Raycast vs Superhuman
Both are productivity tools. Here is what separates them.
| Raycast | Superhuman | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Productivity | Productivity |
| Pricing model | freemium | paid |
| Price from | Freemium | Paid |
| Upvotes | 11 | 4 |
| What it does | A launcher that replaced Spotlight and then replaced half your menu bar. | Email and documents in one workspace, with an AI assistant called Go. |
What Raycast is
Raycast is a keyboard-driven launcher that bundles productivity commands and accepts third-party extensions. The commands that ship with it cover clipboard history, snippets, quicklinks, window management, a calculator, file search and an emoji picker. Applications are published for macOS, Windows and iOS, with the Windows build requiring Windows 10 version 21H2 or later, or Windows 11. Extensions that contain no native code run on Windows and macOS without modification. Raycast AI sits behind a paid subscription and is not part of the Free plan. It exposes models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Perplexity, DeepSeek and xAI through a single interface, and it can also run local models through Ollama or use your own API key for OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Quick AI answers a query in a floating window opened by one hotkey and can search the web as part of the answer. AI Extensions go further, letting a natural language instruction drive third-party applications such as Linear and Slack. The Free plan allows up to 30 shared snippets, 30 shared quicklinks and 5 shared commands, keeps clipboard history for three months and caps Raycast Notes at five notes. Pro costs $10 per month billed monthly, or $8 billed annually, a 20 percent reduction. It removes both the clipboard history retention limit and the Notes limit, and adds cloud sync, dictation, custom themes, a translator and custom window management commands. An Advanced AI add-on costs a further $8 per month. For teams, the free tier costs nothing per user and places no cap on the number of members. Teams Pro is $12 per user per month billed annually, or $15 billed monthly, lifts the caps on shared snippets, quicklinks and commands, and adds custom extensions along with developer tooling. The Advanced AI add-on is $8 per user per month on top of that. Enterprise is quoted rather than list priced and adds SAML, SCIM, domain capture, two factor enforcement, an extension allow list and an IP allow list, plus an AI control centre with an organisation-wide AI toggle, an AI provider allow list and support for a custom AI provider.
What Superhuman is
Superhuman is a suite of AI work software covering email, documents and an assistant that runs across other applications. It began in 2014 as Superhuman Mail, an email client, and the founding team includes Rahul Vohra. The current line-up grew out of a group of products that originally included Coda and Grammarly, and both of those lineages are visible in what it now sells. Superhuman Docs is the document and project side. Documents hold text, tables, formulas and buttons, and AI can assemble them. Beyond static pages it runs workflows: approval processes, dashboards built and customised for data visualisation, and knowledge hubs that update themselves so the information in them stays accurate. Collaboration features include voting, reactions and charts, and templates cover common team set-ups. Anyone using it is classed as either a Doc Maker or an Editor. Docs AI, the assistant inside it, is in beta for Doc Makers. Document size is unlimited on Pro and above. There are more than 800 integrations, including Jira, Salesforce and Asana, and it works in real time alongside assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor. Go is the AI assistant, described as proactive and available in every app rather than only inside Superhuman's own. Grammarly is included with the Pro and Business plans, with a limited trial on the free plan. Elsewhere the suite connects to Gmail, Slack, Google Calendar, Jira and Salesforce. Superhuman puts the scale of the whole thing at more than 40 million people and over 50,000 organisations, and says it analyses 200 billion words a day. Pricing starts with a free plan at $0. Pro is $12 a month billed annually, or $15 billed monthly. Business is $33 a month billed annually, or $40 monthly. Enterprise is quoted individually. None of it is open source. The figure the company attaches to all this is four hours saved per person per week, which is a vendor claim rather than an independent measurement. The more useful point for anyone arriving on the strength of the keyboard-driven inbox is that email is now one component of a wider set. Documents, workflows and an assistant that follows you into other applications carry a substantial share of what is being sold, and the pricing covers the suite rather than the mail client alone.
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