How we make this list: we compare pricing pages, product documentation and public user reviews. Ratings come from G2, Capterra or Trustpilot, with the date we checked them.
Key takeaways
- Relevance AI and Gumloop are the closest swaps: build your own AI workers on a canvas, from 19 and 37 dollars a month, with credit based pricing you can model.
- Dust suits companies that want agents working across internal knowledge, and Zapier Agents suit teams whose automations already live in Zapier.
- Agentforce and Copilot Studio are the ecosystem answers: the right choice exactly when your data and identity already live in Salesforce or Microsoft 365.
- Every platform here can produce a wrong output confidently. Budget for supervision: approval steps on anything that sends, spends or deletes, and a human owner for every agent you keep.
Quick comparison
| Tool | Best for | Starting price | Free plan |
|---|
 Relevance AI | Agent workforces for ops and sales | $19 per month | No |
 Gumloop | Visual agent building for whole teams | $37 per month | No |
 Dust | Agents over company knowledge | $24 per seat per month | No |
 Zapier Agents | Agents on existing Zapier automations | $33 per month | Yes |
 n8n | Technical teams wanting control | Free | Yes |
 Salesforce Agentforce | Agents inside Salesforce | See website | No |
 Microsoft Copilot Studio | Agents inside Microsoft 365 | $200 per month | No |
 CrewAI | Developers building multi agent systems | Free | Yes |
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The best Lindy AI alternatives
#1Relevance AI
Best for: Agent workforces for ops and sales4.3/5 on
G2 (20 reviews, checked Oct 2026)
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Starting price$19 per month
Free planNo
What we like- Relevance AI builds agent workforces rather than single assistants: a no code studio where sales, support and operations teams assemble agents and multi agent teams over 2,000 plus connectors, with evaluations and audit logs as first class features, which is the supervision story most rivals treat as an afterthought. Pro runs at 19 dollars a month billed annually in its documentation, with pricing split between actions and model credits so costs trace to work done. SOC 2 and GDPR credentials suit it to real customer data.
Watch out for- Its public pricing page has at times shown enterprise only messaging while documentation carries the self serve figures, a confusion buyers should resolve before budgeting. The free plan has been retired in current reporting, so evaluation runs on paid tiers. Building a workforce that behaves takes iteration and evaluation discipline
- The platform gives the tools, not the judgement.
#2Gumloop
Best for: Visual agent building for whole teams4.8/5 on
G2 (7 reviews, checked Oct 2026)
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Starting price$37 per month
Free planNo
What we like- Gumloop gives a whole company a shared visual canvas for agent workflows: drag together steps across Gmail, Slack, CRMs and the web, run them as automations or agents, with unlimited seats on Pro at 37 dollars a month and 20,000 credits. Where Lindy prices the person, Gumloop prices the work, which suits organisations where many people benefit from a few well built flows. Its interface is the one non technical teams most often describe as genuinely learnable.
Watch out for- An 8 percent orchestration fee rides on top of credit usage, a line item to model before your busiest month teaches you about it. Deep, branching agent behaviour still needs careful design
- The canvas makes building easy and correctness remains your problem. Enterprise needs, private deployment and advanced governance, move to custom pricing.
Starting price$24 per seat per month
Free planNo
What we like- Dust builds agents on top of your company's own knowledge and tools: 70 plus connectors into Notion, Slack, Google and the rest, agents that answer and act with citations from internal sources, and per seat pricing at 24 dollars billed annually with a monthly credit allowance. For the common enterprise job, an assistant that knows our documents and our processes, it is the most focused product here. SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA positioning suits regulated teams.
Watch out for- Dust is an internal knowledge and workflow product
- Customer facing agents and elaborate external automations are not its centre. Per seat pricing with credits means costs rise with adoption in the way finance departments notice. Its builder depth for complex multi step external processes trails Relevance and Gumloop.
#4
Zapier Agents
Best for: Agents on existing Zapier automations
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Starting price$33 per month
Free planYes
What we like- Zapier Agents inherit the largest integration catalogue in automation, 10,000 plus apps, so an agent built here can act almost anywhere your stack already connects. Pricing starts at 33.33 dollars a month billed annually for 1,500 activities, with a free allowance of 400 activities a month to learn on. Teams already running Zaps get agents that reuse those connections, triggers and accounts rather than a second automation estate to govern.
Watch out for- Activity metering punishes chatty agents, and costs interact with your Zapier plan in ways that need a spreadsheet to forecast confidently. Agent behaviour design is shallower than the dedicated agent platforms
- This is automation with an AI layer more than an AI workforce studio. Governance features such as SSO sit on team tiers above the entry price.
#5n8n
Best for: Technical teams wanting control4.7/5 on
G2 (319 reviews, checked Oct 2026)
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Starting priceFree
Free planYes
What we like- N8n is the open source workflow platform with AI woven through it: free to self host with unlimited users, a visual canvas backed by code nodes when the canvas runs out, hundreds of integrations, and cloud plans priced in euros from 20 dollars equivalent a month for hosted convenience. Self hosting settles data residency questions no SaaS agent can, and execution based pricing counts workflows rather than seats. Technical teams that outgrow no code agent toys graduate here.
Watch out for- Self hosting means operating it: updates, security and uptime are yours. The AI agent building experience is powerful and unmistakably technical, so the ops manager who thrived in Lindy will need an engineer beside them. Cloud pricing in euros complicates US budgeting slightly, and support depth follows the tier you buy.
