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Lindy

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Sovereignty: 2 of 6 dimensions proven

0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by Lindy · www.lindy.ai

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Lindy at a glance

Vendor
Lindy
Headquarters
Incorporated in United States source, captured 3 Nov 2026
Data hosting
Outside the EU by default; pages mention United States source, captured 3 Nov 2026
Free plan
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Lindy 2.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. Lindy is a no-code AI agent platform whose strongest categories are administration and access, where scores cluster at 6, and integrations and knowledge at 6-7, built on a library of 1,500+ apps and MCP support that auto-creates actions from the tools a hosted server publishes. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 3 Nov 2026; evaluated by the panel 4 Nov 2026. all sources

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Read this page as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

The Automation Lead

Weighted verdict

Builds the agents that file tickets, draft offers and chase approvals across the ERP, CRM and wiki. Wants tools and actions with scoped permissions, MCP and an API, approval steps before anything is sent, run logs, and a way to test an agent before the whole company uses it.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Automation Lead

Panel median The Automation Lead This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Automation Lead
Data use, training & retention 3 of 5 3 of 5
Models & processing location 2 of 5 2 of 5
Admin, identity & access controls 3 of 5 3 of 5
Integrations, connectors & knowledge 3 of 5 3.5 of 5
Agent capabilities & guardrails 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
European sovereignty 2 of 5 2 of 5
Pricing transparency 1.5 of 5 1 of 5

Data use, training & retention

How this is scored

What happens to prompts, uploaded files, connected data and outputs: whether any of it trains a model (the vendor's or a model provider's), how long it is kept and where logs live, whether zero-retention is available, and whether a data processing agreement covers it.

0 — No statement on training or retention; the privacy policy is a website policy that does not cover the product.

3 — A general statement that business data is "not used for training", with no word on retention, on the model providers behind the product or on logs.

5 — Business data excluded from training by contract, retention periods stated for chats and files, and a DPA offered to business customers.

8 — No-training commitments stated for the vendor and every model provider it routes to, retention configurable by the admin (including deletion of chat history), zero-data-retention terms with the model providers named, and abuse-monitoring retention described.

10 — Data use fully accounted for: training, retention, logging and abuse monitoring stated per model provider, customer-controlled retention and deletion with an audit trail, outputs and connected data treated as customer data in the DPA, and an independent audit (SOC 2, ISO 27001 or ISO 42001) covering the product.

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The Automation Lead

The terms commit in writing that neither Lindy nor its model providers train on customer contributions, and processor terms with Standard Contractual Clauses sit in the contract — the contractual exclusion I want. Retention is stated only as keeping personal information 'as long as it is necessary', and we found no public information on admin-configurable retention or abuse-monitoring retention, though the trust pages publish Baseten's zero-data-retention claim for inference. 2 3 4 6

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Models & processing location

How this is scored

Which models sit behind the product and who runs them, where inference and storage happen, whether the customer can pin processing to the EU, choose or exclude model providers, bring its own model or key, or run the product in its own cloud or on premises.

0 — The models behind the product and the processing location are not stated.

3 — The model family is named, but where inference runs and through which provider (the model maker, a hyperscaler, the vendor) is unstated.

5 — Models and their providers named, with an EU processing option stated for storage and at least the default model.

8 — Each available model listed with provider and inference region, EU-only processing selectable by the admin and enforced across models, model providers excludable, and bring-your-own-key or own-cloud deployment documented.

10 — Processing fully under the customer's control and documented: EU-only or on-premises inference for every feature including agents and connectors, open-weight or self-hosted models supported, data flows per feature published, and a residency commitment in the contract rather than on a marketing page.

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The Automation Lead

Anthropic (Claude) and Deepgram run inference in the USA and Baseten runs model APIs across global regions — real provider and location disclosure — but the terms state the services are hosted in the United States, and we found no public information on an EU processing option, provider exclusion, or bring-your-own-key. The security page says residency requirements are supported, and the captured pages give different signals there. 2 3 4 6

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Admin, identity & access controls

How this is scored

What the IT department controls: SSO and SCIM provisioning, roles and groups, which models, agents and connectors each group may use, retrieval that respects the permissions of the source system, audit logs, usage reporting, and policies such as data-loss prevention — and whether reporting on staff use is scoped and documented.

