# Brea vs Lindy > Lindy scores 32.3 (F) to Brea's 12.9 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-lindy - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-lindy.md (~3,200 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-lindy.min.md (~630 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-lindy.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json) - Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt) - API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json - Updated: 2026-10-13 Lindy scores 32.3 (F) on agent readiness against Brea's 12.9 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message. - Brea: grade F, 12.9/100, rank #1001 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/brea.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/brea.json - Lindy: grade F, 32.3/100, rank #974 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lindy.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lindy.json - Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md - All 834 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md ## Which one, for what ### Brea (F) Good for: An iPhone user who wants an assistant across many apps and websites with per-action approval. Also in its favour: - No incidents deducted, where Lindy loses 3 points for them Watch for: No API, MCP server or A2A endpoint for an outside agent. ### Lindy (F) Good 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: - Reliability, 24 against 15 - Schema & documentation, 32 against 10 - Agent ergonomics, 43 against 0 - Security & auth, 49 against 7 - Payments & pricing, 35 against 20 - Maintenance & community, 9 against 4 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 | Category | Weight | Brea | Lindy | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 15 | 24 | Lindy +9 | | Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 10 | 32 | Lindy +22 | | Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 0 | 43 | Lindy +43 | | Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 7 | 49 | Lindy +42 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 35 | Lindy +15 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 4 | 9 | Lindy +5 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 48 | 52 | Lindy +4 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | | | **Total** | | **12.9 · F** | **32.3 · F** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Brea | Lindy | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Platform | | Vendor | Brea AI LLC | Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | | | | Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth | | Pricing | Freemium | Paid | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | Closed service under Brea's terms (Brea AI LLC, last updated 2 July 2026). | Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published | | Read-only variant documented | no | no | | llms.txt | yes | yes | | Last release | none | 2025-10-21 | | Terms last updated | | 2026-09-24 | | Privacy policy last updated | | 2026-09-28 | | Customer content may train models | | not found in the text | | Terms restrict automated access | | yes | | Terms restrict benchmarking | | yes | | Terms or service can change without notice | | yes | | Arbitration or class-action waiver | | yes | ## Verdicts **Brea.** Brea is an iMessage assistant with a free plan that needs no card, approval by reply before it sends, deletes or pays, and one-time Link cards for purchases. No outside agent can call it, paid prices sit inside the app, and no changelog or subprocessor list was found. **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 ### Brea 1. Don't plan to call Brea from another agent. It answers only the owner's iMessage thread. 2. Tell the owner that replying ALWAYS stops Brea asking again for that action. ### 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, Brea or Lindy? Lindy scores 32.3 (F) on agent readiness against Brea's 12.9 (F), and leads in every scored category. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-lindy.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-lindy.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "brea", "b": "lindy"}`. 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[Brea vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/brea-vs-talorys.md) - [Lindy vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-talorys.md) ## Disclosure - Brea competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. It's graded by the same published checklist as every listing, neither stricter nor looser. Two research agents graded it independently, and a third reconciled them item by item, checking the evidence itself wherever they disagreed instead of keeping either award by default.