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 anywhere else.
- Cedric works from your team's chat, and mail is one of the tools he reaches. He takes a task and comes back with it done.
- Superhuman sells a seat per person. Cedric is one teammate the whole team talks to, with one memory of the company.
- Superhuman Go puts agents beside you while you work. Cedric takes the job off your desk and returns it finished.
- If the person who needs to be faster is you, buy Superhuman. If the work needs doing whether or not you get to it, hire Cedric.
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". It runs as a desktop app for Windows and Mac, in Chrome and Edge, and on iOS and Android. Superhuman Docs is "the all-in-one AI workspace".
Go ships with agents. An Email Assistant sorts the inbox and drafts replies, a Knowledge Checker looks for evidence behind your claims, and a Daily Brief reports from connected apps. The idea running through all of it is speed where you already are, and Superhuman is excellent at it.
Cedric starts somewhere else. He lives in Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram or the browser, next to the people you work with. You message him the way you would message a colleague, and he reads your mail, calendar, CRM and documents, plans the steps and comes back with the work done. Where the work would send, change or spend something, he asks first.
So the honest framing is not better and worse. The question 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 read it, check the calendar, update the CRM and 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 yes 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 really 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 | Your team's chat app, 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 | Superhuman fits better: speed is its whole design |
| 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 | He asks, and waits |
| Price | Free, and the most expensive of the three | $25 or $33 a member monthly, billed yearly | $19 a month for 40,000 credits, one plan |
The price row is not like for like. 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 a 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. 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 want help at the edge of your screen while you control every keystroke, Go suits you. If you would rather hand the job over and read the answer later, Cedric does.
The second difference is ownership. Superhuman is licensed to a person and works on that person's inbox. Cedric is one teammate in a shared channel, so what he learns is there for whoever asks next. When a colleague asks why the Meridian pilot shrank to two sites, Cedric knows, because he wrote the reply.
The third is the approval step. Cedric sends no email, changes no record and spends no money until a person says yes. That holds on every job, as part of how he works.
Where Superhuman is the better buy
If you live in email and want to be faster at it, Superhuman wins clearly. Its keyboard-first client is built for exactly that, and a well-made email client is its own craft.
If you want help inside a document while you write it, Superhuman Docs and Go's writing feedback work right there on the page.
If you want an agent on whatever page is in front of you, pick Go. It runs in the browser and on the desktop, so its help follows your cursor.
Plenty of teams should run both: Superhuman for the inbox you personally work in, Cedric for the work that inbox generates for everybody else. The AI email assistant page shows that second half.
FAQ
Cedric connects to Gmail and reads and writes mail as one of his tools, and the results come back in chat. For a better place to read email, Superhuman is the pick.
He covers one reason people buy Superhuman: getting through work, rather than through email. Many teams keep both, since one person's inbox is a different problem from the team's workload.
Yes, and teams ask him for that often. Say what you want each morning and from which tools, and he posts before you start. The plan-my-day page shows one.
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. The free credits let you find out before you decide.
Try the one that does the work.
100,000 free credits, no card. Hand him the next thread you would forward.
100K credits ($50) on sign up. No card needed.