by Superhuman Inc. · The Fastest Email Experience Ever Made
Superhuman is a premium AI-powered email client built on top of Gmail and Outlook. Every action is keyboard-driven, every email loads instantly, and AI features like Auto Summarize, AI Triage, and AI Reply help you reach Inbox Zero faster than any other client.
Premium positioning: At $30/month, Superhuman is the most expensive email client on the market by far. It is explicitly designed for high-volume email professionals — founders, executives, sales teams, and investors who live in their inbox. If you send fewer than 50 emails a day, the ROI calculation is harder to justify. If you send 100+, it can genuinely save hours per week.
Founded in 2015 by Rahul Vohra (former Rapportive CEO), Superhuman launched to a famously exclusive waitlist in 2019 — at a time when email apps were becoming commoditized, Superhuman bet that serious professionals would pay a premium for a dramatically faster, more keyboard-driven experience.
The core promise: every Superhuman user reaches Inbox Zero in 4 hours or less per week, on average. The company achieves this through a combination of speed (sub-100ms load times), keyboard shortcuts for every action, AI that triages and summarizes emails automatically, and an onboarding process that includes a 30-minute 1:1 coaching session with a Superhuman team member.
2025–2026: Superhuman launched "AI Triage" that automatically categorizes incoming emails as Important, FYI, or Automated — eliminating manual email sorting. "Auto Summarize" generates a one-sentence summary of every email thread. "AI Reply" drafts full responses in your tone from a 3-word prompt. The team feature now shows live teammate activity on shared threads.
Every email, search result, and UI action loads in under 100ms. Superhuman pre-fetches everything so there's never a loading spinner — the fastest email experience technically possible.
AI automatically sorts incoming emails into Important, FYI, and Automated categories. Focus exclusively on what matters; let AI handle the noise.
Every email thread gets a one-sentence AI summary at the top. Know what a thread is about without reading it — essential for processing hundreds of emails quickly.
Type 3 words and Superhuman drafts a complete, context-aware reply in your personal writing tone. Learns from your sent emails to match your voice precisely.
Every action has a keyboard shortcut. Archive, reply, snooze, label, and search without touching the mouse. Power users report processing email 3x faster than in Gmail.
See exactly when recipients open your emails, on which device, and from which location. Invaluable for sales follow-up timing and gauging interest before a call.
Schedule emails to send at optimal times. Set follow-up reminders that reappear in your inbox if you don't get a reply by a chosen date.
Share drafts, leave internal comments on emails, and see when teammates are viewing the same thread — turning email into a collaborative workspace.
| Plan | Price | AI Features | Team Features | Best For |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $30/mo/user | AI Triage, Summarize, Reply | Individual professionals | |
| Business ⭐ | $40/mo/user | Full AI suite | Full | Sales teams, startups |
| Enterprise | Custom | Full AI suite | + Admin controls | Large orgs, SSO, compliance |
Annual billing reduces cost by ~17%. No free trial is offered, but a 30-day money-back guarantee is available. The mandatory 1:1 onboarding call is included in all plans at no extra charge.
| Feature | Superhuman | Gmail (native) | Spark Mail | HEY Email |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI email drafting | Excellent | Good | Good | |
| AI triage/sorting | Best-in-class | Basic | ||
| Read receipts | Detailed | |||
| Load speed | Sub-100ms | Moderate | Fast | Fast |
| Team collaboration | Full | Basic | ||
| Price | $30/mo/user | Free (Workspace $6+) | Free / $7.99/mo | $99/year |
Superhuman is a genuine productivity multiplier for people who live in email. The combination of sub-100ms speed, AI Triage, AI Reply, and keyboard-first UX creates an email experience that is qualitatively different from anything else available. For executives, sales professionals, and founders who spend 3+ hours daily in email, the $30/month is often recouped in the first week.
For casual email users (under 30 emails/day), it is hard to justify versus free alternatives. But for the right user profile, Superhuman is the best email client ever built.
Recommended for: Founders, executives, sales teams, investors, recruiters, and anyone processing 50+ emails daily who values keyboard efficiency and AI-powered triage.
Not recommended for: Casual email users, those on tight budgets, non-Gmail/Outlook users, or people who prefer mouse-driven interfaces.