{
  "data": {
    "category": {
      "area": "business",
      "capabilities": [
        "hr.employees",
        "hr.time-off",
        "hr.org",
        "hr.onboarding",
        "hr.documents"
      ],
      "description": "Systems of record for employees, with an interface an agent can use to read and update employee data, time off, the organisation chart and onboarding tasks. Compared on API coverage, field-level permissions, webhooks and how access is granted.",
      "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/hr.json",
      "name": "HR \u0026 employee operations",
      "slug": "hr",
      "test": "One test company of ten employees in each listing. The same tasks run through its API (read the directory, update a field, request and approve time off, start an onboarding task). We check field permissions, the audit record and events. In this run listings are graded from public evidence against the published checklist.",
      "title": "HR systems and employee records for AI agents",
      "toolCount": 8,
      "tools": [
        "remote",
        "deel",
        "factorial",
        "bamboohr",
        "rippling",
        "hibob",
        "zoho-people",
        "humaans"
      ],
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/hr"
    },
    "faq": [
      {
        "answer": "Remote has the highest benchmark score of the 8 ranked HR systems and employee records, 70.7 (BB). Deel is second with 69.1 (B).",
        "question": "What are the highest-rated HR systems and employee records for AI agents?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "1 of the 8 ranked here grade BB or better, the bar for agent-ready on the Anchor benchmark.",
        "question": "How many HR systems and employee records are agent-ready?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "None of the ranked listings here accepts x402 for its main call yet.",
        "question": "Which HR systems and employee records accept x402 payments?"
      },
      {
        "answer": "By the Anchor benchmark score out of 100, a weighted mean of the scored categories minus deductions for negative events, from public evidence re-checked as vendors change. Listings cannot pay for a place. The latest assessment behind this page is from 8 October 2026.",
        "question": "How is this list ranked?"
      }
    ],
    "howToChoose": [
      {
        "label": "Field-level permissions per token",
        "detail": "Check whether fields such as pay can be hidden or blocked per token, since an agent should not see what its user cannot."
      },
      {
        "label": "Time-off approval rights",
        "detail": "Check whether time-off requests can be created and approved through the API by the correct approver, since approval rights decide what an agent may commit."
      },
      {
        "label": "Audit record for each change",
        "detail": "Check that each change records the token that made it, since an agent's edits to an employee record must be traceable like a person's."
      },
      {
        "label": "Org chart and onboarding coverage",
        "detail": "Check whether the org chart and onboarding tasks can be read and started through the API, since an agent needs reporting lines to route a hire."
      }
    ],
    "picks": [
      {
        "also": {
          "name": "Deel",
          "slug": "deel",
          "why": "B, 69.1/100"
        },
        "name": "Remote",
        "need": "Highest score overall",
        "slug": "remote",
        "why": "BB, 70.7/100 on the benchmark"
      },
      {
        "name": "BambooHR",
        "need": "Schema \u0026 documentation",
        "slug": "bamboohr",
        "why": "88/100 on schema \u0026 documentation, against 78 for the overall leader"
      },
      {
        "name": "Rippling",
        "need": "Agent ergonomics",
        "slug": "rippling",
        "why": "75/100 on agent ergonomics, against 57 for the overall leader"
      },
      {
        "name": "Rippling",
        "need": "Security \u0026 auth",
        "slug": "rippling",
        "why": "90/100 on security \u0026 auth, against 74 for the overall leader"
      },
      {
        "name": "Factorial",
        "need": "Maintenance \u0026 community",
        "slug": "factorial",
        "why": "84/100 on maintenance \u0026 community, against 72 for the overall leader"
      },
      {
        "name": "Factorial",
        "need": "Transparency \u0026 trust",
        "slug": "factorial",
        "why": "78/100 on transparency \u0026 trust, against 68 for the overall leader"
      }
    ],
    "ranked": 8,
    "shortlist": [
      {
        "bestFor": "A company that employs people through Remote (EOR, payroll, contractors or its HRIS) and wants an agent to read employments, file and review time off, track onboarding, and read payslips and documents.",
        "grade": "BB",
        "name": "Remote",
        "position": 1,
        "price": "$29 / seat-mo",
        "score": 70.7,
        "slug": "remote",
        "strengths": [
          "OpenAPI 3.0 document with 303 operations and 116 webhook events, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page",
          "78 scopes in `resource:action` form, with a read-only preset for customer tokens and a 403 body that names the scopes that would have worked",
          "Seeded sandbox company and `ra_test_` token issued after an email verification, available for 14 days, with no card"
        ],
