Bardeen vs Lindy (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Bardeen and Lindy share a 2.4 GPA, and only Bardeen has a free plan.
Checked Oct 5, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 10, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
Bardeen grades higher on value for money. Lindy grades higher on features. They get the same grade on the free plan, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Bardeen
Lead scraping, enrichment and qualification with AI agents
Lindy
AI teammate for Slack that works across your team's tools
Which one is for you
Pick Bardeen if
- Fits if you build lead lists and want scraping and enrichment in one place
- Works for a go-to-market person who pays by the row
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you scrape at volume: 1 credit a row, 3 for enrichment, and unused credits expire each period
- Not for you if you want general personal automation, as it is aimed at lead sourcing
- Pricey if you scale: Premium is $50 a month for 1,000 credits
- Watch out: the page does not say whether the free 100 credits refill
- Skip it if you want a desktop or phone app, as none is listed
Pick Lindy if
- Fits if your team lives in Slack and wants one shared AI teammate
- Works for reports, briefs and follow-ups that come round every week
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want a free plan to stay on, as the $50 of credits runs out after 7 days
- Pricey if lots of people dip in now and then, since everyone who @mentions it takes a paid seat
- Skip it if you need SSO, SCIM, audit logs or HIPAA compliance, which are Enterprise only
- Watch out: credits don't roll over, and actions that use them pause when the shared pool runs out
- Skip it if you want a phone or desktop app of its own, as it works through Slack, iMessage, email and the web
How we grade them
| 2.4GPABardeenFair | 2.4GPALindyFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | B$10 a month for 100 credits is inside the cheapest quarter, but 100 credits is 100 scraped rows or about 33 enrichments. | C$29.99 a user each month for 3,000 credits a seat, pooled across the team, which is the dear end of middling for agent tools here. Bigger bundles cost less per credit, like 15,000 for $99.99, and top-ups are $10 per 1,000. Credits don't roll over. |
| Free plan and trial | C100 free credits on every account, and the page does not say if they refill, so you will run out fast. | CNo lasting free plan: you start with $50 in credits and no card needed, and they expire after 7 days. Seven days to look, then $29.99 per user a month. |
| Features | CScraper, web search, enrichment, AI qualification and exports, but it is aimed at lead sourcing and not general automation. | BIt covers the job: one shared teammate in Slack across Gmail, Notion, HubSpot and 1,000-plus other apps, meetings recorded into a shared library, routines set up in a sentence, 40-plus skills, memory in plain files you can edit, and approval before anything leaves the building. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. You build scrapers and credit usage by row, with a learning curve. | CThe people who use it just @mention it in Slack. Someone still has to install it, connect the tools and watch a shared credit pool, and every person who uses it takes a paid seat. No rating on record. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb only, no desktop or mobile apps on the pages read, with four named integrations. | BSlack first, plus iMessage, email, the web and a Chrome extension, connecting to more than 1,000 apps and any MCP server. No phone or desktop app of its own. |
| Best for | scraping and enriching leads in the browser | one AI teammate a whole team shares in Slack |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Bardeen and Lindy. How we grade
Price against what you get
Bardeen starts at $10 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Lindy starts at $29.99 a month for each person and scores 2.7.
Lindy scores higher, and starts $19.99 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other AI agents on the chart, 1 scores higher than Bardeen for less, and 8 score higher than Lindy for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Bardeen also covers no-code.
- Lindy also covers meeting notes, chat assistant and inbox filtering.
At a glance
| Bardeen | Lindy | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free trial |
| Starts at | $10 per month for 100 credits, billed monthly | $29.99 per user / month, for 3,000 credits |
| Free plan | Every account gets 100 credits free; the pricing page does not say whether they refill each month. | None |
| Free trial | None listed | $50 in free credits that last 7 days, no credit card required |
| Web | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Bardeen Inc. | Crivello Corp, doing business as Lindy |
| Price read from | bardeen.ai | lindy.ai |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Bardeen
- Pricing is by credit: 1 per scraped row, 1 per search or AI row, 3 per enrichment row. Unused credits expire at the end of each billing period.
