For people who outgrew the page meter
Humata Alternative and Humata AI Pricing Without Per-Page Limits
Short answer: Humata AI charges by the page. The Expert plan is $9.99 a month for 500 pages, then $0.02 for every extra page, and OCR for scans starts on the $49 per user Team plan. If you question the same growing set of your own documents every week, MentalClone keeps them in one library at a flat price, reads scans on every paid plan and answers only from your files.
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What Humata costs as your page count grows
Humata's list price looks small because it is priced for a light month. The Expert plan includes 500 pages, which is about ten average contracts or three annual reports. Every page after that adds two cents.
The bars show one person on Expert, using Humata's own overage rate. At around 1,400 pages a month, Expert costs what MentalClone Starter costs billed yearly, and from there the gap only widens.
Humata Expert, one user, per month
Humata: $9.99 a month with 500 pages, then $0.02 a page (humata.ai/pricing). MentalClone Starter is 199 PLN a month or 1,194 PLN a year; dollar figures are approximate.
Who ends up looking for a Humata alternative
Humata is a good tool for asking a stack of PDFs questions and getting highlighted citations back. Most people who leave it are not unhappy with the answers. They are unhappy with the math.
A litigation paralegal loads a production of scanned exhibits and discovers OCR is a Team plan feature at $49 per user. A consultant uploads every deliverable from the last two years and watches the overage line climb. A founder wants answers in the voice of their own memos and board updates, not a neutral summary.
Those are three different reasons, and the same fix covers all of them: a private library of the documents you produce and receive, priced flat, that reads scans and answers only from what is in it.
Humata alternatives compared on price and limits
US list prices from each vendor's own pricing page. Where a vendor does not publish a price, the table says so instead of guessing.
| Tool | Price | What is metered | Scanned PDFs | Best for |
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| Humata | Free (60 pages a month). Expert $9.99 a month. Team $49 per user a month. Enterprise custom. | Pages: 500 on Expert, 5,000 on Team, then $0.02 or $0.01 a page | OCR on Team and Enterprise | Teams that want highlighted citations and folder permissions |
| ChatPDF | Free tier. Paid plan price shown only inside the app. | Documents and questions per day on the free tier | Text PDFs are the main use | Quick questions to a single PDF |
| AskYourPDF | Premium $11.99, Pro $14.99 a month, billed yearly | Documents, pages and questions per plan | Varies by plan | Students and researchers with many PDFs |
| Gemini Notebook (NotebookLM) | Free tier. More room with Google AI Pro at $19.99 a month. | Compute quota refreshed every five hours, weekly cap | No separate OCR tier | Research projects and audio overviews |
| MentalClone | Starter 199 PLN a month (about $54) or 1,194 PLN a year (about $27 a month). Professional 399 PLN (about $108). | Nothing per page. Unlimited documents and messages on both paid plans. | OCR on both plans, up to 40 scanned pages per file | One person asking their own growing archive every week |
If you are weighing Humata against the chat-with-PDF tools specifically, the ChatPDF alternative comparison goes deeper on ChatPDF and AskYourPDF. If Google's tool is on your list too, the Gemini Notebook alternative page covers its new usage quota.
How to move from Humata in one sitting
Humata holds copies of files you already have. Moving means uploading those originals once, not exporting anything.
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Gather the originals
Pull the PDFs, Word files and spreadsheets you uploaded from your drive or document system. Start with the folders you still question every week.
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Upload them into one library
PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLSX, TXT, CSV, RTF and images, up to 100 MB a file. Scans go through OCR automatically, with no plan upgrade.
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Ask the questions you asked in Humata
Answers come only from your documents and name the files they used. When your files do not cover the question, you get a plain "not in your documents".
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Cancel the page overage
Keep Humata's free tier for the odd shared PDF if you like. The heavy, repeat work now happens where no page is counted.
Where a flat-priced Humata alternative pays off first
Legal and compliance work
Discovery sets, policies and correspondence arrive as scans. Reading them should not require a team seat for one reviewer.
Consultants and advisors
Years of decks, reports and interview notes are the real product. The archive grows every month, so page-based billing grows with it.
Founders and operators
Board updates, investor memos and strategy docs. You want answers and drafts that sound like you wrote them, because you did.
What MentalClone does that Humata does not
Humata answers in a neutral assistant voice and points to the passage it used. MentalClone is built around a different idea: the library is yours, so the answers speak as you. Ask what you recommended to a client last spring and the reply comes back in the first person, in the register of your own writing, grounded in the files you uploaded.
That matters when the next step is a draft. A follow-up email, a proposal section or a status update written from your own past documents needs less rewriting than a summary written by a stranger.
The rule underneath does not change: if your documents do not say it, the answer says so. The AI second brain page shows this with a worked example.
Where Humata is still the better choice
Stay with Humata if you need
- • Highlighted citations that jump to the exact passage in the PDF
- • Shared team folders with department and folder permissions
- • An embeddable document chat for a website
- • The lowest entry price for light use, $9.99 for 500 pages
- • SOC 2 and an uptime SLA on the Enterprise plan
Switch to MentalClone if you want
- ✓ A flat monthly price with no per-page overage
- ✓ OCR for scanned files without buying a team seat
- ✓ One permanent library instead of per-chat uploads
- ✓ Answers and drafts in your own voice
- ✓ A plain "not in your documents" instead of a guess
Two limits to know before you switch. A text PDF is read up to 120 pages and a scanned PDF up to 40 pages, so split very long files into parts. And each answer draws on your 50 most recent documents, which suits active work better than a deep historical archive.
Questions people ask about Humata alternatives
What is the best Humata alternative?
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For one person who asks their own growing archive questions every week, MentalClone, because it charges a flat price with no page meter and reads scans on every paid plan. For quick questions to a single PDF, ChatPDF. For research projects with audio summaries, Gemini Notebook. For a team that needs shared folders and permissions, Humata itself is hard to beat.
How much does Humata AI cost?
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Humata has a free plan with 60 pages a month. Expert costs $9.99 a month with 500 pages and $0.02 for each extra page. Team costs $49 per user a month with 5,000 pages and $0.01 per extra page, plus OCR and folder permissions. Enterprise is priced on request.
Is Humata AI free?
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Only for light use. The free plan covers 60 pages a month for one user, with no extra pages available to buy. That is roughly one long report. Anyone working with real document volume ends up on Expert or Team, where the monthly page allowance and the overage rate decide the bill.
Can Humata read scanned PDFs?
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Yes, but Humata lists OCR for images and scanned text as a Team plan feature, which costs $49 per user a month. On Expert, a scan without a text layer gives the model little to read. MentalClone runs OCR on scanned PDFs and photos on both paid plans, up to 40 scanned pages per file.
Is Humata AI safe for confidential documents?
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Humata says it encrypts files and runs on a secured private cloud, and it lists SOC 2 on the Enterprise plan. For client work, check what your firm requires before uploading. The same question applies to any alternative, including MentalClone, where your library is private to your account and never shared.
What is Humata AI used for?
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Asking questions of PDFs and getting answers with highlighted citations: summarizing long technical papers, comparing documents and finding clauses. It is popular with researchers and legal teams. People who move away usually keep the same tasks and change the pricing model or the voice of the answers.
How much does MentalClone cost?
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Starter is 199 PLN a month (about $54) or 1,194 PLN a year, about $27 a month. Professional is 399 PLN a month (about $108) and reads three times more of your documents for each answer. Both include unlimited documents and messages with no page charges. The demo at the top gives you three questions first.
Stop counting pages and ask your documents
Paste a page from a report you wrote into the box at the top and ask it something. If the answer is useful, upload the folder.