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

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- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Updated: 2026-10-08

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.

- Pushary: grade D, 51.4/100, rank #577 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pushary.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/pushary.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

### 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

| Category | Weight | Pushary | withHuman | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 20 | 16 | Pushary +4 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 81 | withHuman +8 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 76 | 74 | Pushary +2 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 73 | withHuman +9 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 10 | 30 | withHuman +20 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 60 | 49 | Pushary +11 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 63 | 53 | Pushary +10 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |
| **Total** | | **51.4 · D** | **51.8 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Pushary | withHuman |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | MCP server | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Pushary | Metoro Inc |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://pushary.com/api/mcp/mcp` | `https://app.withhuman.ai` |
| Transports | Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | MIT (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 exposed | 6 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `io.github.Pushary/pushary` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-27 | 2026-09-04 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-28 | 2026-09-04 |
| 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 | 2.5/5 (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.


## For agents

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

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