Viktor prices the workspace. Lindy prices the person.
Both put an AI employee in your team chat, and most of what they do overlaps. The real choice is how each one bills and where each one lives. Every fact about both was checked on viktor.com and lindy.ai on 25 September 2026.
- Viktor and Lindy sell the same idea. You @mention an AI employee in Slack, and it works across your tools, remembers the company and runs jobs on a schedule.
- Viktor bills the workspace, from $50 a month for 20,000 credits that everyone shares. Lindy bills each user, from $29.99 a month, and pools the credits.
- Viktor spreads across chat apps, including Microsoft Teams and Discord. Lindy goes deep into one person's day, with a private assistant, their Gmail, iMessage and their calls.
- Viktor's examples end in things you open, like reports, code and internal apps. Lindy's end in a working day handled, like briefs, drafted replies and a meeting library.
- Cedric is a third option of the same kind. One plan covers the whole team, and he joins the calls you invite him to.
Viktor and Lindy, as they describe themselves
"Not a tool. A hire." is the line at the top of viktor.com. Viktor calls itself "the AI employee that lives in Slack and Teams" and says 65,000+ teams use it. Its FAQ says it has "his own computer in the cloud where he writes and runs code". So its examples end in things you open: a weekly report, an ad spend audit as a PDF, a staged rollback, a deal-desk app built on HubSpot and Stripe.
"Lindy is an AI employee. It lives in your Slack" is how Lindy's docs begin, and its homepage promises to "3x your output". It works on two levels, a private assistant in each person's DMs and one shared Lindy in team channels. It joins Meet, Zoom and Teams calls as a named participant and files them in a library the team can search. It ships 40+ skills and keeps its memory in plain files you can edit.
Read both sites in one sitting and the overlap is large. Both answer in a Slack thread, learn how your team works and run recurring work from a sentence. Both stop for a yes before an email goes out. What differs is the bill, the reach and the output.
Cedric belongs here as a third option, not a different category. You mention him in Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord or Telegram, or talk to him in the browser or out loud. He plans the steps, works across your connected tools, keeps one memory of the company and joins your meetings. Before he sends, changes or spends anything, he asks a person.
Side by side
Viktor read on viktor.com, its pricing page, docs and changelog. Lindy read on lindy.ai, its pricing page and its docs site. Both on 25 September 2026.
| Viktor | Lindy | Cedric | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where you talk to it | Slack, Teams, Discord, plus web, desktop and phone apps | Slack, iMessage, SMS, Gmail via Chrome, its web app | Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, the browser, by voice |
| How the bill works | Per workspace, from $50 a month for 20,000 credits | Per user, from $29.99 a month for 3,000 credits | Per workspace, $19 a month for 40,000 credits |
| Seats | None; the workspace shares its credits | One per user; seats pool their credits | None; one plan covers the team |
| How you start | $100 in credits without a card, never expiring | A free week per Slack joiner; direct signups billed | 100,000 credits, no card |
| Unused plan credits | Roll over for one month | Refresh each cycle, no rollover | Roll over for one month |
| Meetings | Reads notes from Granola, Otter.ai or Wispr Flow's Notetaker | Joins Meet, Zoom and Teams calls; shared library | Joins Meet, Zoom and Teams calls; posts notes, action items |
| Before it acts | Buttons on the irreversible; "always approve this tool" | Per integration: always allow, require approval, or don't offer | A preview card a person approves; new apps start read-only |
| Memory | Workspace-wide, kept as "skills" notes | Plain files you can open and edit | One memory; each item shared or kept private |
| Apps it reaches | 3,200+ tools; builds a missing integration | 1,000+ integrations, plus any MCP server | 3,200+ apps, 15 with built-in playbooks |
Prices read on viktor.com/pricing and lindy.ai/pricing on 25 September 2026. Viktor's Team plan runs from $50 for 20,000 credits up to $5,000 for 2,000,000. A Lindy Plus, Pro or Max seat costs $29.99, $99.99 or $199.99 a user each month. Cedric's larger plan, Max, begins at $99 a month, and both rivals quote Enterprise on request. Each product counts a credit its own way, so the numbers do not line up across the three.
