# Lindy vs Poke

> Poke scores 37.6 (F) to Lindy's 32.3 (F) for assistant proactive. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Updated: 2026-10-12

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.

- Lindy: grade F, 32.3/100, rank #968 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lindy.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lindy.json
- Poke: grade F, 37.6/100, rank #955 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/poke.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/poke.json
- Best AI personal assistants that act for one person: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/personal-assistants/index.md
- All 190 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:
- 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)

Good 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

| Category | Weight | Lindy | Poke | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 24 | 51 | Poke +27 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 32 | 42 | Poke +10 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 43 | 30 | Lindy +13 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 49 | 24 | Lindy +25 |
| 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 | 31 | Poke +22 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 58 | Poke +6 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **32.3 · F** | **37.6 · F** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Lindy | Poke |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Platform |
| Vendor | Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) | The Interaction Company of California Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth | API key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published | Proprietary service under Poke's Terms of Service. The `poke` npm package (CLI and Node.js SDK) declares MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2025-10-21 | 2026-06-25 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-24 | 2026-03-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-28 | 2026-09-11 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | 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.

**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.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-poke.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-poke.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "lindy", "b": "poke"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare lindy poke`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/lindy.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/poke.json

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