Superhuman vs Upstage

Superhuman — Application · Private · 1 of 1 figure sourced  |  Upstage — Foundation Models · Private · $958.8M valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

Aligned comparison

FieldSuperhumanUpstage
Sizenot disclosed$958.8M valuation
Employees—100
Founded20092020 11 yrs later
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryApplicationFoundation Models
Stack layerApplication, PlatformAPI service, Agent platform, Application, Model API
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USASeoul, South Korea

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Agent orchestrationText generationWorkflow automation

Not verified for Upstage · 2

Email assistanceSummarization

Recorded for Superhuman. Upstage’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Superhuman · 4

Code generationDocument extractionModel inferenceSearch answers

Recorded for Upstage. Superhuman’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Superhuman

Application

GrammarlyApplication

The writing assistant that gave the company its old name: spelling, grammar and tone correction across a million apps and websites, with generative rewrites, plagiarism and AI-text detection on the paid tier.

Superhuman DocsApplication

A collaborative-docs surface where a team's data and AI meet, the renamed successor to the acquired Coda.

Superhuman GoApplication

An AI assistant that works across the applications a person already uses, rather than living in its own chat window.

Superhuman MailApplication

An AI-assisted email client, the product the company was originally named for, now sold as one app inside the Superhuman Platform.

Upstage

Application

Solar ChatApplication

Research-the-web chat assistant built on Upstage's Solar LLM family, answering questions with sources.

Upstage AI SpaceApplication

Document intelligence tool that extracts, drafts and reviews document-based work; referenced in a customer testimonial as helping brokers find answers across long documents.

No counterpart

Superhuman sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Upstage yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Platform

Superhuman PlatformPlatform

The umbrella under which Superhuman now sells Mail, Docs and Go as one subscription, plus a marketplace of third-party agents and connectors.

Upstage sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Superhuman yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

API service

Document ParseAPI service

API that converts PDFs and scanned documents into structured, machine-readable layout and text.

Information ExtractAPI service

API that pulls named fields out of unstructured documents such as invoices, claims and contracts.

Agent platform

Upstage StudioAgent platform

Workspace for building and running document-processing agents from Upstage's parsing and extraction steps.

Model API

Solar LLMsModel API

Upstage's family of agent-oriented language models -- Solar Pro 4 as a hosted API for terminal tasks, document workflows and multi-turn tool use, plus the open-weight Solar Open 2 (250B MoE, 15B active params) for self-hosting.