{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "gaia", "name": "GAIA", "vendor": "The Experience Company", "vendorUrl": "https://heygaia.io", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "GAIA is a personal AI assistant from The Experience Company for email, calendar, todos and scheduled workflows. It runs as a hosted service at heygaia.io with messaging bots, and its source is published for noncommercial self-hosting.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gaia", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gaia.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gaia.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gaia.json", "repo": "https://github.com/theexperiencecompany/gaia", "license": "PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@heygaia/cli" } ], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "People sign in to the hosted app in a browser, and the backend uses WorkOS for sign-in. Integrations connect by OAuth on the provider's consent screen, through Composio for built-in ones, and Gmail asks for the `gmail.modify` scope. Custom MCP servers take no auth, a bearer token or OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and dynamic client registration, with tokens Fernet-encrypted in PostgreSQL. Bot users link a chat identity with `/auth`. No API key for outside callers was found (https://github.com/theexperiencecompany/gaia/blob/master/apps/api/app/config/oauth_config.py; https://docs.heygaia.io/guides/adding-mcp-integrations).", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Pro is $30 a month on the pricing page, the only plan shown there, and its FAQ says GAIA is a paid product. The README and docs also describe a Free plan with daily caps and an Enterprise plan by contact, so whether a new account can use the hosted service without paying was not established. Payments run through Dodo Payments. Self-hosting is free for noncommercial use, plus model usage and a WorkOS account (https://heygaia.io/pricing; https://docs.heygaia.io/guides/usage-subscription; checked 2026-10-12).", "priceSummary": "$30 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the backend source (checked 2026-10-12).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 308, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.heygaia.io", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.heygaia.io/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "assistant.self-hosted", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "source-available", "noncommercial-licence", "self-hosted", "messaging", "imessage", "whatsapp", "telegram", "slack", "discord", "gmail", "mcp-client", "status-page", "llms-txt", "approval-off-by-default" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 49.5, "grade": "D", "agentReady": false, "rank": 813, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 986, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 54, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 20, "reliability": 67, "schema": 51, "security": 54, "transparency": 60 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": -5, "negativeNotes": [ "-3. The release notes of 26 August 2026 say GAIA pauses and asks before a tool that deletes, sends or overwrites, the privacy policy (7 August 2026) says destructive actions require explicit approval, and the pricing page says anything outward-facing waits for the owner's OK. The source at `api-v0.24.0` (14 September 2026) and on master sets the default mode to `always_allow`, commented as nothing gated until flipped after launch. Read from source, not from a live account. https://github.com/theexperiencecompany/gaia/blob/master/apps/api/app/models/hil_models.py", "-2. The pricing page FAQ, read on 12 October 2026, says GAIA never shares data with model providers. Section 3.1 of the privacy policy says content, files and data from connected accounts are shared with third-party AI model providers. https://heygaia.io/pricing and https://heygaia.io/privacy" ], "verdict": "GAIA's source is public, so its approval gate, memory store and token handling can be read. Three approval modes and per-tool overrides exist, but the default mode in the source runs every action unasked, which the privacy policy and release notes do not say. Pro costs $30 a month and self-hosting is limited to noncommercial use.", "bestFor": "It suits one person who wants mail triage, meeting briefs, todos and scheduled workflows from one assistant reachable on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord or iMessage, and who wants to read the source.", "strengths": [ "The whole product is in a public repository under PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0, including the approval gate, memory engine and five messaging bots.", "Approval settings have three modes and per-tool overrides, and adding an MCP server, pairing a device or disconnecting an account asks in every mode.", "Memory is visible in Settings as facts, a journal, four documents and a graph, and each item can be edited or deleted, with a clear-all control.", "A BetterStack status page covers the API, web app and four bots, and lists no incident in the 90 days to 12 October 2026.", "Three sets of tagged releases in the 90 days to 12 October 2026, the latest on 14 September, with 91 commits on master in the last 30 days." ], "weaknesses": [ "The default approval mode in the source is `always_allow`, commented as nothing gated, while the privacy policy and the 26 August release notes say destructive actions wait for approval.", "The pricing page FAQ says data is never shared with model providers. The privacy policy says content, including data from connected accounts, is shared with them.", "The README lists a Free plan at $0 forever, while the pricing page shows only Pro and says GAIA is a paid product.", "Gmail connects with the `gmail.modify` scope, and built-in integrations run through Composio, so a third party holds those OAuth connections.", "No security.txt, bug bounty, certification, subprocessor list or DPA was found, and self-hosting needs a WorkOS account and five data services.", "The Terms of Service forbid automated systems accessing the Service. Recorded as a fact, and it matters before any probe is run." ], "agentNotes": [ "Set Settings \u003e Approvals to Always ask or Auto before connecting mail. The default in the source runs every action, including send and delete, without asking.", "Expect no public API on the hosted service. The backend turns off its OpenAPI document in production, so reach GAIA through its apps, bots or CLI.", "Check the plan before relying on the hosted service. The README and docs describe a Free plan, and the pricing page says GAIA is a paid product.", "For self-hosting, prepare Docker, Node.js 20, a WorkOS account and a model key first, and confirm the use is noncommercial under the licence.", "Add outside tools as MCP servers by URL on the Integrations page. GAIA asks before adding a server in every approval mode." