Key takeaways
- Decide first whether you want an agent that acts alone or an assistant whose work you approve.
- General assistants, email clients and outbound agents each replace a different part of Lindy.
- Check where records live after the agent has done its work.
- Pebbles Ai combines email, leads, a CRM and assistants, and its web app starts in Manual mode.
Why do teams look for Lindy alternatives
Teams look for Lindy alternatives when their use settles on one kind of work and they want a tool built more closely around it. Lindy describes itself as an AI employee that plugs into your tools; it manages the inbox and calendar, takes meeting notes and runs repetitive tasks, priced in credits.
A team that mostly uses it for email may want a dedicated email client. A sales team may want agents focused only on outbound, or a workspace where the agent's work lands in customer records and draws on shared company knowledge. A team that prefers seats to credits may want a different pricing structure. These are differences of fit, not of quality.
What should you check in a Lindy alternative
Check how much the tool does without you, which channels it covers and where its results are kept. These three answers separate the alternatives more than any feature list.
Consider an illustrative three-person consultancy that uses Lindy to sort its inbox and draft replies, and now wants to find new clients as well. It needs replies in its own voice, a way to find the right people at target firms, and somewhere to track each conversation. An alternative that covers only one of those leaves the other two in separate tools.
- Autonomy: does it draft for you, send for you, or let you choose per action?
- Channels: email only, or also LinkedIn, messaging apps, calendar and phone?
- Records: do contacts, deals and notes live in the tool, in your CRM or nowhere?
- Context: is your company knowledge and brand voice set up once and reused?
- Pricing unit: credits, seats or a sales-led contract.
How do the main Lindy alternatives compare
The main alternatives cover different parts of what Lindy does, from general chat to fully autonomous sales agents. The notes below describe each product from its own pages.
- ChatGPT: a general assistant with projects, memory and apps that connect to services such as Google Drive or Slack, from a free plan to enterprise workspaces.
- Claude: a general assistant for writing, analysis and coding, with projects, memory and connectors to apps such as Gmail, Slack and Google Calendar.
- Superhuman: an email client for teams on Gmail or Outlook, with Auto Drafts, Auto Reminders and Split Inbox.
- 11x: AI sales agents, Alice for outbound across email and social and Julian for inbound voice and chat, sold through a demo.
- Artisan: an AI SDR whose agent finds and enriches B2B leads and writes and sends personalised outreach, priced by credits.
- Regie.ai: AI agents for prospecting plus a parallel dialler, for teams on HubSpot or Salesforce.
How does Pebbles Ai differ from Lindy
Pebbles Ai differs from Lindy by centring on go-to-market work: email, leads, customer records and company knowledge sit in one workspace with the assistants. Smartbox brings Gmail and Outlook into one place, with more than one inbox per provider, and Write with AI drafts or refines replies from the thread, the recipients and your brand voice.
Beyond the inbox, the assistants find leads at named companies and keep them in the CRM (labelled Beta), and Socialbox brings LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Instagram and Telegram chats into the same workspace. Lindy is stronger where you want meeting recording and notes, the 1,500+ integrations it lists or access through iMessage.
Do you want an agent that acts or an assistant you approve
Choose an agent that acts alone if speed matters more than reviewing each message, and an assistant you approve if every customer touch must sound right. Neither is wrong; the choice depends on your brand, your market and how much a poor message would cost you.
Pebbles Ai lets you choose the mode, and the web app remembers it per browser. It starts in Manual, where email sends, posts, CRM writes and other outside actions wait for your approval. Plan queues them, and Auto runs them without asking, except template send and calendar delete, which always ask.
Lindy alternatives at a glance
Who each option suits and whether it lists a free plan, taken from each product's own pages.
| Category | Best for | Free plan | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | General AI assistant | People and teams who want one general-purpose assistant for many kinds of work, from drafting to analysis, and are happy to supply their own company context and connect their own tools. | Yes |
| Claude | General AI assistant | People and teams who want a general-purpose assistant for writing, analysis and coding, and who will bring their own company context and connect their own apps. | Yes |
| Superhuman | AI email client | Professionals who live in Gmail or Outlook and want an email client with auto drafts and reminders. | See their site |
| 11x | AI sales agents | Teams that want to hand outbound or inbound handling to autonomous AI agents. | No |
| Artisan | AI SDR for outbound email | Teams that want an AI agent to prospect and send outbound email on their behalf. | Not stated |
| Regie.ai | AI sales prospecting agents | Sales teams wanting AI agents and dialling on top of their existing CRM. | Yes |
| Pebbles Ai | Go-to-market workspace with AI assistants | Teams that want inbox, leads, a CRM (labelled Beta) and assistants in one workspace, with the execution mode they choose. | No |
Free plans as each product's own pages listed them when checked on 2 November 2026; Not stated means we could not confirm one, and See their site means its free tier may not include the email client itself. Pebbles Ai has no free plan; Pro and Team start with a 1-month free trial.
