Humata

Humata is an AI workspace for asking questions about uploaded documents and turning source material into usable insights. It is built around files rather than general chat: users can upload PDFs or folders, ask questions across documents, receive answers with citations, summarize and compare papers, and share or embed a document-based assistant. It serves researchers, students, analysts, legal and business teams, and anyone who needs to read dense material faster.

✨ Key Features

• Document and PDF upload — Drag in files or folders, or import a publicly available PDF by URL through the API; the Ask experience becomes available after processing.
• Cited answers — Ask questions about one or many uploaded files and trace answers back to referenced pages or source passages.
• Grounded, Balanced, and Creative modes — Choose whether answers must stay strictly within the documents, combine document evidence with additional context, or respond more freely.
• Summarization and comparison — Ask Humata to summarize long papers, compare documents, extract findings, or rewrite an explanation.
• Folders and file organization — Group documents, move files between folders, and create a more structured knowledge workspace.
• Custom prompts — Set reusable instructions for chats, such as writing style, language, classification, summarization, translation, or ordering.
• Webpage and embed assistants — Import a website for document-style questioning or embed a Humata chat view into a webpage.
• API access — Import documents from URLs and ask questions through streamed API responses; supported models and answer approaches are documented by Humata.
• Team permissions and security — Higher plans add department/folder permissions, response personalization, OCR for scanned text, enterprise support, and security controls.
• Usage-based page billing — Plans include monthly free pages and charge for additional uploaded PDF pages according to the selected plan.

💳 Pricing

• Free — $0/month; 1 user and 60 free pages per month with basic features. The homepage separately lists up to 10 answers for Free; it does not identify a renewal period for that answer allowance, so do not treat it as unlimited.
• Expert — $9.99/month; up to 3 users, 500 free pages per month, $0.02 per additional page, chat support, and GPT-5 support.
• Team — $49/user/month; up to 10 users, 5,000 free pages per month, $0.01 per additional page, enterprise support, department/folder permissions, OCR, and response personalization.
• Enterprise — Custom per user/month; unlimited users and custom page allowances, with enterprise support, permissions, OCR, response personalization, SOC-2 materials, uptime SLA, and early feature access.

Humata bills monthly. The current pricing page shows free-page allowances and additional-page rates; taxes, model availability, usage, seat count, and enterprise terms can change the final cost. Confirm the live checkout and data-handling terms before uploading confidential material.

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🎯 Use Cases

• Reading research papers — Ask for summaries, methods, findings, limitations, and cited passages across a paper set.
• Comparing documents — Find differences between reports, contracts, policies, or versions of a proposal.
• Preparing a briefing — Turn a folder of source material into a cited outline, answer set, or executive summary.
• Studying course material — Upload readings and ask grounded questions instead of searching every page manually.
• Reviewing legal or business files — Extract clauses, obligations, dates, risks, and supporting page references for human review.
• Building a team knowledge assistant — Organize shared files, apply permissions, and embed a document Q&A experience.
• Automating document workflows — Use the API to import PDFs and stream questions into an internal application.
• Working with scanned documents — Use OCR on supported higher-tier plans, then verify extracted text and citations.