The best Lindy alternatives
Ranked for customer conversations.

Looking for Lindy alternatives? Lindy is an AI assistant for the people on your team, working in Slack, the inbox and meetings, priced per seat with pooled credits. If what you need is an agent that answers your customers on email, text, phone, website chat and social DMs, here are six options ranked for that job, with who each one suits and how it charges.

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Every channel wired into one agent and out to the tools behind it: email, SMS, phone, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, LINE, Slack, Discord, X, Reddit, Bluesky, website chat, campaign sequences and follow-ups on one side; HubSpot, GoHighLevel, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, Jobber, Google Calendar, Microsoft 365, Calendly, HubSpot Meetings, Zoho Bookings, Acuity Scheduling, Cal.com, Square Appointments, Stripe, Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix and Squarespace on the other.

Why people look for Lindy alternatives

Lindy calls itself an AI teammate that works across a company's tools. Its documentation starts in Slack: the team shares one Lindy in its channels, each person has a personal Lindy in their DMs, and it is taught skills and routines in plain English. Its feature pages cover email drafting and labelling, follow-up bumps, meeting preparation and recording, smart scheduling and a daily brief, and its homepage lists more than 1,000 integrations and support for MCP servers. It is a general assistant for the people inside a business, aimed at a wide spread of their work, from research and dashboards to CRM updates and reports.

Most people searching for a Lindy alternative fall into one of two groups. The first likes the idea of a general AI agent but wants a different kind of builder: a visual canvas, a workflow tool with thousands of apps, a platform they can host themselves, or pricing that is not tied to the number of people on the team. For them the honest alternatives are other general builders, and several are on this list: Relevance AI, Zapier, Make and n8n, each described from its own website.

The second group came to Lindy for something narrower. They wanted enquiries answered: the website chat at 9pm, the text to the business number, the Instagram DM on a Saturday, the missed call, the email to sales@. A general assistant can be pointed at some of that work, but the pieces a customer desk needs, the channels, the booking, the follow-up rules and one inbox for every thread, are yours to assemble and teach. For that group, a ready-made agent built for sales and service conversations is usually the shorter road.

That is the lens for the ranking below. Bold Agent Kit, the ready-made option, comes first because the list is ordered for a buyer whose main use is customer-facing conversations. The other five are ordered by how directly they point at that job, and each has a fair account of when it is the better choice, including the many cases where a general builder is exactly what you need.

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Customers or colleaguesLindy works for the people on your team. Decide first which side of the conversation needs covering.

Built or ready-madeA general builder gives you parts to assemble. A ready-made agent arrives with the channels and rules in place.

Seats, usage or flatLindy charges per user. Others charge by tasks, credits, executions or actions, and one charges a flat fee.

The channels customers useEmail, texts, calls, website chat and DMs are where enquiries actually arrive.

Booking, not just replyingA customer agent is judged by the appointment in the diary, not the reply it drafted.

Whose AI keySome tools sell model usage as credits; others let you bring your own key and pay the provider directly.

Four reasons teams move on from Lindy

None of these is a fault in Lindy. Each follows from what its own site and documentation say it is: an assistant for your staff, priced by the seat, with work measured in pooled credits.

The customers are not in Slack

Lindy is set up from Slack, and each teammate connects their own Google or Microsoft account and can text their Lindy from their own phone. That is the right shape for an assistant to staff. The people a sales or service agent has to answer are outside the business: they write to the shared mailbox, ring the main number, open the chat on the website and message the Instagram account. A business whose pressing problem is that side of the conversation often decides it needs a tool that starts there.

The price follows headcount

Lindy's plans are per user per month, and each seat adds its plan's credits to one pool that the workspace shares. At the time of writing, its published plans start at $29.99 a month per user. For internal work that is a fair measure, because the value grows with the number of people using it. For a customer desk, volume comes from enquiries, campaigns and busy weeks, which have little to do with how many people are on the payroll.

Credits that reset every month

Lindy measures work in credits according to how complex it is, and its pricing documentation puts everyday tasks at between 2 and 250 credits and larger projects at 1,000 to 2,500. Credits refresh at the start of each billing cycle and do not roll over, and admins can buy top-ups in blocks. Some buyers are comfortable with that. Others would rather know that a busy month costs the same as a quiet one, and pay a model provider directly for the AI.

