Anara vs Humata

Anara

• Researchers who want answers grounded in their own library of papers
• Working across hundreds of files and checking each claim against its source
• Zotero and Mendeley users, whose libraries import on every plan
• Writing with citations in a note editor or in Microsoft Word

Humata

• Asking questions across many long PDFs and getting cited answers
• Small teams of up to three people sharing one $9.99 plan
• Companies that want to embed document Q&A on their own website

Anara

• The Free plan's AI usage limit refreshes daily, and each upload is capped at 20 MB or 120 pages.
• Choosing a model, OCR and the Google Drive, Notion and OneDrive connectors need Pro; Deep Search and Model Council need Max.
• The pricing page's scripts show the prices recorded here to visitors without a paid plan, while its initial HTML lists an earlier, higher set (Plus $10, Pro $20, billed yearly).
• The desktop app is for Mac only and there is no Android app. Anara's FAQ says it does not currently offer a student discount.

Humata

• The Free plan is limited to 1 user and 60 pages a month, and the homepage also caps it at 10 answers.
• Pages beyond a plan's monthly allowance are billed per page: $0.02 on Expert and $0.01 on Team.
• OCR for scanned text, department and folder permissions and response personalization need the Team plan.
• The billing FAQ mentions a Student plan, but the pricing page does not list it or show a price.

Anara

Chat across your library

Ask questions of a single file, hundreds of files in a folder or the entire library. Anara says one conversation can work across up to 10,000 files.

Answers cited to the passage

Every answer carries inline citations that open the exact passage in the source document, in numbered form or an academic citation style.

Agent and paper search

The agent searches your library, the web and academic databases such as PubMed, arXiv and JSTOR, then returns a cited synthesis. It can also import files and reorganize folders on request.

Write and cite

The note editor matches your writing to your library and the web to suggest citations, and builds formatted reference lists. An add-in brings the same tools into Microsoft Word.

File handling

Reads PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Markdown, EPUB, images, audio and video; audio and video are transcribed automatically. OCR for scanned documents is part of Pro and above.

Deep Search and Model Council

On the Max plans, Deep Search runs multi-step research across your library and the web, and Model Council puts one question to several models at once.

Humata

Chat with your files

Upload files or whole folders and ask questions about them. Each answer cites the relevant sections of the source documents, with highlighted links back into the file.

Ask All across files

Tick several files or a folder and use Ask All to put one question to all of them at once, for example to compare documents.

Website import

The From URL option in the upload dialog imports a website so that questions can be asked about its pages.

Answer modes and custom prompts

Grounded, Balanced and Creative modes set how closely answers stick to the documents, and a custom prompt can be sent along with every question.

Team roles and permissions

Admins invite members, assign admin or member roles, group people into teams and restrict access to folders. Department and folder permissions start at the Team plan.

Embeds and API

A chat view for a file or folder can be embedded in a web page, with white labeling on Enterprise. An API covers document import, conversations and questions.

Anara

• Free$0

  Limited AI usage that refreshes daily, uploads of up to 20 MB or 120 pages each, and Zotero and Mendeley connectors.

• Plus$8

  per seat / month, billed yearly ($96); $10 billed monthly

  A larger weekly usage limit, credits for extra usage, uploads of up to 100 MB or 600 pages, science database connectors and 5 collaborators per folder.

• Pro$16

  per seat / month, billed yearly ($192); $20 billed monthly

  4x the usage of Plus, a choice of every AI model, uploads of up to 300 MB or 10,000 pages, OCR, cloud storage connectors and 50 collaborators per folder.

• Max 5x$80

  per seat / month, billed yearly ($960); $100 billed monthly

  5x the usage of Pro, plus Deep Search, Model Council, uploads with no size or page limit and unlimited folder collaborators.

• Max 20x$160

  per seat / month, billed yearly ($1,920); $200 billed monthly

  The same features as Max 5x with 20x the usage of Pro.

• EnterpriseCustom

  SSO/SAML and SCIM provisioning, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified security, SharePoint live sync and a shared Slack channel for support.

Humata

• Free$0

  1 user and 60 free pages a month, with basic features and up to 10 answers.

• Expert$9.99

  per month, billed monthly

  Up to 3 users and 500 free pages a month, then $0.02 per additional page, with chat support.

• Team$49

  per user / month, billed monthly

  For teams of up to 10: 5,000 free pages a month, then $0.01 per page, plus department and folder permissions, OCR and response personalization.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Unlimited users and custom page allowances, with a SOC-2 certificate, uptime SLA and early access to new features.

Anara

• Annual discount

  Save 20% with yearly billing

  Billed yearly, Plus is $8 a seat per month against $10 billed monthly, Pro is $16 against $20 and Max 5x is $80 against $100. The pricing page labels the yearly option as a 20% saving.

Humata

No public discounts listed.