Is Lindy worth it? What the money buys, and what an open-source alternative costs

What Lindy's money buys

Lindy bills in credits, and its own pages state the terms. Its pricing page offers "$50 in credits for free" with no credit card, and those credits last 7 days. Plans start at $29.99 a month, and the team plan runs "from $49.99 a month for 5,000 credits each." Everyone who signs up, joins the workspace, or @mentions Lindy in Slack takes a billed seat, per the same page. Credits run "about a cent each," and admins top up at "$10 per 1,000."

Two rules shape the bill. Monthly credits refresh at the start of each cycle and do not roll over, so an unused pool is gone at reset. When the shared pool runs low, Lindy pauses credit-using actions until it refreshes. The arithmetic for a whole team is on the Lindy pricing breakdown.

What an open-source system costs instead

Kortix is the open-source AI Operating System: your agents, their skills, your company memory, and every connector in one git repo you own. You can run it on Kortix Cloud, in your VPC, or on your own on-prem network, and self-host is free. On the managed cloud, Kortix's pricing page lists Free at $0 with 200 credits per month and 1 project, and a team plan at $40 per seat per month with 2,500 credits per month per seat, pooled.

Self-hosting is where the price model changes. You bring the machines and your own model keys, and the per-credit meter goes away.

$ curl -fsSL https://kortix.com/install | bash$ kortix self-host init --domain kortix.example.com$ kortix self-host start

The kortix self-host commands install and run the full stack on your own infrastructure, per the Kortix docs.

The verdict: what decides it

Lindy is worth it for a team that wants a hosted teammate and no infrastructure to run. Connect the tools, let Lindy schedule the work, and rent the compute by the credit.

Kortix is the pick for a team that has to own the system. The agents, the skills, the memory, and the connectors live as files in one git repo, the work reaches main through a change request a person reviews, and the whole stack can run on your own machines. The Kortix vs Lindy page puts the two side by side, and what Lindy's use cases look like on Kortix shows the same jobs handed back as files.