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/remote",
        "verdict": "The REST API has 303 operations in a public OpenAPI document, 78 OAuth scopes split into read and write, a sandbox issued by email with no card, and a hosted MCP server using OAuth with PKCE. The REST changelog link redirects to a login page, and writes have no idempotency key.",
        "weaknesses": [
          "The REST API changelog link in the docs redirects to a ReadMe dashboard login, so no public dated record of API changes was read",
          "No idempotency key on writes. The vendor's own skill notes list creates for employments, time off, expenses and webhooks as unsafe to retry",
          "A partner authorisation request that omits `scope` is issued `all:write`, per the scopes page"
        ],
        "where": "hosted",
        "x402": "no"
      },
      {
        "bestFor": "A company that already runs HR, contractors, EOR or payroll on Deel and wants an agent to read the directory, update personal information, file and review time off, follow onboarding and fetch compliance documents.",
        "grade": "B",
        "name": "Deel",
        "position": 2,
        "price": "$5 / seat-mo",
        "score": 69.1,
        "slug": "deel",
        "strengths": [
          "Public OpenAPI 3.1 specs with 506 operations and 55 webhook events, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page",
          "OAuth 2 with PKCE and dynamic client registration, about 90 scopes split into read and write, and single-use refresh tokens",
          "Date-based versions with at least one year stable, one year deprecated, and `Deprecation` and `Sunset` response headers"
        ],
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deel",
        "verdict": "The API has 506 operations in public OpenAPI 3.1 specs, about 90 read and write OAuth scopes, a sandbox and a dated versioning policy with one year of deprecation notice. The limit is 5 requests a second for a whole organisation, and the legal documents load only with JavaScript, so data handling terms weren't read.",
        "weaknesses": [
          "5 requests a second shared by every token in an organisation, with no rate limit headers on REST responses per the rate limits page",
          "The OpenAPI links in the docs index return 404. The working specs sit under developer.deel.com/openapi/",
          "The idempotency guide covers POST and PATCH, but the spec declares the `Idempotency-Key` header on one operation"
        ],
        "where": "hosted",
        "x402": "no"
      },
      {
        "bestFor": "An agent working for a company that already runs Factorial and needs employee records, leave requests with approval, attendance clock-ins, recruiting or expenses through one API.",
        "grade": "B",
        "name": "Factorial",
        "position": 3,
        "price": "$8 / seat-mo",
        "score": 66.3,
        "slug": "factorial",
        "strengths": [
          "OpenAPI 3.1.0 definition at `https://api.factorialhr.com/oas/` with 615 operations and 137 webhook events, plus `llms.txt` and a Markdown twin of every docs page",
          "OAuth 2.0 with 33 scopes, PKCE for public clients, 1-hour access tokens and a revoke endpoint. User tokens are bound to an employee's permission group",
          "Time off can be requested, approved and rejected through the API (`/timeoff/leaves/approve` and `/timeoff/leaves/reject`)"
        ],
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/factorial",
        "verdict": "A public OpenAPI 3.1 definition covers 615 operations, including leave approval and employee termination, and OAuth apps can be limited to 33 scopes. API keys always grant every scope and never expire. No idempotency keys exist, and a request to an expired API version is answered in an older schema with no error.",
        "weaknesses": [
          "An API key grants every scope, cannot be narrowed and does not expire",
          "No idempotency keys. The docs say the API does not deduplicate requests, so a blind retry can create a duplicate record",
          "A request to an unsupported API version is served in the oldest supported schema with no error"
        ],
        "where": "hosted",
        "x402": "no"
      },
      {
        "bestFor": "An agent working inside one company's BambooHR account on directory lookups, time off, reports and goals, with the user's own permissions as the limit.",
        "grade": "C",
        "name": "BambooHR",
        "position": 4,
        "price": "$10 / seat-mo",
        "score": 61.7,
        "slug": "bamboohr",
        "strengths": [
          "Public OpenAPI 3.1 spec with 389 operations, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page",
          "OAuth 2.0 with read and `.write` scopes per data area, such as `employee:job` and `time_off:requests.write`",
          "Every API and MCP call runs with the permissions of the user who authorised it, down to field level"
        ],
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bamboohr",
        "verdict": "The REST API publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 spec with 389 operations, llms.txt and OAuth scopes with separate write variants, and every call runs with the authorising user's permissions. No rate limit numbers are published, the MCP server is in beta, and its results can omit records without saying so.",
        "weaknesses": [
          "No rate limit numbers in the reviewed documentation. The terms reserve the right to throttle",
