Head to head · Assistants reached by message · October 2026 research run
Lindy vs Orbits
Lindy scores 32.3 (F) on agent readiness against Orbits's 15.6 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Orbits leads on maintenance & community. Both do assistants reached by message.
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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 15
- Schema & documentation, 32 against 10
- Agent ergonomics, 43 against 0
- Security & auth, 49 against 0
- Payments & pricing, 35 against 20
- Transparency & trust, 52 against 43
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.
Orbits F
Best for Families who want one shared assistant for calendars, lists, meals, chores and household email.
Ahead on
- Maintenance & community, 54 against 9
Also in its favour
- No incidents deducted, where Lindy loses 3 points for them
Watch for
No public agent API, as llms.txt states.
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Lindy | Orbits | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 24 | 15 | Lindy +9 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 32 | 10 | Lindy +22 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 43 | 0 | Lindy +43 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 49 | 0 | Lindy +49 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 35 | 20 | Lindy +15 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 9 | 54 | Orbits +45 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 52 | 43 | Lindy +9 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |
| Total | F 32.3/100 | F 15.6/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Lindy | Orbits |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) | Nemus AI, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports | ||
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published | Closed service under the Orbits Terms of Service (Nemus AI, Inc.). |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2025-10-21 | 2026-10-13 |
| Terms last updated | 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
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.
Orbits
Orbits is a family household app whose assistant, Bit, runs shared calendars, lists and meals, reads household email and places restaurant calls after approval, with iOS releases every week or two. No outside agent can call it, prices appear only as App Store in-app purchases, and no status page, security contact or named subprocessors were found.
Before you call either
Lindy
- 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.
Orbits
- Don't plan to call Orbits from another agent. llms.txt says no public agent API is offered.
- Tell the owner the assistant needs an Orbits subscription bought in the app, and that any trial appears only at purchase.
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, Lindy or Orbits?
Lindy scores 32.3 (F) on agent readiness against Orbits's 15.6 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Orbits leads on maintenance & community.
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Disclosure
Orbits 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.
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