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "D", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 49.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 54, "maintenance": 78, "payments": 20, "reliability": 67, "schema": 51, "security": 54, "transparency": 50 }, "provenanceScore": 70 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g @heygaia/cli \u0026\u0026 gaia init # choose Self-Host (Docker), then open http://localhost:3000" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/gaia" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Pro", "unit": "month", "usd": 30, "note": "billed monthly, with usage limits the pricing page does not state" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "The Experience Company, Inc.", "domain": "heygaia.io", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://heygaia.io/terms", "privacy": "https://heygaia.io/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.heygaia.io", "changelog": "https://docs.heygaia.io/release-notes", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service (effective 14 August 2026) name The Experience Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation. Neither the terms nor the privacy policy gives a postal address.", "The privacy policy (effective 7 August 2026) gives support@heygaia.so as its contact, a different domain from heygaia.io, where the README's security and contact addresses sit.", "heygaia.io/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 12 October 2026. The repository's SECURITY.md gives an email address for reports.", "The status page lists api.heygaia.io as the backend. We sent nothing to that host.", "heygaia.io's robots.txt allows every path and names ClaudeBot, Claude-Web and anthropic-ai with Allow. docs.heygaia.io carries Content-Signal ai-input=yes. status.heygaia.io returned an empty robots.txt.", "The domain's registration date was not looked up." ], "score": 70 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gaia.json", "live": { "slug": "gaia", "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.heygaia.io", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-12T17:28:08.466725732Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-12T17:28:08.466725732Z" } }, "answer": "GAIA scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lindy leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "lindy", "name": "Lindy", "vendor": "Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy)", "vendorUrl": "https://www.lindy.ai", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Lindy is a hosted AI assistant from Crivello Corp. Each user has a private assistant for mail, calendar and meetings, reached by Slack, iMessage, SMS, email or the web app, and a team shares a second one in Slack channels.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lindy", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lindy.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lindy.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lindy.json", "license": "Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published", "transports": [], "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "A person signs in with Google or Microsoft and connects mail and calendar from either, a phone number verified by code, and Slack through an app an owner or admin installs. Other tools connect by OAuth or an API key, and every action for a tool turns on at once with no scope choice in Lindy. A connection is personal until an owner or admin shares it with the workspace, after which everyone's Lindy works as that account. Saved API keys are write-only and can be rotated or revoked. No public API or key for outside callers was found in the docs.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "$29.99 per active user a month with 3,000 credits, pooled across the workspace, and larger monthly credit amounts up to 1,750,000 for $9,999.50. Top-ups are $10 per 1,000 credits and do not expire, while monthly credits do not roll over. New accounts get $50 of credit for seven days with no card. The pricing page gives 2 to 250 credits for an everyday request and 1,000 to 2,500 for a large build. The docs name Plus, Pro and Max plans priced only inside the app, which the pricing page does not list (checked 2026-10-12).", "priceSummary": "$29.99 / seat-mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 on the pricing page, the terms or the docs (checked 2026-10-12).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.lindy.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.lindy.ai/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "assistant.proactive", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.accounts", "assistant.memory", "agent.mcp-client" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "paid", "free-trial", "no-card", "slack", "imessage", "sms", "email", "chrome-extension", "mcp-client", "approvals", "llms-txt", "soc2", "team" ], "lastRelease": "2025-10-21", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 32.3, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 968, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 986, "categoryRank": 16, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 43, "maintenance": 9, "payments": 35, "reliability": 24, "schema": 32, "security": 49, "transparency": 52 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-12. The pricing page and the docs pricing page answer the question of whether Lindy does anything without approval with No, and say anything with outside impact waits for approval. The integrations page says approval settings apply in shared Slack threads only, that web chat, Slack direct messages, iMessage and SMS are not guarded, and that an integration can be set to always allow writes (https://www.lindy.ai/pricing, https://docs.lindy.ai/pricing.md, https://docs.lindy.ai/integrations/overview.md). 3 points for a misleading claim." ], "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Memory is a set of plain files in the web app, split into Personal, Team and System scopes, which the owner can read, edit and restore by version.", "Each integration has a setting that makes Lindy ask in Slack before writing, or stops it writing with that tool at all.", "Saved API keys are write-only. The docs say a value cannot be read back in the app, through the API or by asking Lindy, and keys can be rotated or revoked.", "The privacy policy of 28 September 2026 names its processors by category, among them Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity AI, Pipedream, WorkOS, Twilio and Recall.ai.", "Credit prices are public. A seat is $29.99 a month with 3,000 credits, top-ups are $10 per 1,000, and new accounts get $50 of credit with no card." ], "weaknesses": [ "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.", "The pricing page and the docs pricing page both answer that Lindy does nothing with outside impact without approval, which the integrations page contradicts.", "No status page, uptime record or SLA was found on the site or in the docs.", "The