Lindy alternatives (2026)

Free to self-host and cheapest at scale; billed per full run, not per credit.

A flat $20/mo platform fee with unlimited runs (AI tokens metered separately) makes budgeting more predictable than Lindy's per-credit burn.

Built around multi-agent "teams" with a transparent dual meter.

Biggest free tier (5,000 credits/mo) and strong for data-heavy flows.

11x sells autonomous "digital workers" for go-to-market teams. Alice is an AI SDR that runs outbound prospecting end to end (lead research and enrichment from 50+ sources, ICP matching, and multi-channel sequencing across email, LinkedIn, SMS and phone), while Julian handles inbound voice and chat qualification.

Enterprise AI customer service platform branded "the AI concierge for every customer." It deploys AI agents across chat, email, and voice, configured with natural-language Agent Operating Procedures (AOPs) instead of code. Used by large brands like Notion, Duolingo, Eventbrite, and Rippling to deflect and fully resolve high support volume.

Enterprise "Agent OS" for customer experience. Sierra lets large brands build, optimize, personalize, and scale branded AI agents that resolve customer issues across chat, voice, SMS, WhatsApp, email and ChatGPT. Built by former Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor and former Google exec Clay Bavor.

Developer-first voice AI platform for building, testing, and deploying low-latency phone and voice agents. Vapi orchestrates speech-to-text, an LLM, and text-to-speech behind one API, handling telephony, turn-taking, interruptions, and tool calling so you wire in your own providers.

Retell AI is a developer-friendly AI voice agent platform for automating inbound and outbound phone calls. It bundles speech-to-text, a proprietary low-latency turn-taking model (~600ms), TTS, LLM orchestration, telephony, batch calling and post-call analytics into one usage-based stack you can run via a no-code dashboard or API.

Enterprise AI voice-agent platform that automates inbound and outbound phone calls 24/7 on Bland's own proprietary, vertically integrated stack (LLM, real-time STT, premium TTS/voice cloning, and telephony all in-house). Built for high-volume teams that need sub-second latency, full call observability, and SOC 2 / HIPAA / PCI compliance.

Enterprise-ready, no-code AI voice agent platform for automating inbound and outbound phone conversations at scale. Positions as an end-to-end Voice AI platform with in-house telephony, a visual flow designer, and 200+ integrations across CRM, calendar, and helpdesk tools.

Enterprise AI agent platform for customer service, pairing a multi-model AI engine with on-the-ground local deployment teams to run multilingual voice, chat, and email agents that resolve customer requests at human level across 30+ markets. Sales-led and deployment-heavy, it reports an 80% resolve rate handling tens of thousands of requests a day.

"The AI Front Office for Home Services," an always-on AI workforce for service businesses (HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and other trades) that answers every inbound call, text, and chat, qualifies urgency, checks technician availability, and books jobs straight into ServiceTitan or Housecall Pro 24/7. It also runs outbound re-engagement campaigns and scores CSR calls for coaching.

AI Customer Concierge built for complex, regulated companies like fintech and healthtech. Unlike basic deflection chatbots, Lorikeet resolves end-to-end support issues across chat, email, SMS, WhatsApp, and voice by following the same multi-step workflows and judgment your human agents use, taking actions like refunds, billing changes, and account updates.

JustCall is an AI-powered business phone and contact-center platform built for sales and support teams. It combines a cloud phone system (calls, SMS, voicemail) with AI voice agents that handle inbound and outbound calls, plus AI transcription, call coaching and scoring. It plugs into 100+ CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot to log and automate every conversation.

CloudTalk is a cloud business calling and AI call-center platform for sales and support teams. The core product is a per-seat phone system with call routing, recording and analytics, layered with usage-priced AI Voice Agents (receptionist and specialist) and AI conversation-intelligence add-ons. You build a calling stack with seats first, then bolt on AI minutes.

Botpress is a no-code AI agent and chatbot builder pairing a visual Studio with a code-first developer kit (ADK). It deploys agents to channels like WhatsApp, Messenger, Slack and web chat, and bundles the underlying LLM cost into a per-conversation price with no markup. Pricing is per conversation, billed in monthly packs once you exceed your plan allowance.

ElevenLabs is the leading AI voice platform, covering text-to-speech, voice cloning, dubbing, speech-to-text and a full Conversational AI / Agents stack for phone and chat. The core product is sold on monthly credit subscriptions, while voice agents are billed separately by the minute. It is the de facto standard for high-quality, low-latency multilingual voice in production apps.

Voiceflow is a no-code/low-code platform for designing, building, and deploying AI chat and voice agents on a visual canvas. It targets agencies and businesses that want to ship customer-facing assistants across web, voice, and messaging channels without writing code, while keeping control over LLM choice, knowledge bases, and tools. Pricing moved to a unified credit model (April 2025) where a monthly plan fee includes a credit allowance and usage is metered against it.

OpenAI's visual, drag-and-drop toolkit for building, deploying, and optimizing AI agents without standing up your own orchestration layer. It bundles Agent Builder (a node-based canvas for multi-agent workflows with guardrails), ChatKit (embeddable chat UI), Connector Registry (managed data connectors), and Evals. There is no separate product fee: you build for free and pay only standard OpenAI API usage when your agents actually run.

Stack AI is a no-code, drag-and-drop platform for building enterprise AI agents and workflows that connect LLMs to internal data sources, documents, and apps. It leans hard on governance: on-prem/VPC deployment, SSO, access control, and SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance. It targets regulated teams (finance, healthcare, legal) that need agents without writing code.

Cartesia is a real-time voice AI platform built around its low-latency Sonic text-to-speech and Ink speech-to-text models, plus Line voice agents for building phone and conversational experiences. It is aimed at developers who need fast, natural-sounding speech at scale via API. Billing is credit-based for TTS/STT and per-minute for voice agent calls.

