Lindy vs N8n (2026)

Pick Lindy when you want to delegate work to an assistant in Slack and let it plan the steps, and n8n when you want to design the steps yourself and run them on your own servers. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.

Lindy is an AI teammate that gives each person a private assistant in Slack direct messages and the team a shared one in channels. It connects to more than a thousand tools plus any MCP server. It also joins Meet, Zoom and Teams calls to record and file them, and drives its own cloud computer when a tool has no API. n8n is a workflow automation platform where a builder lays out triggers, branches, loops and error handling on a canvas, with an AI Agent node for the steps that need reasoning. That difference runs deep. Lindy has no branching, conditions or flow editor at all, because the agent does its own planning, so a buyer trades control over the path for speed of delegation. By default Lindy holds anything with outside impact, such as sending an email or updating a ticket, for a named approver. Its memory sits in plain files the team can open and edit. n8n can be fully self hosted, air gapped included, and bills by workflow execution. Lindy runs as managed SaaS only and charges per seat, with every seat's credits pooled for the workspace. Neither one runs up a surprise bill. When Lindy's shared pool runs dry it pauses credit using actions until an admin tops up at $10 per 1,000 credits, and n8n Cloud's Starter and Pro plans pause workflows at their monthly execution cap. For regulated teams, Lindy signs a HIPAA business associate agreement on Enterprise, while n8n's answer is to run inside the customer's own servers.

This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Lindy and N8n are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 1,061 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded