Humata

The job Humata does is narrow and useful: upload a folder of PDFs — contracts, research papers, technical manuals — and ask a question across all of them at once, getting back an answer with a citation pointing to the specific page it came from. That citation is the feature that matters most; without it, an answer across dozens of documents is a claim you’d have to verify by hand anyway.

The narrowness is deliberate. Nothing runs on a schedule and nothing reaches into your other apps — you open a browser tab, upload files, ask a question, and copy the answer out. That’s the whole interaction, which is exactly what a document-research task usually needs and nothing more.

Where the price actually bites

Every tier is priced around a page allowance, and it’s the allowance rather than the monthly fee that determines whether Humata is cheap or expensive for you. Sixty free pages is a handful of short PDFs; a stack of long contracts burns through it fast. Once you’re past the included allowance, extra pages cost 2 cents each on Expert and 1 cent on Team — worth estimating your real document volume against before assuming the advertised monthly price is the whole bill.

Who it suits

Humata suits someone doing due diligence, legal review, or research across many documents at once — a use case a general chat assistant handles awkwardly because of upload limits and context size. For a single document or a quick question, ChatGPT or Claude will usually be faster and already paid for.