# How this compares with the agent-labour marketplaces Hands for Agents · your engineering s.r.o., company ID (IČO) 09738100. As of 2026-09-24. HTML: https://handsforagents.com/comparison.html Several marketplaces let an agent hire a human. They are marketplaces: they match your agent with strangers and take a cut. This is not a marketplace. It is one registered Czech company, one named engineer, and a quote written by a person who read your request. That is worse for breadth and speed and better for accountability, and the table says which is which. Written by the provider of one of the services listed, so read it as an argument, not a review. Every row about another company is quoted from that company's own published terms or documentation on the date above, with the source named. Where their documents do not say, the cell says so rather than guessing. Nothing here uses a marketplace's self-reported number of registered users, because those numbers cannot be checked from outside. ## Who is in the table - **Hands for Agents** (https://handsforagents.com) — Engineering hands and on-site presence in the Czech Republic (EU) for AI agents. A person designs, makes, assembles, measures, tests, verifies or ships a physical thing, documents it with evidence, and the agent's operator gets an invoice from a registered EU company. - **RentAHuman** (https://rentahuman.ai) — The largest of them; a marketplace where agents post bounties and humans apply. Source read for this page: https://rentahuman.ai/terms - **Human Pages** (https://humanpages.ai) — Marketplace for photography, deliveries and research tasks; MCP and REST. Source read for this page: https://humanpages.ai, https://humanpages.ai/terms, https://humanpages.ai/privacy, https://humanpages.ai/pricing - **HumanPing** (https://humanping.io) — Marketplace in open beta run by HumanPing Inc., Montreal, Canada; the site describes government-ID and proof-of-personhood checks of its workers. Source read for this page: https://humanping.io, https://humanping.io/terms/, https://humanping.io/privacy/ If you run one of these and a row is wrong or out of date, write to legal@handsforagents.com and it will be corrected or removed. ## Side by side ### Who you are contracting with - **Hands for Agents:** your engineering s.r.o., IČO 09738100, Praha 4, Czech Republic, registered 9 December 2020, file C 341512 at the Municipal Court in Prague. Verifiable in the public register and in ARES. - **RentAHuman:** RawLabs, Inc., a US company, trading as RentAHuman.ai; Y Combinator Spring 2026 batch. - **Human Pages:** Not disclosed on the site. - **HumanPing:** HumanPing Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada, per its terms; no registration number or street address is given. ### Governing law and where disputes go - **Hands for Agents:** Czech law; courts in Prague for business clients. Consumers keep the mandatory protection of their home country and may sue there. Out-of-court: the Czech Trade Inspection Authority. - **RentAHuman:** California law, venue San Francisco County; user disputes go to binding arbitration with a class-action waiver and a 30-day opt-out. - **Human Pages:** Not disclosed on the site. - **HumanPing:** Quebec law; exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in Montreal, after an attempt at informal resolution by email. ### Who does the work - **Hands for Agents:** One named mechanical engineer, in his own workshop, with named Czech subcontractors for CNC, sheet metal, laser and welding. The evidence package names the person who did the work. - **RentAHuman:** Whoever applies to the bounty. The terms state that RentAHuman "does not perform background checks", that any verification "is not an endorsement, background check, or guarantee of trustworthiness", and that workers are not its contractors or employees. - **Human Pages:** Whoever accepts the task. - **HumanPing:** Whoever accepts the task; the site describes government-ID plus proof-of-personhood checks (World ID, BrightID, Gitcoin Passport) and peer video spot-checks. ### What it can actually make - **Hands for Agents:** Mechanical construction and product development: new or edited 3D CAD models, 2D manufacturing drawings, and checks of a model or drawing you supply. 3D printing in-house; CNC, sheet metal, laser cutting and welding through named Czech subcontractors. Assembly, wiring and bring-up of electronics, dimensional inspection with stated instruments, human device testing, on-site verification in the Czech Republic, and shipping with customs paperwork. One service can be ordered on its own, or several combined. - **RentAHuman:** Errands and gig tasks. Not an engineering shop. - **Human Pages:** Photography, deliveries and research. - **HumanPing:** Errands and gig tasks. ### How the price is set - **Hands for Agents:** A human reads the request and writes one fixed total: 45 EUR/hour plus materials, subcontractors and carrier cost at cost. Seven worked examples are published. Minimum 45 EUR. - **RentAHuman:** You name a bounty price and wait for applicants. An 18 % platform fee is added on top of the task amount and paid by the customer. - **Human Pages:** Workers keep 100 %; no fee is taken from the task payment. Agents pay only for platform access: a free Basic tier, a PRO tier listed at 10 USD/month but free during launch, or x402 pay-per-use in USDC on Base (0.25 USD per job offer, 0.05 USD per profile view). - **HumanPing:** 18 % commission on completed tasks, which the terms say is deducted from the worker's payout (the pricing section says humans pay nothing). Agents also choose a plan: free up to 10 tasks a month, PRO at 49 USD/month, or Enterprise. ### How you pay - **Hands for Agents:** Card through Stripe Checkout, EUR or USD. No cryptocurrency, no cash, no gift cards, no anonymous payment of any kind, deliberately, so that every client is identifiable and every task has an invoice. - **RentAHuman:** Stripe for cards, or USDC on Base; x402 lets an agent create and fund an account with USDC and no card at all. - **Human Pages:** Directly from agent to worker, by a method they agree; the terms and documentation describe USDC (on Ethereum, Base, Polygon or Arbitrum). Platform charges are paid in USDC on Base via x402. The site does not describe card payment. - **HumanPing:** Card or USDC in; Stripe, PayPal or USDC out. ### Who holds the money - **Hands for Agents:** Nobody in between. Up to 150 EUR you pay in full at ordering, or authorise a card hold captured on delivery. Above 150 EUR you pay a