lindy ai alternatives for a smaller team of bots

lindy is worth keeping on your shortlist when you want a hosted employee across work tools, broad integrations and pooled team credits. dusk bot is a different fit: a small team of named bots, with an ai you choose for each and a separate provider bill. the comparison is not simply paid versus free. dusk's free desktop use is personal; work needs a license, and hosting costs extra.¹²³⁴

by the dusk bot team · checked 12 november 2026 · how we made this

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the short version

pick lindy if

you want a hosted work assistant reached through slack, email, imessage and calls
you value its listed integration breadth and a pool of credits shared across active users

pick dusk bot if

you want bots with distinct jobs and memory rather than one work assistant interface
you want to choose their ai providers and start with personal tasks on your own computer

the work plan behind the headline price

pricing is as of 12 november 2026. lindy's prices are per active user and depend on credits. dusk's free personal option is not a free work license.

	Lindy	Dusk Bot
what you keep	hosted ai employee for email, meetings, leads and reports	small team of bots with names, jobs, separate chats and memory¹⁵
ways to reach it	web, slack, email, imessage, calls and chrome extension	desktop app, paired phone browser, voice replies and calls²⁶⁷
first evaluation	$50 in free credits lasting 7 days	free personal desktop use with every feature; ai billed by your provider²³
team starting price	from $29.99 monthly per active user for 3,000 credits	work license needed; cloud pro $50 monthly includes a license for one person²⁴⁸
credit handling	pooled credits, no rollover; top-ups $10 per 1,000 credits	ai usage is not on the dusk bill; provider allowances apply²³
model selection	pricing lists model selection for each task, within included credits	each bot has its own model and can switch while keeping chats, files and memory²⁶
connected tools	lists 3,000+ integrations and mcp support	60+ connected apps through composio; trusted mcp servers can be added²⁹
scheduled work	scheduled routines and daily briefs	routines in plain words; your local app must be awake, or use dusk cloud²¹⁰

why lindy can still be the better fit

lindy describes a work assistant available in places a team may already use, including slack and email. its pricing lists 3,000+ integrations, model selection and scheduled routines.¹² if you need a particular business tool or delivery channel, verify that first. a lower bill is little help if the replacement cannot reach the tool your process needs.

dusk's documented list is 60+ connected apps and support for adding trusted mcp servers.⁹ check that your tools are on the list. the lindy versus dusk comparison is the direct next read; the ai employees guide helps you decide what kind of recurring work you actually want to hand over.

credits, active users and work licenses

as of 12 november 2026, lindy team starts at $29.99 per active user monthly for 3,000 credits. credits are pooled and do not roll over; top-ups cost $10 per 1,000 credits.² ask how many people will be active and how much work shares that pool. the listed allowance does not tell us a fixed number of emails, calls or finished workflows.

dusk's personal desktop use is free, with ai billed by the provider. work requires a work license. cloud pro costs $50 monthly and includes one person's work license.³⁴⁸ account for the provider's bill as well as hosting before making a business budget.

try one job before designing a whole department

choose one bounded job that lets you inspect the result. for a dusk bot, attach the material it needs, give it a job in plain words, and read its work in the chat. files it makes appear there; local work lives in its folder or the project folder you give it.⁹

keep connected apps read-only during that trial. dusk asks before sends unless you allow a daily amount, but other connected-app changes are not documented as asking first. one exception: a bot on Full access with no sending rule of its own may send up to 25 a day without asking, so give full-access bots Ask every time under sending.¹¹

for a small business, write down who checks the output and what happens when a run cannot finish. dusk's routines have run history and can be paused; that helps you inspect the job, not guarantee its correctness.¹⁰

how we checked

we make dusk bot. this comparison uses lindy's homepage and pricing page, checked on 12 november 2026, alongside dusk docs. we did not build identical workflows or measure task success. integration totals are each product's published count, not a count using one common definition. lindy's pricing page uses some inconsistent plan names, so we have not assigned computer-use features to a tier.

questions

how many credits does lindy team include?

as of 12 november 2026, lindy team starts at $29.99 per active user monthly for 3,000 credits. credits are pooled and do not roll over.²

what do people actually use ai employees for?

lindy lists email, meetings, leads and reports. narrow that into one job you can review before expanding it.¹

is dusk bot cheaper than lindy for work?

lindy charges by active users and credits; dusk work use needs a license, ai usage has its own bill, and hosting is optional. free personal use is not the right price to compare with a team deployment.²³⁴

sources

lindy work assistant, checked 12 november 2026
lindy pricing, integrations and credits, checked 12 november 2026
dusk personal use and ai billing
dusk work licensing
dusk app and bots
dusk models and voice
dusk phone browser
dusk cloud plans
dusk files, app coverage and permissions
dusk routine review and history
dusk bot: sending and full access

drafted with ai help from the dusk bot docs and the sources listed on this page, then checked against them. if something here is wrong or out of date, write to [email protected].