# Del vs Lindy > Lindy scores 32.3 (F) to Del's 20.6 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side. - Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-lindy - Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-lindy.md (~3,250 tokens) - Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-lindy.min.md (~630 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts) - JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-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 Del's 20.6 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Del leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do assistants reached by message. - Del: grade F, 20.6/100, rank #991 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/del.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/del.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 ### Del (F) Good for: People who want tasks, notes, reminders and Gmail handled by text on the channel they already use. Ahead on: - Maintenance & community, 60 against 9 - Transparency & trust, 57 against 52 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: - Schema & documentation, 32 against 10 - Agent ergonomics, 43 against 0 - Security & auth, 49 against 0 - Payments & pricing, 35 against 30 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 | Del | Lindy | Edge | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 25 | 24 | Del +1 | | 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) | 0 | 49 | Lindy +49 | | Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 35 | Lindy +5 | | Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run | | Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 9 | Del +51 | | Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 57 | 52 | Del +5 | | Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | | | **Total** | | **20.6 · F** | **32.3 · F** | | ## Facts side by side | Fact | Del | Lindy | | --- | --- | --- | | Kind | Platform | Platform | | Vendor | Human Interface, Inc. | Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) | | Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) | | Transports | | | | Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth | | Pricing | Paid | Paid | | x402 | no | no | | Licence | Closed service under Del's Terms of Service (Human Interface, Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 5 August 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 | 2026-10-07 | 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 **Del.** Del is a hosted texting assistant and task workspace across iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS, Discord and Slack, with a near-daily public changelog and a card-free 14-day trial. No outside agent can call it, no status page or security contact was found, and recent updates let some email actions skip approval. **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 ### Del 1. Don't plan to call Del from another agent. It answers only the owner's messaging threads and web workspace. 2. Tell the owner web browsing tasks are limited to five a month on Standard and unlimited on Pro. ### 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, Del or Lindy? Lindy scores 32.3 (F) on agent readiness against Del's 20.6 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Del leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. ## For agents - This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-lindy.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-lindy.min.md - Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "del", "b": "lindy"}`. 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[Lindy vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-poke.md) - [Lindy vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-qwenpaw.md) - [Lindy vs Town](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-town.md) - [Lindy vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zeroclaw.md) - [Lindy vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zo-computer.md) - [Del vs Gemini Spark](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-gemini-spark.md) - [Del vs Leon](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-leon.md) - [Del vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-wajo.md) - [Lindy vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-natura.md) - [Lindy vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-pally.md) - [Lindy vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-tomo.md) - [Lindy vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-wajo.md) - [Del vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/del-vs-talorys.md) - [Lindy vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-talorys.md) ## Disclosure - Del 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.