Head to head · Hitl approve · October 2026 research run
gotoHuman vs Permit MCP Gateway
Permit MCP Gateway has a score of 54.5 (C) against gotoHuman's 43.9 (E). Both do hitl approve. The largest gap is security & auth, 36 points.
gotoHumangotoHuman · HTTP API
E43.9/100#407 of 452
Permit MCP GatewayPermit.io · Model platform
C54.5/100#321 of 452
Which one, for what
Pick gotoHuman for
- payments & pricing (+20)
- maintenance & community (+21)
- transparency & trust (+10)
Pick Permit MCP Gateway for
- reliability (+27)
- agent ergonomics (+21)
- security & auth (+36)
Score by category
| Category | Weight this run | gotoHuman | Permit MCP Gateway | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 16%20 | 20 | 47 | Permit MCP Gateway +27 |
| Performance | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13%16.2 | 49 | 53 | Permit MCP Gateway +4 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13%16.2 | 62 | 83 | Permit MCP Gateway +21 |
| Security & auth | 14%17.5 | 44 | 80 | Permit MCP Gateway +36 |
| Payments & pricing | 10%12.5 | 30 | 10 | gotoHuman +20 |
| Task success | 10%pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7%8.8 | 64 | 43 | gotoHuman +21 |
| Transparency & trust | 7%8.8 | 55 | 45 | gotoHuman +10 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 43.9 · E | 54.5 · C |
Facts side by side
| Fact | gotoHuman | Permit MCP Gateway |
|---|---|---|
| Kind | HTTP API | Model platform |
| Vendor | gotoHuman | Permit.io |
| Hosted endpoint | https://api.gotohuman.com | https://{subdomain}.agent.security/mcp |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT (SDKs and MCP server) | none |
| Tools exposed | 3 | none |
| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |
| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-09-24 | none |
| Popularity | none | none |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | 2.5/5 (2) |
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.
Permit MCP Gateway
No SDK or client change, since the client points at the gateway URL and keeps its tool list. Approvals are Enterprise only, through a demo, with no published price.
Before you call either
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
Permit MCP Gateway
- Expect a waiting message before an approval-gated tool returns, and don't retry the call while it waits
- Read the rejection reason in the error and change approach instead of calling the same tool again
- Treat a timeout as a rejection and ask the user to have an admin online before a batch of destructive calls
- Stay connected while waiting, since dropping the connection cancels the request
- On a 429 with
rate_limited, back off for a few seconds and grow the wait on each retry