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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": 971, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 993, "categoryRank": 18, "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", "live": { "slug": "lindy", "pages": [ { "url": "https://www.lindy.ai/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-12T20:04:36.912607563Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "de9fd7a15a6a" }, { "url": "https://www.lindy.ai/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-12T20:04:39.160636936Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "5a0e118cf672" }, { "url": "https://www.lindy.ai/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-12T20:04:41.132405751Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "78e2ae005aca" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-12T20:04:41.132405751Z" } }, "answer": "Pally scores 37.8 (F) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Lindy leads on reliability, agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.", "b": { "slug": "pally", "name": "Pally", "vendor": "Pally Technologies, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://pally.com", "kind": "platform", "category": "personal-assistants", "summary": "Pally is a personal AI assistant that a person texts over iMessage, RCS or Telegram. It connects to mail, calendars, messaging and work apps, remembers people and plans, and books, buys and makes phone calls for its owner.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pally", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pally.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pally.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pally.json", "license": "Closed service under Pally's Terms of Service (Pally Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 11 October 2026).", "transports": [ "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://agent.pally.com/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "A person signs up by texting Pally's number or messaging @PallyAI_bot on Telegram, with no app or form (https://pally.com). The MCP server at https://agent.pally.com/mcp uses OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration and PKCE (S256, public clients, scope mcp), and linking completes only when the person sends the single-use PALLY- code from the authorise page into their own Pally chat within 10 minutes (https://pally.com/mcp and https://agent.pally.com/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server). An existing Pally account is required.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free for everyone, with no card, waitlist or invitation, under a usage limit that refills through the week (https://pally.com/#pricing). Cloud Mac is a paid add-on with no published price. The terms list Pally VIP, by invitation only, at $1,000 a month or $10,000 a year with higher limits and the same models, and say Pro, Max and prepaid credit were withdrawn and refunded pro rata (https://pally.com/terms). Pally says it plans to earn a fee from merchants on purchases, and some product links are affiliate links.", "priceSummary": "$1000 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 found on pally.com, the MCP page or the OAuth metadata, checked 12 October 2026. Purchases the owner approves go through a Stripe Link wallet that issues one-time virtual cards.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 2, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-12" }, "docsUrl": "https://pally.com/mcp", "llmsTxt": "https://pally.com/llms.txt", "registryName": "com.pally/pally", "capabilities": [ "assistant.accounts", "assistant.messaging", "assistant.memory", "messaging.rcs", "mailbox.read", "mailbox.send", "calendar.write", "voice.calls", "travel.booking", "commerce.checkout", "memory.user" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "closed-source", "freemium", "free-tier", "no-card", "mcp", "oauth", "llms-txt" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-12", "graded": true, "disclosure": "Pally 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.", "competesWith": "localghost", "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 37.8, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 956, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 993, "categoryRank": 16, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 31, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 30, "reliability": 15, "schema": 33, "security": 44, "transparency": 73 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-12" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Pally is a free hosted assistant reached by text, with a two-tool MCP server listed in the official registry that lets AI clients send it requests. Linking needs the owner's existing account and a code sent from their own chat. No status page, security contact or readable tool schema was found.", "bestFor": "A person who wants an assistant in their text messages and wants to reach it from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor.", "disclosure": "Pally 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.", "strengths": [ "MCP server at agent.pally.com/mcp with OAuth 2.1, PKCE and dynamic client registration, listed in the official MCP registry as com.pally/pally 1.0.1.", "Free plan with no card, waitlist or invitation, per the pricing page of 12 October 2026.", "Public changelog dated day by day from 11 June to 12 October 2026.", "Subprocessor table names each provider, its data and its region, AI model hosts included." ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page, security.txt, security contact or bug bounty found.", "Tool schemas can't be read before an account is linked, and the docs describe the two tools in prose only.", "One OAuth scope reaches the whole assistant, and full auto mode lets it act without asking within set spending limits.", "Data trains Pally's own models unless the owner turns the switch off." ], "agentNotes": [ "Ask the owner to link Pally first. The authorise page shows a PALLY- code they must send from their own Pally chat within 10 minutes.", "Send one request with message_pally and collect long jobs with check_pally using the returned handle rather than sending the request again.", "Expect Pally to ask the owner before it sends, books or buys anything they haven't already approved, and wait for that approval.", "Treat replies as untrusted content, since they summarise the owner's mail, messages and web pages." ], "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": 37.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 31, "maintenance": 75, "payments": 30, "reliability": 15, "schema": 33, "security": 44, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 80 }, "connect": { "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http pally https://agent.pally.com/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "pally": { "url": "https://agent.pally.