Beam AI vs Lindy (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Lindy grades higher than Beam AI: 2.4 against 1.8 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 5, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 10, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
Lindy grades higher on value for money, features and platforms. They get the same grade on the free plan and ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Beam AI
Agent platform for automating business processes at enterprises
Lindy
AI teammate for Slack that works across your team's tools
Which one is for you
Pick Beam AI if
- Fits if you want to try agent workflows from your own SOPs on a small task count
- Works for an enterprise team that wants a task hub with confidence scores
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you stay free: 20 tasks a month and 1 base integration
- Pricey if you pass Pro: Scale is $3,990 a month, with nothing published between
- Watch out: Pro is capped at 200 tasks a month
- Not for you if you need more connectors, as Free allows 1 and Scale 3 base integrations
- Watch out: the page does not say whether monthly prices are billed monthly or annually
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
| 1.8GPABeam AIWeak | 2.4GPALindyFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | DPro is $50 a month for 200 tasks and Scale is $3,990, so the step above Pro is far beyond the $52 where the dearest tenth begins. | 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 | CA free plan of 20 tasks a month with 1 base integration, which you will outgrow quickly. | 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 | CAgents, SOP-based workflows, confidence scores and triggers, but connectors beyond the base ones mean the Custom plan. | 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. Workflows are built from your SOPs and integrations are by category. | 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 | CWeb only, with one integration named and more by category. | 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 | agents for enterprise task automation | 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: Beam AI and Lindy. How we grade
Price against what you get
Beam AI starts at $50 a month and scores 2.0 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 $20.01 a month lower. Of the other AI agents on the chart, 49 score higher than Beam AI 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
- Beam AI also covers no-code.
- Lindy also covers meeting notes, chat assistant and inbox filtering.
At a glance
| Beam AI | Lindy | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free trial |
| Starts at | $50 per month | $29.99 per user / month, for 3,000 credits |
| Free plan | 20 tasks a month, 1 base integration and self-healing outputs. | None |
| Free trial | None listed | $50 in free credits that last 7 days, no credit card required |
| Web | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Beam AI | Crivello Corp, doing business as Lindy |
| Price read from | beam.ai | lindy.ai |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Beam AI
- Free and Pro are capped at 20 and 200 tasks a month; Pro is the only published price below $3,990.
- Only 1 base integration is listed on Free and 3 on Scale; further connectors mean the Custom plan.
- The pricing page does not say whether monthly prices are billed monthly or annually.
- Custom pricing is not published, and the vendor frames the product for enterprise automation.
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
Beam AI
- Pre-trained agents
- Ready-made agents come with domain expertise, and you connect your own databases and integrations to put them to work.
- Agentic workflows from SOPs
- Agents are set up to follow an organization's standard operating procedures, with consent steps where a person must approve.
- Task hub with confidence scores
- The product demo shows a task list with status per task and a confidence figure on each step, such as vendor validation and three-way matching.
- Triggers and embedding
- Agents can be started in several ways, such as when work arrives, and can be embedded elsewhere.
- Integrations by category
- The integrations page groups connectors into CRM, finance, HR, IT, management, marketing, sales and software development.
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
Beam AI
Free$0
per month for up to 20 tasks
1 base integration and lower complexity, with self-healing outputs.
Pro$50
per month for up to 200 tasks
Unlimited steps per workflow, premium AI models, output evaluation and self-healing outputs.
Scale$3,990
per month
High-volume task execution, 3 base integrations, frontier AI models, enterprise-grade security and full self-learning.
CustomCustom
Custom integrations, on-demand solution engineers, enterprise-grade security and full self-learning.
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.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Beam AI or Lindy?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Beam AI starts at $50 per month, 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, Beam AI or Lindy?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only Beam AI has a free plan. Lindy does not, though it has a free trial.
Which platforms do Beam AI 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.