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Lindy vs Zapier
Written by Wanna AI. Checked on 17 Oct 2026, refreshed every 30 days. Wanna is our product; it appears only in the section "Where Wanna fits", not in the table. We ran neither product, and prices change, so 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. Zapier is a builder where you set up flows between apps, billed in tasks, with AI agents added on top. Pick Lindy if you want help without drawing a flow. Pick Zapier if you want the longest app list and a flow you can inspect step by step.
How we compared
- Rows are the same for both products; a figure we could not read is printed as "not found".
- Lindy: lindy.ai and its pricing page, read on 17 Oct 2026. On both its home page and its pricing page the Team starter price changed between loads: some fetches showed 29.99 US dollars for 3,000 credits, others 49.99 for 5,000 credits. We report both.
- Zapier: its pricing page on zapier.com, its Agents page and its help article How is Zapier Agents usage measured?, updated 1 Oct 2026. That article says Zapier is moving Agents to "AI by Zapier".
- We found no outside review of either product that we could read, so the minuses are our reading of each vendor's own pages.
Side by side
| Lindy | Zapier | |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | An "AI teammate that plugs into your tools": Gmail, Slack, Notion, HubSpot and "1,500+ more", any hosted MCP server, and 40+ skills. It returns finished work such as reports or CRM updates. | Connects "9,000+" apps with flows (Zaps), plus Agents, Chatbots, Tables and an MCP server. You choose each trigger and action. |
| Who it is for | Teams that want to delegate work in words: roles on its site such as Marketing, Sales, Support, Operations and Finance, with tasks like monitoring ad spend, triaging a support queue or logging invoices. | Teams that want the same flow to run the same way every time and can name its steps. |
| Free start | Credits worth $50, no card, valid 7 days. | Free forever: 100 tasks a month, two-step Zaps, 1 seat. Agents on Free: 400 activities a month, and tests count. |
| Paid price and limits | Team, per active user: starts at 29.99 US dollars for 3,000 credits or 49.99 for 5,000 credits a month (the page shows either), up to 1,750,000 at 9,999.50. Top-ups 10 US dollars per 1,000 credits. Monthly credits do not roll over. | Professional 19.99 US dollars a month billed annually, 29.99 billed monthly. Team 69 billed annually, 103.50 billed monthly (25 seats). Enterprise custom. Agents on Pro: 1,500 activities a month. |
| What a unit of usage is | A credit. Everyday asks use 2 to 250, deep work 250 to 1,000 (Lindy's ranges). | A task for Zaps. For Agents, an activity: a trigger, a knowledge answer, an action, a web search or a browse. Activities do not touch your task count. |
| Who approves | "Anything with outside impact waits for approval", per Lindy's pricing page. | A Zap does what you built, with no approval step unless you add one. Agent sharing is Enterprise only; we found no default approval rule for Agents. |
| Honest minuses | Every active user is billed. Credits stop when they run out. The starter price shows as 29.99 or 49.99 depending on the load, and the skill count reads 40+ or 42. | Per-run activity caps (10 on Free, 40 on Pro) pause an agent for your input. Agents are being moved to a new product. A busy flow can use up a plan. |
Criteria that decide it
- Who does the building? With Lindy you describe the job. With Zapier someone chooses the trigger and the actions.
- What do you want to count? Lindy counts credits per seat; Zapier counts tasks, and Agents count activities. Price one real week in each.
- How many apps? Zapier lists 9,000+ and Lindy lists 1,500+ plus MCP. Check your own tools on both lists.
- Do you want the same result every time? A built flow repeats. An agent decides each time.
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 a month (1 company, 200 credits, about 20 tasks), 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 15:28 UTC on 17 Oct 2026, and it has no workflow builder, no inbox assistant and no meeting notes. See also Wanna vs Lindy and Wanna vs Zapier. To see the plan it would make for your company, start free.
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 reviewer who checks where your data goes. For the wider question, read how to choose an AI that runs your company.
FAQ
Is Lindy better than Zapier? It depends on who will set it up. Lindy suits a team that wants a teammate with little set-up; Zapier suits a team that wants a flow it can inspect. We do not rank them.
Is Lindy free? Partly: it gives credits worth $50, no card, valid 7 days. After that, paid Team plans start at 29.99 US dollars (3,000 credits) or 49.99 (5,000 credits) a month per user, and its pages show either price.
Is Zapier free? Yes: 100 tasks a month with two-step Zaps and one seat, read on 17 Oct 2026. Professional starts at 19.99 US dollars a month.
How is Zapier Agents usage measured? In activities, not tasks. Zapier's help article lists a trigger, a knowledge answer, an action, a web search or a browse request as one each.
Does Lindy ask before it acts? Its pricing page says anything with outside impact waits for approval, such as sending an email.
Which one needs less set-up? We did not test either. Lindy's pages describe asking in plain words; Zapier's describe choosing triggers and actions, with a Copilot to help.
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