Superhuman pricing (2026)

Last updated October 2026

Superhuman has carved out a distinctive position in the email market. It is not trying to be the cheapest option or the most feature-packed. It is trying to be the fastest, most polished email experience available, and its pricing reflects that ambition. Whether the cost is justified depends entirely on how much of your working day is spent in your inbox and how much friction you feel there.

This page walks through every tier, the features locked behind each one, and the hidden costs that are easy to miss before you commit.

Superhuman pricing overview

Superhuman offers three plans for its email product: Starter, Business, and Enterprise. There is no free tier and no freemium option. You pay from day one.

Monthly and annual billing

Starter costs $30 per month on monthly billing, or $25 per month when billed annually at $300 per year. Business costs $40 per month, or $33 per month on an annual plan at $396 per year. Enterprise pricing is not published and requires a conversation with the sales team.

Annual billing saves roughly 17% on both the Starter and Business plans. For a single user on the Starter plan, that works out to a saving of $60 per year. On Business, you save $84 per year. Across a team of ten on the Business plan, annual billing saves $840 compared to paying month by month.

No free plan, no freemium

Superhuman does not offer a permanently free tier for its email product. This separates it from most competitors in the space. The reasoning, as Superhuman has explained over the years, is that a paid-only model allows the company to focus on building for users who are willing to invest in their email workflow, rather than optimising for conversion funnels and ad-supported models. Whether you find that persuasive is a matter of personal philosophy. The practical consequence is that you need to be fairly certain Superhuman suits your workflow before committing.

Superhuman Starter tier

The Starter plan at $25 to $30 per month is where most individual users begin. It includes the core Superhuman experience, which in practice means the fast, keyboard-driven email client that the product is known for.

What Starter includes

Split Inbox is the flagship organisational feature. It automatically sorts your incoming email into categories you define, letting you process different types of messages in separate passes rather than working through a single chronological stream. This alone changes how many people relate to their inbox, turning an undifferentiated wall of messages into something closer to a set of prioritised queues.

Over 100 keyboard shortcuts are available from day one. Superhuman was built around the idea that reaching for the mouse is wasted time. Every action in the client can be triggered from the keyboard, and the shortcuts are consistent enough that muscle memory develops within a few weeks of regular use. A command palette (triggered with Cmd+K or Ctrl+K) gives you access to any action by typing a few characters of its name.

AI-powered features on the Starter plan include writing assistance and auto-summarisation. The writing tools help you draft, shorten, expand, or adjust the tone of messages. Auto-summarise condenses long email threads into a brief overview, which is useful when you are returning to a conversation after a few days away. These are solid quality-of-life features, though the more advanced AI capabilities sit behind the Business plan.

Calendar integration and scheduling tools come bundled with Starter. You can view your calendar alongside your inbox, create events without switching apps, and share your availability with external contacts. Video conferencing integrations with Zoom, Google Meet, and similar tools are included.

Snippets let you save and insert reusable text blocks. If you find yourself typing the same paragraphs across different messages, snippets turn those into shortcuts. They support variables for personalisation, so a single snippet can adapt to the recipient.

Team features at the Starter level include shared conversations and team comments. You can loop in colleagues on specific threads and leave internal notes that the external recipient never sees. For small teams that need light collaboration, this may be sufficient without stepping up to the Business plan.

What Starter does not include

Auto Drafts, Ask AI, and Custom Auto Labels are all absent from the Starter plan. These are among Superhuman's most compelling AI features, and their absence is worth considering before you choose this tier. Auto Drafts pre-writes replies to incoming messages so you can review and send rather than composing from scratch. Ask AI lets you query your email history in natural language. Custom Auto Labels use AI to tag and sort messages based on criteria you define. If these features are the reason you are considering Superhuman, the Starter plan will leave you wanting.

CRM integrations with HubSpot and Salesforce are Business-only. If you work in sales or account management and need your email client to surface CRM data alongside your messages, the Starter plan will not do that.

Superhuman Business tier

The Business plan at $33 to $40 per month is where Superhuman's AI capabilities reach their full expression. For users who want to push the boundaries of what an email client can do with machine learning, this is the tier to evaluate.

Auto Drafts

Auto Drafts is the headline feature of the Business plan. When a new email arrives, Superhuman analyses the thread and pre-writes a reply based on your writing style and the context of the conversation. You open the message to find a draft already waiting. Sometimes it needs adjustment; sometimes it is ready to send as-is. The time savings compound over the course of a day, particularly for anyone who handles a high volume of routine correspondence.

Ask AI

Ask AI lets you search and query your email archive using natural language. Rather than constructing precise search queries with filters and operators, you can type questions like "what did Sarah say about the Q3 budget?" or "find the attachment from the design review last month." The feature understands context and intent, which makes it meaningfully different from traditional email search. For anyone who has spent ten minutes hunting for a specific message they know exists somewhere in their inbox, this is a genuine productivity gain.