- The pricing page shows paid plans only as add-on credit amounts per month; the free 100 credits are described without a refill date.
- The product is aimed at lead sourcing and go-to-market work, not general-purpose personal automation.
- The pages read list no desktop or mobile apps; the product is described as an app used in the browser.
Lindy
- There is no ongoing free plan: the $50 of free credits lasts 7 days, after which paid usage starts at $29.99 per user per month.
- Anyone who uses Lindy takes a paid seat, including people who @mention it in Slack; those joining through Slack get a one-time 7-day trial first.
- Monthly credits do not roll over, and Lindy pauses credit-using actions when the shared pool runs out.
- SSO, SCIM, audit logs and HIPAA compliance with a signed BAA are limited to Enterprise.
Key features
Bardeen
- Web scraper
- Build your own scraper or use premium ones to pull leads from sites such as Product Hunt, Zillow and GitHub, at 1 credit per row.
- Web search
- Researches or generates leads at scale with AI and web search providers, or finds answers on a given website, at 1 credit per row.
- Contact enrichment
- Looks up validated emails and phone numbers for leads. Enrichment costs 3 credits per row.
- AI qualification
- You describe the ideal lead and AI marks each row as qualified or not, with a short reason, at 1 credit per row.
- Exports
- Results download as CSV or go to Google Sheets, Airtable and Notion. Importing and exporting data is free.
Lindy
- Shared teammate in Slack
- A whole team shares one Lindy, summoned with an @mention in Slack channels and threads. It can also be reached by iMessage, by email and in the browser.
- Integrations and MCP
- Connects to Gmail, Slack, Notion, HubSpot and more than 1,000 other apps, and can use any MCP server to reach tools that have no built-in integration.
- Meeting recording and notes
- Records meetings and writes notes into a shared library with folders that teammates can query later. It also handles scheduling, prep and follow-up.
- Scheduled routines
- Recurring work such as a morning brief, a Monday report or a Friday nudge can be set up in a sentence and run on a schedule.
- Skills and editable memory
- Comes with more than 40 skills, including research, data analysis and slide decks. New skills can be saved for the whole team, and its memory lives in plain files you can edit.
- Approvals
- Actions with outside impact, such as sending an email or updating a ticket, wait for approval. Read-only lookups from approved sources do not.
Plans
Bardeen
Basic$10
per month for +100 credits, billed monthly
Adds 100 credits a month; steps up to +500 credits for $50. Includes custom scrapers, premium scrapers and enrichment.
Premium$50
per month for +1,000 credits, billed monthly
Adds 1,000 credits a month; steps up to +10K credits for $500. Adds Teams. Annual billing starts at $480 per year for +12,000 credits.
EnterpriseCustom
Custom bulk credits on annual billing, with custom scrapers built and maintained by Bardeen and premium support.
Lindy
Free$0
$50 in credits that last 7 days, with no credit card required. Paid usage starts after that.
Team$29.99
per user / month, for 3,000 credits each
Credits pooled across the team, larger monthly bundles such as 15,000 credits for $99.99, top-ups at $10 per 1,000, model choice and computer use.
EnterpriseCustom
Everything in Team, plus HIPAA compliance with a signed BAA, SSO and SCIM, audit logs, custom credits and billing, and dedicated support.
Ways to pay less
Bardeen
- Annual discount
Save 20% on annual Premium billing
The pricing page offers Premium on yearly billing at a 20% saving, starting at $480 per year for 12,000 credits.
Lindy
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Bardeen or Lindy?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Bardeen starts at $10 per month for 100 credits, billed monthly, and Lindy starts at $29.99 per user / month, for 3,000 credits. One is priced for each person and the other is not, so which costs less depends on how many of you use it.
Which has a free plan, Bardeen or Lindy?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only Bardeen has a free plan. Lindy does not, though it has a free trial.
Which platforms do Bardeen and Lindy run on?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only Lindy lists a browser extension. Both list a web app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.