The best Lindy alternatives for a small business (2026)

Which part of Lindy's job do you need to replace?

Replace a defined workflow, then decide whether the replacement needs to reach several existing tools. An inbox assistant, an automatic task scheduler and an AI that answers from company documents solve different problems; none automatically replaces every Lindy workflow.

Lindy describes an AI employee that clears inboxes, prepares meetings, updates CRM records, writes reports and makes phone calls. Its own product summary lists more than 1,500 integrations plus MCP, checked 7 November 2026. That breadth is a reason to keep it when the business deliberately runs across several established systems.

Write down a concrete request before evaluating alternatives. “Prepare tomorrow's client call from email and tasks” has a narrower scope than “qualify leads by phone, update our CRM and report in Slack.” Choose a replacement on the evidence that it completes the particular job you need.

For a shortlist focused on the inbox, see Fyxer alternatives.

How do the alternatives compare on monthly cost and scope?

Lindy's observed US Team offers include 3,000 credits at $29.99 or 5,000 credits at $49.99 per active user monthly. Eligibility and duration are unknown; neither is a universal starting price. Compare that with the price of the relevant workflow, and include the tools you will continue paying for underneath the assistant.

Tool and plan	Monthly price	Main reason to shortlist it
Lindy Team	Observed US offers: 3,000 credits at $29.99 or 5,000 at $49.99 per active user; eligibility and duration unknown	Work across connected tools with a pooled credit allowance
Fyxer Pro	$49 per person	Email sorting, drafts, meeting recording and follow-ups
Motion Pro AI	$29 per seat	Automatic task scheduling with projects and documents
Notion Business	$24 per member	A document and database workspace with Notion Agent
Shortwave Business	$30 per seat	Gmail AI search, writing, filters and tool connections
Mojobase	$39 for the first person; $25 each after	One business home with an included AI allowance

Monthly prices checked 7 November 2026: Lindy, Fyxer, Motion, Notion and Shortwave.

Mojobase costs $139 a month for five people, including Email, Team chat, Calendar, Documents, Tasks, Customers, Numbers and the Handbook. Founding pricing for the first 10 companies is $29 for the first person and $19 for each after, for life. Numbers reads Shopify, Amazon and ad platforms; it does not make Mojobase a general replacement for every connected system.

How should you budget for credits and recurring jobs?

Budget from representative work, because an AI credit allowance does not guarantee a fixed number of tasks. Lindy's listed ranges vary from 2–250 credits for everyday asks to 1,000–2,500 for big builds.

Lindy pools seat credits, pauses credit-using actions when the pool runs low and lets admins allocate credits per seat. Monthly credits do not roll over; purchased top-ups remain until used. Those rules and the $10 per 1,000-credit top-up price are on Lindy's pricing page, checked 7 November 2026.

• Use a normal inbox day and a busy inbox day when estimating recurring work.
• Include the expensive report or research job that runs less often but still matters.
• Check what the team sees when usage stops, and who owns the next action.
• Count the time someone spends reviewing results and repairing incomplete work.
• Separate a seat you need for access from the amount of AI work that person generates.

The same discipline applies to any metered assistant. A low starting price is useful only when the allowance and review effort match the workflow you repeat.

The small-business AI tools guide helps separate the assistant from the software it uses.

What does Mojobase do instead of connecting an assistant to every tool?

Mojobase puts the underlying business work together, then gives the AI permission-scoped tools over it. The benefit is shared context: a customer message, the relevant policy, the document being discussed and the task due next can be read together.

Ask in Quick actions (⌘K), “What needs a reply today, and what work are those customers waiting for?” Email supplies the conversations, Tasks supplies the work and the Handbook supplies the business rules. The AI drafts and suggests from those sources. Before a meeting, Calendar prepares a brief; afterward, supplied notes become a summary, proposed tasks and a follow-up draft.

Choose ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Hermes or your own setup, with an included allowance or your own API key. Scheduled Morning sweep and Friday review runs produce drafts and suggestions. Other changes follow each app's Suggest or Auto controls and appear in Activity with Undo. One MCP connection gives an outside agent the same app access as its person.

Mojobase is built for 1 to 25 people, and it works well for teams up to 100. It has no phone or SMS channel, and Calendar has no native recording or video calls. Private time blocks and planning suggestions do not amount to Motion's automatic replanning. Keep those requirements explicit when deciding what can move.

What does an MCP connection actually replace?

An MCP client uses another system's tools; an MCP server exposes tools for an assistant to use. The direction matters when the goal is to keep your preferred agent and change where business information lives.

Lindy's pricing page describes MCP support for connecting tools. Shortwave's MCP documentation describes its email assistant calling external servers, including a limit of 40 tools at once. Neither statement establishes an outside agent's access to the assistant itself. Both sources were checked 7 November 2026.

Notion's MCP server, checked the same day, lets outside assistants read and write pages with the user's permissions. Mojobase's server covers Email, Calendar, Documents, Tasks and the Handbook. Choose based on the records and actions the agent actually needs, rather than the presence of an MCP badge.

How do you migrate a Lindy workflow safely?

Migrate the workflow as a sequence of inputs, decisions and outputs. An integration connection alone does not preserve the prompt, approval rule or exception that made a recurring job dependable.

1. Inventory each routine, its schedule, connected accounts, prompt, business context and expected result.
2. Mark anything with outside impact: a message, a ticket update, a post or a published page. Lindy lists approval for these actions on its pricing page, checked 7 November 2026; make the destination's approval behavior explicit too.
3. Keep workflows that require an unsupported integration or phone channel in Lindy while moving a narrower job first.
4. Recreate the business rules in the destination. In Mojobase, start with the Handbook business profile and connect the relevant mailbox.
5. Compare outputs on the same examples, including a missing fact, conflicting instructions and a task that should wait for a person.
6. Turn off the old recurring job before the replacement starts writing, then review the first results for duplicates and omissions.

Keep Lindy when its integration breadth is the reason the workflow works. Use the alternatives directory to compare a specialist for the job, or read Mojobase vs Lindy when the decision is whether to bring the business work into one place.