Superhuman makes you faster. Cedric does the work.
Both put AI on your email, and they solve different problems. One helps you get through the inbox. The other takes what the inbox generates off your desk. Checked against Superhuman's own site on 11 September 2026.
- Superhuman is an email client, and a very good one. It exists so one person can clear a full inbox faster than they could anywhere else.
- Cedric is not an email client and will not make you faster at reading mail. It works from the chat app your team already uses, and mail is one of the tools it reaches.
- Superhuman sells seats, one per person. Cedric is one teammate the whole team talks to, with a single memory of the company behind it.
- Superhuman Go puts agents beside you while you work. Cedric takes the task away and comes back with it finished, asking before it sends, changes or spends anything.
- If the person who needs to be faster is you, buy Superhuman. If the work needs doing whether or not you get to it, that is the job Cedric was built for.
What each one actually is
Superhuman describes itself as "AI that works where you do", and sells three things. Superhuman Mail is "the most productive email app ever made", a keyboard-first client that replaces Gmail or Outlook in front of you. Superhuman Go is "the AI assistant and agent platform that works everywhere you work", running in a desktop app for Windows and Mac, in Chrome and Edge extensions, and on iOS and Android. Superhuman Docs is "the all-in-one AI workspace". Go ships with agents including an Email Assistant that sorts the inbox and drafts replies, a Knowledge Checker that looks for evidence behind your claims, and a Daily Brief that reports from connected apps.
The through-line is speed at the surface where you already are. Superhuman puts intelligence into the window you are looking at, so the person doing the work does it better and faster. That is a coherent product and it is genuinely excellent at it.
Cedric starts somewhere else. You do not open Cedric, because Cedric lives in Slack, Telegram or Discord, next to the people you work with. You send it a message the way you would send a colleague a message, and it goes off and does the thing. It reads your mail, your calendar, your CRM, your documents and your channels, plans the steps itself, and comes back with the work done. Where the work would send something, change something or spend something, it stops and asks first.
So the honest framing is not better and worse. It is whether the bottleneck is you moving through your inbox, or the pile of work your inbox creates.
One message
The difference, in one thread
Lena Brunner9:14 AM
@Cedric Anna at Meridian just replied about the pilot. Can you handle it?
CedricAPP9:15 AM
Read the thread. She is asking to start with two sites instead of twelve and wants a date. I have drafted the reply confirming both sites, proposed Tuesday the 22nd against your calendar, and written the CRM note. Two things you should know before it goes: she copied their CFO for the first time, and the pricing question from July is still open in the thread.
In Superhuman
You open the thread, and the Email Assistant drafts a reply in your voice. You still read it, still check the calendar, still update the CRM, still send.
In Cedric
The draft, the calendar check and the CRM note arrive together, in the channel, with the two things worth knowing surfaced. One approval sends all three.
The part that matters
Nobody had to open an inbox. The work came to where the team was already talking, and stopped for a person at the one point that needed a decision.
Side by side
Doing it by hand is the honest baseline, because that is what most teams are actually comparing against. Superhuman details were read on superhuman.com on 11 September 2026.
| By hand | Superhuman | Cedric | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Your inbox and ten browser tabs | Desktop app, browser extension, phone | Slack, Telegram, Discord, or the browser |
| What gets faster | Nothing | You, considerably | The work, whether or not you are at your desk |
| Email speed | Your typing speed | The whole point of the product | Not what it does |
| Who it belongs to | One person | One seat per person | One teammate the whole team shares |
| What it remembers | What you remember | Your inbox and your connected apps | The company, shared across everyone |
| Before it sends or changes anything | You do it | You do it | It asks, and waits |
| Price | Free, and the most expensive of the three | $25 or $33 per member per month, billed annually | $19 a month for 40,000 credits, no seat count |
The price row is not like for like and should not be read as one. Superhuman charges per person; Cedric charges for the work done, on one plan the whole team uses. Superhuman lists Starter at $25 and Business at $33 per member per month billed annually, with Enterprise on request, read 11 September 2026.
Where the two genuinely overlap
Superhuman Go and Cedric both act rather than only suggest, so the overlap is real and worth being precise about. Go's agents sit beside you in the window you are working in and offer help as you go. Cedric takes the job away and returns a result. If you like having the intelligence in your peripheral vision while you stay in control of every keystroke, Go's model will suit you better. If you would rather hand the job over and read the answer later, Cedric's will.
The second real difference is ownership. Superhuman is licensed to a person and works on that person's inbox. Cedric is one teammate in a shared channel, and what it learns about the company is available to whoever asks next. When your colleague asks Cedric why the Meridian pilot shrank to two sites, they get the answer, because it was Cedric that wrote the reply.
The third is the approval step. Cedric will not send an email, change a CRM record or spend money without asking, and that gate is not a setting you turn on. It is how the product works. If you want an assistant that acts more freely on your behalf, that constraint will feel slow.
Where Superhuman is the better buy
If your problem is that you personally live in email and want to be faster at it, Superhuman wins, and it is not close. Cedric gives you no inbox at all, no keyboard shortcuts, no triage view, no split inbox. Nothing here replaces a well-made email client.
If you want help inside the document while you write it, Superhuman Docs and the writing feedback in Go do that, and Cedric does not sit in your editor.
If you want an agent on the page in front of you across the whole web, Go runs in the browser and on the desktop and reaches far more surfaces than Cedric does. Cedric works from a chat app and a set of connected tools, not from wherever your cursor happens to be.
Plenty of teams should run both, and that is a sensible answer rather than a diplomatic one. Superhuman for the inbox you personally work in, Cedric for the work that the inbox generates for everybody else.
FAQ
No. Cedric connects to Gmail and reads and writes mail as one of its tools, but there is no Cedric inbox to open. If you want a better place to read email, this is the wrong product.
Only if the reason you bought Superhuman was to get through work faster rather than to get through email faster. Many teams keep both: one person's inbox is a different problem from the team's workload.
Where they sit and who they belong to. Go's agents work beside you in the window you are in, on your seat. Cedric works in the team's channel, acts on its own once asked, and asks a person before anything is sent, changed or paid for.
It does not compare cleanly. Superhuman lists Starter at $25 and Business at $33 per member per month billed annually, checked on 11 September 2026, so cost rises with headcount. Cedric starts at $19 a month for 40,000 credits with no seat count, so cost rises with work done. A team of ten costs ten Superhuman seats and one Cedric plan.
Yes, and it is one of the things it is asked for most. Say what you want in the morning and from where, and it posts it before you start. See how that reads on the plan-my-day page.
If one or two people are drowning in personal email, Superhuman. If the team keeps dropping work between the tools it already pays for, Cedric. If you are unsure, Cedric gives you 100,000 credits at signup with no card, so you can find out without deciding first.
Try the one that does the work.
100,000 credits when you sign up, no card needed. Cedric lives in the chat app your team already uses.
100K credits ($50) on sign up. No card needed.