# 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. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-withhuman
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-withhuman.md (~2,050 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-withhuman.min.md (~630 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gotohuman-vs-withhuman.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- 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: 2026-10-08

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.

- gotoHuman: grade E, 43.6/100, rank #670 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/gotohuman.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/gotohuman.json
- withHuman: grade D, 51.8/100, rank #573 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/withhuman.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/withhuman.json

## 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

| Category | Weight | gotoHuman | withHuman | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 20 | 16 | gotoHuman +4 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 49 | 81 | withHuman +32 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 74 | withHuman +12 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 44 | 73 | withHuman +29 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 30 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 64 | 49 | gotoHuman +15 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 53 | withHuman +1 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |
| **Total** | | **43.6 · E** | **51.8 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | gotoHuman | withHuman |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | gotoHuman | Metoro Inc |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.gotohuman.com` | `https://app.withhuman.ai` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT (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 exposed | 3 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-24 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-09-04 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-09-04 |
| 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.

**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.


## For agents

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

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