🔁 Workflow Automation
Lindy vs Make: Which Should You Choose?
Both are workflow automation agents, but they are built for different people. Here is the honest split.
Lindy
by Lindy AI
No-code AI assistants that live in your inbox, calendar and CRM and handle the work around meetings.
Make
by Make (Celonis)
A visual automation canvas with AI agents, priced per operation rather than per task.
Side by side
Lindy vs Make at a glance
| 🪄 Lindy | 🧩 Make | |
|---|---|---|
| Editor score | 4.0★★★★★ | 4.1★★★★★ |
| Vendor | Lindy AI | Make (Celonis) |
| Autonomy | Semi-autonomous | Semi-autonomous |
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud |
| Starting price | From $49.99/month | Free tier |
| Pricing model | Per-seat subscription tiers with usage limits | Subscription tiers priced in credits (formerly 'operations') |
| Free tier | None | Yes — 1,000 credits per month |
| Integrations | 8 native | 12 native |
| Best for | Founders and executives with meeting-heavy calendars | Ops teams wanting more power than Zapier |
Decision
Which one should you pick?
Choose Lindy if…
- Founders and executives with meeting-heavy calendars. The clearest fit. Pre-meeting research plus post-meeting follow-up recovers real hours every week.
- Sales teams wanting CRM hygiene. Automatic note capture and CRM updates solve a problem reps genuinely never do well themselves.
- Small ops teams without engineers. Good fit for email and scheduling automation, though complex branching logic hits the ceiling quickly.
Skip it if: Credit costs add up quickly in real use is a dealbreaker for you.
Choose Make if…
- Ops teams wanting more power than Zapier. The sweet spot. Branching and iteration without needing to run infrastructure.
- Teams with multi-step, high-volume workflows. Per-operation billing usually beats per-task pricing once workflows have real depth.
- Visual thinkers. The canvas makes complex logic legible in a way linear builders never manage.
Skip it if: Operation accounting is unintuitive is a dealbreaker for you.
Trade-offs
Strengths and weaknesses
Lindy
- Fastest setup of any assistant here
- Meeting workflow is a genuinely strong product
- Voice calling included at consumer pricing
- Credit costs add up quickly in real use
- Reliability degrades on long workflows
- Narrower integration catalogue than competitors
Make
- Best visual model for complex branching logic
- Per-operation pricing suits multi-step workflows
- Strong error handling
- Operation accounting is unintuitive
- Big scenarios get visually messy
- Agent layer less mature than the automation core
FAQ
Lindy vs Make FAQ
Is Lindy better than Make?
On our scoring Make edges it at 4.1/5 against 4.0/5, but the gap is smaller than the difference in who they suit. Lindy is the better choice for founders and executives with meeting-heavy calendars; Make is stronger for ops teams wanting more power than zapier.
Which is cheaper, Lindy or Make?
Lindy: From $49.99/month — per-seat subscription tiers with usage limits. Make: Free tier — subscription tiers priced in credits (formerly 'operations'). Compare the pricing models rather than the headline numbers; consumption-based plans can overtake a higher flat fee quickly once usage is real.
Can I use Lindy and Make together?
Yes, and plenty of teams do. They share 8 integrations, so both can sit on the same data without duplicated plumbing. The usual pattern is to run each on the work it is strongest at rather than forcing one to cover everything.
What are the main differences between Lindy and Make?
Three things matter most. Autonomy: Lindy is semi-autonomous while Make is semi-autonomous. Deployment: Lindy runs cloud, Make runs cloud. Pricing model: per-seat subscription tiers with usage limits versus subscription tiers priced in credits (formerly 'operations').