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      "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"
    },
    "answer": "OpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "openclaw",
      "name": "OpenClaw",
      "vendor": "OpenClaw Foundation",
      "vendorUrl": "https://openclaw.ai",
      "kind": "harness",
      "category": "personal-assistants",
      "summary": "Open-source personal AI assistant that runs as a Gateway on the owner's own computer and answers in WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, iMessage and other chat apps, with desktop and mobile apps. The OpenClaw Foundation maintains it under the MIT licence.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openclaw",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openclaw.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openclaw.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openclaw.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw",
      "license": "MIT",
      "transports": [],
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "openclaw"
        },
        {
          "registry": "oci",
          "name": "ghcr.io/openclaw/openclaw"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "No OpenClaw account exists. The owner supplies model provider API keys or signs in with a ChatGPT or Claude subscription, and adds a bot token, QR pairing or OAuth grant for each channel and account. Clients reach the Gateway with a token or password (`gateway.auth.mode`), or through a trusted proxy, and paired devices hold their own tokens. Operator scopes (`operator.read`, `operator.write`, `operator.admin` and others) apply to paired clients, but a shared-secret bearer token on `POST /tools/invoke` gets full operator access whatever scopes the caller sends (https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/tools-invoke-http-api; https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/operator-scopes).",
      "pricing": "free",
      "pricingNotes": "Free under the MIT licence, with no paid tier, hosted service or subscription. The owner pays the model provider for usage, or nothing with a local model, plus any search, speech or media API they configure (https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw; https://docs.openclaw.ai/reference/api-usage-costs).",
      "priceSummary": "Free · OSS",
      "where": "local",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs or the source (checked 2026-10-12).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 391800,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-12"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.openclaw.ai",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.openclaw.ai/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "assistant.proactive",
        "assistant.messaging",
        "assistant.accounts",
        "assistant.memory",
        "assistant.self-hosted",
        "agent.mcp-client"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "open-source",
        "self-hosted",
        "local",
        "free",
        "foundation",
        "llms-txt",
        "docker",
        "typescript"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-12",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 67.1,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 270,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 986,
        "categoryRank": 4,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 77,
          "maintenance": 86,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 75,
          "schema": 84,
          "security": 74,
          "transparency": 68
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-12"
        },
        "negative": -8,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-09-11. The project's security page and GitHub advisory list show 722 advisories published between 31 January and 11 September 2026, 14 critical, 249 high, 390 medium and 69 low, 39 with a CVE. The largest groups are Gateway auth and scopes (182) and exec, sandbox and approvals (160). The project says all 14 critical issues are fixed and disclosed and reports no known compromise of its infrastructure. Fixed and published, which decays the deduction, but the volume and the two areas affected bear directly on an assistant that holds its owner's accounts, -8. https://openclaw.ai/security; https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/security/advisories"
        ],
        "verdict": "Self-hosted under the MIT licence, with state, memory and credentials kept on the owner's machine and no paid tier. A fresh install runs tools on the host with full access, no approval prompt and no sandbox, and the project has published 722 security advisories since January 2026, 14 of them critical.",
        "bestFor": "A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine across many chat apps, with their choice of model and files they can read and delete.",
        "strengths": [
          "State, memory and credentials stay under `~/.openclaw` on the owner's machine, and the project sells no hosted service or paid tier",
          "Memory is plain Markdown files in the workspace, and `openclaw memory forget` removes what a named session contributed",
          "Four session permission modes (`read-only`, `guarded`, `workspace`, `full`), exec approvals and an optional Docker or Podman tool sandbox",
          "Unknown direct-message senders get a pairing code by default and are ignored until the owner approves them",
          "Telemetry is documented field by field. Feature statistics are opt-in and `update.checkOnStart: false` stops every automatic request",
          "13 stable releases in the 90 days to 12 October 2026, with npm provenance attestations on the published package"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Without configuration the default is full access. Host exec runs with no approval and sandboxing is off",
          "Agents with the message tool can send across conversations and channel providers by default, with no approval step for a send",
          "722 advisories published between 31 January and 11 September 2026, 14 critical and 249 high, per the project's own security page",
          "Credentials sit in files and SQLite databases under `~/.openclaw`, protected by file permissions unless the owner configures a secret provider",
          "The project's own maturity scorecard rates the product at 68 per cent, labelled Alpha",
          "The privacy policy covers the mobile apps, the Chrome extension and website analytics, and says it does not cover the Gateway"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Set a session permission mode of `guarded` or `workspace`, or `tools.exec.mode`, before connecting mail. The default runs host commands without approval",
          "Turn on `agents.defaults.sandbox` for any agent that reads mail, web pages or attachments. Sandboxing is off by default",
          "Set `tools.message.crossContext.allowAcrossProviders` and `allowWithinProvider` to `false` to confine sends to the current conversation",
          "Route incoming mail to a restricted reader agent, as the IMAP and Gmail guides show, and deny `gateway`, `cron`, `sessions_spawn` and `sessions_send` for it",
          "Run `openclaw security audit` after setup, and treat the Gateway token as an owner credential. `POST /tools/invoke` accepts it with full operator access"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "local",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 67.1
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 77,
          "maintenance": 86,
          "payments": 60,
          "reliability": 75,
          "schema": 84,
          "security": 74,
          "transparency": 82
        },
        "provenanceScore": 53
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash   # or: npm install -g openclaw@latest --allow-scripts=openclaw \u0026\u0026 openclaw onboard --install-daemon"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.proactive",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/openclaw"
      },
      "area": "frameworks",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "OpenClaw Foundation",
        "domain": "openclaw.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": null,
        "terms": "",
        "privacy": "",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/releases",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-12",
        "notes": [
          "The README and the `LICENSE` file name the OpenClaw Foundation, described as an independent 501(c)(3). Its site at www.openclaw.org gave no address, registration number, board or filings on the page we read.",
          "No terms of service were found for the software, so the MIT licence stands in.",
          "The privacy policy at openclaw.ai/privacy, effective 2 August 2026, covers the iOS and Android apps, the Chrome extension and website analytics, and says it does not cover the gateway, server or AI provider the owner connects. It is not linked here for that reason.",
          "openclaw.ai/.well-known/security.txt returned 404 on 12 October 2026. The repository has a SECURITY.md with private GitHub reporting and security@openclaw.ai.",
          "There is no hosted endpoint. A Gateway answers on its owner's own host. The daily update check goes to telemetry.openclaw.ai.",
          "The domain registration date was not looked up."
