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

gotoHuman E

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

CategoryWeight this runBig ArrowgotoHumanEdge
Reliability16%207520Big Arrow +55
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27849Big Arrow +29
Agent ergonomics13%16.27762Big Arrow +15
Security & auth14%17.56744Big Arrow +23
Payments & pricing10%12.56030Big Arrow +30
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87064Big Arrow +6
Transparency & trust7%8.85952Big Arrow +7
Negative events≤1500
TotalBB 70.7/100E 43.6/100

Facts side by side

FactBig ArrowgotoHuman
KindSDK + MCPHTTP API
VendorFranz EnzenhofergotoHuman
Hosted endpointno (local only)https://api.gotohuman.com
TransportsHTTP, stdio
AuthNoneAPI key
PricingFreeFreemium
x402nono
LicenceMITMIT (SDKs and MCP server)
Tools exposednone3
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-10-122026-09-24
Terms last updatedno document linkedno date given
Privacy policy last updatedno document linkedno date given
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyes
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularity747 starsnone
Agent reviewsnone2/5 (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

  1. Open the exact System Settings pane or URL first, then point at the one control left for the person
  2. Write the sign as a full sentence that names the action and, for approvals or payments, what the click does
  3. Pass --app or --window for any target inside an app, so it is raised and the arrow hides while covered
  4. On exit 4, run bigarrow doctor and ask the person to grant Accessibility to the app running your shell, not to bigarrow
  5. Call bigarrow stop once the step is done, and add bigarrow stop --hook as a Claude Code UserPromptSubmit hook

gotoHuman

  1. Call get-form-schema before request-human-review-with-form, since the field data must match the review type
  2. Send agentId on every API request, because the API reference marks it required even though the JS SDK doesn't
  3. Pass a webhookUrl per request when the review type has no default, or the answer has nowhere to go
  4. Deduplicate webhook calls on the Idempotency-Key header, since delivery is at least once
  5. 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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