# gotoHuman vs Temporal

> Temporal has a score of 77.2 (BB) against gotoHuman's 43.9 (E). Both do hitl approve. The largest gap is reliability, 65 points. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-04

Temporal has a score of 77.2 (BB) against gotoHuman's 43.9 (E). Both do hitl approve. The largest gap is reliability, 65 points.

- gotoHuman: grade E, 43.9/100, rank #407 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gotohuman.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gotohuman.json
- Temporal: grade BB, 77.2/100, rank #21 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/temporal.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/temporal.json

## Which one, for what

Pick gotoHuman for payments & pricing (+10).

Pick Temporal for reliability (+65), schema & documentation (+42), agent ergonomics (+23), security & auth (+42), maintenance & community (+26), transparency & trust (+15).

## Score by category

| Category | Weight | gotoHuman | Temporal | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 20 | 85 | Temporal +65 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 49 | 91 | Temporal +42 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 85 | Temporal +23 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 86 | Temporal +42 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 20 | gotoHuman +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 90 | Temporal +26 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 55 | 70 | Temporal +15 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **43.9 · E** | **77.2 · BB** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | gotoHuman | Temporal |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Model platform |
| Vendor | gotoHuman | Temporal Technologies |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.gotohuman.com` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT (SDKs and MCP server) | MIT |
| 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 | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-09-24 | 2026-09-15 |
| Popularity | none | none |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | 3.6/5 (8) |

## 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.

**Temporal.** Waits of any length with a timeout survive worker restarts and deploys. No reviewer inbox, notifications or routing, so the human side is all your code.

## 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

### Temporal

1. Put the decision in a typed Signal payload (approver, decision, comments, timestamp) instead of a bare boolean
2. Always wait with a timeout and treat the timeout path as a rejection or an escalation on purpose
3. Use the workflow ID as the approval ID, so the reviewer's tool only needs one value to send the Signal
4. Use an Update instead of a Signal when the approver's tool needs an acknowledgement back
5. Expect `ResourceExhausted` under load and let the SDK retry it, since signals are throttled last

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