public changelog's newest entry is dated 21 October 2025, and it describes an agent builder the current docs no longer cover.", "Deleting a memory file keeps its earlier versions, and no way to purge them or a retention period was found. The privacy policy gives no period either.", "The terms of 24 September 2026 forbid automated use of the system and use for any commercial enterprise, in a product sold to companies. This matters before any probe is run." ], "agentNotes": [ "Treat a request sent by direct message, text or web chat as unguarded. Approval prompts appear in shared Slack threads only.", "Run a routine as a dry run before turning it on. A dry run reads real data and sends, posts and writes nothing.", "Turn off unused tools after adding an MCP server. Every supported tool arrives switched on, and a large server adds more than a hundred.", "Expect a billed seat for anyone who mentions Lindy in Slack. A teammate who joins that way has seven free days first.", "Connect only hosted MCP servers on public HTTPS with streamable HTTP, the one kind the docs describe." ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 32.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 43, "maintenance": 9, "payments": 35, "reliability": 24, "schema": 32, "security": 49, "transparency": 36 }, "provenanceScore": 68 }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive", "tool": "https://letme.dev/lindy" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Team seat", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 29.99, "note": "3,000 credits a month, pooled across the workspace. Every active user is billed" }, { "item": "Top-up credit", "unit": "credit", "usd": 0.01, "note": "$10 per 1,000 credits. Top-up credits do not expire, monthly credits do not roll over" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy)", "domain": "lindy.ai", "domainRegistered": "2019-05-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.lindy.ai/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.lindy.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://www.lindy.ai/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service, last updated 24 September 2026, name Crivello Corp, doing business as Lindy, registered in Oregon at 9450 SW Gemini Dr, Beaverton, OR 97008, and are governed by California law with binding arbitration.", "The terms cover the site and all related products and services. No separate service agreement or DPA was linked from the pages read.", "The privacy policy was last updated 28 September 2026.", "The web app and sign-in are at chat.lindy.ai.", "www.lindy.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. No disclosure policy or bug bounty was found.", "No status page is linked from the site, the docs or the security page.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2019-05-16 for lindy.ai, with NameCheap as registrar." ], "score": 68 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lindy.json" }, "facts": [ { "a": "Platform", "b": "Platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "The Experience Company", "b": "Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy)", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "OAuth", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0", "b": "Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-14", "b": "2025-10-21", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-08-14", "b": "2026-09-24", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-08-07", "b": "2026-09-28", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "308 stars", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "GAIA scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lindy leads on payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, GAIA or Lindy?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 67 against 24", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 51 against 32", "Agent ergonomics, 54 against 43", "Security \u0026 auth, 54 against 49", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 78 against 9", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 60 against 52" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "It suits one person who wants mail triage, meeting briefs, todos and scheduled workflows from one assistant reachable on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord or iMessage, and who wants to read the source.", "slug": "gaia", "watchFor": "The default approval mode in the source is `always_allow`, commented as nothing gated, while the privacy policy and the 26 August release notes say destructive actions wait for approval." }, { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 20" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "lindy", "watchFor": "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." } ], "job": { "capability": "assistant.proactive", "name": "Assistant proactive" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-gaia.json", "title": "AstrBot vs GAIA", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-gaia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-lindy.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-gaia.json", "title": "CowAgent vs GAIA", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-gaia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-lindy.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-gemini-spark.json", "title": "GAIA vs Gemini Spark", "url": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-poke.json", "title": "GAIA vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "GAIA vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "GAIA vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "GAIA vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Haven vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Hermes Agent vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Instinct vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-lindy.json", "title": "IronClaw vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-lindy.json", "title": "Leon vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-nanobot.json", "title": "Lindy vs nanobot", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-nanobot" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-nanoclaw.json", "title": "Lindy vs NanoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-nanoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-openai-dots.json", "title": "Lindy vs Dots", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-openai-dots" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-openclaw.json", "title": "Lindy vs OpenClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-openclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-picoclaw.json", "title": "Lindy vs PicoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-picoclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-poke.json", "title": "Lindy vs Poke", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-poke" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-qwenpaw.json", "title": "Lindy