        ],
        "score": 53
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openclaw.json"
    },
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      {
        "a": "Platform",
        "b": "Agent harness",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy)",
        "b": "OpenClaw Foundation",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "no (local only)",
        "b": "no (local only)",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "OAuth",
        "b": "OAuth or key",
        "name": "Auth"
      },
      {
        "a": "Paid",
        "b": "Free",
        "name": "Pricing"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
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        "a": "Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published",
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        "name": "Licence"
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        "a": "no",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
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        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "llms.txt"
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        "a": "2026-09-28",
        "b": "no document linked",
        "name": "Privacy policy last updated"
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        "a": "not found in the text",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Customer content may train models"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms restrict automated access"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking"
      },
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        "a": "yes",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Terms or service can change without notice"
      },
      {
        "a": "yes",
        "b": "",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
      },
      {
        "a": "none",
        "b": "392k stars",
        "name": "Popularity"
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    "faq": [
      {
        "answer": "OpenClaw scores 67.1 (B) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.",
        "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Lindy or OpenClaw?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "No open-source release is listed for Lindy. OpenClaw is open source (MIT).",
        "question": "Are Lindy and OpenClaw open source?"
      }
    ],
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        "aheadOn": null,
        "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."
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        "aheadOn": [
          "Reliability, 75 against 24",
          "Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 32",
          "Agent ergonomics, 77 against 43",
          "Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 49",
          "Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 35",
          "Maintenance \u0026 community, 86 against 9",
          "Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 52"
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        "also": [
          "Open source"
        ],
        "goodFor": "A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine across many chat apps, with their choice of model and files they can read and delete.",
        "slug": "openclaw",
        "watchFor": "Without configuration the default is full access. Host exec runs with no approval and sandboxing is off"
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/openclaw.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### 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\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### OpenClaw (B)\n\nGood for: A technical owner who wants an assistant on their own machine across many chat apps, with their choice of model and files they can read and delete.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 75 against 24\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 84 against 32\n- Agent ergonomics, 77 against 43\n- Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 49\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 60 against 35\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 86 against 9\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 68 against 52\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: Without configuration the default is full access. Host exec runs with no approval and sandboxing is off\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Lindy | OpenClaw | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 24 | 75 | OpenClaw +51 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 32 | 84 | OpenClaw +52 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 43 | 77 | OpenClaw +34 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 49 | 74 | OpenClaw +25 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 60 | OpenClaw +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 9 | 86 | OpenClaw +77 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 68 | OpenClaw +16 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | -8 | |\n| **Total** | | **32.3 · F** | **67.1 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Lindy | OpenClaw |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) | OpenClaw Foundation |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports |  |  |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published | MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2025-10-21 | 2026-10-12 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-24 | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-28 | no document linked |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes |  |\n| Popularity | none | 392k stars |\n\n## Verdicts\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**OpenClaw.** Self-hosted under the MIT licence, with state, memory and credentials kept on the owner's machine and no paid tier. A fresh install runs tools on the host with full access, no approval prompt and no sandbox, and the project has published 722 security advisories since January 2026, 14 of them critical.\n\n## Before you call either\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### OpenClaw\n\n1. Set a session permission mode of `guarded` or `workspace`, or `tools.exec.mode`, before connecting mail. The default runs host commands without approval\n2. Turn on `agents.defaults.sandbox` for any agent that reads mail, web pages or attachments. Sandboxing is off by default\n3. Set `tools.message.crossContext.allowAcrossProviders` and `allowWithinProvider` to `false` to confine sends to the current conversation\n4. Route incoming mail to a restricted reader agent, as the IMAP and Gmail guides show, and deny `gateway`, `cron`, `sessions_spawn` and `sessions_send` for it\n5. 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