# Lindy vs NanoClaw

> NanoClaw scores 68.3 (B) to Lindy's 32.3 (F) for assistant proactive. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-nanoclaw
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-nanoclaw.md (~2,550 tokens)
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- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-nanoclaw.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

NanoClaw scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistant proactive.

- 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
- NanoClaw: grade B, 68.3/100, rank #229 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nanoclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/nanoclaw.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

### 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.

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.

### NanoClaw (B)

Good for: A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine, reachable from chat apps, with container isolation and scheduled tasks, and who is willing to keep a fork.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 78 against 24
- Schema & documentation, 82 against 32
- Agent ergonomics, 70 against 43
- Security & auth, 74 against 49
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 35
- Maintenance & community, 78 against 9
- Transparency & trust, 65 against 52

Also in its favour:
- No key needed to call it
- Open source

Watch for: The Claude provider runs with `permissionMode: 'bypassPermissions'`, so shell, file and web tools run inside the container with no prompt


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Lindy | NanoClaw | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 24 | 78 | NanoClaw +54 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 32 | 82 | NanoClaw +50 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 43 | 70 | NanoClaw +27 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 49 | 74 | NanoClaw +25 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 60 | NanoClaw +25 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 9 | 78 | NanoClaw +69 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 65 | NanoClaw +13 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | -5 | |
| **Total** | | **32.3 · F** | **68.3 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Lindy | NanoClaw |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) | NanoCo, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | OAuth | None |
| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published | MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2025-10-21 | 2026-10-09 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-24 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-28 | no document linked |
| 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 |  |
| Popularity | none | 31k stars |

## Verdicts

**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.

**NanoClaw.** Each session runs in an unprivileged Docker container and API keys stay in a credential gateway on the host, so a manipulated agent cannot read them. Inside the container the agent runs with permission prompts off, network egress is open by default, and it can message any chat it is wired to without approval.

## Before you call either

### 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.

### NanoClaw

1. Install with `git clone` and `bash nanoclaw.sh`. There is no registry package, and setup needs Docker, Node 22 or later and a Claude or Codex credential
2. Set `NANOCLAW_EGRESS_LOCKDOWN=true` before giving an agent credentials or an audience of strangers. The default leaves egress open
3. Put chats with different audiences in separate agent groups. Every session of a group shares one read-write workspace and memory tree
4. Turn on per-request approval for a secret in the gateway when its use should wait for a person. It is off unless configured
5. On OneCLI installs, move the gateway to 1.42.0 by the upgrade guide before updating to 2026.10.0. The updater stops until that is done

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Lindy or NanoClaw?

NanoClaw scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.

### Are Lindy and NanoClaw open source?

No open-source release is listed for Lindy. NanoClaw is open source (MIT).


## For agents

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

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