crew bot vs Lindy

Lindy is a polished AI teammate for office work: it lives in Slack, email and your meetings, makes phone calls, connects to 1,500+ apps, and waits for your approval before anything with outside impact. crew bot is a Lindy AI alternative for a business that also needs its servers, databases, deploys and website chat handled, priced per workspace instead of per user.

Lindy measures work in credits, and it's refreshingly open about what they buy: an everyday ask, such as drafting a reply or a quick lookup, takes 2 to 250 credits; a big build, such as a dashboard or a deck from your CRM, takes 1,000 to 2,500. A credit costs about one cent. Every person who uses Lindy is a paid seat. Here's what that means in practice, where Lindy is clearly ahead, and when a crew that works on your systems is the better fit.

What is Lindy?

Lindy calls itself "the AI employee that plugs into your tools, learns how you work, and takes real work off your plate". What it does, from its own pages:

• Works in Slack: a teammate you @mention in threads and channels, which answers from your tools, meetings and files.
• Handles your inbox: manages email, drafts replies in your voice, and connects 2 to 5 inboxes depending on plan; a Chrome extension puts it inside Gmail.
• Sits in your meetings: records them, takes notes, keeps a shared meeting library, and handles scheduling, prep and follow-up.
• Makes phone calls and texts: phone work, and iMessage with your assistant at any hour.
• Runs on a schedule: routines such as a morning brief or a Friday report.
• Learns skills: 40+ built in, and you can teach it yours by showing it once. Its memory lives in plain files you can open and edit.
• Connects widely: 1,500+ integrations plus any hosted MCP server, a choice of model for each task, and computer use, driving a browser the way a person would.
• Builds internal tools: Lindy Apps, its newest feature, builds internal tools on top of the tools you use.

On safety, Lindy says: "Anything with outside impact waits for approval such as sending an email, updating a ticket, posting to another channel, publishing a doc." Read-only lookups don't need approval. It's SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliant, offers HIPAA with a signed BAA on Enterprise, logs every action, and says your data is never used to train models.

Lindy pricing and credits

• Free: $50 in credits, no card, lasting 7 days.
• Team: from $49.99 a month for each active user, with 5,000 credits each, pooled across the team. Bigger credit tiers go up to 1,750,000 credits for $9,999.50 a month. Top-ups cost $10 per 1,000 credits.
• Enterprise: custom credits and billing, with HIPAA and a signed BAA, SSO and SCIM, audit logs and dedicated support.

A few rules worth knowing. Anyone who uses Lindy takes a seat, including people who only @mention it in Slack (they get a 7-day trial first). Monthly credits don't roll over; top-ups do. If the pool runs low, Lindy pauses and tells you rather than running up a bill.

So a team of five starts at about $250 a month for 25,000 shared credits.

What crew bot does

crew bot is a crew, not one assistant. You hand a job to the Lead, which plans it and splits it between specialists who work at the same time; a skeptic checks what they find before it reaches you. It remembers how you like things done.

• Your inbox: it reads and sorts Gmail, drafts the replies that need you, files receipts and unsubscribes you from the noise, and checks with you before it sends.
• Your computer: on a Mac it uses the mouse, keyboard and any app, including old ones with no API, while you watch and can take over. The Windows app can use the computer's browser, screen and terminal when you say so.
• Your systems: your databases in plain words, web apps you sign it in to, servers and routers over SSH, 240+ apps and any app with an MCP connector. Logins are encrypted and never shown to a model.
• Deploys: it puts what it builds live on your own server, checks it answers before switching over, and keeps the release before.
• Your website's visitors: one line on your site and a bot of yours answers from your pages and hands over to your team, with visitor analytics. See crew bot's support chat.
• Routines and approvals: routines on a schedule and webhooks from your other systems, with approvals on your phone and the Lead on Telegram.

It asks before anything that writes, every job has a budget (fifty US cents by default, and it stops to ask if it needs more), and every step is on record.

crew bot as a Lindy AI alternative, side by side

Where Lindy is ahead

Meetings. Recording, notes, a shared library the team can ask questions of, and the prep and follow-up around each call. crew bot doesn't join your meetings.

Phone calls and iMessage. Lindy handles phone work and texts. crew bot talks to you through its apps, your phone's approvals and Telegram.

It lives in Slack. If your team works in Slack all day, an AI you @mention in a thread is about as low-friction as it gets.

More integrations. 1,500+ plus MCP, against crew bot's 240+ apps (plus any MCP app).

You pick the model. Lindy lets you choose the model for each task. crew bot picks models from several AI labs for each job, unless you bring your own keys.

Compliance paperwork. SOC 2 Type II, and HIPAA with a signed BAA on Enterprise. If you're in healthcare or sell to large companies, that can decide it.

Skills you teach by showing. Do something once, save it as a skill, and the whole team has it; its memory is plain files you can edit.

Where crew bot is ahead

Your servers, routers and databases. It signs in over SSH with five-minute certificates, reads what's wrong, and tells you the fix or makes it once you approve, with logins kept in a vault no model ever sees. Lindy is built around office tools, not infrastructure.

It puts your work live. It deploys apps to your own server, checks they answer before switching over, and keeps the release before so you can roll back. More on the crew's server and deploy work.

A website chat for your customers. A bot per site that answers from your pages, hands over to your team, and shows who visits and what they read.

Desktop apps, not just the browser. Lindy can drive a browser. crew bot can also work the desktop apps on your Mac, such as Excel, WhatsApp or your accounting software, while you watch.

A crew with a skeptic. Specialists work in parallel and a skeptic attacks every finding before it reaches you, which matters when the answer is about money or a customer's line.

Priced per workspace, with a budget per job. A team doesn't multiply the price by heads. The plan's AI is measured at what the providers charge, with no markup, and AI on your own keys isn't counted at all. And crew bot's Free plan doesn't run out after a week.

Which to choose

Choose Lindy if

• Your work is meetings, email, Slack and phone calls, and you want an assistant across all of them
• You need SOC 2 Type II or HIPAA with a signed BAA
• You want the widest set of office integrations and to choose your own model

Choose crew bot if

• You run servers, networks, databases or websites and want an AI that works on them, with your OK
• You want your website's visitors answered and handed to your team
• You want a crew for the whole team at one price per workspace, starting free

For the wider field, see the best AI agents for small businesses or all our comparisons.

FAQ

How much does Lindy cost?

Lindy's Team plan starts at $49.99 a month for each active user, with 5,000 credits each, pooled across the team; top-ups are $10 per 1,000 credits. You can start with $50 of free credits, no card, which last 7 days. Enterprise is priced on request.

What is a Lindy credit?

Credits measure the work Lindy does, at about one cent each. Lindy's own examples: everyday asks take 2 to 250 credits, deep work such as a competitor report 250 to 1,000, and big builds such as dashboards or decks 1,000 to 2,500. Monthly credits don't roll over.

Does Lindy ask before it acts?

Yes, for anything with outside impact: sending an email, updating a ticket, posting to another channel or publishing a doc waits for your approval. Read-only lookups from approved sources go ahead without it. crew bot works the same way: it asks before anything that writes, unless you've told it to go ahead.

Is crew bot cheaper than Lindy?

On the sticker price for a team, yes: crew bot charges per workspace ($19, $49 or $149 a month), while Lindy charges each active user from $49.99. But the plans aren't like for like. Most of Lindy's price is credits for AI work (5,000 credits is about $50 of it), while crew bot's plan includes a weekly AI allowance measured at cost, from $1 a week on Free to $16 a week on Scale, and from Start a computer for the crew. Heavy users can add usage credit with a monthly cap, or bring their own AI keys.