Coda alternative

A Coda alternative for teams caught by the Superhuman rebrand

The product you bought is now part of somebody else's bundle. That is a reasonable moment to look around.

The short answer

Polaris is a free alternative to Coda, which became Superhuman Docs in July 2026 and is now sold inside the Superhuman suite alongside Grammarly, Mail and Go. Superhuman lists Free at zero, Pro at twelve dollars and Business at thirty-three dollars per member per month billed annually, checked 21 August 2026. Polaris software is free with no seat count.

Coda became: Superhuman Docs, July 2026
Superhuman Pro: $12 / member / month annual
Superhuman Business: $33 / member / month annual
Checked: 21 Aug 2026

What changed, and why it matters more than a name

Coda is now Superhuman Docs. Published documentation from both Coda and Superhuman dates the change to 8 July 2026, placing the product inside the Superhuman suite alongside Grammarly, Superhuman Mail and Superhuman Go, following Grammarly's own rebrand to Superhuman.

The pricing shape changed with it. Checked on 21 August 2026, superhuman.com lists Free at zero including Grammarly, Docs and Go; Pro at twelve dollars per member per month billed annually or fifteen billed monthly; Business at thirty-three annually or forty monthly, adding Mail; and Enterprise on request. Coda's own historical model billed only Doc Makers, at published rates around ten dollars per Doc Maker per month annually on Pro and thirty on Team, with editors and viewers free.

That is the real story for anyone searching this. Coda's distinctive billing idea, charging for the few people who build docs rather than the many who read them, has been folded into a per-member suite price covering products you may not have wanted to buy.

Head to head

Superhuman suite prices from superhuman.com/plans, checked 21 August 2026. Coda legacy Doc Maker rates from published 2026 summaries.

Coda / Superhuman Docs

Polaris

Product identity

Coda since 8 July 2026 is Superhuman Docs, inside the Superhuman suite

One product: tasks, docs and team chat, with AI workers

Cost

Suite Free, Pro $12 and Business $33 per member per month annually

$0 for software at any team size

Billing unit

Per member, across the bundled products

Per human-equivalent hour of delivered work, roughly $2, itemised

Legacy model

Doc Maker billing, editors and viewers free

No billing unit tied to people at all

Document power

Tables in docs, formula language, Packs, buttons and automations

Block editor with markdown shortcuts, to-dos, sub-pages, versioning and review

Task management

Tables configured as trackers

Workstreams with shared lanes plus a pinned Focus lane over three horizons

Team chat

Comments in docs

Team chat in the product, plus a Slack-fed Inbox of prefilled task suggestions

What AI does

Assists inside the doc, bundled with the suite

Runs on a cloud machine as an assigned teammate and returns files as a comment

When you should stay on Coda

The document engine underneath the new name is still one of the strongest in this category.

The formula language is doing real work
Coda formulas, buttons and automations let a non-engineer build something close to an application inside a document. Polaris has none of that, and rebuilding a mature Coda doc would mean writing software.
Packs connect the doc to your systems
A Pack pulling live data from another product into a table is infrastructure. Losing it means losing the data flow, not just the layout.
You already want the Superhuman bundle
Teams buying Grammarly and Superhuman Mail anyway get Docs inside the same per-member price, which changes the arithmetic considerably in Superhuman's favour.
Most of your people only read
If you are still on legacy Doc Maker billing, a small number of builders and a large number of free readers is a genuinely cheap arrangement that per-seat products cannot match.

Working out whether the rebrand changes your bill

Four things to check before deciding anything.

1
Find out which billing model you are on
Legacy Coda workspaces were billed per Doc Maker, with editors and viewers free. Superhuman suite plans are billed per member. Those produce very different totals for the same team, so confirm which one your invoice reflects.
2
Count the products you actually use
The Business tier at thirty-three dollars per member per month bundles Mail, Grammarly, Docs and Go. If your team uses one of the four, work out the effective price of that one.
3
Separate the docs from the trackers
Coda docs built on formulas and Packs should stay. Coda tables being used as a project tracker with a status column are the part worth comparing, and that part is free in Polaris.
4
Test the delivery question, not the editor question
Open one Polaris workstream, hire a worker through the chat interview, and assign it a task you have been deferring. What comes back is a comment with files and a work log line at roughly two dollars per human-equivalent hour.

Moving your documents

Coda exports docs to Markdown, HTML, PDF and CSV per table, and has a documented API. Prose and table contents come out. Formulas, buttons, automations, Pack connections and cross-doc references do not, because they are behaviour rather than content.

The practical division is the same one that applies to Notion. Reference documentation moves cleanly into a Polaris doc tree. Anything approaching an application should stay where the formula engine lives, and no honest comparison page would suggest otherwise.

Go deeper

Notion vs Coda

The product comparison still holds. The company comparison changed underneath it this summer.

A Notion alternative for teams tired of maintaining the database

Notion is the best place to write the plan. The question is who executes it once the page is written.

An Airtable alternative for teams billed per editor

Airtable is a real database with a spreadsheet face. That is the strength, and it is why this comparison has limits.

Per-seat pricing and usage pricing charge for different things

One model prices access. The other prices output. Almost every argument about software cost is really about which of those you are buying.

All-in-one workspace

One data model behind documents, tasks and conversation, instead of three products and a pile of integrations.

The cost of AI subscriptions for a team

Five figures a year at fifty people, and no shared record of what any of it produced.

Questions people ask

+Is Coda still called Coda?

Published documentation from Coda and Superhuman dates the change to 8 July 2026, when Coda became Superhuman Docs within the Superhuman suite alongside Grammarly, Mail and Go. Existing workspaces continued to work through the transition. Check the vendor's help centre for the current state of your own account.

+What does Superhuman Docs cost now?

Checked on 21 August 2026, superhuman.com lists Free at zero covering Grammarly, Docs and Go; Pro at twelve dollars per member per month billed annually or fifteen monthly; Business at thirty-three annually or forty monthly, adding Mail; and Enterprise on request. Legacy Coda Doc Maker billing was a separate and different model.

+Does Polaris have anything like Coda formulas or Packs?

No. Polaris docs are a nested tree with a block editor, markdown shortcuts, to-dos, sub-pages, versioning, file review and comments. There is no formula language, no button objects and no Pack system. Documents that behave like applications should stay in Coda.

+Can I export a Coda doc?

Coda exports to Markdown, HTML, PDF and CSV per table, and has a documented API. Prose and table contents come across. Formulas, buttons, automations, Pack connections and cross-doc references do not transfer to any tool, including Polaris.

+Why is Polaris free if everything else here charges per seat?

Because the seat is not the thing worth charging for. The software is free with unlimited humans, tasks, workstreams and docs, and revenue comes from AI workers delivering work at roughly two dollars per human-equivalent hour. Polaris is in free public beta with no customers yet, and that is the model rather than an introductory offer.