Humata Review, Pricing & Alternatives (2026)

Humata is a hosted document knowledge-base service from Tilda Technologies Inc., the company identified as Humata. The product launched in 2023, while ARK Invest describes the company as founded in 2022. Founders Cyrus Khajvandi and Dan Rasmuson lead the business. Humata announced a $3.5 million seed round on October 2, 2023, led by Google Gradient Ventures with ARK Invest, M13, and angel investors. TechCrunch reported that the service had reached millions of users and was being used in legal, oil and gas, and support work. Humata is aimed at people who need answers from their own documents rather than a general-purpose chatbot. The company should be distinguished from Humata Health, a separate healthcare business.

Humata begins with document uploads and turns those files into a searchable knowledge base for research, legal, and technical teams. Users can ask questions across one or multiple files, request summaries, and inspect answers linked to source pages. Shared workspaces support collaboration, while Team and Enterprise plans add department and folder permissions, OCR, and response personalization. Its API provides programmatic access to documents, conversations, and answers for embedding document question answering in another application. A typical workflow covers uploading papers, contracts, reports, or business files, asking for a fact, reviewing the cited page, and continuing with follow-up questions. Because Humata is hosted, customers do not install a local document-processing server. Usage is measured through monthly page allowances and paid overage on eligible plans.

Humata's current pricing table names GPT-5 support, but the cited product material does not give a dated 2025 or 2026 model release announcement. The service is therefore best described through its documented workflow and controls: document knowledge bases, API access, shared workspaces, page metering, OCR, and higher-tier permissions. Humata's security page says user input is not used to train AI models. It also says document data used for the model is not retained beyond 30 days, while dashboard data remains until deletion is requested. The company says data is encrypted at rest and in transit. These statements describe Humata's current operating policies, while GPT-5 identifies a listed capability rather than a dated product launch.

Humata's Free plan costs $0 and includes one user with 60 free pages per month. Expert costs $9.99 per month for three users and 500 pages, with $0.02 per extra page. Team costs $49 per user monthly for up to 10 users and 5,000 pages, with $0.01 per extra page. Enterprise uses custom pricing and custom page allowances. The current table shows monthly billing and no annual rate. Free excludes additional pages, chat support, enterprise support, OCR, permissions, personalization, SOC 2 certification, and an uptime SLA. Expert also excludes enterprise support, department and folder permissions, OCR, personalization, SOC 2 certification, and an uptime SLA. Older FAQ text mentions a Student plan, but the visible table lists Free, Expert, Team, and Enterprise.

Humata's page-based billing is its main drawback, especially for large archives or repeated uploads. Free includes 60 pages monthly, while Expert raises that to 500 and charges $0.02 per extra page. Team provides 5,000 pages at $49 per user monthly, plus OCR, folder permissions, and response personalization. Free and Expert lack several administrative controls, and Enterprise pricing is custom. ChatPDF is better for fast single-PDF conversations, with related Writer, YouTube chat, flashcard, slide, and research features. NotebookLM fits notebook-centered source collections, while AskYourPDF provides another document-chat and API workflow. Humata suits research, legal, and technical teams that need shared workspaces, page controls, OCR, and higher-tier administration. Choose it if those controls matter more than predictable costs for heavy document use.