# Lindy is now an AI teammate your whole team shares. How is it different from Maito? And what does it cost a team of ten? Source: https://maito.app/blog/maito-vs-lindy Date: 2026-10-14 Author: Dmitry Dubovetzky Facts checked: 2026-10-20 Maito vs Lindy: Lindy is a shared Slack teammate plus a personal inbox, calendar, and meeting assistant for each user, billed per active user. Maito is one AI teammate for the whole company that does business work and changes to your product, for $149 per workspace per month plus your AI provider's usage. Features, security, setup, reviews, and price compared. ## Which is better, Maito or Lindy? **Maito is the better pick if many people ask now and then and customer issues should end in a merged fix. Lindy is the better pick if the work is mostly each person's email, calendar, and meetings, or if you need a SOC 2 report today.** | | Best pick | | --------------------------------------------- | --------- | | The whole company asks for work in Slack | Maito | | Customer bugs should end in a pull request | Maito | | One price no matter how many people ask | Maito | | A personal assistant for each inbox and diary | Lindy | | Meeting notes and booking for each person | Lindy | | SOC 2 Type II or a HIPAA agreement | Lindy | Lindy is a Slack teammate for the team and a personal assistant for each person, billed for every active user. Maito is one AI teammate for the whole company, billed once for the workspace. As of October 2026, Lindy charges $49.99 per active user; Maito charges $149 for the workspace with unlimited people. This guide is for a ten-person customer team whose calls often turn into product fixes. We rechecked every Lindy fact against its own docs and pricing page in October 2026. ## What is Lindy? **Lindy is an AI teammate in shared Slack channels and a personal assistant in each person's Slack DMs, email, calendar, meetings, and iMessage.** Each person connects their own Google or Microsoft email and calendar, phone, and Slack identity. Lindy drafts and sends email, books meetings, takes meeting notes, and builds reports and decks, with more than 1,500 integrations and MCP support. Lindy Build, a separate feature, creates new web apps and dashboards from a prompt. [Lindy setup](https://docs.lindy.ai/teammate/setup), [Lindy pricing](https://www.lindy.ai/pricing), [Lindy Build](https://www.lindy.ai/blog/lindy-build). Where Lindy is strong: - A personal assistant for each person's inbox, calendar, and meetings, reachable by text message - Meeting notes, calendar booking, and routines that start when a person's meeting ends - SOC 2 Type II, plus a HIPAA agreement, SSO, and SCIM on Enterprise ## And what is Maito? **Maito is an AI teammate your company names and shares in Slack, by email, and in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Grok, and Muse, for business work and changes to your product.** Nobody needs a seat or a linked account to ask it for something in an invited channel. It does research, reports, and follow-ups through your connected tools. It also builds features, fixes bugs, refactors, reviews, runs QA, and writes tests, each in its own sandbox with your checks and a pull request. It runs on a dedicated cloud computer for your workspace and uses the AI provider you connect. [AI teammate](/product/ai-teammate), [Maito FAQ](/faq). ## How do Maito and Lindy compare at a glance? **Maito and Lindy are both shared AI teammates with memory, skills, approvals, and scheduled work. Lindy goes further into each person's email, calendar, and meetings. Maito goes further into your product and charges per workspace instead of per user.** | | Maito | Lindy | | ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------- | | Where you use it | Slack, email, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Grok, and Muse | Slack, email, iMessage, meetings, Chrome | | Who can ask | Anyone in an invited channel, no seat | Each person who mentions Lindy takes a seat | | Shared channels | Yes: Every workspace connection in shared threads | Partly: Web search, images, Slack search, and Notion | | Business tasks | Yes: Research, reports, follow-ups, connected tools | Yes: Email, meetings, calendars, decks | | Code changes | Yes: Your repository, sandbox, checks, QA, pull request | Partly: New apps and dashboards with Lindy Build | | Company knowledge | Yes: Learns from shared work; anyone can correct it | Yes: Versioned team files that admins edit | | Recurring work | Yes: Schedule, Slack, email, or a webhook from any system | Yes: Routines on schedules, emails, and meetings | | Integrations | Built-in catalog plus any MCP server | 1,500+ apps, plus MCP | | Security | Encrypted