A customer desk is a lot to teach

Lindy's reach, more than 1,000 integrations, MCP servers and skills taught in plain English, means it can be pointed at a great deal. Turning that reach into a customer desk still means choosing the number, the mailbox, the chat widget and the DM accounts, connecting each one, and teaching the rules: when to book, when to stop following up, how to honour an opt-out on every channel, and where a person steps in. Plenty of businesses would rather those parts arrived finished.

What to look for in a Lindy alternative

Three questions sort the options below faster than any feature list. Answer them for the job you actually have, not the one a demo shows you.

01 / Who

Who is on the other end

If the AI is working for your staff, preparing meetings, clearing inboxes, researching and updating tools, look at general assistants and builders, Lindy included. If it is answering the people who contact your business, look for a tool that covers the channels they use, answers from your own material, takes a real booking and stops when the customer replies, books or opts out. Those are different products, and most regret comes from buying one for the other.

02 / Build

How much you want to assemble

General builders give you triggers, actions, tools and knowledge files, and the design is yours: which channel feeds which step, what the agent may do, how follow-up knows to stop. That is freedom if someone on the team enjoys the work and has time to keep it current. A ready-made agent trades some of that freedom for a finished shape. Be honest about who will own the build a year from now.

03 / Cost

What the bill is counted in

Every tool on this list counts something different: seats and pooled credits, tasks and activities, credits per module action, executions per workflow run, actions per tool run, or nothing at all beyond a flat fee. Work out what your busiest month would look like in each unit, check the vendor's current pricing page, and look at who bills you for the AI: the platform, as credits, or your own provider, at cost.

The best Lindy alternatives, ranked for customer conversations

This list is ordered for a business whose main use is customer-facing conversations: answering enquiries, booking appointments and following up. Bold Agent Kit is the ready-made option for that job. Voiceflow and Relevance AI are platforms for building customer-facing and sales agents. Zapier, Make and n8n are general automation builders that can be assembled into a customer desk, and they are the better answer for plenty of other work.

We make Bold Agent Kit, which is why it is first on this list. Every other entry is described from its own website, including when it is the better choice.

01 / Best for answering and booking customers on every channel

Bold Agent Kit

Bold Agent Kit is a ready-made sales and service agent for the channels a business already uses. Where Lindy works for your team, it talks to your customers: the email to sales@, the text to your number, the call you could not pick up, the chat on your website, and DMs on Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram, LINE, Viber, Slack, Discord, Bluesky, Reddit and X. One agent answers all fifteen channels from one knowledge base of your documents, Q&A pairs, prices and hours, and the pages of your own site it may link to.

It is not a builder, and there is nothing to wire together. You write the instructions, connect the channels and switch auto-reply on for each one. From then on it answers genuine enquiries in seconds, offers real open slots from one of eight calendars and books the one the customer picks, and follows up on a campaign of email, text and call steps that stops the moment the person replies, books or opts out on any channel. Every thread lands in one inbox, where anyone on your team can take over and hand back.

Choose it if the reason you looked at Lindy was customers rather than colleagues, and you want the whole customer side working this week at one account price. It does not run your team's inbox, prepare meetings or automate internal work, and it connects to eighteen CRMs, calendars and stores rather than a thousand apps. Plenty of teams would run it next to a general assistant, each doing its own job.

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Best foranswering and booking customers on every channel

Pricing$25 a month or $200 a year for the account, with a 7-day free trial. Your own AI key and carrier, billed at cost. No seats or credits.

ChannelsEmail, texts on nine carriers, phone calls on Twilio, website chat and eleven DM platforms

Fifteen customer channelsEmail, texts, calls, website chat and eleven DM platforms, answered by one agent in one voice.

Books the real slotOpen times from your calendar offered, and only an offered slot can be written in.

One price, no seatsUnlimited agents for $25 a month. Your AI provider bills you directly at cost.

Narrow on purposeCustomer conversations only. Internal work and wide app automation belong in another tool.

