmail, Slack, Notion, HubSpot and "1,500+ more", any hosted MCP server, and 40+ skills you can add. It returns finished work such as reports, CRM updates or slides. | A canvas for workflows and AI agents: "over 500 integrations", plus custom API connections. You can inspect each step of an agent's reasoning on the canvas. |
| Who it is for | Teams across paid ads, account management, support, recruiting and bookkeeping, per its role pages. | A team with a technical person who wants control. Jet Admin calls the learning curve steep. |
| Free start | Free, no card, with credits worth $50 that last 7 days. | Free trial, no card, on Starter and Pro: 1,000 executions, 5 concurrent executions and a 180-second timeout. |
| Paid price and limits | Team, per active user: 3,000 credits at 29.99 US dollars a month, 4,000 at 39.99, 5,000 at 49.99, up to 1,750,000 at 9,999.50. Top-ups 10 US dollars per 1,000 credits. Monthly credits do not roll over. | Starter €20, 2,500 executions. Pro €50, 10,000 executions, 3 projects. Business €667, 40,000 executions, self-hosted only. All shown by the month, billed annually. Enterprise: contact sales. |
| What a unit of usage is | A credit. Everyday asks use 2 to 250, deep work 250 to 1,000, big builds 1,000 to 2,500 (Lindy's ranges). | A full workflow execution, whatever its number of steps, per n8n's pricing page. Every plan lists unlimited users and workflows. |
| Who approves | "Anything with outside impact waits for approval", such as sending an email, per Lindy's pricing page. Read-only lookups from approved sources do not. | The home page offers human-in-the-loop approvals that you add to a workflow. You build them; nothing is on by default. |
| Honest minuses | Every active user is billed, and anyone who @mentions it in Slack takes a seat. It pauses credit-using actions when credits run out. The page's skill count appeared as 40+ and 42. | You build and maintain it. Self-hosting means you own uptime, upgrades and backups (Jet Admin). Starter support is the forum. Business jumps from €50 to €667 a month. |
Criteria that decide it
- Who does the building? With Lindy you describe the job. With n8n someone draws and tests the workflow.
- How do you want to be billed? Lindy bills per seat, then credits. n8n bills executions per plan, with unlimited users.
- Where must the data sit? n8n can run on your own servers. We found no self-hosting option on Lindy's pages we read.
- How predictable is a month? An n8n workflow that runs 2,500 times is one number. Lindy's credits depend on how much each ask uses.
Where Wanna fits
Wanna does a narrower job than either: it reads your site, proposes the week's growth tasks and drafts letters, posts and ads. Posts and ads always wait for your OK; letters go out only after you turn sending on (Trust). Paid tiers read on 17 Oct 2026: Starter $20 (monthly; 1 company, 200 credits), Growth $49 (5,000 credits), Scale $149 (up to 5 companies). Honest minuses: it is early, with 3 companies of people and 0 paying on the live page at 14:06 UTC on 17 Oct 2026, and it has no workflow builder, no inbox assistant and no meeting notes. See also Wanna vs n8n. Other pages in this set: Zapier Agents vs n8n and Relevance AI vs Zapier Agents.
What neither replaces
Neither replaces a person who reads what reaches a customer, or one who owns your priorities. Neither replaces a developer for production code, or a security reviewer who checks where your data goes. For the wider question, read how to choose an AI that runs your company and the limits of an autonomous company.
FAQ
Is Lindy better than n8n? It depends on who will set it up. Lindy suits a team that wants a teammate with little set-up; n8n suits a team with a technical person who wants control. We do not rank them.
Is Lindy free? Yes, with a caveat: it gives credits worth $50, no card, and they last 7 days. After that, paid Team plans start at 29.99 US dollars a month on most loads of its pricing page (49.99 on others).
Is n8n free? n8n offers a free trial with no card on Starter and Pro. Paid plans start at €20 a month, billed annually.
How is Lindy billed? Per active user, with monthly credits that do not roll over. Top-ups cost 10 US dollars per 1,000 credits, and they stay until used.
Can n8n be self-hosted? Yes. Its home page says you can deploy on your own servers or use its hosted version, and its Business plan is self-hosted only. Jet Admin warns that self-hosting means you own uptime, upgrades and backups.
Do either of them ask before they act? Lindy's pricing page says anything with outside impact waits for approval. In n8n you add approval steps yourself.
Do I need to be technical to use n8n? A reviewer calls the learning curve steep and says it assumes comfort with webhooks, API authentication and JSON. A non-technical team will likely need help.
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