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Head to head · Assistant proactive · October 2026 research run

Lindy vs Poke

Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Lindy leads on agent ergonomics, security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do assistant proactive.

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LindyCrivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) · Platform F32.3/100#968 of 986 PokeThe Interaction Company of California Inc. · Platform F37.6/100#955 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

  • Agent ergonomics, 43 against 30
  • Security & auth, 49 against 24
  • Payments & pricing, 35 against 30

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.

Poke F

Best for One person who wants an assistant in their text messages that reads and drafts mail, manages a calendar and reaches other apps through MCP.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 51 against 24
  • Schema & documentation, 42 against 32
  • Maintenance & community, 31 against 9
  • Transparency & trust, 58 against 52

Also in its favour

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

Watch for

No documented setting for which actions need approval before Poke sends, deletes or spends. Release notes mention email draft approval only in passing

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runLindyPokeEdge
Reliability16%202451Poke +27
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.23242Poke +10
Agent ergonomics13%16.24330Lindy +13
Security & auth14%17.54924Lindy +25
Payments & pricing10%12.53530Lindy +5
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8931Poke +22
Transparency & trust7%8.85258Poke +6
Negative events≤15-30
TotalF 32.3/100F 37.6/100

Facts side by side

FactLindyPoke
KindPlatformPlatform
VendorCrivello Corp (doing business as Lindy)The Interaction Company of California Inc.
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP
AuthOAuthAPI key
PricingPaidFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is publishedProprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The poke npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MIT
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2025-10-212026-06-25
Terms last updated2026-09-242026-03-17
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-282026-09-11
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textyes
Terms restrict automated accessyesyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyesyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryesyes

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.

Poke

Hosted assistant that answers in Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram and RCS and acts in Gmail, Outlook, calendars and MCP servers. Plan prices and a status page are public. No approval settings, credential storage, model providers or retention periods are documented, and customer content trains models unless Maximum Privacy is selected.

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.

Poke

  1. POST JSON to https://poke.com/api/v1/inbound/api-message with a Bearer key from Kitchen. Legacy pk_ keys work only on the deprecated /api/v1/inbound-sms/webhook
  2. Expect only {"success": true} back. Poke's answer goes to the owner's message thread, not to the caller
  3. Do not retry a POST blindly. No idempotency key is documented, and a repeated message may make Poke act twice
  4. Treat an API key as full access to the owner's mail, calendar and integrations. Create one key per automation and revoke it when done
  5. Avoid the prefilled integration link with apiKey in the query string for real secrets. Enter the key in the form or use npx poke@latest mcp add -k

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Lindy or Poke?

Poke scores 37.6 (F) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Lindy leads on agent ergonomics, security & auth and payments & pricing.

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