How Much Does Superhuman Cost? Every Plan, Verified August 2026

Superhuman Mail costs $25 per member per month on Starter and $33 on Business, both billed annually, with Enterprise quote-only. That is $300 and $396 a year per person. Annual billing is 17% off, so paying month to month works out to roughly $30 and $40. There is no free plan. Pricing verified at superhuman.com on August 16, 2026.

The headline $25 is the number everyone quotes, and for most buyers it is the wrong one. The AI features that make Superhuman worth talking about are not on the entry plan. Here is what each tier actually contains, and the two places budgets go wrong.

Every Superhuman plan and price

Plan	Billed annually	Roughly, billed monthly	What it adds
Starter	$25/member/mo	~$30/member/mo	Email productivity, base Superhuman AI, team collaboration, calendar and scheduling, unified admin and billing
Business	$33/member/mo	~$40/member/mo	Everything in Starter plus the most advanced AI, Auto Drafts, Ask AI, Superhuman Mail MCP, custom auto labels, CRM integrations. Extra 15% off for teams of 5+
Enterprise	Let's talk		Everything in Business plus admin security and controls, single sign-on, a customer success manager, team analytics, priority support

Two display details worth catching before you budget. First, the billing toggle on superhuman.com defaults to Annual, so the prices you see on the page, and in nearly every article quoting it, are the committed-for-a-year rates. Second, Enterprise carries no published price at all, so the moment your requirements include single sign-on you are in a sales conversation rather than a checkout.

The tier that catches people out

This is the one that costs teams real money. Read almost any enthusiastic Superhuman review and it will describe AI that drafts replies in your own voice, answers questions across your entire mail history, and sorts incoming mail by rules you describe in plain language. Then it will mention that Superhuman starts at $25.

Those two facts are from different plans. Auto Drafts, Ask AI, the Superhuman Mail MCP connection, custom auto labels and CRM integrations are all Business features, at $33. Starter gets the base AI and the speed, which is a real product, but it is not the product the reviews are describing.

So a six-person team that budgeted 6 x $25 = $150 a month against the headline is realistically looking at 6 x $33 = $198 for the plan matching what they read about. The teams-of-five discount takes about 15% off that, but the gap between the quoted number and the working number is still roughly a third. Decide which features you are actually buying, then price that tier, not the one at the top of the page.

Is Superhuman email free?

No. There is no free tier and no permanently free plan, which makes Superhuman unusual in a category where free options are common and genuinely good. The entry point is $25 per member per month on annual billing.

If the reason you are asking is that you want better email handling without a new subscription, the honest answer is to look at what you already pay for. Google Workspace Business plans include Gemini in Gmail at no additional cost. Microsoft 365 Copilot adds AI drafting and summarizing across Outlook at $18 per user per month on annual billing, on top of a qualifying Microsoft 365 Business licence. Between them those cover a large share of what people want from AI email, and a meaningful number of teams buy a third tool for something their existing licence already does. Turn on what you own, use it for four weeks, then decide what is still missing.

Who owns Superhuman, and why the name is confusing

Worth knowing before you search for pricing, because it explains why results contradict each other. Grammarly acquired Superhuman on July 1, 2025, announced by Superhuman founder Rahul Vohra, who stayed to lead the mail product. Then, on October 29, 2025, Grammarly renamed the entire company Superhuman. The company blog put it plainly: "the Grammarly product will still exist, but we're changing our company name to Superhuman."

So today Superhuman is both a company and an email client. The company, led by CEO Shishir Mehrotra, who co-founded Coda, owns Grammarly, Coda, an agent product called Superhuman Go, and the email client now branded Superhuman Mail. When you are pricing email, Superhuman Mail is the thing you want. Comparison articles written before late 2025 describe a standalone startup that no longer exists in that form, which is a reasonable signal about how current the rest of their figures are.

