Best Lindy alternatives in 2026
Adapt is the strongest Lindy alternative for agents across every team on one platform, with no seat fees and self-hosting from January 2027.
Why do teams look beyond Lindy?
2–2,500
Credits one Lindy task can cost; unused monthly credits don’t roll over.
Adapt: Usage at published rates
Source: lindy.ai
$49.99
Per active user a month on Lindy’s Team plan, for 5,000 credits.
Adapt: No seat fees
Source: lindy.ai
3.5 / 5
Lindy’s Trustpilot score across 64 reviews, checked November 9, 2026.
Source: trustpilot.com
Why choose Adapt over Lindy?
Costs you can forecast
No seat fee and 0% markup on your own model keys, not credit pools that reset.
One platform for every team
Every team’s agents share company memory, instead of growing seat by seat.
Yours to run
MIT licensed and free to self-host from January 4, 2027, or we run it for you.
- Pricing
- Adapt Cloud: no platform or seat fee, just usage at published rates, with 0% markup on your own model keys. Open source: free to self-host from January 4, 2027. Enterprise: an implementation fee plus an annual fee.
- Where it runs
- Run on Adapt Cloud, self-host the MIT-licensed company agent from January 4, 2027, or have AI Transformation Services run it in your VPC or on-prem.
Sources: adapt.com/pricing, adapt.com/product/overview#waitlist, adapt.com/services
What are the other Lindy alternatives?
Dust
A workspace for building AI agents and assistants grounded in company data and tools.
- Best for
- Teams of up to about 100 people who want shared agents over company knowledge, with per-seat admin controls.
- Pricing
- Free €0 (500 lifetime credits); Pro €24 per seat per month billed yearly; Max €120 per seat per month billed yearly; Enterprise custom.
- Trade-off
- The Business plan is positioned for teams up to 100 people; larger companies move to custom Enterprise pricing.
Source: dust.tt
Microsoft Copilot Studio
Microsoft’s low-code platform for building and publishing agents across Microsoft 365, Teams and Power Platform.
- Best for
- Organisations standardised on Microsoft 365 that want agents governed inside their existing tenant.
- Pricing
- $200 per month for 25,000 Copilot Credits, or pay-as-you-go through Azure. Microsoft 365 Copilot ($30 per user per month, paid yearly) covers internal agents.
- Trade-off
- Documented limits include a fixed five-minute timeout on each model response stream.
Sources: microsoft.com, learn.microsoft.com
Zapier Agents
AI agents from Zapier that act across Zapier’s app integrations, billed separately from Zaps.
- Best for
- Teams already running Zapier automations that want agents to act across the same connected apps.
- Pricing
- Free: 400 activities per month. Pro: 1,500 activities per month, from about $33.33 per month billed annually.
- Trade-off
- Every trigger, action and search counts as an activity, paid runs ask before going past 40, and agents stop at the monthly limit.
Sources: zapier.com, help.zapier.com
n8n
A workflow automation platform with AI agent nodes, in the cloud or self-hosted.
- Best for
- Technical teams that want to self-host, or that run high-volume automations billed per workflow execution.
- Pricing
- Starter €20 per month (2,500 executions), Pro €50 per month (10,000), Business €667 per month (40,000), all billed annually.
- Trade-off
- It is source-available rather than OSI open source, limited to internal business or non-commercial use.
Sources: n8n.io, github.com
Relevance AI
A platform for building and running teams of AI agents, such as sales development agents.
- Best for
- Go-to-market and operations teams that want prebuilt or custom agents, hosted in the US, EU or Australia.
- Pricing
- Pro from $19 and Team from $234 per month, billed annually and bought in-app; Enterprise through sales.
- Trade-off
- The free plan is retired, and Pro covers 2 builders and one project, Team 5 builders.
Source: relevanceai.com
Gumloop
A no-code platform for building AI agents and automation workflows, with unlimited seats on its paid plan.
- Best for
- Operations teams that want many builders on one account and drag-and-drop agent workflows.
- Pricing
- Pro from $37 per month with 20,000 credits after a 14-day trial; Enterprise custom.
- Trade-off
- Usage carries an 8% orchestration fee on Pro.
Source: gumloop.com
Questions
Adapt, for agents across every team on one platform, self-hosted from January 2027 if you choose. Dust is the closest team assistant, Copilot Studio fits Microsoft 365, and Zapier Agents or n8n suit automation teams.
Yes: Adapt’s company agent is MIT licensed and free to self-host from January 4, 2027. n8n self-hosts too, though its license is source-available, not OSI open source.
Adapt has no seat fee: you pay metered usage at published rates. n8n bills per workflow execution, and Dust charges a flat price per seat with included credits.
Yes: Adapt self-hosts from January 4, 2027, and AI Transformation Services runs it in your cloud today. n8n self-hosts and Gumloop offers a VPC on Enterprise; no self-hosted option is listed for Dust, Zapier Agents or Relevance AI.