# Lindy vs ZeroClaw

> ZeroClaw scores 70.2 (BB) to Lindy's 32.3 (F) for assistant proactive. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zeroclaw
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zeroclaw.md (~2,550 tokens)
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- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/lindy-vs-zeroclaw.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- 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

ZeroClaw scores 70.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. 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
- ZeroClaw: grade BB, 70.2/100, rank #161 of 986. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zeroclaw.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zeroclaw.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.

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.

### ZeroClaw (BB)

Good for: One person who wants an assistant on their own hardware that answers on Telegram, Discord, Matrix or email, asks before it writes or runs commands, and works with a local model.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 74 against 24
- Schema & documentation, 82 against 32
- Agent ergonomics, 72 against 43
- Security & auth, 76 against 49
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 35
- Maintenance & community, 80 against 9
- Transparency & trust, 64 against 52

Also in its favour:
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
- No key needed to call it
- Open source

Watch for: The docs state that command execution is not audited. `[security.audit]` records certificate events only, and tool receipts are opt-in and not durable


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Lindy | ZeroClaw | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 24 | 74 | ZeroClaw +50 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 32 | 82 | ZeroClaw +50 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 43 | 72 | ZeroClaw +29 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 49 | 76 | ZeroClaw +27 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 60 | ZeroClaw +25 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 9 | 80 | ZeroClaw +71 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 64 | ZeroClaw +12 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | -3 | |
| **Total** | | **32.3 · F** | **70.2 · BB** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Lindy | ZeroClaw |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Platform | Agent harness |
| Vendor | Crivello Corp (doing business as Lindy) | ZeroClaw Labs |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |
| Transports |  |  |
| Auth | OAuth | None |
| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Lindy's Terms of Service. No source is published | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2025-10-21 | 2026-09-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-24 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-28 | no document linked |
| 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 |  |
| Popularity | none | 33k 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.

**ZeroClaw.** Supervised autonomy is the default, so tools outside a short read-only list wait for the owner's approval, and secrets are encrypted in the config file. The docs state that command execution is not written to an audit log, and the project publishes no privacy policy or terms.

## 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.

### ZeroClaw

1. Keep `[risk_profiles.<alias>] level = "supervised"`. `full` runs every tool not listed in `always_ask`, and the YOLO preset removes the sandbox and path rules too
2. Add sending and account tools such as `send_via`, `google_workspace` and `http_request` to `always_ask` so a session-level Always grant cannot skip the prompt
3. List senders in `[peer_groups.<name>] external_peers`. `["*"]` accepts anyone on that channel
4. Set `[web_fetch].allowed_domains` and `[http_request].allowed_domains`. Fetches run unprompted and the OS sandbox does not block egress
5. Run one-shot tasks with `zeroclaw agent -a <alias> -m "<task>"`. A cron or webhook turn has no prompt, so shell calls fall to the command policy

## Questions

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

ZeroClaw scores 70.2 (BB) on agent readiness against Lindy's 32.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.

### Are Lindy and ZeroClaw open source?

No open-source release is listed for Lindy. ZeroClaw is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0).


## For agents

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

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