# Lindy vs Pally

> Pally scores 37.8 (F) to Lindy's 32.3 (F) for assistants that act in your accounts. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-12

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 & auth and payments & pricing. Both do assistants that act in your accounts.

- 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
- 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
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 314 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.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 24 against 15
- Agent ergonomics, 43 against 31
- Security & auth, 49 against 44
- Payments & pricing, 35 against 30

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.

### Pally (F)

Good for: A person who wants an assistant in their text messages and wants to reach it from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor.

Ahead on:
- Maintenance & community, 75 against 9
- Transparency & trust, 73 against 52

Also in its favour:
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- No incidents deducted, where Lindy loses 3 points for them

Watch for: No status page, security.txt, security contact or bug bounty found.


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Lindy | Pally | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 24 | 15 | Lindy +9 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 32 | 33 | Pally +1 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 43 | 31 | Lindy +12 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 49 | 44 | Lindy +5 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 30 | Lindy +5 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 9 | 75 | Pally +66 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 73 | Pally +21 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **32.3 · F** | **37.8 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Lindy | Pally |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) | Pally Technologies, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://agent.pally.com/mcp` |
| Transports |  | Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | OAuth |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| 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). |
| Tools exposed | none | 2 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.pally/pally` |
| Last release | 2025-10-21 | 2026-10-12 |
| 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.

**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.

## 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.

### Pally

1. 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.
2. Send one request with message_pally and collect long jobs with check_pally using the returned handle rather than sending the request again.
3. Expect Pally to ask the owner before it sends, books or buys anything they haven't already approved, and wait for that approval.
4. Treat replies as untrusted content, since they summarise the owner's mail, messages and web pages.

## Questions

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

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 & auth and payments & pricing.


## For agents

- 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
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "lindy", "b": "pally"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare lindy pally`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lindy.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pally.json

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## 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.