# gotoHuman vs Hatchet

> Hatchet scores 68.3 (B) to gotoHuman's 43.6 (E) for human approval. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Updated: 2026-10-09

Hatchet scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against gotoHuman's 43.6 (E), and leads in every scored category. Both do human approval.

- gotoHuman: grade E, 43.6/100, rank #881 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gotohuman.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gotohuman.json
- Hatchet: grade B, 68.3/100, rank #225 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hatchet.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hatchet.json
- Best human approval and handoff for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/human-in-the-loop/index.md
- All 45 human approval comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/human-in-the-loop/index.md

## Which one, for what

### gotoHuman (E)

Good for: A team that wants a ready reviewer inbox where people edit AI output before it ships, without building a UI.

Watch for: No status page, published rate limits or documented error responses

### Hatchet (B)

Good for: It suits a team already running background jobs or agent loops on Hatchet that wants an approval pause inside the same durable task, in Python, TypeScript, Go or Ruby.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 66 against 20
- Schema & documentation, 85 against 49
- Agent ergonomics, 82 against 62
- Security & auth, 62 against 44
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 30
- Maintenance & community, 90 against 64
- Transparency & trust, 71 against 52

Also in its favour:
- Open source

Watch for: No approver inbox, Slack or email channel, routing or reminder. The owner builds the request and the way the answer is pushed


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | gotoHuman | Hatchet | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 20 | 66 | Hatchet +46 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 49 | 85 | Hatchet +36 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 82 | Hatchet +20 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 62 | Hatchet +18 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | Hatchet +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 90 | Hatchet +26 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 71 | Hatchet +19 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |
| **Total** | | **43.6 · E** | **68.3 · B** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | gotoHuman | Hatchet |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Model platform |
| Vendor | gotoHuman | Hatchet Technologies, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.gotohuman.com` | `https://cloud.hatchet.run` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT (SDKs and MCP server) | MIT |
| Tools exposed | 3 | 7 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-24 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2025-07-17 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-08-18 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | none |

## Verdicts

**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.

**Hatchet.** A durable task waits for a keyed event without holding a worker slot, and resumes from its event log after a restart, in Python, TypeScript, Go or Ruby. Hatchet supplies only the pause and resume. It has no approver inbox, notification channel or record of who answered, and its MCP server cannot push the event.

## Before you call either

### 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

### Hatchet

1. Put the approval wait in a durable task, and keep API calls, database reads and random values in child tasks, because the code between checkpoints is replayed
2. Add a sleep condition in the same or group as the event condition to set a deadline, and treat the sleep firing first as a timeout
3. Give the event a scope and the wait a lookback window when the answer can arrive before the wait starts. Both must be set together
4. Filter with a CEL expression such as `input.user_id == '1234'` so one approval key cannot resume another request's task
5. Push the answer with the SDK's event push or `POST /api/v1/tenants/{tenant}/events`. The MCP server has no tool for it
6. Grant the MCP server one profile with `hatchet mcp auth --grant <profile>`. It refuses profiles that were not granted

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, gotoHuman or Hatchet?

Hatchet scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against gotoHuman's 43.6 (E), and leads in every scored category.

### Can an agent call gotoHuman and Hatchet without installing anything?

Yes. gotoHuman has a hosted endpoint at https://api.gotohuman.com and Hatchet at https://cloud.hatchet.run.

### Are gotoHuman and Hatchet open source?

No open-source release is listed for gotoHuman. Hatchet is open source (MIT).


## For agents

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

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- [gotoHuman vs Inngest](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-inngest.md)
- [gotoHuman vs Orkes Conductor Human tasks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-orkes-conductor.md)
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- [gotoHuman vs Trigger.dev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-trigger-dev.md)
- [gotoHuman vs withHuman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-withhuman.md)
- [Hatchet vs Inngest](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hatchet-vs-inngest.md)
- [Hatchet vs Orkes Conductor Human tasks](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hatchet-vs-orkes-conductor.md)
- [Hatchet vs Permit MCP Gateway](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hatchet-vs-permit-mcp-gateway.md)
- [Hatchet vs Pushary](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hatchet-vs-pushary.md)
- [Hatchet vs Restate](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hatchet-vs-restate.md)
- [Hatchet vs Temporal](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hatchet-vs-temporal.md)
- [Hatchet vs Trigger.dev](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hatchet-vs-trigger-dev.md)
- [Hatchet vs withHuman](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hatchet-vs-withhuman.md)