credentials, audit logs, your AI provider | Yes: SOC 2 Type II; HIPAA, SSO, SCIM on Enterprise | | Setup | Minutes; people in the channel can ask right away | Each person links Slack, email, calendar, phone | | Usage limits | Your provider's limits; $20 cloud credits included | 5,000 credits per seat; work pauses at zero | | Price | $149 per workspace, unlimited people | $49.99 per active user | Sources: Maito [FAQ](/faq) and [pricing](/pricing). Lindy [setup](https://docs.lindy.ai/teammate/setup), [memory](https://docs.lindy.ai/teammate/memory), [routines](https://docs.lindy.ai/teammate/routines), [security](https://www.lindy.ai/security), and [pricing](https://www.lindy.ai/pricing). ## Can the whole team work with Maito and Lindy in the same thread? **Yes, but Lindy limits what it can do in shared channels. In a shared Slack channel, Lindy uses only web search, image generation, public Slack search, and Notion. Maito uses every tool connected for the workspace in shared threads, and nobody needs a seat to join.** Lindy keeps each person's connections personal, and owners or admins can share some with the workspace. Its full toolset works in your DMs and your own threads. Anyone who mentions Lindy in Slack takes a paid seat after a seven-day trial. [Lindy setup](https://docs.lindy.ai/teammate/setup), [Lindy pricing](https://www.lindy.ai/pricing). With Maito, support asks, an engineer adds a log line, and a product manager picks it up the next morning, all in the same thread with the same tools. Personal connections stay in their owner's private chats. [Team collaboration](/product/team-collaboration). **Winner: Maito.** Shared threads get every workspace tool, and adding a person costs nothing. ## What do Maito and Lindy do with a business task? **Maito and Lindy both do business tasks from Slack with your connected tools. Lindy is built around each person's own email, calendar, and meetings. Maito is built around the work the company shares.** _Illustrative conversation:_ > **Nadia:** @Maito our agency partners get a quarterly summary of the leads they referred. Can you build this quarter's from HubSpot and send each partner theirs? > > **Maito:** 12 partners referred 148 leads; 31 became customers. Each summary lists their leads, stage, and closed revenue. > Drafts are ready in the partnerships inbox. Two partners have no closed deals yet, so I added a line offering a pipeline review. Lindy handles the same kind of work from a person's DMs, where their own inbox and CRM connections are available. Meeting notes and calendar booking come built in. **Winner: Lindy for one person's inbox, calendar, and meetings. Maito for work several people ask for and follow.** ## And what do Maito and Lindy do when a customer reports a bug? **Maito takes a bug in your existing product from the customer's report through a reproduction, a fix with tests, QA, a pull request, and the reply. Lindy Build creates new apps and dashboards rather than changing the product you already ship.** _Illustrative conversation:_ > **Pablo:** @Maito a customer's team members stopped getting the daily digest email after they turned on SSO. Ticket #4410. > > **Maito:** Reproduced. SSO users have no confirmed-email flag, and the digest job skips unconfirmed addresses. > PR #702 treats SSO-verified emails as confirmed and adds a test. Checks pass. > Reply to the customer is drafted below. Tomorrow's digest will reach their 46 SSO users once it merges. Maito connects to your repository, works in its own sandbox and branch, runs your configured checks, and returns a pull request for your team to review. [Bug fixes for support teams](/use-cases/support). **Winner: Maito.** It changes the code your customers use and closes the loop with them. ## Do Maito and Lindy both remember your company? **Yes. Lindy keeps versioned memory files: private personal files and team files that only owners and admins can edit. Maito learns company facts from shared threads on its own, and anyone can ask it to remember, correct, or forget something.** Every save of a Lindy file is a version you can restore, and team skills live in the same files. [Lindy memory](https://docs.lindy.ai/teammate/memory). Maito picks up facts from shared work as it happens, such as a pricing rule or how a feature behaves, and saves good results as skills anyone can reuse. Private conversations and DMs stay private. [Company knowledge](/product/company-knowledge), [Skills](/product/skills). **Winner: Maito.