02 / Best for CX and product teams designing customer-facing agents

Voiceflow

Voiceflow is an AI agent platform for customer experience teams, which puts it close to the job this list is ordered for. Its site describes a visual Agent Builder, a Workflow Builder for scripted flows the agent can call, Playbooks written in natural language, custom code and APIs, and staging environments, with one agent able to run across web, app, WhatsApp, SMS and voice at once. It lists native connections to tools such as Zendesk, Salesforce, HubSpot, Shopify, Airtable, Google Sheets and Gmail, and lets you choose among the large model providers or bring your own model.

Where Lindy is set up around your staff, Voiceflow is set up around the conversation a customer starts, and it is built for the people who design those conversations for a living: product teams, CX and support leads, and engineers. Its documentation describes a bill made up of a plan fee, add-ons such as editor seats and phone numbers, and credits used when agents generate responses or make calls. Businesses are asked to book a demo or request pricing, and agencies and partners are offered a free trial.

Choose Voiceflow if you have a team that wants to design the agent step by step, needs it inside your own app or product as well as on the web, and has an engineer to connect it to the rest of your stack. If you want an agent answering email, texts, calls and DMs this week without a design phase, a ready-made option is the shorter road.

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Best forCX and product teams designing customer-facing agents

PricingA plan fee, optional add-ons such as editor seats and phone numbers, and credits used as agents respond and call. No plan prices are published at the time of writing; businesses request pricing.

ChannelsWeb chat, in-app, WhatsApp, SMS and voice, from one agent

Made for customer conversationsIts site addresses CX, support and product teams rather than internal assistants.

Deep design toolsA visual Agent Builder, scripted workflows, Playbooks, code, APIs and staging environments.

In-app as well as webOne agent across web, app, WhatsApp, SMS and voice, by its own description.

Pricing on requestA plan fee, seats and credits, with business pricing given after a demo or request.

03 / Best for sales and operations teams building specialised agents

Relevance AI

Relevance AI is a platform for building and deploying specialised AI agents and linking them into workforces, teams of agents that pass work to one another. Its site lists sales uses such as lead enrichment, meeting preparation, prospecting and post-call follow-up, support triage, and operations work such as invoice matching and contract review. Its no-code builder sits alongside triggers from integrations, schedules, webhooks and an API, and it offers Bosh, an AI BDR agent that its site says researches prospects, handles replies over email and LinkedIn and schedules meetings.

For a Lindy user, the shift is from one assistant for everybody to a set of agents each built for one job, and some of those jobs face outward. Its documentation describes phone agents that make outbound calls and run tools during the call, and its integrations include Gmail and Outlook among many others. Billing is split in two: Actions, where each run of a tool counts as one, and Vendor Credits for the model and tool costs, which its documentation says are charged at wholesale with no markup, or skipped by bringing your own keys.

Choose Relevance AI if you want to build several specialised agents, particularly for B2B sales and operations, and have someone to design and evaluate them. If your need is inbound enquiries across texts, calls, website chat and social DMs, booked into a calendar, those are channels you would connect and design around rather than a desk that arrives set up.

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Best forsales and operations teams building specialised agents

PricingActions, counted each time an agent runs a tool, plus Vendor Credits for model and tool usage, which your own API keys can replace. Its main pricing page shows an Enterprise plan arranged through sales.

ChannelsRelevance Chat on web and mobile; 1,000+ integrations including Slack, Gmail and Outlook; outbound phone agents

An agent for each jobSpecialised agents and workforces, rather than one general assistant.

A ready sales agentBosh, an AI BDR its site says handles replies and books meetings over email and LinkedIn.

Your own keys, optionalBring your own API keys to skip Vendor Credits; Actions are counted per tool run.

More to designTools, triggers and workforces are yours to build, test and keep current.

04 / Best for automating work across thousands of apps, with AI in the flow

Zapier

Zapier is an automation platform that connects more than 9,000 apps, by its homepage's count. Its core is the Zap, a workflow of a trigger and one or more actions, and around it sit Zapier Agents, which work from instructions, triggers, actions and knowledge sources, Chatbots that take FAQs, documents and public links and can collect leads, and Forms, Tables and Canvas. Its homepage now frames the whole platform around building and governing AI workflows, agents and apps.

Next to Lindy, Zapier is the choice for people who want to design the automation themselves rather than teach an assistant. Instead of an assistant set up around Slack, it gives you a trigger-and-action builder, and you decide exactly what runs. Zaps are billed by tasks, where a task is any successful action, and Agents by activities on a separate allowance. Plans run from a free tier upwards, with 25 users on the Team plan.

