Shortwave vs Superhuman
A side-by-side comparison of capabilities, autonomy, integrations, and pricing to help you choose.
Short answer: choose Shortwave if you want ai-native email client with an agent that searches, drafts, and organizes (Copilot, subscription); choose Superhuman if you want fast ai email client with an assistant and a partner-agent store (Copilot, subscription).
| Shortwave | Superhuman | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | AI-native email client with an agent that searches, drafts, and organizes | Fast AI email client with an assistant and a partner-agent store |
| Type | product-with-agents | product-with-agents |
| Autonomy | Copilot | Copilot |
| Pricing | subscription · $24/seat/mo (Business, billed annually) | subscription · $12/user/mo (Pro, billed annually) |
| Best for | smb, consumers, enterprise | smb, mid-market, enterprise |
| Deployment | saas | saas |
| Modalities | text, email | text, email |
| Models | model-agnostic | model-agnostic |
| Protocols | rest-api | function-calling, rest-api |
| Integrations | Gmail, Google Calendar | Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar, Jira, Box, Gamma |
| Capabilities | 4 documented | 4 documented |
Shortwave
- +Fast natural-language email search across years of mail
- +Clean Inbox-style UX from the team that built Google Inbox
- +Genuinely agentic actions, not just chat
- -Gmail-centric; non-Gmail support is narrower
- -Pricing is steep and annual-only ($24-$100/seat)
Superhuman
- +Fast, keyboard-driven email with AI drafting, summarization, and triage that genuinely speeds up inbox work
- +Superhuman Go adds a proactive assistant and an Agent Store of first- and third-party agents
- +Backed by Superhuman (formerly Grammarly), unifying Grammarly, Coda, and Superhuman Mail
- -Premium pricing for an email client, and Superhuman Mail sits in the higher Business tier
- -Pricing and packaging shifted after the rebrand, which can be confusing
Which should you choose?
Shortwave is ai-native email client with an agent that searches, drafts, and organizes, best for smb, consumers, enterprise. Superhuman is fast ai email client with an assistant and a partner-agent store, best for smb, mid-market, enterprise. The right choice depends on the autonomy level you want, your existing integrations, and your budget, all compared above.
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