genei vs Humata (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Humata grades higher than genei: 2.2 against 2.0 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 5, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 10, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
Humata grades higher on ease of use. They get the same grade on value for money, the free plan, features and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
genei
Summarizes PDFs and web pages and keeps research organized
Humata
Document Q&A with cited answers across your uploaded files
Which one is for you
Pick genei if
- Fits if you're a student who wants summaries and references in one place
- Works for someone who builds essay notes from many PDFs and pages
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want a free plan, as there's only a 14-day trial
- Pricey if you need multi-document analysis or paraphrasing, which sit on Pro at £24.99 a month yearly
- Watch out: prices are in pounds, so the dollar cost moves with the rate
- Watch out: the homepage promotes a separate tool, CoLoop, for qualitative analysis
Pick Humata if
- Fits if two or three of you want to share one $9.99 plan
- Works for companies that want document Q&A on their own website through the embed or API
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you read a lot, since Expert has 500 pages a month and each extra page is $0.02
- Skip it if your files are scans, because OCR needs the Team plan at $49 a user a month
- Not for you if you want a tool that finds papers, as this only answers from what you upload
- Too light for real work on the free plan: 1 user, 60 pages a month and, going by the homepage, 10 answers
- Watch out: the billing FAQ mentions a Student plan, but the pricing page doesn't list it or a price
How we grade them
| 2.0GPAgeneiFair | 2.2GPAHumataFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CBasic is £7.99 a month billed yearly (£9.99 monthly), about the category's $10 middle. Pro is £24.99. The academic discount drops Basic to £3.99, but only for those who qualify. | CExpert is $9.99 a month and up to 3 of you can share it, the low end here. But it's metered at 500 pages a month, then $0.02 a page, and OCR for scans, folder permissions and personalized answers all wait for Team at $49 a user. Low to start, dear once you need those. |
| Free plan and trial | CNo free plan, just a 14-day trial. The listing does not say whether a card is needed. | CFree is 1 user, 60 pages a month and, going by the homepage, 10 answers. That's a paper or two and you've seen how the citations work. A cap you'll hit in an afternoon, in other words. |
| Features | CSummaries, questions, folders, notes, references and figure extraction. The listing shows multi-document analysis and AI paraphrasing as Pro-only. | CIt does chat-with-your-documents fully: cited answers that link to the passage, Ask All to put one question to a whole folder, website import, and Grounded, Balanced and Creative modes. That's a smaller job than this category's, though. It only answers from what you upload. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. You set up projects and folders before the notes pile up usefully. | BNo App Store rating on record, so this rests on the listing: a web app where you upload a folder, tick the files and ask, with nothing to install or connect. The one thing to watch is the page meter, since anything over your allowance is billed per page. |
| Platforms and integrations | CWeb only, with no apps or integrations listed. | CA browser tab and nothing else: no phone app, no desktop app, no extension, and the listing names no integrations with other apps at all. There is an API for importing documents and asking questions, and an embed for your own page, but neither gets Humata off the one place it runs. |
| Best for | summarizing PDFs and web pages for essays | small teams asking questions of shared files |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: genei and Humata. How we grade
Price against what you get
genei starts at about $5.35 a month and scores 2.0 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Humata starts at $9.99 a month and scores 2.3.
Humata scores higher, and starts $4.64 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other AI research tools on the chart, 4 score higher than genei for less, and 10 score higher than Humata for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- genei also covers notes and documents.
- Humata also covers chat assistant.
At a glance
| genei | Humata | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free plan |
| Starts at | £3.99 per month, billed annually (Academic Basic) | $9.99 per month, billed monthly (covers up to 3 users) |
| Free plan | None | 1 user and 60 free pages a month with basic features. The homepage also limits it to 10 answers. |
| Free trial | 14-day free trial | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | genei | Tilda Technologies Inc. |
| Price read from | genei.io | humata.ai |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 |
Worth knowing
genei
- Prices are shown in pounds sterling.
- Multidocument analysis and AI paraphrasing are Pro only.
- The homepage promotes a separate qualitative analysis tool, CoLoop.
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.
Key features
genei
- AI summaries
- Summarizes documents and web pages and extracts keywords to speed up background reading.
- Question mode
- Ask questions and have the AI find answers across your documents; GPT-3 search is on Pro.
- Projects and folders
- Store documents in customizable projects with unlimited resources on both plan tiers.
- Notes and references
- Cloud notes and annotations, note linking and automatic reference generation.
- Multidocument analysis
- Pro analyzes several documents together.
- Figure and table extraction
- Pulls graphs, figures and tables out of documents.
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.
Plans
genei
Basic£9.99
per month (£7.99 billed annually)
Summaries, keywords, notes, reference generation; files up to 5 GB.
Pro£29.99
per month (£24.99 billed annually)
Adds multi-document analysis, AI expand and paraphrase, and GPT-3 search and questions.
Academic Basic£4.99
per month (£3.99 billed annually)
Basic features at the academic discount.
Academic Pro£19.99
per month (£15.99 billed annually)
Pro features at the academic discount.
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.
Ways to pay less
genei
- Education
Academic pricing at 40% off
The pricing page has an Academic tab with Basic and Pro plans labeled as a 40% discount.
Humata
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, genei or Humata?
As of Nov 12, 2026, genei is cheaper to start with: about $5.35 a month, against $9.99 a month for Humata. genei starts at £3.99 per month, billed annually (Academic Basic), and Humata starts at $9.99 per month, billed monthly (covers up to 3 users).
Which has a free plan, genei or Humata?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only Humata has a free plan. genei does not, though it has a free trial.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.