Created by Humans
Rights marketplace for authors and publishers
Best for small and mid-market publishers.
Summary review · Last verified Nov 12, 2026 · Scored on 9 criteria · Vendors can't pay for scores
Research by Vahe Arabian · Scored and edited by the SODP team
Key facts
- Score
- 2.9 / 5
- Tier
- Marginal Fit
- Pricing model
- Custom pricing; contact the vendor for…
- Type
- Licensing marketplace
- Founded
- 2024
- HQ
- San Francisco, United States
- Headcount
- 11
At a glance
- Created by Humans scores 2.9/5 (Marginal Fit) in Benchmark Grid's independent AI content licensing platforms benchmark, assessed on 9 published criteria.
- It is built for small and mid-market publishers.
- Strongest on Publisher Control & Opt-Out (3.5) and Licensing Rights & Legal Framework (3.2); weakest on Support & Onboarding (1.8).
- Pricing: Custom pricing; contact the vendor for a quote.
- Scores last verified 12 Nov 2026. Vendors cannot pay for a score or a position.
Summary
Editor's update, October 2026: 19 Oct 2026 accuracy audit: removed unsupported revenue-share pricing; listing copy filled and book-publisher focus stated.
AI rights licensing platform for book authors, agents and publishers: rights holders choose licence options per work, approve negotiated deals with AI developers, and track payments in a dashboard.
Created by Humans is an AI rights licensing platform built mainly for book authors, literary agents and book publishers. Rights holders decide what they are comfortable licensing and fine-tune settings for each work, Created by Humans negotiates agreements with AI developers, and nothing takes effect until the rights holder approves it. AI developers can license training, reference and transformative rights under one agreement and one invoice.
Its standout feature is control. Rights holders choose licence options work by work and approve each negotiated deal, and the company is backed by bestselling authors including Walter Isaacson and Douglas Preston, which helps with credibility among book rights holders.
The limitations are transparency and fit. The site does not publish pricing, fee or payout terms, and it does not name the AI companies it has licensed to. Its focus on books means news and digital publishers will find less here than in crawler-level licensing tools.
Score breakdown
2.9 = 0.45 × 2.67 capability + 0.40 × 3.50 publisher fit + 0.15 × 1.70 cost
Σ (criterion rating × weight) across 9 criteria · scale 1 (poor) → 5 (excellent)
The platform provides a clear mechanism for registering works and setting licensing terms for AI usage.
16% of capability · What we check: Contracts clearly define usage scope, ownership retention, and compliance with copyright law.
Created by Humans negotiates compensation for licensed works, but no revenue share, fee or payment cycle is published.
14% of capability · What we check: Payment structures, schedules, and fee splits are explicitly stated in the platform terms.
Rights holders choose licence options per work and approve every negotiated deal before it takes effect.
12% of capability · What we check: Granular settings allowing publishers to restrict specific content types or withdraw data from training.
There is no disclosed information regarding existing AI partnerships or the scale of demand from AI companies.
12% of capability · What we check: The specific AI companies licensed to use content and the volume of requests processed.
Not evidenced in our research yet.
10% of capability · What we check: The API, RSS, or crawler requirements needed to securely transfer content to the platform.
The system mentions recording usage for compensation purposes, but the interface for monitoring remains obscure.
10% of capability · What we check: The platform requires AI models to identify the source publisher in generated output.
While it promises transparent records, no feature set is provided to verify audit trails or reporting frequency.
10% of capability · What we check: The platform provides granular logs and tools to verify payment accuracy and usage.
Not evidenced in our research yet.
8% of capability · What we check: The platform supports industry standard formats and metadata protocols for content exchange.
The absence of feature documentation suggests a lack of robust self-serve onboarding or support infrastructure.
8% of capability · What we check: The availability of technical documentation, dedicated account managers, and responsive help desk channels.
Created by Humans scores 2.9/5 in Benchmark Grid's independent Best AI Content Licensing Platforms for Publishers benchmark (benchmarkgrid.com/best-ai-content-licensing-platforms-for-publishers/created-by-humans, verified Nov 12, 2026)
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- Rights holders approve every deal
- Granular control over licence options per work
- Backed by well-known authors, which helps with book-industry trust
Limitations
- No published pricing, fee or payout terms
- No named AI licensing partners
- Focused on books rather than news or digital publishing
Who uses it
We haven't detected any publishers running Created by Humans yet.
Cost of ownership
Pricing
Custom pricing; contact the vendor for a quote.
Pricing unclear for your setup? — we'll make the introduction. Free, and it never affects the score.
Cost data sourced from vendor pricing pages and community signals. Vendors may dispute any factor.
What users say
Users appreciate the platform's focus on author licensing but express significant concerns regarding detection accuracy, potential market competition from AI, and the ongoing verification of authenticity claims.
Sources: Trade press 43% · Blog 43% · Reddit 14%
Most discussed
Recent quotes
"Created by Humans really understands authors, Preston said."
Positive·Blog·1y ago·via Fortune
"For example, using WriterWaiter to add labels to their own created texts to prove that the article is created by themselves."
Positive·Reddit·2mo ago
"Orlean, along with Walter Isaacson and Viet Thanh Nguyen, is among a growing group of bestselling authors in support of Created by Humans."
Positive·Blog·via NPR
7 mentions from 3 independent sources, each read and scored by our analyser. Mentions we could not tie to a real user, and those flagged as promotional, are excluded. Sentiment is opinion, and is independent of the verified publisher adoptions shown above.
The company behind Created by Humans
Company facts come from an independent business-data record rather than the vendor's own site.
- Founded
- 2024
- Employees
- 11
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, United States
- Ownership
- Privately Held
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FAQ
How is Created by Humans scored?
Created by Humans scores 2.9 out of 5 in Benchmark Grid's independent Best AI Content Licensing Platforms for Publishers benchmark. The overall figure blends capability (45%), publisher fit (40%) and cost of ownership (15%). Capability is itself a weighted average of 9 criteria; the heaviest are licensing rights & legal framework (16%), revenue model & payout terms (14%) and publisher control & opt-out (12%). Vendors cannot pay for a score.
What size publisher is Created by Humans built for?
Created by Humans is built for small and local publishers and mid-market publishers. That is the vendor's own stated target, and it is one of the inputs to our publisher-fit score — a platform that suits a national newsroom often carries more operational load than a small one can absorb.
What does Created by Humans cost?
Custom pricing; contact the vendor for a quote. Our cost-of-ownership score is 1.7/5, which weighs pricing transparency, entry cost, implementation cost, hidden-fee risk and ongoing cost. Ask the vendor for a written first-year figure that includes implementation before you commit.
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