The products compared
ChatGPT
General AI assistant
OpenAI's general AI assistant for writing, research and analysis, with projects, memory and apps that connect to outside services, sold from a free tier up to business and enterprise workspaces.
Best for: People and teams who want one general-purpose assistant for many kinds of work, from drafting to analysis, and are happy to supply their own company context and connect their own tools.
Pricing model: Free, Go, Plus and Pro for individuals; Business and Enterprise and Edu for organisations. Source: ChatGPT pricing
Claude
General AI assistant
Anthropic's general AI assistant for writing, research, analysis and coding, with projects, memory across conversations and connectors to apps such as Gmail and Slack, from a free plan to enterprise.
Best for: People and teams who want a general-purpose assistant for writing, analysis and coding, and who will bring their own company context and connect their own apps.
Pricing model: Free, Pro, Max and Ultra for individuals; Team and Enterprise for organisations, with Enterprise self-serve or sales-assisted. Source: Claude pricing
Superhuman
AI email client
An email client that works inside Gmail or Outlook, with AI drafting, follow-up reminders and Split Inbox, sold in a suite with Grammarly, Docs and Go; Mail starts on the Business plan.
Best for: Professionals who spend much of the day in Gmail or Outlook and want a dedicated client with AI drafting and reminders.
Pricing model: Free, Pro, Business and Enterprise; Pro and Business per member, Enterprise custom; Mail starts on Business. Source: Superhuman pricing
11x
AI sales agents
A company building AI sales agents: Alice for outbound across email and social, and Julian for inbound voice and chat, sold through a demo.
Best for: Teams that want to hand outbound or inbound handling to autonomous AI agents.
Pricing model: Sales-led; book a demo. Source: 11x pricing
Artisan
AI SDR for outbound email
An AI SDR product whose agent, Ava, finds and enriches B2B leads from a contact database Artisan sizes at 250M+ and writes and sends personalised outreach, priced by credits.
Best for: Teams that want an AI agent to prospect and send outbound email on their behalf.
Pricing model: Credit-based, scoped to lead volume, mailboxes and dialler seats. Source: Artisan pricing
Regie.ai
AI sales prospecting agents
An AI prospecting platform for research, enrichment, drafting and agents, with a parallel dialler and a HubSpot or Salesforce connection, plus a free plan.
Best for: Sales teams that want AI prospecting help and parallel dialling beside the HubSpot or Salesforce CRM they already use.
Pricing model: Free, Pro, Team (2-seat minimum) and Enterprise. Source: Regie.ai pricing
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Where Pebbles Ai fits
- CapabilitySmartboxSmartbox brings Gmail and Outlook mail into one place, and Write with AI drafts or refines replies from the thread, the recipients and your brand voice in Fast, Balanced or Comprehensive mode.
- CapabilityProspecting & customer recordsFind fresh leads at 1 to 10 named companies by role and location; they land as CRM contacts with a work email where one is found, a confidence score and a catch-all flag.
- CapabilityAI workspaceChoose Auto, Plan or Manual mode for the assistants. The web app starts in Manual, where actions that reach the outside world wait for your approval.
Common questions
Is there a free alternative to Lindy?
ChatGPT, Claude and Regie.ai each list a free plan on their own pages; check Superhuman's plans page for which tier includes its email client. 11x is sold through a demo, and we could not confirm a free plan for Artisan. Pebbles Ai has no free plan; Pro and Team start with a 1-month free trial.
Which Lindy alternative is closest for outbound sales?
11x and Artisan both build AI agents for outbound, and Artisan's agent writes and sends outreach itself. Regie.ai offers prospecting agents and a parallel dialler, with HubSpot and Salesforce CRM integrations.
Does Pebbles Ai send emails on its own?
Only if you choose Auto mode, where outside actions run without asking, except template send and calendar delete, which always ask. The web app starts in Manual, where sends wait for your approval.
What carries over if I leave Lindy for Pebbles Ai?
Your inbox and calendar stay where they are, so you reconnect Gmail or Outlook in Pebbles Ai. Contacts import into the CRM, labelled Beta, from Google, Microsoft or a CSV; Lindy automations do not carry over and are rebuilt as assistant tasks.
About this page. Written by the Pebbles Ai team for people who run sales, marketing and growth. Last updated .