Choose Zapier if the work is wide: moving data between many apps, internal processes, forms and tables, and AI steps inside those flows, with a chatbot for simple website questions. For a full customer desk across texts, calls and DMs, with booking and follow-up that stops on every channel at once, you would assemble the channel apps and the logic yourself, and each successful action counts a task.

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Best forautomating work across thousands of apps, with AI in the flow

PricingZaps by tasks and Agents by activities, on separate allowances. A free plan with 100 tasks a month; at the time of writing, paid plans start at $19.99 a month, billed annually.

Channels9,000+ apps, plus its own Agents, Chatbots and Forms

9,000+ appsTriggers and actions across more than 9,000 apps, by its homepage's count.

A free plan to start100 tasks a month and two-step Zaps, with paid plans for multi-step workflows.

Chatbots and AgentsCustomer-facing chat and AI agents sit beside Zaps, each on its own pricing.

Usage-basedTasks for Zaps and activities for Agents, so a busier month needs a bigger allowance.

05 / Best for drawing multi-step automations and agents on a visual canvas

Make

Make, formerly Integromat, is a visual automation platform. You build scenarios on a canvas, each a series of modules that moves and transforms data between apps, and its homepage counts more than 3,000 pre-built apps to draw from. Make AI Agents are built on the same canvas and, by its pricing page, run on Make's AI provider on every plan or on your own model key. Maia by Make builds automations and agents through conversation, and Make Grid gives an overview of everything you have automated.

Lindy users who look at Make usually want to see the logic laid out rather than described in a prompt. Every route, router and filter is visible on the canvas, and scenarios run on a schedule, every 15 minutes by default and adjustable, or instantly from a webhook or an app's instant trigger. It is billed by credits, with plans sized by monthly allowance and a free plan to start on.

Choose Make if you want to draw processes across many apps and keep every step in view, with agents placed where they help. For customer conversations it gives you the canvas and the modules, and the channel apps, the booking logic and the memory of who is who are yours to design.

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Best fordrawing multi-step automations and agents on a visual canvas

PricingCredits, one per module action, with token-based credits for AI on Make's own provider. A free plan with up to 1,000 credits a month; at the time of writing, paid plans start at $12 a month.

Channels3,000+ pre-built apps, webhooks and the Make MCP server

Everything on one canvasModules, routers and filters laid out visually, so every route is in view.

Your own model keyAI agents and tools on Make's provider or your own LLM key, by its pricing page.

A free planUp to 1,000 credits a month, with paid plans sized by credit allowance.

Timing is a settingScheduled runs by default, or instant from a webhook, set per scenario.

06 / Best for technical teams that want to self-host workflows and agents

n8n

n8n is a workflow automation platform for building AI agents and automations, visually or in code. Its homepage lists more than 500 integrations, with custom API calls for anything else, and it runs on n8n's cloud or on your own infrastructure, including on-premises. Its Agent Builder sets a model, instructions, tools, skills, knowledge, memory and sub-agents, and its documentation names Slack, Telegram and Linear as channels people can use to reach an agent, alongside schedules and a Chat Trigger that offers a hosted chat or one you embed.

For someone leaving Lindy, n8n is the move towards control: each step and each decision is visible on the canvas, you can connect cloud or local models, and you can host the whole thing yourself. The self-hosted Community Edition is free and has, in n8n's words, almost the complete feature set, under its fair-code Sustainable Use License. n8n's own guide says self-hosting needs technical expertise for installation and configuration, and points people without it to n8n Cloud.

Choose n8n if you have a developer or a technical operator, want your automations on your own servers, and like paying per workflow run rather than per step. For customer conversations, the chat, the channels and the rules are yours to build; every message to its Chat Trigger runs the workflow, and its cloud plans are counted in workflow runs.

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Best fortechnical teams that want to self-host workflows and agents

PricingCloud plans by workflow executions, one per full run of a workflow. At the time of writing, cloud plans start at €20 a month, billed annually; the self-hosted Community Edition is free.

Channels500+ integrations and any API; agents reached by chat, Slack, Telegram or Linear

A self-hosting optionRun it on your own infrastructure, with a free Community Edition.

Priced per run, not per stepAn execution is one run of a whole workflow, however many steps it has.