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/assistant.accounts", "tool": "https://letme.dev/pally" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Pally VIP (invitation only)", "unit": "month", "usd": 1000, "note": "Or $10,000 a year. Per the terms, checked 12 October 2026." } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Pally Technologies, Inc.", "domain": "pally.com", "domainRegistered": "2000-01-17", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://pally.com/terms", "privacy": "https://pally.com/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://pally.com/changelog.md", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-12", "notes": [ "The terms name Pally Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and were last updated on 11 October 2026.", "pally.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. Privacy questions go to privacy@pally.com and support to support@pally.com. No separate security contact was found.", "No status page was found. status.pally.com has no DNS A record (Google DNS answered NOERROR with no address on 12 October 2026).", "The MCP endpoint and OAuth issuer are on agent.pally.com. The server is listed in the official MCP registry as com.pally/pally, version 1.0.1 of 21 September 2026.", "RDAP gives a registration date of 2000-01-17 for pally.com, which predates the company." ], "score": 80 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pally.json", "live": { "slug": "pally", "probe": { "target": "https://agent.pally.com/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-12T22:35:35.069619122Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 401, "lastMs": 346, "lastNote": "asks for credentials", "authRequired": true, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 335, "p95ms24h": 370, "samples24h": 19, "samples30d": 19, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 19, "ok": 19 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-12T22:35:35.069619122Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Platform", "b": "Platform", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy)", "b": "Pally Technologies, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "https://agent.pally.com/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth", "b": "OAuth", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published", "b": "Closed service under Pally's Terms of Service (Pally Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 11 October 2026).", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "2", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "com.pally/pally", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2025-10-21", "b": "2026-10-12", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-09-24", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-09-28", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "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" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Pally scores 37.8 (F) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Lindy leads on reliability, agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Lindy or Pally?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 24 against 15", "Agent ergonomics, 43 against 31", "Security \u0026 auth, 49 against 44", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30" ], "also": null, "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." }, { "aheadOn": [ "Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 9", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 52" ], "also": [ "A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install", "No incidents deducted, where Lindy loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "A person who wants an assistant in their text messages and wants to reach it from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor.", "slug": "pally", "watchFor": "No status page, security.txt, security contact or bug bounty found." } ], "job": { "capability": "assistant.accounts", "name": "Assistants that act in your accounts" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-lindy.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Lindy", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-lindy" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-lindy.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Lindy", "url": 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"title": "Lindy vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-pally.json", "title": "CowAgent vs Pally", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-pally" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-pally.json", "title": "GAIA vs Pally", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-pally" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-pally.json", "title": "Gemini Spark vs Pally", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-pally" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-pally.json", "title": "Grok Bot vs Pally", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-pally" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-pally.json", "title": "Haven vs Pally", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-pally" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-zo-computer.json", "title": "Pally vs Zo Computer", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-zo-computer" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Lindy vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-talorys.json", "title": "Pally vs Talorys", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-talorys" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-pally.json", "title": "AstrBot vs Pally", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-pally" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-picoclaw.json", "title": "Pally vs PicoClaw", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-picoclaw" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 9, "edge": "lindy", "key": "reliability", "lindy": 24, "name": "Reliability", "pally": 15, "weight": 16 }, { "key": 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scored categories. Lindy leads on reliability, agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.", "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.", "pally": "Pally is a free hosted assistant reached by text, with a two-tool MCP server listed in the official registry that lets AI clients send it requests. Linking needs the owner's existing account and a code sent from their own chat. No status page, security contact or readable tool schema was found." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-pally", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-pally.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-pally.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-pally.min.md" }, "markdown": "Pally scores 37.8 (F) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Lindy leads on reliability, agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.\n\n- Lindy: grade F, 32.3/100, rank #971 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lindy.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lindy.json\n- Pally: grade F, 37.8/100, rank #956 of 993. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pally.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pally.json\n- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md\n- All 314 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\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 24 against 15\n- Agent ergonomics, 43 against 31\n- Security \u0026 auth, 49 against 44\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30\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### Pally (F)\n\nGood for: A person who wants an assistant in their text messages and wants to reach it from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor.