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Head to head · Assistant proactive · October 2026 research run

AstrBot vs Lindy

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Lindy leads on security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do assistant proactive.

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AstrBotAstrBotDevs · Agent harness C58.8/100#584 of 986 LindyCrivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) · Platform F32.3/100#968 of 986

Which one, for what

AstrBot C

Best for Someone who wants one self-run bot answering on QQ, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Lark or WeCom, in private or group chats, with scheduled tasks, a knowledge base and plugins.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 81 against 24
  • Schema & documentation, 62 against 32
  • Agent ergonomics, 54 against 43
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 35
  • Maintenance & community, 81 against 9

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

No approval step before any tool call. The agent sends messages, creates scheduled tasks and calls MCP tools without asking

Lindy F

Best for Lindy suits a person or small team that lives in Slack and Google or Microsoft mail and wants briefs, drafts, scheduling and meeting notes done on a schedule.

Ahead on

  • Security & auth, 49 against 44
  • Transparency & trust, 52 against 40

Watch for

The integrations page says approval settings apply in shared Slack threads only. Web chat, Slack direct messages, iMessage and SMS are not covered, and reads are never covered.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAstrBotLindyEdge
Reliability16%208124AstrBot +57
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.26232AstrBot +30
Agent ergonomics13%16.25443AstrBot +11
Security & auth14%17.54449Lindy +5
Payments & pricing10%12.56035AstrBot +25
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8819AstrBot +72
Transparency & trust7%8.84052Lindy +12
Negative events≤15-2-3
TotalC 58.8/100F 32.3/100

Facts side by side

FactAstrBotLindy
KindAgent harnessPlatform
VendorAstrBotDevsCrivello Corp (doing business as Lindy)
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth
PricingFreePaid
x402nono
LicenceAGPL-3.0-or-laterProprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-09-272025-10-21
Terms last updated2026-01-122026-09-24
Privacy policy last updatedno document linked2026-09-28
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textyes
Popularity42k starsnone

Verdicts

AstrBot

Fourteen official messaging adapters, scheduled tasks and scoped API keys come in one AGPL-3.0 program with releases most weeks. No tool call asks for approval, no mail, calendar or long-term memory connector is built in, and usage statistics, including the machine's hostname, are sent by default.

Lindy

Lindy keeps what it remembers in files the owner can read and edit, and publishes credit prices. Its approval setting applies in shared Slack threads only, so writes asked for by direct message, text or web chat run unasked, which its pricing page does not say. It has no status page, and its changelog stops in October 2025.

Before you call either

AstrBot

  1. Set ASTRBOT_DISABLE_METRICS=1 before the first start. Statistics, including the hostname, are sent to tickstats.soulter.top by default
  2. Set dashboard.host to 127.0.0.1 in data/cmd_config.json, or the DASHBOARD_HOST variable, unless remote access is intended. The default is 0.0.0.0
  3. Create an abk_ key in Settings, OpenAPI with only the scopes needed, and send it as Authorization: Bearer or X-API-Key
  4. Include username in every POST /api/v1/chat body. Without the chat:admin scope an administrator ID is rejected
  5. Check Extensions, Future Tasks after asking for a schedule. One-off tasks are deleted after their run even when the run fails

Lindy

  1. Treat a request sent by direct message, text or web chat as unguarded. Approval prompts appear in shared Slack threads only.
  2. Run a routine as a dry run before turning it on. A dry run reads real data and sends, posts and writes nothing.
  3. Turn off unused tools after adding an MCP server. Every supported tool arrives switched on, and a large server adds more than a hundred.
  4. Expect a billed seat for anyone who mentions Lindy in Slack. A teammate who joins that way has seven free days first.
  5. Connect only hosted MCP servers on public HTTPS with streamable HTTP, the one kind the docs describe.

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, AstrBot or Lindy?

AstrBot scores 58.8 (C) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Lindy leads on security & auth and transparency & trust.

Are AstrBot and Lindy open source?

AstrBot is open source (AGPL-3.0-or-later). No open-source release is listed for Lindy.

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