Okou vs Lindy

These two are closer than most pairs on this page. Both live in Slack, both reason through judgment work, both draft before they send, and both let you pick the model. The sharpest difference is how you are billed: Lindy charges a seat for everyone who uses it, including anyone who only @mentions it in a channel.

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Pick Lindy if

The job centres on one person's inbox, calendar and meetings. Lindy records and preps meetings, drafts replies in your voice, connects up to five inboxes, reaches you over iMessage, and ships computer use and MCP support on every plan. Okou does not do meeting recording at all.

Pick Okou if

You want everyone in the channel to be able to use it without adding a seat, you want several agents with different jobs and different access rather than one assistant, or you want to try it on a free plan before anyone signs anything.

Where the two actually differ

Both are Slack-native, run scheduled routines, keep persistent workspace context, build in approvals, and let you choose the model. Those are not rows, because they are not differences.

Dimension	Okou	Lindy
How it is billed	Workspace credits, no per-member charge¹	A seat per person, including anyone who joins the workspace or only @mentions Lindy in Slack¹⁰
Entry price	$0 on Free, then $20/mo for the workspace¹	$29.99/mo per user¹⁰
Free plan	Yes — 3,000 credits, no card¹	No free plan; teammates who join through Slack get a 7-day trial, direct signups are billed straight away¹⁰
Unused credits	Top up any time at $1 per 1,000, with auto-recharge¹	Refresh each cycle and do not roll over¹⁰
Agents	Seven org-shared agents plus unlimited private ones, each with its own instructions, tone and connector grants²	One assistant per person, with 40+ skills and your own on top¹⁰
Permission granularity	Per agent, per connector, per named action, with a 1h, 24h, 7d or standing grant. Defaults are read-only⁴	Approvals built in; admins set credit allocations per seat¹⁰
Meetings	Not offered	Recording, notes, scheduling, prep and follow-up, with a shared meeting library¹⁰
Image and video generation	Built in, across several image and video models⁹	Not offered¹⁰

What you are actually choosing between

The meter, not the feature list

Lindy is explicit that anyone who uses it takes a seat, whether they signed up, joined the workspace, or only @mentioned it in a Slack channel. That is a clean model, and it means the cost of letting the wider team touch it is linear in head count. Okou bills workspace credits with no per-member charge, so the tenth person who mentions the agent in a thread costs what they use and nothing more.

Several agents, not one assistant

Lindy gives each person an assistant with a shared skill library behind it. Okou gives the workspace seven shared agents plus unlimited private ones, each with its own description, tone, avatar and connector grants — so an agent that can read Stripe cannot touch the CRM, because it was never given it.

You can try it without a card

Lindy has no free plan: teammates who arrive through Slack get seven days, and direct signups are billed immediately. Okou's Free plan is 3,000 credits with no card and no sales call, which is enough to run a real job end to end before deciding.

Where Lindy is the better tool

Meetings are a whole product here: Recording and notes across your calls, scheduling, prep and follow-up, and a shared meeting library with folders and version history. Okou does none of this.
It is model agnostic too: Lindy ships model selection across most major models on every plan, so choosing the model is not a reason to pick us over them.
Inbox work is its centre of gravity: Autonomous triage, drafts written in your voice, daily briefs, nudges and catch-ups, and up to five connected inboxes on every plan.
It reaches you outside the browser: iMessage with your assistant around the clock. Okou is Web and Slack.
Integration count is higher: Thousands of integrations plus MCP support to connect anything else, against our 1,400+ first-party connectors.

What each one bills for

Lindy prices a seat with a credit allowance attached; every seat pays into one shared workspace pool. Okou prices the workspace. The gap widens with every person you add.

Okou

Workspace credits, published rate, no per-member charge

Free: $0 · 3,000 credits to start
Pro: $20/mo · 20,000 credits
Team: $200/mo · 120,000 credits
Enterprise: Custom
Credit top-up: $1 per 1,000

Concurrency scales with the plan: 1, 2 and 10 simultaneous runs. Every plan, Free included, allows 7 org-shared agents and unlimited private ones. Auto-recharge buys credits when the balance falls below a threshold, so a scheduled job does not stall overnight.

Lindy

Per user, per month

Plus: $29.99/user · 3,000 credits
Pro: $99.99/user · 15,000 credits
Max: $199.99/user · 35,000 credits
Enterprise: Custom
Rollover: None; credits reset each cycle

Every seat's allowance flows into one shared workspace pool, and admins can set allocations per seat. When the pool runs out Lindy pauses rather than billing overage. Enterprise adds HIPAA with a signed BAA, audit logs and dedicated support.

Okou vs Lindy FAQ

Does Lindy have a free plan?

No. Teammates who join through Slack get a 7-day trial before the seat is billed, and direct signups are billed right away. Okou's Free plan is 3,000 credits with no card.

What is the best Lindy alternative for a team that does not want per-seat billing?

The question to ask is what happens when the fifth person mentions the agent in a channel. On Lindy that person takes a billable seat. Okou bills workspace credits, so anyone in the channel can use a shared agent and you pay for the work rather than the head count.

Which one lets me pick the model?

Both. Lindy offers model selection across most major models on every plan. Okou puts a picker on the chat thread across the Claude, GPT and DeepSeek families, with three models on Free and the full list on paid plans. This is not a reason to choose between them.

Can Okou handle inbox triage the way Lindy does?

Gmail triage, drafting and writing structured rows to a sheet are among the workflows Okou runs on a trigger. What Okou does not do is record and summarise your meetings, which is a core part of what Lindy sells.

Which is cheaper?

It depends entirely on head count. One person on Lindy Plus is $29.99 a month for 3,000 credits; Okou Pro is $20 for the workspace and 20,000 credits. At five people the Lindy line is $149.95 and the Okou line has not moved. Lindy's credits do not roll over; Okou's top up at $1 per 1,000.

Also compare Okou with Viktor, Claude Tag, Claude Cowork and ChatGPT Work and Codex.

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Compiled from Lindy's own pricing page, read 21 August 2026. Lindy is a product of Lindy AI, Inc. and is not affiliated with Okou. Both vendors change pricing; check both pages before deciding.