** It keeps learning without someone maintaining files. Lindy suits teams that want an admin to approve every rule. ## Can Maito and Lindy run work every week? **Yes. Maito starts work from a schedule, a Slack message, an email to its workspace address, or a webhook from any system you use. Lindy routines run on a schedule or when an email, Slack message, calendar event, or meeting comes in.** A Maito Loop's webhook lets a CRM, an error tracker, a form, or a deploy start a run, and anyone on the team can pause or change it. Results go back to the Slack thread, an email, or a channel. Loops cover the Monday update, a morning check of new production errors, or a weekly summary of customer feedback. [Maito FAQ](/faq). Lindy's triggers come built in for each person's own inbox and calendar, such as a meeting that just ended. Anyone can create a personal routine, but only workspace admins create routines for the whole team. [Lindy routines](https://docs.lindy.ai/teammate/routines). **Winner: Maito.** Any system that can send a webhook can start the work, and the whole team can set it up. ## Which connects to more tools, Maito or Lindy? **As of October 2026, Lindy lists more than 1,500 integrations plus MCP. Maito has a built-in catalog and connects to any MCP server, with shared and personal connections kept apart.** Maito's connections accept OAuth, API keys, service accounts, and custom headers, and credentials stay encrypted in Vault. [Lindy pricing](https://www.lindy.ai/pricing), [Maito FAQ](/faq). **Winner: Lindy** on catalog size. Check that the tools you need are available in shared channels, not only in DMs. ## Is Lindy or Maito more secure? **As of October 2026, Lindy is SOC 2 Type II certified and offers a HIPAA agreement, SSO, and SCIM on its Enterprise plan. Maito keeps credentials encrypted, records an audit log of agent actions, and sends model requests to your own AI provider account.** Lindy encrypts data in transit and at rest and does not train models on customer data. [Lindy security](https://www.lindy.ai/security), [Lindy pricing](https://www.lindy.ai/pricing). Each Maito workspace runs on its own cloud computer. Admins can review and export logs of what the agent did, and set how long they are kept. Model usage runs on the provider account you connect, under that account's data terms. Supervised mode makes the agent ask before commands and file changes. [Maito FAQ](/faq). **Winner: Lindy**, for teams that need a SOC 2 report or a HIPAA agreement before buying. ## How long do Maito and Lindy take to set up? **Maito takes minutes: create a workspace, name the agent, connect your AI provider, and connect Slack. Lindy needs a paid Slack plan for new installs, and each person links their own Slack identity, email, calendar, and phone.** In Lindy, an admin invites colleagues, and each person accepts and connects their accounts before getting full use. [Lindy setup](https://docs.lindy.ai/teammate/setup). In Maito, anyone in a channel with the agent can ask right away. Repositories, AI assistants, and other tools can be added later, or as part of the optional $2,999 assisted setup. [Maito FAQ](/faq). **Winner: Maito**, for getting a whole team using it on day one. ## What do Maito and Lindy cost? **As of October 2026, Maito costs $149 per month for the workspace with unlimited people, plus your AI provider's usage. Lindy costs $49.99 per month for each active user, with 5,000 credits per seat pooled across the team.** | | Maito | Lindy | | ------------- | ------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------ | | Billing unit | Workspace, unlimited people | Each active user | | Monthly price | $149 | $49.99 per user, larger credit bundles available | | Included | $20 cloud credits for sandboxes and search | 5,000 credits per seat, pooled | | Model usage | Billed by your AI provider | Included in credits | | More usage | Buy more cloud credits; they don't expire | $10 per 1,000 credits | | Trying it | No: No free plan | Yes: $50 in credits for seven days | | Enterprise | Optional $2,999 assisted setup | Custom pricing, SSO, SCIM, HIPAA, audit logs | A Lindy task uses 2 to 2,500 credits depending on size, and monthly credits don't roll over. [Lindy pricing](https://www.lindy.ai/pricing), [Maito pricing](/pricing). ## What would ten people pay for a month of Maito or Lindy? **As of October 2026, ten active people cost $499.90 a month on Lindy, with 50,000 pooled credits. Maito costs $149 for the same ten people, plus your AI provider's usage.