Custom Auto Labels

Custom Auto Labels use AI to categorise incoming messages based on rules you set. Unlike Split Inbox, which sorts into broad predefined categories, Auto Labels let you create specific tags that the AI applies automatically. You might label messages from investors differently to messages from customers, or flag emails that contain specific types of requests. The labels then integrate with Split Inbox, filters, and search.

CRM integrations and Recent Opens

HubSpot and Salesforce integrations bring CRM context directly into your inbox. When you open a message from a contact, you can see their CRM record, recent activity, and deal status without switching to a separate tab. This is read-only access rather than full two-way sync, so you will still need your CRM subscription for managing records and pipelines.

The Recent Opens feed shows you when recipients open your messages. This is useful for sales teams and anyone who needs to time their follow-ups based on engagement. It is a feature that some users find indispensable and others consider slightly uncomfortable, depending on your feelings about read receipts.

Superhuman Enterprise tier

Enterprise pricing is custom and requires a conversation with Superhuman's sales team at sdr-team@superhuman.com. The plan is aimed at larger organisations that need administrative controls, compliance features, and dedicated support.

What Enterprise adds

Single sign-on (SSO) support is the most commonly cited reason for choosing Enterprise. For organisations with security policies that mandate SSO across all tools, this is non-negotiable, and its absence from the lower tiers may force the decision regardless of whether you need the other Enterprise features.

Advanced security controls give administrators more granular oversight of how the tool is used across the organisation. Team analytics provide visibility into email response times, volume, and other metrics at the organisational level. A dedicated customer success manager is assigned to Enterprise accounts, providing onboarding support and ongoing guidance.

Student and non-profit pricing is available by contacting hello@superhuman.com, though the specific discounts are not published.

What you get for the price

Speed as a feature

Superhuman's core value proposition is speed, and it delivers on that promise consistently. The client loads near-instantly, search results appear as you type, and transitions between views feel immediate. This is not a cosmetic polish. When you process dozens or hundreds of emails per day, the cumulative time saved by eliminating interface lag is measurable. Superhuman has invested heavily in performance engineering, and it shows.

Keyboard-first design

The keyboard shortcut system is comprehensive and well-designed. Learning the full set takes time, but even a handful of the most common shortcuts (archive, reply, forward, snooze, reminder) can meaningfully speed up email processing within the first week. The shortcuts are discoverable through the command palette and through contextual hints that appear as you work. Superhuman also offers onboarding sessions that walk new users through the keyboard-driven workflow, which helps flatten the learning curve.

AI writing and triage

The AI features across both tiers focus on reducing the time you spend composing and organising messages. On the Starter plan, writing assistance and auto-summarise handle the basics. On Business, Auto Drafts and Ask AI take a more proactive role, anticipating what you need before you ask for it. The quality of the AI output is generally strong for professional correspondence, though highly technical or domain-specific emails may need more manual adjustment.

Split Inbox and workflow design

Split Inbox is arguably Superhuman's most important feature for daily workflow. By sorting your email into streams, it lets you batch-process similar messages together rather than context-switching between different types of correspondence. You might process all your team messages in one pass, then move to external emails, then handle newsletters and notifications. This approach to email mirrors how many productivity systems recommend handling tasks: by category and priority, not by arrival time.

Is Superhuman expensive?

The raw numbers

At $25 to $40 per month per user, Superhuman is among the most expensive email clients available. Gmail is free. Apple Mail is free. Outlook is included with most Microsoft 365 subscriptions. Even other premium email clients tend to cost less. The question is not whether Superhuman costs more than the alternatives, because it does, but whether the productivity gains justify the premium.

The time-value calculation

Superhuman's own marketing has long centred on the claim that it saves users four hours per week. Even if you halve that figure and assume a more conservative two hours per week, the arithmetic starts to look reasonable for knowledge workers with high effective hourly rates. Two hours per week at $50 per hour is $400 per month in reclaimed time, which makes the $30 to $40 subscription cost relatively modest. This calculation only holds, of course, if you spend enough time in email for the speed gains to accumulate, and if those reclaimed hours translate into productive work rather than simply more browsing.

When the price is hard to justify

For users who receive fewer than 30 or 40 emails per day, the time savings are proportionally smaller. If your inbox is already manageable with Gmail and a few filters, Superhuman may feel like an extravagance. The same applies if your email workflow is simple enough that speed is not the bottleneck. The users who get the most value from Superhuman tend to be those who feel overwhelmed by their inbox volume and who are willing to invest in changing their email habits.