Regal is an enterprise AI voice agent platform built by contact center operators for CX and sales teams running phone, SMS, and chat at scale. It handles both inbound (support, bookings, reminders) and outbound (lead qualification, collections, sales dialing) with multi-channel journey orchestration, real-time analytics, and forward-deployed engineering support. Pricing is fully quote-based and aimed at large operations rather than self-serve buyers.

Dify is an open-source platform for building LLM apps, agentic workflows and RAG pipelines through a visual canvas, with a hosted cloud tier and a free self-hostable Community Edition. It blends a no-code/low-code builder with backend-as-a-service APIs, native MCP (client and server), and integration with hundreds of model providers, so teams can ship chatbots, agents and workflows without wiring infrastructure from scratch.

Taskade is an all-in-one AI productivity workspace (tasks, docs, mind maps, chat) that doubles as a no-code builder for custom AI agents and automations. You assemble agents, deployable apps, and multi-step automations against your project data, and the platform bills on a tiered plan that bundles a fixed monthly allotment of "AI credits" consumed by agent and automation runs across 15+ models (GPT, Claude, Gemini).

Text.com is the parent company behind LiveChat (agent-driven live chat helpdesk) and ChatBot (a no-code visual bot builder), now converged into one per-seat support suite. ChatBot lets non-developers build automated chat flows with a drag-and-drop builder plus an AI Agent trained on your content, while LiveChat handles human agent handoff, visitor tracking, and proactive campaigns. Both bill per agent seat and bundle a small monthly allotment of AI resolutions, charging per-resolution overages beyond it.

Phonely (YC S24) is a no-code voice AI platform for building humanlike AI phone agents that answer calls, route them, book appointments, run outbound campaigns and handle SMS. It is sold as a usage-based "AI call center": you build an agent in the dashboard, connect it to your CRM/calendar via Zapier-style workflows, and pay for AI talk-time by the minute rather than per seat or per agent.

Goodcall is a no-code AI phone agent and virtual receptionist aimed at small and local service businesses.

Deepgram is a developer-first voice AI platform offering speech-to-text (Nova-3, Flux), text-to-speech (Aura), and a Voice Agent API behind a single usage-based API. It competes on low latency (sub-250ms), high transcription accuracy, and aggressive per-minute pricing, and is built for engineers wiring real-time and batch audio into their own products rather than for non-technical buyers.

Cognigy (now NiCE Cognigy after NiCE's 2025 acquisition) is an enterprise-grade agentic AI platform for customer service, combining a visual low-code AI Agent Studio, a built-in Voice Gateway for AI phone agents, and Knowledge AI (RAG). It is sold contract-only to large contact centers and is deeply integrated with major CCaaS stacks (NiCE CXone, Genesys, Amazon Connect, Avaya, Microsoft, 8x8). Pricing is usage-based under the hood (billable conversations, concurrent voice lines, knowledge queries) but always wrapped in a custom annual enterprise contract.

v0 is Vercel's AI-powered, prompt-to-app builder that turns natural-language prompts (and design images) into working React/Next.js + Tailwind UIs and full-stack apps. It blends a no-code chat canvas with one-click Vercel deployment and GitHub sync, but bills on token-metered credits rather than seats alone, so it sits between a no-code builder and a real coding tool.

Bubble is a full-stack visual no-code platform for building production web and mobile apps without writing code, covering UI, database, and backend workflows. It moved to a workload-based pricing model: plans bundle a monthly allowance of "workload units" (WU) that meter every backend operation, and usage beyond the allowance is billed as overage. It is a builder for finished apps, not an AI agent platform; AI capabilities exist via plugins and its API connector.

CustomGPT.ai is a no-code platform for turning your own content (1,400+ file types plus connectors like Google Drive, SharePoint, Notion, Zendesk and HubSpot) into custom RAG chatbots/agents you can embed, share, or call via API. It targets businesses that want an accurate, hallucination-resistant support or knowledge agent without engineering, and bills on a per-query model rather than per-seat.

Softr is a no-code platform for building client portals, internal tools, and web apps on top of a database (its own Softr Database, Airtable, Google Sheets, or external REST APIs). It targets non-developers who assemble apps from pre-built blocks with permissions, user groups, and payments, rather than writing code or wiring a backend. Increasingly AI-forward: it ships an AI app builder and a hosted MCP server that lets AI tools read/write Softr data.

Glide is a no-code platform that turns spreadsheets and databases (Glide Tables, Google Sheets, Airtable, Excel, SQL) into custom mobile and web business apps. It has pivoted hard toward AI: the Glide Agent can generate a working app from a prompt, and you can embed AI actions (extract data, draft emails, transform text/audio/images) into app workflows. Pricing is a flat monthly plan plus usage-based "updates," where most data writes to external sources and API/workflow actions are metered.

As of mid-2026 vellum.ai hosts "Vellum: Your Personal Intelligence" — an open-source (MIT) personal AI assistant marketed as an "AI chief of staff for high-agency individuals." It lives in Vellum Cloud (or self-hosted), has its own identity/email, a persistent multi-type memory layer, and acts in the world: triages email, manages calendar, posts to Slack/X, updates Linear, makes real phone calls, runs web search, and even vibe-codes small web apps. Capabilities extend via installable "skills" (a catalog at skills.sh incl. Gmail, Slack, DoorDash, Amazon) and via user-added MCP servers (Linear, GitHub, Notion, etc.). NOTE: this is NOT the older Vellum LLMOps/prompt-engineering-and-workflows developer platform that previously occupied this domain; that product appears to have been replaced/repositioned, so any "Pro $500/mo, prompt/workflow execution limits" pricing you find for "Vellum" is stale.