Code when you need itBuild visually or in code, with custom API calls beyond the 500+ integrations.

Technical by designIts own guide says self-hosting needs technical expertise to install and configure.

Lindy alternatives at a glance

Each tool's best fit, the channels or apps it works with, and how it charges, as its own website described them when we checked. For reference, Lindy itself is priced per user, with credits pooled across the workspace.

Tool	Best for	Channels	How it charges
Bold Agent Kit	answering and booking customers on every channel	Email, texts on nine carriers, phone calls on Twilio, website chat and eleven DM platforms	$25 a month or $200 a year for the account, with a 7-day free trial. Your own AI key and carrier, billed at cost. No seats or credits.
Voiceflow	CX and product teams designing customer-facing agents	Web chat, in-app, WhatsApp, SMS and voice, from one agent	A plan fee, optional add-ons such as editor seats and phone numbers, and credits used as agents respond and call. No plan prices are published at the time of writing; businesses request pricing.
Relevance AI	sales and operations teams building specialised agents	Relevance Chat on web and mobile; 1,000+ integrations including Slack, Gmail and Outlook; outbound phone agents	Actions, counted each time an agent runs a tool, plus Vendor Credits for model and tool usage, which your own API keys can replace. Its main pricing page shows an Enterprise plan arranged through sales.
Zapier	automating work across thousands of apps, with AI in the flow	9,000+ apps, plus its own Agents, Chatbots and Forms	Zaps by tasks and Agents by activities, on separate allowances. A free plan with 100 tasks a month; at the time of writing, paid plans start at $19.99 a month, billed annually.
Make	drawing multi-step automations and agents on a visual canvas	3,000+ pre-built apps, webhooks and the Make MCP server	Credits, one per module action, with token-based credits for AI on Make's own provider. A free plan with up to 1,000 credits a month; at the time of writing, paid plans start at $12 a month.
n8n	technical teams that want to self-host workflows and agents	500+ integrations and any API; agents reached by chat, Slack, Telegram or Linear	Cloud plans by workflow executions, one per full run of a workflow. At the time of writing, cloud plans start at €20 a month, billed annually; the self-hosted Community Edition is free.

The general builders on this list, Relevance AI, Zapier, Make and n8n, can be pointed at far more kinds of work than Bold Agent Kit, and Voiceflow is built for teams who design conversations in depth. Bold Agent Kit does one job: customer conversations on fifteen channels, with booking and follow-up, at $25 a month or $200 a year for the account, with your AI provider and your carrier billing you directly at cost. Units and allowances differ from tool to tool, so compare them against your own busiest month.

We checked each tool’s public website on 11 September 2026 for this page. Plans and features change, so check each vendor’s own site for the current detail. Product names are trademarks of their owners, and Bold Agent Kit is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.

Which Lindy alternative should you choose?

If you looked at Lindy because enquiries were going unanswered, choose the tool built for the customer side. Bold Agent Kit is the ready-made option on this list: one agent on email, texts, calls, website chat and eleven DM platforms, answering from your own material, booking real slots and following up until the customer books, buys or opts out, for $25 a month for the account. If you have a CX or product team that wants to design the agent in depth, or needs it inside your own app, Voiceflow is built for that.

If you want a general agent builder in a different shape from Lindy, the answer is another builder. Relevance AI suits teams building several specialised agents, especially for B2B sales and operations. Zapier suits teams automating across a very wide range of apps, with a free plan to start. Make suits people who want to draw every step on a canvas. n8n suits technical teams who want to self-host and pay per workflow run.

And if what you liked about Lindy was an assistant for your own staff, in Slack, the inbox and meetings, it may simply be the right tool for that job. Many businesses end up with two tools rather than one: a general assistant or builder for internal work, and a ready-made agent for the conversations with customers.

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Powered by your own keys

Each agent uses a model on your own API key, in the same way it sends from your own mailbox and your own phone number. Sixteen providers are supported: OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI and Mistral; DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, Qwen and MiniMax; Groq, Together, Fireworks and OpenRouter; and Ollama or any other OpenAI-compatible endpoint you host yourself.

Bring your own credentials and you own the whole stack: your model provider, your mailboxes, your carrier, your CRM. We charge for the software and nothing else — no token markup, no metering, no credit packs — so your provider bills you direct at their rates, usually a few dollars a month per agent.

