Lindy vs Relay 2026: Relay Shut Down, Lindy's New Pricing

Verified as of 2026-09-28 against Lindy's pricing page and Relay.app's shutdown notice, cited below.

This page first compared Lindy's flat agent tiers against Relay.app's free, step-metered plans. Both halves of that comparison have since changed: Relay shut down, and Lindy moved from flat tiers to per-seat credit plans. What follows covers what happened to Relay, what Lindy costs now, and where Relay's kind of fixed-step work belongs.

1. Relay.app shut down: the timeline

Relay announced the wind-down in July 2026 and ran it in two stages^[2]:

• July 16, 2026. New signups and free-to-paid upgrades were turned off. Paid subscriptions were cancelled effective that day, with prorated refunds for annual customers.
• August 15, 2026. Free accounts and all their data were permanently deleted.
• September 14, 2026. Paid accounts and all their data were permanently deleted. Until then, paying workspaces ran free, with an extra 25,000 steps and 10,000 AI credits a month for the transition.

Before deletion, Relay let customers export workflows, sequences, and MCP servers as JSON plus their AI prompts, run history, and tables as CSV. The export is a rebuild kit, not an import format: the JSON describes a Relay workflow for a person to rebuild elsewhere. Today the homepage states that all accounts, workflows, and run history have been permanently deleted^[3], so a workspace that was not exported by September 14 is gone.

2. Lindy pricing now: per seat, on credits

Lindy now sells seats. Each plan is a price per user per month with a credit allowance per user, and every seat's credits go into one shared pool that anyone in the workspace can draw on^[1].

Plan	Price	Credits	Relative usage
Plus	$29.99/mo per user[1]	3k per user per month	Standard usage
Pro	$99.99/mo per user[1]	15k per user per month	5x Plus
Max	$199.99/mo per user[1]	35k per user per month	About 12x Plus
Enterprise	Through sales	Shared usage plus bonus credits	Adds HIPAA with a signed BAA, audit logs, dedicated support

There is no permanent free plan. The no-cost entry is a 7-day free trial^[1]. When the pool runs dry, Lindy pauses credit-using actions until the next cycle rather than billing overage, and unused credits do not roll over.

3. What a credit buys, and the cost per 1,000

Lindy publishes typical credit costs by kind of work^[1]: everyday asks such as answers, summaries, lookups, and drafted replies use 2-250 credits; deep work such as a competitor report or a day's support triage uses 250-1,000; big builds such as dashboards, decks, or internal tools use 1,000-2,500.

Dividing each plan's price by its allowance gives the effective rate, calculated from the published figures:

Plan	Cost per 1,000 credits	Deep-work tasks per seat per month (250-1,000 credits each)	Big builds per seat per month (1,000-2,500 credits each)
Plus	$10.00	3 to 12	1 to 3
Pro	$6.67	15 to 60	6 to 15
Max	$5.71	35 to 140	14 to 35

Plus is sized for everyday asks, not for a steady stream of deep work: a solo founder who hands Lindy two research reports a week will spend most of a Plus allowance on them. Pro costs 3.3x Plus for 5x the credits, which cuts the unit rate by a third. Because the pool is shared, one heavy user can draw on a teammate's unused credits, but every person who uses Lindy still needs a paid seat. Put the seat count into your monthly tooling spend with the AI stack cost calculator.

4. What changed from Lindy's old tiers

When this comparison was first published in June 2026, Lindy sold the same three plan names as flat monthly tiers: Plus at $49.99, Pro at $99.99 with 3x Plus's usage, and Max at $199.99 with 7x, with no published usage unit. The current pricing changes three things^[1]:

• The entry price fell. Plus dropped from $49.99 to $29.99. For one person, Lindy is now 40% cheaper to start.
• Plans are per seat. A team of five on Plus pays $149.95 a month, not one flat fee. Teams that shared one workspace at a flat price now pay per user.
• Usage is published in credits. The multiples widened, to 5x for Pro and about 12x for Max, and the allowance is now a number you can budget against rather than a relative size.

5. Moving off Relay: where step-metered work goes

Relay's appeal was a free tier and a per-step meter that did not charge for triggers, data transformations, or branch and loop checks. That is fixed-step workflow automation, and Lindy is not the natural home for it: Lindy bills agent work in credits per seat, so a high-volume, low-judgment flow costs more there than on a per-run tool. The closest replacements are the per-task and per-execution platforms:

• Zapier or Make for the widest app library with a free tier and per-task or per-credit metering. The Zapier vs Make vs n8n pricing breakdown prices each meter.
• n8n when volume is high enough that self-hosting or per-execution billing beats per-step billing.
• Gumloop for AI-heavy flows priced on credits; see Gumloop vs n8n.

Whichever you pick, rebuild from the exported JSON and prompts one workflow at a time, highest-volume first, and measure each rebuilt flow under the new meter before moving the rest. The best workflow automation tools for solopreneurs guide compares the field by volume and technical comfort.

6. Which to pick now

• Pick Lindy Plus if you are one person who wants an agent for everyday asks inside Slack, email, and meetings, and a few deep-work jobs a month. At $29.99 it is the cheapest Lindy has been.
• Pick Lindy Pro if deep work is routine: at $6.67 per 1,000 credits it is a third cheaper per unit than Plus, and 15k credits covers 15 to 60 deep-work tasks a month.
• Pick a per-run automation tool if you were a Relay user running fixed, repeatable flows. Per-seat agent credits are the wrong meter for high-volume, rule-based work.
• Either way, re-verify the pricing page before committing, and use the 7-day trial to measure how many credits your real tasks consume before choosing a plan.

Pricing verified against Lindy's official pricing page, and Relay.app's shutdown dates against its own notice, as of 2026-09-28.

Frequently asked questions

Is Relay.app still available in 2026?

No. Relay.app turned off new signups and upgrades on July 16, 2026, deleted free accounts after August 15, 2026, and deleted paid accounts after September 14, 2026. Its homepage now carries only a shutdown notice stating that all accounts, workflows, and run history have been permanently deleted. There is no Relay plan to compare against Lindy anymore; the practical question is where Relay's workload should move.

What does Lindy cost per month now?

Lindy is priced per user per month on credits, verified against its pricing page on 2026-09-28: Plus is $29.99 with 3k credits per user, Pro is $99.99 with 15k credits per user (5x Plus), and Max is $199.99 with 35k credits per user (about 12x Plus). Enterprise is priced through sales. Every seat's credits go into one pool the whole workspace draws from, and there is a 7-day free trial.

What happens when Lindy runs out of credits?

Lindy pauses credit-using actions until the credits reset at the start of the next billing cycle; it does not bill overage. Unused credits do not roll over. Admins can move the workspace to a plan with more credits at any time, and can set credit allocations per seat.