Humata vs Otio

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

Otio

• Researchers synthesizing dozens of papers into a literature review
• Consultants, lawyers and analysts working across many client documents
• People who want several AI models under one subscription
• Learning from videos and podcasts as well as PDFs

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.

Otio

• The Free plan allows 10 uploads a day, 25 MB per file and 50 MB in total, with 1 space and 2 parallel chats.
• The site's FAQ puts daily Free usage at about 1 to 2 deep searches, 10 premium-model chats or 50 standard chats.
• Lite costs the same on monthly and annual billing; the 50% annual saving applies to Go and Pro.
• The pricing page lists web, desktop and iPhone apps; no Android app is listed.

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.

Otio

Chat across your sources

Ask one question across everything in a workspace and get an answer cited to the exact page or timestamp. Sources include PDFs, web pages, YouTube videos, podcasts, audio and spreadsheets.

Many AI models on every plan

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek and Moonshot models are available on all plans, with an Auto router and a side-by-side comparison of two models.

Deep Research

Multi-step research across your own sources and the open web, with each step of the reasoning visible. It is included on the Free plan within its usage limits.

Reader and notes

A reader view lets you highlight a passage in a source and ask about it. Notes made from a PDF or video are editable and export as Markdown.

Spaces

Separate workspaces keep each project's sources, chats and outputs apart: 1 on Free, 2 on Lite and 5 on Go.

Outputs and delivery

Generates documents, charts from spreadsheets and images, and can deliver results by email, Google Drive or Telegram.

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.

Otio

• Free$0

  Limited AI usage with every model and Deep Research, 10 uploads a day, 50 MB of storage, 1 space and 2 parallel chats.

• Lite$7

  per month, billed monthly; or $84 billed annually

  50 uploads a day, PDFs of up to 500 pages, 250 MB of storage, 2 spaces and 5 parallel chats.

• Go$18

  per month, billed annually ($216); $36 billed monthly

  3 times the chats, research and uploads of Lite: 250 uploads a day, 500 MB, PDFs of up to 1,000 pages, 5 spaces and 10 parallel chats.

• Pro$45

  per month, billed annually ($540); $90 billed monthly

  10 times the chats, research and uploads of Lite: 500 uploads a day, 1 GB of storage and PDFs of up to 2,000 pages.

• Team$25

  per seat / month, billed yearly; $30 billed monthly

  Everything in Pro with a shared workspace, central billing and user management, admin controls and priority support. Arranged through sales.

Humata

No public discounts listed.

Otio

• Annual discount

  Yearly billing halves the price of Go and Pro

  Go is $18 a month billed annually against $36 billed monthly, and Pro is $45 against $90. The pricing page labels yearly billing as saving 50%.