IronClaw vs Lindy

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Entry price: IronClaw from $5/mo, Lindy from $49.99/seat/mo — different billing units, so no direct winner
Free plan: Only IronClaw (Lindy has paid plans only)
Best fit: IronClaw: Developers who want an agent they can audit and self-host · Lindy: Sales, support and ops teams automating email triage, follow-ups and scheduling
Trust score: About even — IronClaw 91, Lindy 93
Status: Both up at our last check (Sep 6, 2026)

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

IronClawOpen-source personal agent that keeps your credentials in an encrypted enclave, not in the prompt

LindyAI teammates that work inside email, calendar, meetings and a browser, built from triggers and skills without code

Side by side

Fact	IronClaw	Lindy
Category	AI Agents & Autonomous Workers	AI Agents & Autonomous Workers
Pricing model	Freemium	Paid
Starts at	$5/mo	$49.99/seat/mo
Trust score	91 / 100	93 / 100
Platforms	Web	Web
Company	NEAR Foundation	Crivello Corp
Launched	2026	—
Last verified	Sep 6, 2026	Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

IronClaw

IronClaw takes the part of personal agents everyone hand-waves, what happens to your credentials, and answers it with an encrypted enclave vault plus open source you can read. The repository is busy and drew over 12,000 stars within months of its February 2026 start. That youth is also the risk: a six-month-old agent runtime touching your inbox and GitHub is an early adopter's tool.

Pros

Apache-2.0 source on GitHub, so self-hosting is a real option rather than a promise
Secrets stay in an encrypted enclave vault instead of passing through the model
Model-agnostic across Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, Ollama and OpenRouter
Hosted plans include model credits at face value, starting at $5 a month

Cons

The project is only months old and moving fast, so interfaces will churn
Credits are the real cost driver; the subscription is largely a credit prepayment
Hosted tiers cap agent instances at 2 and 5, and no country or legal entity is published

Lindy

Lindy is for a business team that wants agents acting on real inboxes and calendars this week, with the plumbing to 1,500 apps already done; the skills library and meeting recorder make it closer to a junior colleague than a Zapier flow. The bill is credits per active user, and the free plan is now a seven-day trial rather than a standing tier, so a solo user who wants to run one automation for free should look elsewhere. Engineers who want to own the orchestration will find the canvas limiting.

Pros

Trigger-and-steps builder with 40+ reusable skills, no code required
Agents can send email, schedule, join meetings and operate a browser on Pro and above
1,500+ integrations plus MCP server support
Credits are pooled across the team and top-ups are priced plainly at $10 per 1,000
Enterprise tier offers HIPAA with a signed BAA, SSO, SCIM and audit logs

Cons

Billing is per active user plus credits, so cost rises with both seats and volume
The free plan is a 7-day, $50-credit trial, not an ongoing allowance
No yearly pricing or public API is shown on the pricing page
Legal entity is Crivello Corp in Oregon, named only in the terms

Which one fits

Choose IronClaw if you need

Developers who want an agent they can audit and self-host
People uneasy about handing mailbox and repo tokens to a closed SaaS agent
Teams standardising on MCP-style tool access across several model providers

Choose Lindy if you need

Sales, support and ops teams automating email triage, follow-ups and scheduling
Founders who want one agent across Gmail, Slack, Notion and HubSpot without hiring an integrator
Teams that record and query their meetings and want the notes to trigger actions