# Big Arrow vs gotoHuman

> Big Arrow scores 70.7 (BB) to gotoHuman's 43.6 (E) for hitl ask. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-15

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.

- Big Arrow: grade BB, 70.7/100, rank #151 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bigarrow.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bigarrow.json
- gotoHuman: grade E, 43.6/100, rank #965 of 1094. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gotohuman.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gotohuman.json
- Best human approval and handoff for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/human-in-the-loop/index.md
- All 53 human approval comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/human-in-the-loop/index.md

## Which one, for what

### Big Arrow (BB)

Good 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)

Good 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 | Big Arrow | gotoHuman | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 75 | 20 | Big Arrow +55 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 49 | Big Arrow +29 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 62 | Big Arrow +15 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 67 | 44 | Big Arrow +23 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | Big Arrow +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 64 | Big Arrow +6 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 52 | Big Arrow +7 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **70.7 · BB** | **43.6 · E** | |

## 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

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.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-gotohuman.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-gotohuman.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "bigarrow", "b": "gotohuman"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare bigarrow gotohuman`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bigarrow.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gotohuman.json

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- [gotoHuman vs Hatchet](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-hatchet.md)
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- [Big Arrow vs Pushary](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bigarrow-vs-pushary.md)
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