Head to head · Hitl approve · October 2026 research run

Pushary vs withHuman

withHuman and Pushary score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 51.8 (D) and 51.4 (D). Pushary leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do hitl approve.

Which one, for what

Pushary D

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

Ahead on

  • Maintenance & community, 60 against 49
  • Transparency & trust, 63 against 53

Watch for

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

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 73
  • Security & auth, 73 against 64
  • Payments & pricing, 30 against 10

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 runPusharywithHumanEdge
Reliability16%202016Pushary +4
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27381withHuman +8
Agent ergonomics13%16.27674Pushary +2
Security & auth14%17.56473withHuman +9
Payments & pricing10%12.51030withHuman +20
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.86049Pushary +11
Transparency & trust7%8.86353Pushary +10
Negative events≤150-2
Total51.4 · D51.8 · D

Facts side by side

FactPusharywithHuman
KindMCP serverHTTP API
VendorPusharyMetoro Inc
Hosted endpointhttps://pushary.com/api/mcp/mcphttps://app.withhuman.ai
TransportsStreamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)HTTP
AuthAPI keyOAuth or key
PricingPaidFreemium
x402nono
LicenceMIT (skill, hooks and adapters)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 exposed6none
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
MCP registryio.github.Pushary/pusharynot listed
Last release2026-10-012026-10-08
Terms last updated2026-09-272026-09-04
Privacy policy last updated2026-09-282026-09-04
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textnot 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 reviews2.5/5 (2)none

Verdicts

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.

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

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

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, Pushary or withHuman?

withHuman and Pushary score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 51.8 (D) and 51.4 (D). Pushary leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust.

Do Pushary and withHuman need an API key?

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

Can an agent call Pushary and withHuman without installing anything?

Yes. Pushary has a hosted endpoint at https://pushary.com/api/mcp/mcp and withHuman at https://app.withhuman.ai.

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