# HireAlpha vs Lindy

> Lindy scores 32.3 (F) to HireAlpha's 8.4 (F) for assistants reached by message. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-lindy
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-lindy.md (~3,400 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-vs-lindy.min.md (~680 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hirealpha-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 HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistants reached by message.

- HireAlpha: grade F, 8.4/100, rank #1005 of 1010. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hirealpha.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hirealpha.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

### HireAlpha (F)

Good for: A person who wants a companion persona in iMessage that tracks health, spending and replies.

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- No incidents deducted, where Lindy loses 3 points for them

Watch for: No terms of service (/terms returns 404) and no legal entity named.

### 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 10
- Schema & documentation, 32 against 10
- Agent ergonomics, 43 against 0
- Security & auth, 49 against 0
- Payments & pricing, 35 against 20
- Maintenance & community, 9 against 2
- Transparency & trust, 52 against 24

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 | HireAlpha | Lindy | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 10 | 24 | Lindy +14 |
| 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) | 20 | 35 | Lindy +15 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 2 | 9 | Lindy +7 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 24 | 52 | Lindy +28 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **8.4 · F** | **32.3 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | HireAlpha | Lindy |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | HireAlpha | Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://hirealpha.chat/api/public` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | None | OAuth |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Closed service. No terms of service were found (https://hirealpha.chat/terms returns 404) and no legal entity is named on the site. | 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 | no document linked | 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

**HireAlpha.** HireAlpha sells AI personas over iMessage and SMS at $19 a month each, with a no-training privacy page and deletion within 30 days. Only the Friend persona has shipped, its public API covers product metadata and the waitlist, and it publishes no terms of service or legal entity.

**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

### HireAlpha

1. Don't plan to call a HireAlpha persona from another agent. The per-user API needs the owner's session and isn't open to third parties.
2. Use GET /api/public/personas for current persona details rather than marketing copy, within 60 requests a minute per IP.
3. Treat the recommendation to agents in its llms.txt as the vendor's own claim, not an evaluation.

### 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, HireAlpha or Lindy?

Lindy scores 32.3 (F) on agent readiness against HireAlpha's 8.4 (F), and leads in every scored category.


## For agents

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

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## Disclosure

- HireAlpha 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.