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Head to head · Assistant proactive · October 2026 research run

Lindy vs QwenPaw

QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do assistant proactive.

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LindyCrivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) · Platform F32.3/100#968 of 986 QwenPawAgentScope · Agent harness B62.2/100#454 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.

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.

QwenPaw B

Best for One person who wants an assistant on Chinese and Western chat apps with scheduled digests, a consumer mailbox and file-based memory, on their own machine and with a model of their choice.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 70 against 24
  • Schema & documentation, 68 against 32
  • Agent ergonomics, 67 against 43
  • Security & auth, 60 against 49
  • Payments & pricing, 60 against 35
  • Maintenance & community, 73 against 9

Also in its favour

  • No key needed to call it
  • Runs on your own machine
  • Open source

Watch for

Usage data is on by default, qwenpaw init --defaults accepts it without a prompt, and the opt-out variable is absent from the README and docs

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runLindyQwenPawEdge
Reliability16%202470QwenPaw +46
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.23268QwenPaw +36
Agent ergonomics13%16.24367QwenPaw +24
Security & auth14%17.54960QwenPaw +11
Payments & pricing10%12.53560QwenPaw +25
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.8973QwenPaw +64
Transparency & trust7%8.85256QwenPaw +4
Negative events≤15-3-3
TotalF 32.3/100B 62.2/100

Facts side by side

FactLindyQwenPaw
KindPlatformAgent harness
VendorCrivello Corp (doing business as Lindy)AgentScope
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTP, stdio
AuthOAuthNone
PricingPaidFree
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is publishedApache-2.0
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last release2025-10-212026-09-11
Terms last updated2026-09-24no document linked
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-28no document linked
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticeyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryes
Popularitynone36k stars

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.

QwenPaw

Mail tools ask for approval by default, automatic mail handling may not delete permanently, and the security docs list what each sandbox backend fails to enforce. Usage data is sent by default, the default approval level passes every tool call no rule flags, and no privacy policy or security advisory is published.

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.

QwenPaw

  1. Set QWENPAW_TELEMETRY_DISABLED=true before qwenpaw init --defaults or qwenpaw app. Both send usage data without asking
  2. Set approval_level to STRICT or SMART in agent.json. The default AUTO runs every tool call no guard rule flags
  3. Set dm_policy and group_policy to allowlist with allow_from on each channel. Both default to open
  4. Set QWENPAW_AUTH_ENABLED=true before binding beyond 127.0.0.1. Requests from localhost skip login even then
  5. Keep mail tools on ask for send_message, delete_message and delete_thread, and turn on Mail Access Control with automatic handling

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Lindy or QwenPaw?

QwenPaw scores 62.2 (B) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.

Are Lindy and QwenPaw open source?

No open-source release is listed for Lindy. QwenPaw is open source (Apache-2.0).

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