0 — No admin features documented; accounts are individual sign-ups.

3 — A team workspace with an owner and member invitations, but no SSO, no roles and no audit log.

5 — SSO, admin and member roles, user management, and an admin view of usage.

8 — SAML/OIDC SSO with SCIM provisioning, group-based permissions for models, agents and connectors, retrieval that inherits source-system permissions, exportable audit logs, and usage analytics with documented scope.

10 — Governance a regulated company can operate: fine-grained policies (DLP, content filters, prompt and output logging rules), audit logs streamed to a SIEM, per-agent ownership and approval, usage reporting that can be aggregated or pseudonymised for works-council agreements, and every admin action logged.

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The Automation Lead

SSO and SCIM are evidenced through WorkOS as the enterprise identity provider, and 'every action Lindy takes is logged' with visibility — the run-log accountability I insist on. Workspace owners and admins set team policy and can revoke shared MCP connections, and permissions are user-set and revocable at any time. We found no public information on group-level model or connector policies, exportable audit logs, or scoped usage reporting. 2 4 6 9

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Integrations, connectors & knowledge

How this is scored

How the product reaches company knowledge and systems: connectors to file stores, wikis, mail, CRM, ticketing and ERP, how fast and how completely they sync, the API, support for open protocols such as MCP, and how the assistant cites the sources it answers from.

0 — No integrations; users paste text or upload files one at a time.

3 — File upload and one or two connectors (for example a drive), with no API and no statement on sync or citations.

5 — A connector library covering the common file stores, wikis and collaboration tools, answers citing sources, and a documented API.

8 — Connectors to file stores, wikis, mail, CRM and ticketing with incremental sync, custom connectors or MCP support, an API and webhooks for embedding assistants and agents in other tools, and source citations on every grounded answer.

10 — The product sits in the company's systems: read and write connectors with documented scopes, MCP servers and clients, contact-centre or telephony integration where relevant, a knowledge layer that can be audited and corrected, and the data, agents and configuration exportable when the customer leaves.

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The Automation Lead

MCP is a first-class client: point Lindy at a hosted server and it auto-creates an action for every supported tool, with bearer, custom-header or OAuth authentication — exactly the open-protocol reach I build on. It claims 1,500+ connectors including Gmail, Slack, Notion and HubSpot, reads and acts in connected systems, and triggers workflows when something changes. We found no public information on a documented API or webhooks for embedding Lindy in other tools, on sync behaviour, or on source citations for answers. 1 2 8 9

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Agent capabilities & guardrails

How this is scored

What an agent can actually do and where it stops: multi-step tasks, tool use and actions in other systems, scheduling and triggers, human approval before consequential actions, run logs, evaluation and testing before release, and the limits the vendor states rather than hides.

0 — No agents; the product is a chat window, whatever the marketing says.

3 — Saved prompts or custom assistants with instructions and files, but no actions in other systems and no run history.

5 — Agents that call tools or APIs and run multi-step tasks, built without code, with a log of each run.

8 — Agents that act in connected systems with scoped permissions, human approval configurable per action, triggers and schedules, test and evaluation tooling before release, and documented limits and failure handling.

10 — Agents a business can put in production and account for: versioning and staged rollout, evaluation against test sets, monitoring of quality and cost per agent, handover to a human with full context, every action attributable to the agent and the person who deployed it, and the vendor's own statement of what agents must not be trusted with.

