Pick Lindy if
you like building your own flows, want credits pooled across a team, and need to plug into a long list of tools.
Minion Fleet vs Lindy. Which fits a small business?
Both ask before anything leaves your accounts. They differ on who does the building: you, or a minion that already knows the job.
The short answer.
Pick Minion Fleet if
you don’t want to build anything: you ask for the job in your own words, a named minion runs it every week, and you approve what goes out.
| Side by side | Minion Fleet | Lindy |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | Named minions led by your lead minion. You ask for a job, not a tool: late invoices chased, your inbox sorted, a Monday brief on competitors, your week planned. | One “AI employee” you set up per job, with 40+ built-in skills and ones you teach it. Their site lists roles from paid ads to bookkeeping, and 1,500+ integrations plus MCP. |
| How it runs | Ask once in your own words. Say “every Monday” and it becomes a Routine that runs every week inside the apps you already use, with what each run cost. | Routines on a schedule (“A morning brief, a Monday report, a Friday nudge, whatever you set”; their examples include daily briefs and a Friday marketing report), @mentions in Slack, and simple internal tools it builds for you. |
| What it asks before sending | Nothing sends, pays, posts or deletes without your yes, checked on our server for every app action. You see the exact draft first, and you can undo an approval for a few seconds after. | Their FAQ: “Anything with outside impact waits for approval such as sending an email, updating a ticket, posting to another channel, publishing a doc.” Read-only lookups don’t ask. |
| Price | Starter $19 includes $7 of usage, Pro $49 includes $20 of usage, Max $129 includes $95 of usage, all a month. More usage at cost, under a spending limit you set. | Free, then Team, billed per user and priced by the monthly credits you pick: $49.99 a user a month buys 5,000 credits, up to 1,750,000 credits at $9,999.50. Top-ups are $10 per 1,000. Enterprise is custom. |
| Free option | The first 100 sign-ups get $5 of usage free, no card. After that, every plan is monthly, from $19. | A free plan with $50 of credits that last 7 days, no card required. |
| Who it’s for | Solo business owners, freelancers and creators who want the work done inside Gmail, Stripe, QuickBooks or their calendar, with no prompts to learn. US only for now. | Teams: “Anyone who uses Lindy takes a seat.” Their roles run from paid ads and client reporting to HR and recruiting. |
Where we differ.
Not a feature count. Three things about how a minion works that you can check on this site.
- Approval you can see per app, not per flow.
- Lindy waits for approval on anything with outside impact, and so do we. The difference is where the rule lives: on Minion Fleet each app’s actions are Allowed, Ask first or Off for your whole fleet, set once, checked on our server for every action. Money, messages to other people, deleting and posting always ask, whatever a minion read on the way.
- You describe the job; you don’t build it.
- Lindy gives you a capable employee and skills to teach it. On Minion Fleet you say the job in your own words and your lead minion sets it up: which minion does what, the weekly routine, the asks before anything sends.
- Dollars per job, not credits.
- Lindy’s Team plan is priced by the credits each user takes. Our Starter plan includes $7 of usage; planning your week is about $0.02 a run, and the receipt says so.
Usage this month
$2.84 used of $7 included this month
- Monday’s invoice reminders$0.08
- Competitor brief, three rivals$0.30
- Your week, planned$0.02
Questions, answered.
Is Minion Fleet cheaper than Lindy?
Lindy’s Team plan is billed per user: $49.99 a user a month buys 5,000 credits, and every active user is billed. Our Starter is $19 a month for the whole account, with $7 of usage included. Lindy’s free week is a real saving if you only need a few days. We include usage in dollars rather than credits, so you see what each job cost.
Does Lindy ask before sending email?
Yes. Their FAQ says anything with outside impact, including sending an email, waits for approval. Minion Fleet asks too, and shows you the exact draft; the rule is set per app for your whole fleet and checked on our server.
Lindy vs Minion Fleet: which needs less setup?
Minion Fleet. You say the job in your own words and your lead minion sets it up. Lindy is built for people who want to set up their own flows, teach skills and connect many tools.
Does Minion Fleet have a free plan like Lindy?
Not a plan, but the first 100 sign-ups get $5 of usage free, no card. Lindy gives you $50 of credits for seven days with no card. After that, our plans are monthly, from $19, and every job shows what it cost.
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