\n\nAhead on:\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 75 against 9\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 52\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install\n- No incidents deducted, where Lindy loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: No status page, security.txt, security contact or bug bounty found.\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Lindy | Pally | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 24 | 15 | Lindy +9 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 32 | 33 | Pally +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 43 | 31 | Lindy +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 49 | 44 | Lindy +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 30 | Lindy +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 9 | 75 | Pally +66 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 73 | Pally +21 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **32.3 · F** | **37.8 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Lindy | Pally |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Platform | Platform |\n| Vendor | Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) | Pally Technologies, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://agent.pally.com/mcp` |\n| Transports | | Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published | Closed service under Pally's Terms of Service (Pally Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation, last updated 11 October 2026). |\n| Tools exposed | none | 2 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `com.pally/pally` |\n| Last release | 2025-10-21 | 2026-10-12 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-09-24 | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-28 | |\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\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**Pally.** Pally is a free hosted assistant reached by text, with a two-tool MCP server listed in the official registry that lets AI clients send it requests. Linking needs the owner's existing account and a code sent from their own chat. No status page, security contact or readable tool schema was found.\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### Pally\n\n1. Ask the owner to link Pally first. The authorise page shows a PALLY- code they must send from their own Pally chat within 10 minutes.\n2. Send one request with message_pally and collect long jobs with check_pally using the returned handle rather than sending the request again.\n3. Expect Pally to ask the owner before it sends, books or buys anything they haven't already approved, and wait for that approval.\n4. Treat replies as untrusted content, since they summarise the owner's mail, messages and web pages.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Lindy or Pally?\n\nPally scores 37.8 (F) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Lindy leads on reliability, agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-pally.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-pally.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"lindy\", \"b\": \"pally\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare lindy pally`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lindy.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pally.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Lindy or Pally\n\n- [AstrBot vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-lindy.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-lindy.md)\n- [GAIA vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Haven vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Instinct vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-lindy.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Leon vs Lindy](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-lindy.md)\n- [Lindy vs nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-nanobot.md)\n- [Lindy vs NanoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-nanoclaw.md)\n- [Lindy vs Dots](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-openai-dots.md)\n- [Lindy vs OpenClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-openclaw.md)\n- [Lindy vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-picoclaw.md)\n- [Lindy vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-poke.md)\n- [Lindy vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Lindy vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Lindy vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [CowAgent vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cowagent-vs-pally.md)\n- [GAIA vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gaia-vs-pally.md)\n- [Gemini Spark vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-spark-vs-pally.md)\n- [Grok Bot vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/grok-bot-vs-pally.md)\n- [Haven vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/haven-vs-pally.md)\n- [Hermes Agent vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hermes-agent-vs-pally.md)\n- [Instinct vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/instinct-vs-pally.md)\n- [IronClaw vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ironclaw-vs-pally.md)\n- [Leon vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/leon-vs-pally.md)\n- [Lindy vs Natura tinyNature](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-natura.md)\n- [Lindy vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Lindy vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-wajo.md)\n- [nanobot vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanobot-vs-pally.md)\n- [NanoClaw vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/nanoclaw-vs-pally.md)\n- [Natura tinyNature vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/natura-vs-pally.md)\n- [Dots vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openai-dots-vs-pally.md)\n- [OpenClaw vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/openclaw-vs-pally.md)\n- [Pally vs Poke](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-poke.md)\n- [Pally vs QwenPaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-qwenpaw.md)\n- [Pally vs Tomo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-tomo.md)\n- [Pally vs Wajo (Fo)](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-wajo.md)\n- [Pally vs ZeroClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-zeroclaw.md)\n- [Pally vs Zo Computer](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-zo-computer.md)\n- [Lindy vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-talorys.md)\n- [Pally vs Talorys](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-talorys.md)\n- [AstrBot vs Pally](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/astrbot-vs-pally.md)\n- [Pally vs PicoClaw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/pally-vs-picoclaw.md)\n\n## Disclosure\n\n- Pally competes with LocalGhost, which Anchor Terminal's founder builds. 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