Superhuman vs Gmail

What Gmail offers for free

Gmail remains the default choice for most people, and for good reason. It is free, reliable, deeply integrated with the Google ecosystem, and good enough for the vast majority of email needs. Google's spam filtering is excellent, search is powerful (if not always intuitive), and the mobile apps are solid. For personal use and for many professional contexts, Gmail is perfectly adequate.

Where Superhuman pulls ahead

Superhuman's advantages over Gmail are concentrated in speed, keyboard navigation, and workflow design. Gmail's web interface can feel sluggish, particularly with large inboxes or when switching between accounts. Its keyboard shortcuts exist but are less comprehensive and less consistently designed than Superhuman's. Gmail has no equivalent to Split Inbox, and its AI features, while improving, are less tightly integrated into the email workflow.

Snooze and reminder functionality is more refined in Superhuman. Gmail offers snooze, but Superhuman's implementation is faster to use and more flexible in its timing options. The ability to set a reminder on a sent message ("remind me if no reply in three days") is a small feature that prevents important threads from falling through the cracks.

When Gmail is the better choice

Gmail is the better choice when cost matters more than speed, or when you are deeply embedded in the Google ecosystem and rely on integrations that Superhuman does not replicate. Gmail's integration with Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Chat, and Google Meet is seamless in ways that a third-party client cannot fully match. If your workflow depends heavily on those integrations, the friction of moving to Superhuman may outweigh the speed gains.

Superhuman vs Fyxer

What Fyxer does differently

Fyxer takes a different approach to email productivity. Rather than replacing your email client, Fyxer works alongside Gmail or Outlook as an AI layer that drafts replies, sorts your inbox, and takes notes during meetings. You keep using the email client you already know while Fyxer handles the parts of email that feel repetitive or time-consuming.

Fyxer's pricing

Fyxer's Pro plan starts at $37 per month on annual billing, which is comparable to Superhuman's Starter tier. Fyxer also offers a free plan with 400 credits per month, which gives you a way to test the product before committing. The Team plan at $64 per month (annual) adds shared features and pooled credits for organisations. For individuals, Fyxer Pro provides inbox sorting, AI reply drafts, and meeting transcription at a price point that competes with Superhuman's entry tier.

Comparing the two approaches

The fundamental difference is that Superhuman replaces your email client while Fyxer augments it. If you want a complete rethinking of how you interact with email, with a purpose-built interface, keyboard shortcuts, and Split Inbox, Superhuman is the more transformative choice. If you are happy with Gmail or Outlook but want AI to handle the drafting, sorting, and meeting notes, Fyxer achieves that without requiring you to learn a new interface.

Fyxer includes meeting transcription and notes as a core feature, which Superhuman does not offer. If your workflow involves frequent meetings where action items emerge that need email follow-up, Fyxer's combination of meeting notes and email drafting creates a useful loop. Superhuman focuses more narrowly on the inbox itself and does that one thing exceptionally well.

Hidden costs and requirements

You still need Google Workspace or Microsoft 365

Superhuman is not a standalone email service. It is a client that sits on top of Gmail (Google Workspace) or Outlook (Microsoft 365). You need an existing email account with one of these providers, and you need to keep paying for that account. For personal Gmail users this is free, but for business users on Google Workspace ($7 to $25+ per user per month) or Microsoft 365 ($6 to $22+ per user per month), the Superhuman subscription adds to an existing cost rather than replacing it.

CRM integrations are read-only

The HubSpot and Salesforce integrations on the Business plan surface CRM data inside Superhuman, but they do not replace your CRM subscription. You still need active accounts with those services, and any updates to CRM records need to happen in the CRM itself. Think of the integration as a convenient window into your CRM data rather than a replacement for it.

Onboarding takes time

Superhuman's keyboard-driven workflow requires an adjustment period. The product offers onboarding sessions to help new users, but the full productivity gains take a few weeks to materialise as you build muscle memory. During that initial period, you may find yourself slower than you were in your previous client. This is a temporary cost, but it is worth factoring in, particularly if you are considering Superhuman for a team and need to account for the collective productivity dip during the transition.

Platform limitations

Superhuman is available on macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android, with a web app as well. However, the experience is optimised for the desktop apps, and some features may work differently or feel less polished in the browser. If you primarily use a Chromebook or Linux desktop, the web app is your only option, and it may not deliver the full speed advantage that the native apps provide.

Who Superhuman is best for

Founders and executives

People in leadership roles who receive a high volume of email and need to respond quickly tend to get the most value from Superhuman. The combination of speed, keyboard shortcuts, and AI drafting is well suited to someone who processes 100 or more messages per day and whose response time directly affects their organisation's velocity. The cost is trivial relative to the value of their time.

