Lindy Switches 100% of Traffic to DeepSeek v4, Leaves Anthropic
Lindy CEO Flo Crivello has confirmed switching 100% of Lindy's production traffic from Anthropic models to DeepSeek v4, describing the switch as saving "millions of dollars" while delivering an increase in performance on many core use cases. The move was highlighted by LangChain as the concrete case for why provider-agnostic harnesses matter as frontier model costs diverge from open alternatives.
Why It Matters
A production consumer AI company publicly churning from Anthropic to an open-weights alternative — not just for cost, but reporting better performance — is the clearest live signal yet that frontier model lock-in is eroding as open models reach parity on real-world tasks.