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The Automation Lead

Agents act across connected systems with user-set, revocable permissions under least-privilege access control, 'approvals are built in', every action is logged, and routines run on schedules like every Monday at 9am — all built without code. What stops it short for production use is that we found no public information on test or evaluation tooling before release, agent versioning, per-agent quality or cost monitoring, or the vendor's own statement of what agents must not be trusted with. 4 6 7 8

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Who the contracting entity and the parent company are, where customer data is hosted, and who the subprocessors are — model providers above all, then hosting, search, telephony and email. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; for an AI product the model provider is a subprocessor, so a European interface over a non-European model counts as such.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated, subprocessors (including model providers) unnamed.

3 — A privacy policy exists, but hosting location is unstated or non-EU and the model providers behind the product are not named as subprocessors.

5 — EU hosting stated and an EU contracting entity, but prompts reach non-EU model providers or other subprocessors without a stated safeguard or EU region.

8 — EU hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, every subprocessor listed with its location including model providers, EU inference available, and a DPA offered.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: European ownership, entity, hosting and model processing, every subprocessor European or optional, data export and deletion documented, and a security or certification statement published rather than implied.

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The Automation Lead

The contracting entity is Crivello Corp in Oregon and the terms state the services are hosted in the United States, with a subprocessor list that names every provider and its location — Anthropic, AWS, Google Cloud, WorkOS, all USA. Standard Contractual Clauses and a designated Data Protection Officer exist, so the disclosure is honest, but this is a US stack end to end; the security page says residency requirements are supported, and the captured pages give different signals on that. 2 3 4 6

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a company can compute the real annual cost from public pages alone: price per seat, per agent, per conversation or per usage unit, what is included in each tier, usage limits and overage, which models, connectors or agents cost extra, minimum seats and term.

0 — No public prices at all; every customer is a sales call.

3 — A starting price or "from" figure exists, but usage limits, included models and what scales the cost are unclear.

5 — Prices per tier are public with the main inclusions, but usage limits, overage, agent runs or enterprise features (SSO, audit logs, EU processing) are unpriced or "on request".

8 — Every tier priced publicly with seat or usage units, usage limits and overage rates, add-ons listed, minimum seats and term stated.

10 — Complete price computability: annual cost derivable for a given number of seats, agents or conversations, with every usage rate, model surcharge, add-on and support tier and the cancellation and data-return terms published.

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The Automation Lead

The only figures made public are $50 in free credits and no credit card required; the terms describe billing as subscription fees plus charges based on users or usage, with credit allowances and optional overages 'subject to the applicable rates and limits' whose rates we found no public information on. We found no public information on per-seat or per-tier prices, and the terms state all purchases are non-refundable with cancellation taking effect at the end of the current paid term. 2 8

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European sovereignty — proven facts

2 of 6 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Hosting location Outside the EU ⚠ unverified 0/4 pts 4 Report an error
Hosting options Not determined — uncited Report an error
Open source Not determined — uncited Report an error
Data processing agreement Not determined — uncited Report an error
Transfer impact assessment Not determined — uncited Report an error

Questions about Lindy

Is Lindy European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where Lindy is based. Its vendor, Lindy, is incorporated in United States, per the vendor’s page captured 3 Nov 2026.

Where does Lindy store data?

Lindy stores customer data outside the EU by default, per the vendor’s page captured 3 Nov 2026. The vendor’s pages mention United States as hosting location, per the vendor’s page captured 3 Nov 2026.

Does Lindy have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Lindy?

As of 3 Nov 2026, the panel rates Langdock (4/5), Dust (3.5/5) and Unique AI (3.5/5) highest among the other 18 AI Agents & Assistants products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is Langdock (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Lindy alternatives.

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What we left out

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Sources (9)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor page www.lindy.ai Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Terms of service — found from the homepage www.lindy.ai Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Privacy policy — found from the homepage www.lindy.ai Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Security / trust page — found from the homepage trust.lindy.ai Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Models & processing location — found from sitemap www.lindy.ai Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Admin, identity & access controls — found from sitemap www.lindy.ai Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Admin, identity & access controls — found from sitemap www.lindy.ai Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Integrations, connectors & knowledge — found from sitemap www.lindy.ai Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Integrations, connectors & knowledge — found from sitemap docs.lindy.ai Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →