Head to head · Hitl ask · October 2026 research run
Big Arrow vs gotoHuman
Big Arrow scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against gotoHuman's 43.6 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do hitl ask.
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Which one, for what
Big Arrow BB
Best for An agent on a person's Mac that reaches a step only the person may do, such as a permission prompt, 2FA code or payment, and needs to show where.
Ahead on
- Reliability, 75 against 20
- Schema & documentation, 78 against 49
- Agent ergonomics, 77 against 62
- Security & auth, 67 against 44
- Payments & pricing, 60 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 70 against 64
- Transparency & trust, 59 against 52
Also in its favour
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better
- No key needed to call it
- Free to start without a card
- Open source
Watch for
First commit 8 October 2026 and version 0.4.6, with flags removed or renamed between minor versions
Best for A team that wants a ready reviewer inbox where people edit AI output before it ships, without building a UI.
Also in its favour
- A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install
- Runs on your own machine
Watch for
No status page, published rate limits or documented error responses
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | Big Arrow | gotoHuman | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 75 | 20 | Big Arrow +55 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 78 | 49 | Big Arrow +29 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 77 | 62 | Big Arrow +15 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 67 | 44 | Big Arrow +23 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 60 | 30 | Big Arrow +30 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 70 | 64 | Big Arrow +6 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 59 | 52 | Big Arrow +7 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | BB 70.7/100 | E 43.6/100 |
Facts side by side
| Fact | Big Arrow | gotoHuman |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Franz Enzenhofer | gotoHuman |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | https://api.gotohuman.com |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT | MIT (SDKs and MCP server) |
| Tools exposed | none | 3 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-12 | 2026-09-24 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | |
| Popularity | 747 stars | none |
| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (2) |
Verdicts
Big Arrow
An agent can show a person which control to click, with a labelled arrow that needs no permission to draw, never takes focus and always removes itself. The tool is a week old at version 0.4.6, runs only on macOS, reports no answer beyond how an arrow ended, and has no security policy.
gotoHuman
Built for agent review, with TypeScript and Python SDKs, a 3-tool MCP server, an n8n node and a Make app. No status page, published rate limits or documented error responses.
Before you call either
Big Arrow
- Open the exact System Settings pane or URL first, then point at the one control left for the person
- Write the sign as a full sentence that names the action and, for approvals or payments, what the click does
- Pass
--appor--windowfor any target inside an app, so it is raised and the arrow hides while covered - On exit 4, run
bigarrow doctorand ask the person to grant Accessibility to the app running your shell, not to bigarrow - Call
bigarrow stoponce the step is done, and addbigarrow stop --hookas a Claude Code UserPromptSubmit hook
gotoHuman
- Call
get-form-schemabeforerequest-human-review-with-form, since the field data must match the review type - Send
agentIdon every API request, because the API reference marks it required even though the JS SDK doesn't - Pass a
webhookUrlper request when the review type has no default, or the answer has nowhere to go - Deduplicate webhook calls on the
Idempotency-Keyheader, since delivery is at least once - Set your own deadline on the agent side and treat silence as a rejection
Questions
Which is better for AI agents, Big Arrow or gotoHuman?
Big Arrow scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against gotoHuman's 43.6 (E), and leads in every scored category.
Can an agent call Big Arrow and gotoHuman without installing anything?
No hosted endpoint is listed for Big Arrow. gotoHuman has a hosted endpoint at https://api.gotohuman.com.
Are Big Arrow and gotoHuman open source?
Big Arrow is open source (MIT). No open-source release is listed for gotoHuman.
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