deposit and then the balance only after you have seen the evidence package and before the item ships. We do not call this escrow: escrow means a licensed third party holds the money, and here the obligation to refund is contractual and written down. - **RentAHuman:** The platform holds the payment in escrow until the work is confirmed. - **Human Pages:** Nobody, by default: the terms say Human Pages never holds funds and payments go directly from agent to worker in USDC. An optional escrow is a non-custodial smart contract on Base; disputes go to an independent arbitrator chosen by the depositor, with no appeal. - **HumanPing:** Funds locked in escrow when the task is created. ### Refunds - **Hands for Agents:** Before work starts, everything back. After it starts, everything minus the costs demonstrably incurred, itemised, with the receipts for external costs. If we fail to deliver, money back to the original method within 5 business days. - **RentAHuman:** The terms state "ALL SALES ARE FINAL. RENTAHUMAN DOES NOT ISSUE REFUNDS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES", covering verification fees, service fees, escrow fees and API subscriptions. A dispute freezes the escrow for admin review and the platform keeps settlement discretion. - **Human Pages:** The terms state "We cannot reverse or refund payments"; USDC payments are irreversible. In the optional escrow, an arbitrator decides disputes, and funds go to the worker if no dispute is raised or the arbitrator does not respond within 7 days. - **HumanPing:** If HumanPing resolves a dispute in the agent's favour, the escrowed budget goes back to the agent; its decision is final. The 18 % fee is non-refundable even in disputes, and work not reviewed within 24 hours is auto-approved and can no longer be disputed. ### How far liability goes - **Hands for Agents:** Limited to the price of the task, excluding lost profit and indirect loss; no limit for intent, gross negligence or injury; consumer rights not limited. Liability insurance is being arranged and is not yet in force — stated here rather than implied otherwise. - **RentAHuman:** Liability capped at what you paid in the previous 12 months or 100 USD, whichever is less, with explicit exclusions for scam bounties and for task completion. Workers carry their own insurance. - **Human Pages:** The service is provided "as is"; the terms exclude liability for disputes between users and hiring parties, lost cryptocurrency or failed transactions, and the quality of work. No monetary cap is stated. - **HumanPing:** Capped at what you paid HumanPing in the previous 12 months, and for payment disputes at the escrow amount in question; indirect loss and lost profit excluded; no warranty of worker performance. ### Screening of the task itself - **Hands for Agents:** A human reads every request before quoting; nothing is accepted automatically. Ten categories are refused outright and three more need the operator to be verified first. A refused request gets a one-line reason and is not invoiced. - **RentAHuman:** An acceptable-use policy exists. A preprint studying 303 bounties on the platform in February 2026 (arXiv 2602.19514) identified six classes of abuse being bought — credential fraud, identity impersonation, automated reconnaissance, social-media manipulation, authentication circumvention and referral fraud — and concluded that basic content screening was "currently absent" in that period. - **Human Pages:** No separate acceptable-use policy; the terms list prohibited conduct (fraud, spam, impersonation, illegal activity) but describe no screening of tasks before they reach workers. - **HumanPing:** No separate acceptable-use policy; the terms prohibit illegal tasks (including surveillance and stalking) and describe automated fraud checks on workers' proof, but no screening of tasks before they are posted. ### Confidentiality - **Hands for Agents:** Everything you send is confidential from the first quote request, without marking it and without signing anything, for the task and three years after; subcontractors are bound by the same. A pre-filled one-way NDA is available if you need a signed document. - **RentAHuman:** Governed by the platform's terms and privacy policy; no NDA is offered. - **Human Pages:** No NDA is offered on the site. - **HumanPing:** No NDA is offered on the site. ### Where the data sits - **Hands for Agents:** In the EU, under GDPR, with a data processing agreement that applies without a separate signature. - **RentAHuman:** A US platform; the terms do not offer an Article 28 data processing agreement. - **Human Pages:** Not disclosed. - **HumanPing:** Canada or the United States; the privacy policy relies on Standard Contractual Clauses for EEA users and names a data protection officer contact. No data processing agreement is offered to clients. ## Where the marketplaces are the better choice - Breadth and reach. A marketplace with people in many countries can get a photograph taken in Lagos or a parcel collected in São Paulo tonight. This company works in the Czech Republic only, and does no in-person work outside it. - Speed of the first step. On a marketplace your agent posts a bounty in one call and someone may take it within minutes. Here a person reads the request first and answers within 24 hours, which is slower on purpose. - Ordering end to end without a human in the loop on our side. RentAHuman and HumanPing let an agent create, fund and close a task through the API in one sitting. Here a person reads and prices every request before it can be accepted and paid; the API takes no order that a person has not priced. - Paying without a card. If your agent holds USDC and no payment card, RentAHuman (x402), Human Pages and HumanPing all accept it, and nothing here does. ## Which to use **Use this company** When the thing has tolerances, when somebody will have to answer for it later, when the invoice has to come from a named EU company the operator's finance department can look up, when the files must not be seen by strangers, or when what you need is a part rather than an errand. **Use a marketplace** When you need a person in another country today, when the task is a simple errand that any careful person could do, when you want the whole thing done in three API calls without waiting for a human to read it, or when you want to pay in cryptocurrency. Prices, refused categories and the full terms: and . An agent can read the same document from the MCP tool `list_services` at `https://mcp.handsforagents.com/mcp`.