vs QwenPaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-qwenpaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zeroclaw.json", "title": "Lindy vs ZeroClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zeroclaw" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Lindy vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zo-computer" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 43, "edge": "gaia", "gaia": 67, "key": "reliability", "lindy": 24, "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 19, "edge": "gaia", "gaia": 51, "key": "schema", "lindy": 32, "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 11, "edge": "gaia", "gaia": 54, "key": "ergonomics", "lindy": 43, "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "gaia", "gaia": 54, "key": "security", "lindy": 49, "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "lindy", "gaia": 20, "key": "payments", "lindy": 35, "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 69, "edge": "gaia", "gaia": 78, "key": "maintenance", "lindy": 9, "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "gaia", "gaia": 60, "key": "transparency", "lindy": 52, "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "GAIA scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lindy leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do assistant proactive.", "verdicts": { "gaia": "GAIA's source is public, so its approval gate, memory store and token handling can be read. Three approval modes and per-tool overrides exist, but the default mode in the source runs every action unasked, which the privacy policy and release notes do not say. Pro costs $30 a month and self-hosting is limited to noncommercial use.", "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-lindy", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-lindy.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-lindy.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-lindy.min.md" }, "markdown": "GAIA scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lindy leads on payments \u0026 pricing. Both do assistant proactive.\n\n- GAIA: grade D, 49.5/100, rank #813 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gaia.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gaia.json\n- Lindy: grade F, 32.3/100, rank #968 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lindy.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lindy.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 190 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### GAIA (D)\n\nGood for: It suits one person who wants mail triage, meeting briefs, todos and scheduled workflows from one assistant reachable on WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord or iMessage, and who wants to read the source.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 67 against 24\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 51 against 32\n- Agent ergonomics, 54 against 43\n- Security \u0026 auth, 54 against 49\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 78 against 9\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 60 against 52\n\nWatch for: The default approval mode in the source is `always_allow`, commented as nothing gated, while the privacy policy and the 26 August release notes say destructive actions wait for approval.\n\n### Lindy (F)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 20\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch 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.\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | GAIA | Lindy | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 24 | GAIA +43 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 51 | 32 | GAIA +19 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 54 | 43 | GAIA +11 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 54 | 49 | GAIA +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 35 | Lindy +15 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 78 | 9 | GAIA +69 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 52 | GAIA +8 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -5 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **49.5 · D** | **32.3 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | GAIA | Lindy |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Platform |\n| Vendor | The Experience Company | Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | PolyForm-Noncommercial-1.0.0 | Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-14 | 2025-10-21 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-14 | 2026-09-24 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-07 | 2026-09-28 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | 308 stars | none |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**GAIA.** GAIA's source is public, so its approval gate, memory store and token handling can be read. Three approval modes and per-tool overrides exist, but the default mode in the source runs every action unasked, which the privacy policy and release notes do not say. Pro costs $30 a month and self-hosting is limited to noncommercial use.\n\n**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.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### GAIA\n\n1. Set Settings \u003e Approvals to Always ask or Auto before connecting mail. The default in the source runs every action, including send and delete, without asking.\n2. Expect no public API on the hosted service. The backend turns off its OpenAPI document in production, so reach GAIA through its apps, bots or CLI.\n3. Check the plan before relying on the hosted service. The README and docs describe a Free plan, and the pricing page says GAIA is a paid product.\n4. For self-hosting, prepare Docker, Node.js 20, a WorkOS account and a model key first, and confirm the use is noncommercial under the licence.\n5. Add outside tools as MCP servers by URL on the Integrations page. GAIA asks before adding a server in every approval mode.\n\n### Lindy\n\n1. Treat a request sent by direct message, text or web chat as unguarded. Approval prompts appear in shared Slack threads only.\n2. Run a routine as a dry run before turning it on. A dry run reads real data and sends, posts and writes nothing.\n3. Turn off unused tools after adding an MCP server. Every supported tool arrives switched on, and a large server adds more than a hundred.\n4. Expect a billed seat for anyone who mentions Lindy in Slack. A teammate who joins that way has seven free days first.\n5. Connect only hosted MCP servers on public HTTPS with streamable HTTP, the one kind the docs describe.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, GAIA or Lindy?\n\nGAIA scores 49.5 (D) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Lindy leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-lindy.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-lindy.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"gaia\", \"b\": \"lindy\"}`. 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