#6Salesforce Agentforce
Best for: Agents inside Salesforce4.3/5 on
G2 (1,464 reviews, checked Oct 2026)
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Starting priceSee website
Free planNo
What we like- Agentforce builds agents directly on Salesforce records, with the CRM's permissions, flows and audit machinery underneath, priced per action in flex credits, reported around 0.10 dollars an action, or through per user add ons. For a service or sales organisation whose truth already lives in Salesforce, agents that see the real account, case and order data without an integration project are a structural advantage no standalone platform matches. Salesforce's compliance estate comes with it.
Watch out for- The value collapses outside Salesforce data
- An agent is only as good as the records it can see. Edition and add on pricing complexity is Salesforce standard, with packaged editions reported far above the per action headline. Setup and governance need Salesforce administration skills, which prices out the small teams Lindy serves off the shelf.
#7Microsoft Copilot Studio
Best for: Agents inside Microsoft 3654.4/5 on
G2 (155 reviews, checked Oct 2026)
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Starting price$200 per month
Free planNo
What we like- Copilot Studio is Microsoft's agent builder: agents over SharePoint, Dataverse and business data, deployed into Teams and Microsoft 365 where employees already work, governed through Entra identity and the Power Platform's admin controls. Credit packs run at 200 dollars a month for 25,000 Copilot credits, with pay as you go available. For a Microsoft standardised enterprise, the governance story, data inside the tenant, identity enforced, is the purchase.
Watch out for- The trial licence famously lets you build but not publish, so evaluation needs a paid pack or a Copilot licence path. Value depends on your Microsoft estate's data quality
- Agents over a chaotic SharePoint produce chaotic answers with enterprise confidence. Standalone small teams will find the licensing maze disproportionate to their needs.
#8CrewAI
Best for: Developers building multi agent systems4.5/5 on
G2 (3 reviews, checked Oct 2026)
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Starting priceFree
Free planYes
What we like- CrewAI is the open source framework for role based multi agent systems: define agents with roles and goals in Python, assemble crews and flows, and run them on your own infrastructure, with a free basic tier for hosted executions and enterprise contracts above. Engineers get full control over models, tools and data paths, and nothing about the system is a black box. For a product team embedding agents into its own software, it is the most direct route here.
Watch out for- It is a framework, not a product: interfaces, scheduling, monitoring and guardrails are built by you, and the comparison with Lindy's brief it in Slack model is really a comparison of professions. Hosted and enterprise pricing moves to custom quotes quickly. Non technical teams should read this entry as a signpost to what their developers would choose, not as their own shortlist.
How we chose
Lindy itself is excluded because this article covers its alternatives. We selected AI agent platforms in active sale or open source release in October 2026 that a Lindy user could realistically adopt, spanning no code agent studios, knowledge agents, automation platforms with agent layers, ecosystem builders and the developer framework. Pricing models are stated exactly as vendors define them, seats, credits, activities, executions, actions, because the unit is the price. Published user complaints about the category, including output reliability, are reflected as supervision guidance rather than repeated as verdicts. Nothing was hands on tested.
How to choose your Lindy alternative
Decide who owns the agent in six months. An operations team points to Relevance or Gumloop. A whole company's knowledge questions point to Dust. Existing Zapier estates point to Zapier Agents. IT inside Salesforce or Microsoft points to Agentforce or Copilot Studio, and engineering points to n8n or CrewAI. An agent platform whose owner does not exist in your building becomes shelfware by spring.
Then build the supervision before the agent: approval steps before anything is sent to a customer, spent or deleted, audit logs reviewed weekly, and a kill switch someone is authorised to use. Pilot on one low risk, high volume task, inbox triage, meeting notes, CRM updates, and grade the outputs like a manager, because that is the job you are actually hiring for. The platforms differ less in intelligence than in how safely they let you use it.
Frequently asked questions
Why do people switch from Lindy?
Reviews and comparisons cite output reliability, results arriving in the wrong format and work needing to be redone on paid credits, plus per seat pricing that charges for everyone who touches the agent in Slack, and cancellation friction reported by some users. The capability is real; the switching triggers are operational, which is why the alternatives above are judged heavily on supervision and pricing shape.
How much do AI agent platforms cost a small team?
From nothing self hosted to a few hundred dollars a month. A 10 person team on per seat platforms pays roughly 2,400 to 6,000 dollars a year in current comparisons, while credit and activity platforms price the work itself: Gumloop at 444 dollars a year at entry before usage, Zapier Agents in the low hundreds. Your real number depends on how much the agents do, which is the point of the meter.
Are AI agents safe to let act on their own?
Bounded autonomy is the workable answer: read access wide, write access narrow, approvals before external sends, payments and deletions, and logs a human actually reviews. Every platform here offers some of those controls; none removes the need for an owner. Unsupervised agents with broad permissions are how companies end up apologising to customers for messages nobody wrote.
What is the difference between an agent platform and a chatbot builder?
Chatbot builders answer questions in a window. Agent platforms take actions across your systems: updating records, drafting and sending, scheduling, researching and filing. The risk and the value both come from the acting. If your need is answers from your documents, Dust class tools fit; if it is work done across apps, the agent studios and automation platforms fit.
Which alternative needs no technical skill?
Gumloop and Relevance AI are built for non technical builders, and Dust for business users working over connected knowledge. Zapier Agents assume comfort with automation concepts. n8n and CrewAI assume engineers. Match the tool to the builder you actually have, not the one the demo makes you feel like.
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