Your key, sixteen providersOpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, Groq, OpenRouter and more.

Or a model you hostOllama, vLLM, or any other OpenAI-compatible endpoint of your own.

The fast model on callsIt switches automatically, because a phone call cannot wait for a sentence.

No metering from usNo markup, no credit packs, no per-message billing. A busy month costs no more.

Keys stored encryptedYour credentials are yours; we never send them anywhere but your provider.

Sixteen model providers, on your own key

OpenAI
Anthropic
Gemini
xAI
Mistral
DeepSeek
GLM
Kimi
Qwen
MiniMax
Groq
Together
Fireworks
OpenRouter
Ollama
Any OpenAI API

One plan. Everything in it. Monthly or yearly.

No seat tiers, no credit packs, no per-agent or per-channel pricing, and nothing held back behind an enterprise call.

Agents
How many	Unlimited — one per business, brand or job
Shared brain	The same identity, instructions and knowledge on every channel
Knowledge base	Documents, Q&A pairs, data points and pages of your own site
Isolation	One agent's content is never used to reply for another
Client seats	Invite a client into one agent, with their own login
Channels
Email	As many mailboxes per agent as you connect, rotated by campaigns
Text messages	Nine providers — Twilio, Telnyx, SimpleTexting, Plivo, Vonage, Sinch, Bandwidth, MessageBird, ClickSend
Phone calls	Answering and dialling, with recordings and transcripts
Transcription	Google, or Deepgram nova-3 on your own key
Voices	Google, Amazon Polly and ElevenLabs, or your own ElevenLabs / Fish Audio account
Voice cloning	Record a voice in the browser and clone it on your ElevenLabs or Fish Audio key
Website chat	A widget on your site with your colour, image and greeting
Social DMs	Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram, LINE, Viber, Slack, Discord, Bluesky, Reddit, X
Inbox
One list	Every channel's conversations together, newest first, tagged by channel
Filters	By channel, by mailbox or number, or by agent
Takeover	Reply yourself and the agent stands down on that thread
Hand back	Return the thread to the agent when you are done
Campaigns
Multichannel sequences	Email, text and call steps in one campaign, each with its own timing
Send conditions	Send a step only if they opened, did not open, clicked or did not click
Schedule	The days, hours and time zone anything may be sent
Stop rules	A reply, a booking or an opt-out on any channel ends the sequence
Pacing	Per-mailbox and per-number hourly limits, pausable and resumable
Review before start	The full plan is shown; a campaign sends nothing until you start it
Templates	Email, text and call scripts, saved once and reused
Analytics
Funnel	Reached, replied, visited, converted, plus value won and time to convert
By channel	Where each person started, and the channel they converted on
Pages	Which pages known people read, and how many of them converted
Journeys	One row per person: every message, visit, call and booking in order
Goals	A page rule or a manual "won", each with a dollar value
Triggers	A known person returns to a page — notify you, or send a follow-up
Open and click tracking	Recorded per campaign and added to that person's history
Integrations
Calendars	Google, Microsoft 365, Calendly, Cal.com, Acuity, Zoho, Square, HubSpot Meetings
CRMs and commerce	HubSpot, GoHighLevel, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, Jobber, Stripe, Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix, Squarespace
Booking	Real open slots offered, and only an offered slot can be booked
CRM import	Import a segment of customers into a contact list
Deliverability and compliance
Mailbox warm-up	Ramped sending across the network, with spam rescue and replies
Health score	SPF, DKIM, DMARC, bounce rate and inbox placement, with reasons
Auto-rest	A failing address is removed from rotation automatically
Unsubscribes	One click, honoured automatically, including on queued mail
Reply limits	One reply per thread, per-sender daily and per-channel hourly caps
Filtering	Bounces, out-of-office and no-reply addresses ignored
List building
Contact extraction	Emails, phone numbers and social profiles, on any site. Unlimited.
Deep scan	Follows the pages of a domain most likely to carry contact details
Domain queue	Load a CSV of sites and work through them one at a time
Contacts and lists	Unlimited, by email or phone, with CSV import and export
AI
Your own key	Sixteen providers, including any OpenAI-compatible endpoint you host
What we charge for AI	Nothing — no markup, no metering, no credit packs
On calls	Uses your provider's fastest model automatically
Account
Platforms	Chrome side panel and web dashboard on one login
Members' forum	Six boards, visible only once you are signed in
Referral program	$50 a year per referral ($5 a month), recurring for the life of the account
Support	support@boldagents.co

Monthly Annual save 33%

$25/ month

$200/ year

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Before you switch

What is the best Lindy alternative?

