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Head to head · Assistant proactive · October 2026 research run

Lindy vs Dots

Lindy scores 32.3 (F) on agent readiness against Dots's 28.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Dots leads on schema & documentation, security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do assistant proactive.

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LindyCrivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) · Platform F32.3/100#968 of 986 DotsOpenAI · Platform F28.3/100#973 of 986

Which one, for what

Lindy F

Best 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 3
  • Agent ergonomics, 43 against 22
  • Payments & pricing, 35 against 10
  • Transparency & trust, 52 against 31

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.

Dots F

Best for A ChatGPT Pro or Enterprise user who wants ongoing work tracked across mail, documents, code and Slack with approval before sends.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 41 against 32
  • Security & auth, 58 against 49
  • Maintenance & community, 38 against 9

Also in its favour

  • No incidents deducted, where Lindy loses 3 points for them

Watch for

Beta. The admin setting is labelled Use dots (Beta), access is rolling out gradually, and Teams access is an invite-only alpha

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runLindyDotsEdge
Reliability16%20243Lindy +21
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.23241Dots +9
Agent ergonomics13%16.24322Lindy +21
Security & auth14%17.54958Dots +9
Payments & pricing10%12.53510Lindy +25
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8938Dots +29
Transparency & trust7%8.85231Lindy +21
Negative events≤15-30
TotalF 32.3/100F 28.3/100

Facts side by side

FactLindyDots
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorCrivello Corp (doing business as Lindy)OpenAI
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuthOAuth or key
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is publishedProprietary hosted service. The governing terms were not read
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2025-10-212026-10-09
Terms last updated2026-09-24no document linked
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-28no document linked
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes

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.

Dots

Actions that affect accounts or share information pass an automatic review, and custom rules can require approval or a hand-off. Dots is a beta on Pro plans from $100 a month, and no status page, terms, privacy policy or way to delete individual saved notes was found in the pages we could read.

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.

Dots

  1. Say what may be sent. Asking a dot to draft replies does not permit sending them, and an action outside a stated scope needs another decision
  2. Stop three things separately. Pause stops the main task only, delegated tasks stop in Activity and recurring tasks in Scheduled, and completed actions are not undone
  3. Connect each thing separately. A messaging channel grants no access to an inbox, an app or a computer
  4. Sign out of websites and disconnect apps yourself when removing access. Revoking dots access or disconnecting an app does not delete information already obtained
  5. Keep the connected computer online with the ChatGPT app open for local work. Only one personal computer can be connected at a time

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Lindy or Dots?

Lindy scores 32.3 (F) on agent readiness against Dots's 28.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Dots leads on schema & documentation, security & auth and maintenance & community.

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