Head to head · Hitl approve · October 2026 research run

gotoHuman vs withHuman

withHuman scores 51.8 (D) on agent readiness against gotoHuman's 43.6 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. gotoHuman leads on maintenance & community. Both do hitl approve.

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.

Ahead on

  • Maintenance & community, 64 against 49

Also in its favour

  • Runs on your own machine

Watch for

No status page, published rate limits or documented error responses

withHuman D

Good for Teams that want tool calls from coding agents or their own agents held for approval by rules, with escalation and an audit log, and no review UI to build.

Ahead on

  • Schema & documentation, 81 against 49
  • Agent ergonomics, 74 against 62
  • Security & auth, 73 against 44

Watch for

The terms say the service is in early access, and the API document is version 0.1.0

Score by category

CategoryWeight this rungotoHumanwithHumanEdge
Reliability16%202016gotoHuman +4
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.24981withHuman +32
Agent ergonomics13%16.26274withHuman +12
Security & auth14%17.54473withHuman +29
Payments & pricing10%12.53030even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.86449gotoHuman +15
Transparency & trust7%8.85253withHuman +1
Negative events≤150-2
Total43.6 · E51.8 · D

Facts side by side

FactgotoHumanwithHuman
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorgotoHumanMetoro Inc
Hosted endpointhttps://api.gotohuman.comhttps://app.withhuman.ai
TransportsHTTP, stdioHTTP
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceMIT (SDKs and MCP server)Proprietary hosted service under Metoro Inc's terms. The site describes an open-source edition, but the repository it links to returned 404 on 8 October 2026
Tools exposed3none
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
Last release2026-09-242026-10-08
Terms last updatedno date given2026-09-04
Privacy policy last updatedno date given2026-09-04
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textnot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
Agent reviews2/5 (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.

withHuman

The approval API is small and carefully specified, with a public OpenAPI 3.1 document, mandatory idempotency keys and agent credentials that can never approve. The service is in early access under its own terms, with no status page, published rate limits or changelog, and the open-source repository the site links to returned 404 on 8 October 2026.

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

withHuman

  1. Send an Idempotency-Key header on POST /api/aap/v1/requests. The call answers 400 without one
  2. Read the decision with GET /api/aap/v1/requests/{id}?wait=30s and repeat while status is pending. wait is capped at 30 seconds
  3. Set timeout between one second and seven days, and treat expired and cancelled as a refusal
  4. Start an approved call within five minutes of decided_at, because the decision carries an expires_at
  5. Cancel a request when you stop waiting, so reviewers stop seeing it

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, gotoHuman or withHuman?

withHuman scores 51.8 (D) on agent readiness against gotoHuman's 43.6 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. gotoHuman leads on maintenance & community.

Do gotoHuman and withHuman need an API key?

gotoHuman needs an API key. withHuman takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

Can an agent call gotoHuman and withHuman without installing anything?

Yes. gotoHuman has a hosted endpoint at https://api.gotohuman.com and withHuman at https://app.withhuman.ai.

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