# Hatchet vs Pushary

> Hatchet scores 68.3 (B) to Pushary's 51.4 (D) for human approval. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-09

Hatchet scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against Pushary's 51.4 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do human approval.

- 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
- Pushary: grade D, 51.4/100, rank #750 of 950. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pushary.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pushary.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

### 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 73
- Agent ergonomics, 82 against 76
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 10
- Maintenance & community, 90 against 60
- Transparency & trust, 71 against 63

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine
- 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

### Pushary (D)

Good for: One developer running coding agents unattended who wants questions and approvals on a phone.

Watch for: No free plan, and the 3-day trial takes a card up front


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Hatchet | Pushary | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 66 | 20 | Hatchet +46 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 73 | Hatchet +12 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 76 | Hatchet +6 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 62 | 64 | Pushary +2 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 10 | Hatchet +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 90 | 60 | Hatchet +30 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 63 | Hatchet +8 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | -2 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **68.3 · B** | **51.4 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Hatchet | Pushary |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | MCP server |
| Vendor | Hatchet Technologies, Inc. | Pushary |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://cloud.hatchet.run` | `https://pushary.com/api/mcp/mcp` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT | MIT (skill, hooks and adapters) |
| Tools exposed | 7 | 6 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.Pushary/pushary` |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-07-17 | 2026-09-27 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-18 | 2026-09-28 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | 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 | none | 2.5/5 (2) |

## Verdicts

**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.

**Pushary.** Six small tools with a detailed skill that says when to ask, when to notify and when to stay quiet. No free plan, and the 3-day trial takes a card up front.

## Before you call either

### 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

### Pushary

1. Read `answered`, `status` and `handoffAction` on every result, and never treat a timeout as approval
2. Expect `ask_user` to return at once with `answered: false` when the user's mode is notify-only or terminal-only
3. Poll `wait_for_answer` once (it waits at most 55 seconds), then follow the handoff instead of looping
4. Cancel a live question with `cancel_question` before asking the same thing in chat
5. Group open decisions into one `select` question, since each push interrupts the user

## Questions

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

Hatchet scores 68.3 (B) on agent readiness against Pushary's 51.4 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

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

Yes. Hatchet has a hosted endpoint at https://cloud.hatchet.run and Pushary at https://pushary.com/api/mcp/mcp.

### Are Hatchet and Pushary open source?

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


## For agents

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

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