Sales professionals

Sales teams benefit from the Business plan's CRM integrations, Recent Opens, and AI drafting. Knowing when a prospect has opened your email, having a pre-drafted follow-up ready, and seeing CRM context without switching tabs all contribute to shorter sales cycles. The $40 per month per seat is easy to justify if it helps close even one additional deal per quarter.

Venture capitalists and investors

Investors who manage large networks and receive a constant stream of pitch decks, updates, and introductions find Superhuman's speed and organisation tools particularly valuable. The ability to process email in batches using Split Inbox, combined with snooze and reminder features for time-sensitive follow-ups, fits the investor workflow well.

Anyone drowning in email

If you consistently have more than 50 unread messages at any given time and feel anxious about your inbox, Superhuman is worth considering. The product is designed to help you reach and maintain inbox zero, and its workflow tools make that goal achievable in a way that most email clients do not. The cost is best understood as an investment in reducing email-related stress and reclaiming time for deeper work.

Who should probably skip it

If you receive fewer than 20 to 30 emails per day and manage them comfortably in Gmail or Outlook, Superhuman's premium is unlikely to pay for itself. The same applies if you do not use email as your primary communication tool and instead rely on Slack, Teams, or other messaging platforms for most of your work. Superhuman solves a specific problem, and if that problem does not describe your situation, the money is better spent elsewhere.

Managing email alongside your files

Email is one piece of a larger workflow. Messages arrive with attachments that need filing, conversations generate tasks that need tracking, and follow-ups need scheduling. Having a capable system alongside your email client helps keep things from slipping.

Fabric works well as a companion to email-focused tools. Its cloud drive gives you a single place to organise files and attachments from any source, and its tasks and reminders feature helps you track the follow-ups that come out of your inbox. At $8 per month on annual billing, it adds lightweight project and file management without duplicating what your email client already does.

FAQs

Does Superhuman have a free plan?

No. Superhuman's email product does not offer a free tier. All plans require payment from the start. Student and non-profit discounts are available by contacting the team directly.

How much does Superhuman cost per month?

The Starter plan costs $30 per month on monthly billing or $25 per month on annual billing. The Business plan costs $40 per month or $33 per month on an annual plan. Enterprise pricing is custom.

What is the difference between Superhuman Starter and Business?

The Business plan adds Auto Drafts, Ask AI, Custom Auto Labels, CRM integrations with HubSpot and Salesforce, and the Recent Opens feed. These are primarily AI and sales-focused features that build on the Starter plan's core email client.

Is Superhuman worth the price?

For users who process a high volume of email daily and value speed and keyboard-driven workflows, Superhuman tends to pay for itself through time savings. For users with lighter email loads, the premium over free alternatives like Gmail may be harder to justify.

Does Superhuman work with Outlook?

Yes. Superhuman supports both Gmail (Google Workspace) and Outlook (Microsoft 365) as underlying email providers. You connect your existing account and use Superhuman as the client layer on top.

Can I use Superhuman on Windows?

Yes. Superhuman offers native apps for macOS, Windows, iOS, and Android, along with a web application. The desktop apps provide the most polished experience.

Does Superhuman have a calendar?

Yes. Calendar integration is included on all plans. You can view your schedule alongside your inbox, create events, and share your availability with contacts. Video conferencing integrations with Zoom, Google Meet, and similar services are also included.

What is Split Inbox?

Split Inbox is Superhuman's system for automatically sorting incoming email into separate streams based on categories you define. Rather than processing all messages in a single chronological list, you work through each category in turn. This supports batch processing and helps you focus on one type of correspondence at a time.

Does Superhuman offer SSO?

SSO is available on the Enterprise plan only. If your organisation requires single sign-on for all tools, you will need to contact the sales team for Enterprise pricing.

How does Superhuman compare to cheaper alternatives like Fyxer?

Fyxer works alongside your existing email client rather than replacing it, offering AI drafting, inbox sorting, and meeting notes starting at $37 per month (annual). Superhuman replaces your email client entirely with a faster, keyboard-driven interface starting at $25 per month (annual). The right choice depends on whether you want to transform your email experience or augment the one you already have.

Can I get a refund if Superhuman does not work for me?

Superhuman's refund policy is not prominently published. It is worth checking with their support team before subscribing if refund terms are important to your decision. Choosing monthly billing rather than annual gives you more flexibility to cancel without a large upfront commitment.

Does Superhuman replace my email provider?

No. Superhuman is a client, not a provider. You still need a Gmail or Outlook account, and you continue paying for that account separately. Superhuman provides the interface and added features on top of your existing email infrastructure.

Looking for more? Read our Superhuman review, see how it stacks up in our guide to the best email clients, or check the Superhuman vs Spark comparison. If you are building your toolkit, our lists of the best tools for startup founders and must-have Mac apps for founders cover the broader landscape.