How Superhuman's pricing compares

Tool	Free plan	Entry paid	Top standard tier
Superhuman Mail	None	$25/member/mo Starter, annually	$33/member/mo Business, annually
Shortwave	Yes, with a "Sent with Shortwave" footer	$30/seat/mo Business	$45/seat/mo Premier ($120 Max)
Missive	None, 30-day trial, no card	$14/user/mo Starter, yearly, up to 5 users	$36/user/mo Business, unlimited users
Microsoft 365 Copilot	None	$18/user/mo annually, on top of a M365 Business licence	$30/user/mo enterprise on E3/E5

All figures verified at the vendors' own pricing pages in August 2026: Shortwave on August 31, Superhuman and Missive on August 16, Copilot on July 31. One difference worth weighing beyond price: Superhuman supports both Gmail and Outlook, while Shortwave is Gmail and Google Workspace only, so if you are on Microsoft 365 the comparison is shorter than it looks.

Read that on what you need rather than on the smallest number. Missive at $14 looks cheapest and is, but it is built around several people working one mailbox, so if you are a solo heavy sender it is cheap at solving a problem you do not have. Shortwave costs more than Superhuman Starter and leans into AI search and assistant behavior rather than raw keyboard speed. Copilot is the only one that adds AI to the client you already use instead of replacing it, which for a lot of teams is the deciding factor regardless of price.

Does Superhuman charge per user?

Yes. Every plan is priced per member per month, so cost scales linearly with headcount and there is no flat team rate. The only volume relief is the 15% discount Business shows for teams of five or more. A ten-person team on Business is therefore roughly 10 x $33 = $330 a month before that discount, or close to $3,960 a year.

At that scale it is worth auditing seats before renewal rather than after. Per-seat software drifts: licences get added for a project, the project ends, and nobody reconciles the invoice against who still logs in. It is one of the most reliable places to find money in a software budget, and it takes an afternoon.

Monthly versus annual, and whether to commit

Annual billing saves 17%, which is $60 a year on Starter and about $84 on Business. That is a real discount but a small one against the seat cost, so the decision should turn on something other than the saving.

Superhuman is a habit product. Its value comes from learning the shortcuts and changing how you work, which takes a few weeks, and people who bounce off it usually do so inside the first month rather than in month eight. That argues for paying monthly for the first quarter, watching whether the whole team actually adopts it, and only then committing. A 17% discount is not a saving if you bought twelve months for four people and two of them went back to Gmail in week three.

There is a second question worth asking before either. If you send fifty or more emails a day, work out what kind of fifty. If they are replies to inbound mail, Superhuman is aimed squarely at you and the speed gain is real. If they are cold outbound prospecting, a faster client is the wrong tool entirely: what you want is software that researches every prospect and runs the sequence and the follow-ups for you, which is a different category with different economics. Buying a premium mail client to type outbound faster is the most common expensive mistake in this space.

Is Superhuman worth the price?

For a specific person, clearly yes. If your mail client is where your working day happens, if you handle high volume, and if the friction between messages is what wears you down, nothing else matches its triage model and the money is easy to justify. Sales people, founders running their own pipeline, recruiters and anyone whose job is mostly correspondence tend to be happy with it.

For everyone else, the question worth more than the price comparison is whether faster email is what you are missing. Superhuman makes you quicker at reading, sorting and replying. It does not book the meeting the email agreed to, file the document the email attached, write the recap, or chase the client who never replied. If you have a fast inbox and you are still losing the week, the pile that is actually growing is made of commitments rather than messages, and no email client reduces it.

The honest ranking of the whole category, us included and not first, is in the best AI email assistant roundup. The head-to-head detail, including where Superhuman clearly wins, is on the Superhuman alternative page. And if the problem is volume rather than speed, how to manage email overload covers the process fixes that cost nothing.

All Superhuman figures on this page were verified at superhuman.com on August 16, 2026. Vendor pricing moves, sometimes within a week, so check the current page before you commit budget.