It depends on what you wanted Lindy for. For answering and booking customers on email, texts, calls, website chat and social DMs, Bold Agent Kit is the ready-made option, at $25 a month for the account. For a CX or product team designing customer-facing agents in depth, Voiceflow. For specialised sales and operations agents, Relevance AI. For automation across thousands of apps, Zapier, or Make if you prefer a visual canvas. For self-hosting and per-run pricing, n8n. And if you wanted an assistant for your own team, Lindy may already be the right fit.

Why do people switch from Lindy?

Usually because the job they had in mind is not the job Lindy is built for. Lindy is an assistant for your team, set up from Slack and connected to each person's email and calendar, and priced per user with credits pooled across the workspace that reset each month. Businesses whose real need is answering customers on the channels customers use look for a tool that starts there. Others want a different kind of builder: one they can host themselves, draw on a canvas, or pay for by usage rather than by seat.

How is Bold Agent Kit different from Lindy?

Lindy works for the people on your team: it runs inboxes, prepares meetings and learns skills and routines in plain English, across more than 1,000 integrations, priced per user. Bold Agent Kit talks to your customers: one agent on fifteen channels answers from a knowledge base you give it, books real calendar slots and follows up until the person books, buys or opts out, for $25 a month for the account on your own AI key. The full side-by-side, feature by feature, is on our Bold Agent Kit vs Lindy comparison page.

Does Bold Agent Kit connect to Lindy?

No. Bold Agent Kit has no Lindy integration, and nothing passes between the two. It connects directly to the channels it works on, your mailboxes, nine SMS carriers, Twilio, the website widget and eleven DM platforms, and to eighteen CRMs, calendars and stores, including HubSpot, GoHighLevel, Jobber, ServiceTitan, Google Calendar, Calendly, Stripe and Shopify. If you keep Lindy for your team, run the two side by side for different jobs, each with its own set-up and its own records.

Is there a free Lindy alternative?

Three of the tools on this list give you a way to start for nothing. Zapier has a free plan with 100 tasks a month and two-step Zaps. Make has a free plan with up to 1,000 credits a month. n8n's Community Edition is free to self-host on your own server, and its cloud plans begin with a free trial. Each is a general builder, so you would assemble the customer side yourself. Bold Agent Kit is not free, but it has a 7-day free trial and then costs $25 a month for the account. Lindy gives teammates who join through Slack their first week free.

Which Lindy alternative is best for customer service?

For a business that wants its customers answered on the channels they already use, look for three things: the channels themselves, answers drawn from your own material, and a way for a person to step in. Bold Agent Kit covers email, texts, calls, website chat and eleven DM platforms from one knowledge base, with one inbox where you can take over any thread and hand it back. Voiceflow is built for CX teams that want to design agents across web, app, WhatsApp, SMS and voice, with business pricing on request. The general builders can be assembled into a service desk, with the design left to you.

Can a general AI agent builder answer my leads instead?

It can be part of the answer. Relevance AI, Zapier, Make and n8n all let you build agents with instructions, tools and knowledge, and connect them to email, messaging and other services through their integrations. What you would still design yourself is the rest of a lead desk: the number and the mailbox, the chat widget, the booking logic, follow-up that stops on every channel when someone replies or opts out, one contact per person and one inbox for every thread. Those are the parts a ready-made agent brings with it.

How does pricing compare across Lindy alternatives?

Each one counts something different. Lindy is per user, with pooled credits. Relevance AI counts Actions, one per tool run, plus Vendor Credits for the model unless you bring your own keys. Zapier counts tasks for Zaps and activities for Agents. Make counts credits per module action. n8n counts workflow executions on its cloud plans, and its Community Edition is free to self-host. Voiceflow combines a plan fee, add-ons and credits, with business pricing on request. Bold Agent Kit is $25 a month or $200 a year for the account, with your AI provider billing you directly at cost.

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