# Haven vs Lindy

> Lindy scores 32.3 (F) to Haven's 22.2 (F) for assistant proactive. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-lindy
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-lindy.md (~2,500 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-lindy.min.md (~680 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-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: 2026-10-12

Lindy scores 32.3 (F) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.2 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Haven leads on reliability and maintenance & community. Both do assistant proactive.

- Haven: grade F, 22.2/100, rank #977 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/haven.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/haven.json
- 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
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 190 assistants comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/personal-assistants/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Haven (F)

Good for: A consumer assistant for one person who wants to phone, text or email it and have it remember them.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 35 against 24
- Maintenance & community, 35 against 9

Also in its favour:
- No incidents deducted, where Lindy loses 3 points for them

Watch for: No approval setting or list of actions that need confirmation was found on the public pages. The terms say it sends emails, SMS and calls following the user's instructions.

### 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 4
- Agent ergonomics, 43 against 6
- Security & auth, 49 against 13
- Payments & pricing, 35 against 30

Also in its favour:
- Free to start without a card

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 | Haven | Lindy | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 24 | Haven +11 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 4 | 32 | Lindy +28 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 6 | 43 | Lindy +37 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 13 | 49 | Lindy +36 |
| 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) | 35 | 9 | Haven +26 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 52 | Lindy +1 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **22.2 · F** | **32.3 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Haven | Lindy |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Hello Haven, Inc. | Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Free | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Hello Haven's Terms of Service | Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-17 | 2025-10-21 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-24 | 2026-09-24 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-24 | 2026-09-28 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |

## Verdicts

**Haven.** Haven answers by phone call, text, email and app, is free in beta with no card, and publishes a status page with dated incidents. No public page read says which actions need approval, which accounts it connects or how their tokens are kept, and it names no model provider or sub-processor.

**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

### Haven

1. Haven has no documented API or MCP server. An outside agent can reach it only through the owner's channels (call, SMS, email, app).
2. Do not assume an approval step before Haven sends mail, texts or calls. None is documented on the public pages.
3. Email Haven sends to other people names Hello Haven as sender and says it was sent on the user's behalf, per the terms.
4. Chat messages, history, profile context and uploaded files go to third-party AI model providers that the vendor does not name.
5. Check status.hellohaven.ai before relying on phone or voice. All four published incidents affected those channels.

### 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, Haven or Lindy?

Lindy scores 32.3 (F) on agent readiness against Haven's 22.2 (F), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Haven leads on reliability and maintenance & community.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-lindy.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-lindy.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "haven", "b": "lindy"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare haven lindy`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/haven.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lindy.json

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