** **Maito: $149 per month + provider usage** - Ten people or a hundred, the price stays the same - $20 in cloud credits for coding sandboxes and web search - Your AI provider bills model usage on your account **Lindy: $499.90 per month for ten active users** - 10 × $49.99, each seat adding 5,000 credits to the pool - Big jobs use up to 2,500 credits each - Top-ups at $10 per 1,000 credits once the pool runs out Maito's bill grows with how much work you ask for, not with who asks. Lindy's grows with every person who mentions it and with heavy months that drain the pool. Both figures are monthly, before tax. ## What do Lindy users say in reviews? **As of October 2026, Lindy rates 4.9 out of 5 on G2 from about 170 reviews and 1.7 out of 5 on Trustpilot from 40 reviews.** G2 reviewers most often praise how easy Lindy is to set up and its automation. Trustpilot reviewers mostly complain that credit use is hard to predict, about charges after cancelling, and about slow support. [Lindy on G2](https://www.g2.com/products/lindy-lindy/reviews), [Lindy on Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/lindy.ai). ## When is Lindy the better choice? **Lindy is the better choice when each person wants their own assistant for email, calendar, and meetings, and nobody needs changes to the product.** It also fits when each person wants meeting notes and calendar booking built in, when people want to reach the assistant by text message, or when security review requires SOC 2 Type II or a HIPAA agreement. ## Can a team use Maito and Lindy together? **Yes. People who want a personal inbox and meeting assistant keep Lindy, and the whole company shares Maito for business work and product fixes.** Keep Lindy seats for the people who use it daily, and let everyone else ask Maito in the team's channels. The two don't overlap much: Lindy works from each person's accounts, and Maito works from the company's shared tools and repositories. ## What moves over when a team goes from Lindy to Maito? **Lindy's team memory files, skills, and routine prompts carry over as text. Inbox and calendar connections are reconnected.** Paste Lindy's team files into a Maito thread and ask it to propose company memories; you confirm each before it becomes shared knowledge. Keep personal files with their owners, because personal memory stays personal in Maito too. [Company knowledge](/product/company-knowledge). Each Lindy routine becomes a Maito Loop: describe the trigger, the prompt, and where the result goes, and Maito saves it. Run each Loop once by hand and turn the matching Lindy routine off before the first scheduled run, so nobody gets the same email twice. ## So should you choose Maito or Lindy? **Choose Maito for one AI teammate the whole company shares, for business work and changes to your product, at one workspace price. Choose Lindy if your team's work is mostly inboxes, calendars, and meetings.** **Choose Maito if:** - Many people ask occasionally, and seats would add up - Customer issues should end in a tested pull request - Shared channels need your workspace's full set of tools - Your team works in Slack, email, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Grok, or Muse - You want to choose the AI provider and see its bill **Choose Lindy if:** - Your work is mostly email, meetings, and calendars - Each person wants a personal assistant, including by text message - Your security review requires SOC 2 Type II or HIPAA Give each one a week of your team's real requests. Count who asked, what got finished, and what the month would cost. ## Maito vs Lindy: frequently asked questions ### Is Lindy free? As of October 2026, Lindy gives new accounts $50 in credits for seven days without a credit card. After that, each active user costs $49.99 a month. [Lindy pricing](https://www.lindy.ai/pricing). ### Does Maito have a free plan? No. Maito costs $149 per workspace per month with unlimited people and $20 in included cloud credits, and your AI provider bills model usage separately. [Maito pricing](/pricing). ### Who counts as a Lindy seat? Anyone who signs up, joins the workspace, or mentions Lindy in Slack takes a seat. People who join from Slack get one seven-day trial first, and removed seats stay billed until the cycle ends. [Lindy pricing](https://www.lindy.ai/pricing). ### Can Lindy fix bugs in my product? Lindy Build creates new web apps, dashboards, and websites from a prompt. Maito works in your existing repository and returns a tested pull request for each fix. [Lindy Build](https://www.lindy.ai/blog/lindy-build), [Maito FAQ](/faq). ### Is Lindy SOC 2 compliant? Yes. Lindy is SOC 2 Type II certified, and its Enterprise plan adds a HIPAA agreement, SSO, SCIM, and audit logs. [Lindy security](https://www.lindy.ai/security). ### Which AI models does Maito use? The ones you connect. Maito works with OpenAI, Anthropic, GitHub Copilot, xAI, OpenRouter, Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and many more providers, and you can choose a different model for coding tasks. [Maito FAQ](/faq).