NoCode Agents
Lindy vs Gumloop comes down to one question: do you want an assistant you talk to, or a builder your team uses to create agents? Lindy is the better pick for founders and small teams who want an ‘AI employee’ for inbox, meetings and scheduling, starting at $29.99 per user per month. Gumloop is the better pick for ops, sales and marketing teams that need agents to work across tools and real websites, starting at $37 per month with unlimited seats.
What is the difference between Lindy and Gumloop?
Lindy is a conversational AI employee; Gumloop is an agent-building platform for business teams. That single difference drives everything else — pricing, features and who each tool suits.
With Lindy, you do not draw workflows. You ask it to do things — in Slack threads, by iMessage or on a schedule, like a morning brief or a Monday report. It records and summarizes meetings, drafts replies in your voice and manages inboxes across Gmail, Slack, Notion, HubSpot and 1,500+ other tools, per the Lindy homepage.
Gumloop’s pitch is that whoever understands a task can automate it. Your team builds agents that understand the company, work across its tools and can even operate a real browser on sites without an API. It is aimed at ops, sales and marketing teams that want agents without hiring engineers, per the Gumloop homepage.
How do Lindy and Gumloop compare side by side?
Here is the quick reference table, with every figure taken from the vendors’ pricing pages.
| Lindy | Gumloop | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per active user, with pooled credits | Credits (20k/month on Pro) plus an 8% orchestration fee |
| Entry price | $29.99 per active user/mo (3,000 credits) | $37/mo (Pro) |
| Free option | $50 in free credits for 7 days, no credit card | 14-day free trial of Pro |
| Self-hosting | No | No |
| Seats | Per active user | Unlimited seats on Pro |
| Standout feature | AI employee in Slack, email and meetings | Browser agents that work on any site, with or without an API |
| Best for | Founders and small teams wanting an assistant | Ops, marketing and sales teams building agents |
Sources: Lindy pricing, Gumloop pricing.
How much does Lindy cost compared to Gumloop?
Lindy starts cheaper for one person; Gumloop starts cheaper for a team. The right answer depends on how many people will use it.
Lindy’s Team plan starts at $29.99 per active user per month with 3,000 credits per user, pooled across the team, per Lindy’s pricing page. Top-ups cost $10 per 1,000 credits. Credits are pooled, admins can set per-seat allocations, and if the pool runs low Lindy pauses and tells you rather than continuing to spend. Lindy’s own credit guide groups tasks into 2–250, 250–1,000 and 1,000–2,500 credit bands, so a morning brief and a deep research task cost very different amounts.
Gumloop’s Pro plan starts at $37 per month with 20,000 credits, unlimited agents, unlimited seats and unlimited teams, plus an 8% orchestration fee, per Gumloop’s pricing page. The unlimited seats are unusual among agent builders that price per user.
An illustrative example: a 3-person founding team would pay from about $90 per month on Lindy (3 x $29.99) versus $37 per month on Gumloop — but they would get a ready-made assistant on Lindy and would need to build their own agents on Gumloop. A 15-person ops team would pay from about $450 per month on Lindy versus the same $37 base on Gumloop, making Gumloop far cheaper at scale before credit usage.
Which has the better free option, Lindy or Gumloop?
Lindy has the more generous free option for trying without commitment: $50 in free credits for 7 days with no credit card, per its pricing page. Gumloop offers a 14-day free trial of its Pro plan, but no permanent free plan is listed.
If you want to test an assistant on real inbox and meeting work this week without entering card details, Lindy is the easier starting point. If you want two weeks to build and stress-test agents with your team, Gumloop’s trial gives you longer.
Which is better for automating websites without an API?
Gumloop wins this scenario clearly. Its browser agents can sign in with saved logins, browse, click, type, upload and pull data from sites your team already uses — with or without an API. They hand off to a person when a site needs it and record every session, per the Gumloop homepage.
Lindy works through its 1,500+ integrations rather than operating a browser. If the tool you need to automate has a supported integration, Lindy is fine. If it is a niche web app with no API, Gumloop is the only one of the two built for that job.
An illustrative example: an agency that needs to pull numbers out of a client’s legacy portal every Friday would pick Gumloop. A founder who wants meeting notes summarized and follow-up emails drafted would pick Lindy.
Which is better as a Slack or email assistant?
Lindy wins this scenario clearly. It is designed to be talked to — in Slack threads, by iMessage or on a schedule — and it handles inbox, meeting, scheduling and reporting work directly.
Lindy says anything with outside impact — sending an email, updating a ticket, posting to a channel — waits for your approval, while read-only lookups do not. That approval model makes it practical to let an assistant loose on a real inbox. Gumloop can build agents that touch email and Slack, but you are building a workflow, not hiring an assistant.
What about security, compliance and enterprise plans?
Both tools offer custom Enterprise plans, and neither publishes enterprise pricing. Lindy’s Enterprise tier adds HIPAA with a signed BAA, SSO and SCIM, audit logs and dedicated support, per its pricing page. Lindy also lists SOC 2 and GDPR compliance and says your data is never used for training.
Gumloop’s Enterprise tier adds custom credits, connector policies and guardrails, SCIM/SAML support and dedicated Slack support, with discounts on its orchestration fee available, per its pricing page. Both products support MCP; Lindy also lets you choose the model per task, while Gumloop’s Pro plan includes 35+ models with bring-your-own API keys and MCP server hosting.
Can you self-host Lindy or Gumloop?
No. Neither Lindy nor Gumloop offers a self-hosted option. Both are hosted-only products.
If self-hosting is a hard requirement — for data residency or cost control — look at our picks for the best self-hosted AI agent builders, which include open-source tools like n8n and Flowise.
Who should choose Lindy?
Choose Lindy if you are a founder, executive or small team that wants an assistant, not a builder. It is strongest for inbox management, meeting notes, scheduling and Slack-centric work, and it is quick to get value from because there is nothing to draw or configure.
The trade-off is per-active-user pricing, which makes it a poor fit for high-volume back-office pipelines where costs would scale with seats. If that is your use case, compare Relevance AI vs Lindy or browse the AI assistants category.
Who should choose Gumloop?
Choose Gumloop if you are an ops, sales or marketing team that wants to build agents — especially agents that need to touch websites without APIs. Unlimited seats on the Pro plan make it cheaper than per-user tools as your team grows, and the ‘Company Brain’ plus 35+ models give builders room to customize.
The trade-offs: there is no permanent free plan, the 8% orchestration fee adds to running costs, and someone on your team has to build and maintain the agents. For more options in this style, see the workflow automation agents category or our list of the best no-code AI agent builders.
Bottom line
Lindy vs Gumloop is assistant versus builder. Pick Lindy if you want a conversational AI employee for inbox, meetings and scheduling at $29.99 per user per month; pick Gumloop if your team wants to build agents — especially browser agents — with unlimited seats from $37 per month. Neither self-hosts, and our hands-on testing notes for both are pending, so confirm current pricing on the vendors’ pages before you commit.