Viktor or Lindy: how to choose
Start with the bill, because you see it every month. Lindy bills a seat for each person who uses it, and a teammate who @mentions it in Slack takes one after a free week. Admins get an email when someone joins, with a link to remove them, and can cap one person's draw. Viktor bills the workspace instead, one block of credits that everyone draws on.
Those models suit different teams. Paying per user is easy to budget when a handful of people use the assistant daily, and each of them gets a private one. A shared pool suits a larger team where a few people lean on it hard and most ask something once a week.
Then look at where the work starts. Viktor goes wide across chat apps, with Slack and Microsoft Teams from the start, Discord since 1 August and the same memory in each. Lindy goes deep into one person's day: it labels mail, drafts replies in your voice, bumps quiet threads and preps you for meetings. It also texts you when something urgent lands.
Last, decide what you want handed back. Viktor's examples end in artifacts, like the PDF audit or an internal app on its own URL. Lindy's end in a day that ran itself, with the 8 a.m. brief, the follow-up drafted and the call filed. Each does some of the other's work too, but that is where each company puts its effort.
One message
The same Monday job, three ways
Sam Okonkwo9:14 AM
@Cedric what did our competitors do this week?
CedricAPP9:15 AM
I checked Northwind, Hollis, Brightline and Beacon for 3 to 9 September, across nine sources. Beacon switches off paying customers on Monday 14 September, so its teams are shopping this week. Hollis is taking its partner network into Europe, and Northwind is hiring a Head of Engineering. It is all on the Competitor tracker page with sources; want this every Monday at 8?
In Viktor
Its FAQ lists "Research competitors and deliver the report". Ask it to repeat the job on a schedule, then confirm when it reads the schedule back.
In Lindy
"Track competitors" is on its use-case menu. An admin makes it a workspace routine, and the shared Lindy posts the result in Slack.
In Cedric
One question returned a sourced report and a tracker page anyone can open. The Monday schedule took one yes.
Three meters, read carefully
Viktor's FAQ puts 20,000 credits at "roughly 40-200 tasks depending on complexity". A quick Slack question costs 50 to 100 credits, and a deep report 500 to 2,000. Scheduled automations spend credits on every run, so a daily job costs more than a weekly one. Trial credits never expire.
Every Lindy seat adds credits to one pool: 3,000 for Plus, 15,000 for Pro, 35,000 for Max. Everyday asks cost 2 to 250 credits, deep work 250 to 1,000 and big builds up to 2,500. When the pool runs low, Lindy pauses with a message instead of a surprise bill, and top-ups cost $10 per 1,000 credits. Ten people on Plus come to $299.90 a month.
Cedric draws every request from a single team balance. Top-up credits never expire, and the usage page shows spend per person and per day. The pricing page has the full table.
Where Viktor or Lindy is the better choice
Choose Viktor if you want an AI employee that writes and ships software. Its FAQ describes a cloud computer where it runs code, and its examples include an internal app live on its own URL.
Choose Viktor if your company talks in several chat apps. It works in Slack, Microsoft Teams and Discord with the same memory, skills and integrations in each.
Choose Lindy if your own inbox and calendar are the work you most want gone. Every person gets a private assistant, with up to five connected inboxes on Max.
Choose Lindy if you want to text your assistant from your phone. iMessage and SMS are supported, and its meeting library files each recorded call where the team can find it.
FAQ
Neither wins outright. Viktor suits a team that wants one shared price and output it can open. Lindy suits people who each want a personal assistant and are fine paying per user.
On 25 September 2026 a Lindy Plus seat cost $29.99 a user a month, with 3,000 credits. Viktor's Team plan began at $50 a month for 20,000 credits, shared by the whole workspace. A Lindy seat and a Viktor block buy different amounts of work, so compare them on one real job.
It offers a free week instead. A teammate who joins through Slack gets seven days before the seat is billed, and a direct signup is billed right away. Viktor starts you with $100 in credits that never expire.
Each memory in Cedric is either shared with the team or kept for the person it is about. You can talk to him out loud as well as in chat. The same card to confirm shows up in chat, on a voice call, in a meeting and on a scheduled job. The docs walk through one.
Yes, and running all three on one job is the fairest test. Give each the Monday competitor sweep for a week. Then compare what came back and what each one spent.
Put the third option on a real job.
100,000 free credits, no card. Give him the Monday sweep first.
100K credits ($50) through Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram or WhatsApp, 50K ($25) with Google. No card needed.