amaiko vs Lindy: Teams-Native AI Hosted in Germany vs a Slack Teammate Metered in Credits (2026)

Teams: where amaiko lives, an integration for Lindy

amaiko lives in Microsoft Teams, in the chat your company already works in. There is no separate app tab, no browser extension and no new tool to learn. It reads and drafts across Outlook, calendar, OneDrive, SharePoint, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and it starts your day with a morning briefing and Active Inbox, which flags the emails that need you and turns them into to-dos.

Lindy’s documentation describes it as an AI employee that “lives in your Slack”. Its setup guide starts with an admin adding Lindy to your Slack workspace, and the other places to talk to it are iMessage, a Chrome extension and Lindy’s own Home page. Microsoft Teams is on Lindy’s integrations list, where the actions are creating and listing channels, listing shifts and sending channel and chat messages. Lindy also records meetings on Google Meet, Zoom and Teams.

For a company that runs on Teams, that means your people would hand Lindy work somewhere else and get the result posted back into Teams. With amaiko, the question and the answer stay in the same Teams chat.

Usage: unlimited tokens instead of a credit pool

amaiko’s plan includes unlimited tokens. What a heavy user costs is the same as what a light user costs: €41.58 per month, billed annually.

Lindy measures its work in credits. Its pricing documentation puts a credit at about one cent and gives the ranges: 2 to 250 credits for an everyday ask, 250 to 1,000 for deep work such as researching a competitor and writing the report, 1,000 to 2,500 for dashboards and decks built from your CRM. A Plus seat brings 3,000 credits a month, enough for three to twelve deep-work jobs. All seats feed one pool, credits do not roll over, and Lindy’s usage page says what happens when the pool is empty: “Lindy pauses until your next billing cycle”. Paused tasks do not restart on their own; each person restarts their work once the pool resets. To keep going, an admin buys credits at $10 per 1,000 or moves the workspace to Pro or Max.

For your company that means someone watches a credit balance and decides who gets Pro. At amaiko the bill is the number of users times €499 a year.

Hosting: Germany instead of the United States

amaiko is hosted in Germany on its own infrastructure, not in the Microsoft cloud, and AI processing stays inside the EU. That holds for every customer, at the published price. amaiko is GDPR-compliant and ISO 42001-conformant; details are on the security page.

Lindy’s terms say: “Please be advised the Services are hosted in the United States.” Its privacy notice lists Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean, MongoDB and Cloudflare for computing and storage, and Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity AI and others as AI providers. Lindy’s security page states GDPR, HIPAA and PIPEDA compliance and a SOC 2 Type II audit.

For your data protection officer that means the email, calendars and meetings your people connect to Lindy are processed in the United States. With amaiko they stay in Germany.

Price: what the seat buys

amaiko costs €41.58 per user per month billed annually (€499 per user per year), or €49.90 billed monthly, from five seats, with unlimited tokens. Meeting notes are the Meeting Notetaker add-on at €19.99 per user per month, so the all-in price with meeting notes is €61.57 per user per month, billed annually.

Lindy’s pricing page lists Plus at $29.99 per user per month with 3,000 credits, Pro at $99.99 with 15,000 credits and Max at $199.99 with 35,000 credits. Enterprise, with SSO, audit logs and a HIPAA BAA, is priced on request. The Plus seat costs less than amaiko’s and includes meeting recording. It also comes with a fixed amount of work: when the 3,000 credits per seat are used up across the team, the work stops until the cycle resets or someone pays more.

Two companies, all prices net. amaiko billed annually, Lindy at its listed monthly prices, in US dollars as Lindy publishes them:

The Lindy figures are seats only. Credits bought on top of the pool come in at $10 per 1,000. With amaiko, the price per seat is the whole price.

Questions to ask Lindy before you sign

Get the answers in writing. Ours is under each one.

1. How many credits will our team use in a month at our volume, and what do we pay when the pool runs out mid-month? amaiko: The plan includes unlimited tokens. You pay users × €499 a year with annual billing.
2. When the pool is empty, which work stops, and who restarts the paused tasks? amaiko: amaiko has no credit pool, and the price stays the same however much your team uses it.
3. Which of our people need Pro at $99.99 or Max at $199.99, and who decides? amaiko: One price per seat: €41.58 per user per month billed annually, or €61.57 all-in with the Meeting Notetaker.
4. In which country are our emails, meetings and memory files stored and processed? amaiko: In Germany, on amaiko’s own infrastructure, with AI processing inside the EU.
5. Can our people hand Lindy work from inside Microsoft Teams, or do they need Slack or iMessage for that? amaiko: Teams is where amaiko lives.

See it for yourself

Book a demo and ask amaiko the questions your team asks every day, in your own Teams. If you are still comparing tools, our Lindy alternatives cover four more.