Vithos vs Superhuman

The same love of the keyboard. Half the price, and search that answers as you type.

Superhuman proved that people will pay for fast, keyboard-driven email, and it deserves real credit for that. Vithos starts from the same conviction and takes it further in the two places that matter most: raw speed, and what your tools are allowed to do with your inbox.

Vithos is built around a search engine that indexes your mail locally and answers before you finish typing, and every interaction is held to a sub-50ms bar. And where Superhuman is a closed box, Vithos ships a public API and an MCP server from day one, so your scripts and agents can work your inbox with scoped, revocable permissions.

Side by side

Vithos
Superhuman
Price
Pro $14.99/mo or $149.99/yr, 7-day trial
From $30/mo, no free tier
Keyboard-first
Every action has a key and a palette entry
Excellent shortcuts
Search
Instant, answers as you type
Fast, with cloud round-trips
Offline
Fully usable, sync catches up
Limited offline support
Unified inbox across accounts
One list, one search, one palette
Accounts stay separate
Public API + MCP server
From day one, scoped keys
No public API
AI in the inbox
None built in; bring your own agent over MCP
Built-in AI drafts and summaries

Why people switch

Half the price, none of the lock-in

Pro is $14.99 a month against Superhuman's $30. If you leave, your mail was in Gmail the whole time.

Speed you can feel

No round-trip can beat a local index. Vithos answers searches and opens threads in the time it takes to paint a frame, on a plane or in a tunnel, because the answer is already there.

Built for the agent era

Superhuman gives you its AI. Vithos gives your AI an interface: a documented API and MCP server with scoped, revocable keys, so whatever assistant you trust can search, draft, and file with your permission.

If you loved what Superhuman taught email, Vithos is that philosophy, faster and open.

Stop waiting on your inbox.

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