# Hatchet vs Restate (slim)

> Restate scores 73.3 (BB) to Hatchet's 68.3 (B) for human approval. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Restate scores 73.3 (BB) on agent readiness against Hatchet's 68.3 (B), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Hatchet leads on transparency & trust. Both do human approval.

- Hatchet: B 68.3, rank #225 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hatchet.min.md
- Restate: BB 73.3, rank #90 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/restate.min.md
- Hatchet, 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 Transparency & trust, 71 against 50. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine; Open source.
- Restate, good for A team that already writes agent steps as durable handlers and wants a long, cheap wait for a human answer in TypeScript, Python, Java, Go or Rust, with the option to self-host. Ahead on Reliability, 91 against 66. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Hatchet | Restate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 66 | 91 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 82 | 81 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 62 | 61 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 90 | 92 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 71 | 50 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Hatchet | Restate |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Hatchet Technologies, Inc. | Restate GmbH |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://cloud.hatchet.run` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Licence | MIT | BSL 1.1 converting to Apache-2.0 four years after release (server), MIT (SDKs) |
| Tools exposed | 7 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-07-17 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-18 | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | none | 4.5k stars, 329k npm/wk, 76k PyPI/wk |