          "The MCP server is in beta, loads 56 tools and has no dynamic client registration",
          "Restricted records and fields can be dropped from MCP and API results with no marker"
        ],
        "where": "hosted",
        "x402": "no"
      },
      {
        "bestFor": "An agent working for a company already on Rippling that needs scoped reads of people, organisation and time off data, and writes that wait for human review.",
        "grade": "C",
        "name": "Rippling",
        "position": 5,
        "price": "Paid",
        "score": 60.8,
        "slug": "rippling",
        "strengths": [
          "API tokens are limited to chosen scopes (162 listed) and to the owner's permission profile, and are revoked after 30 days unused",
          "Hires and worker changes are created as drafts for review in Rippling, and leave requests follow the normal approval flow",
          "Dated changelog with 141 entries since 6 August 2025, 46 of them between 9 July and 28 September 2026, each labelled breaking or not"
        ],
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rippling",
        "verdict": "API tokens carry any of 162 scopes and can never see more than their owner, and hires and worker changes land as drafts for a person to review. There is no public price, trial or self-serve signup, and status.rippling.com shows five incidents marked critical between 16 July and 29 September 2026.",
        "weaknesses": [
          "No public price, free tier or trial. rippling.com/pricing is a quote form, and endpoints name a paid package such as API Tier 1",
          "Five incidents marked critical and three marked major on status.rippling.com between 16 July and 29 September 2026",
          "The changelog labels 14 changes breaking since October 2025 while the reference still shows one version, 2024-08-01"
        ],
        "where": "hosted",
        "x402": "no"
      },
      {
        "bestFor": "An agent working inside a company that already runs Bob and needs field-level control over employee data, time off requests, documents and tasks.",
        "grade": "C",
        "name": "HiBob",
        "position": 6,
        "price": "Paid",
        "score": 57,
        "slug": "hibob",
        "strengths": [
          "Service users have no permissions by default, and view, edit and history rights are granted per category or field through permission groups",
          "llms.txt index and a Markdown twin of every docs page, with an OpenAPI 3.1.1 definition embedded in each endpoint page",
          "Per-endpoint rate limits are published, and 429 responses carry Retry-After and X-RateLimit headers"
        ],
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hibob",
        "verdict": "Service users start with no permissions and gain view or edit rights per field, and the docs are served as Markdown with an OpenAPI definition on each endpoint page. There is no public price, trial or free sandbox, so an agent needs a paying customer's admin to issue credentials. No idempotency keys or official SDKs were found.",
        "weaknesses": [
          "No public price, free tier or trial. The sandbox is a purchased module",
          "People search has no pagination and returns every matching employee in one response",
          "Fields without permission or with invalid IDs are dropped from a 200 response with no warning"
        ],
        "where": "hosted",
        "x402": "no"
      },
      {
        "bestFor": "An agent working inside a company that already runs Zoho People on a paid plan, for directory reads, leave requests, attendance and timesheet entries at modest volume.",
        "grade": "C",
        "name": "Zoho People",
        "position": 7,
        "price": "$1.25 / seat-mo",
        "score": 55,
        "slug": "zoho-people",
        "strengths": [
          "OAuth 2.0 scopes name an area and an operation, such as `ZOHOPEOPLE.forms.READ` and `ZOHOPEOPLE.leave.CREATE`, with one-hour access tokens",
          "Every reference page states a per-minute threshold and a five-minute lock period, and daily call caps are published per plan",
          "An llms.txt at `/people/api/llms.txt` lists 339 reference pages, each served as Markdown"
        ],
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-people",
        "verdict": "The REST API covers employee forms, leave, attendance, timesheets, files and learning, with per-endpoint rate limits and Markdown docs listed in an llms.txt. No OpenAPI spec, official SDK or dated API changelog was found, the Free plan has no API access, and several scopes come only as ALL.",
        "weaknesses": [
          "No OpenAPI spec, official SDK or dated API changelog found. The product What's New page has no API entries for 2026",
          "The Free plan has no API access. Paid plans cap calls at 5,000 to 25,000 a day",
          "Employee, attendance, time tracker, dashboard and automation scopes are listed only as ALL, with no read-only form"
        ],
        "where": "hosted",
        "x402": "no"
      },
      {
        "bestFor": "An agent working for a company that already runs Humaans and needs to read and update profiles, job roles and compensation, book and approve time away, and attach documents with a token narrowed by scope.",
        "grade": "C",
        "name": "Humaans",
        "position": 8,
        "price": "Paid",
        "score": 54.4,
        "slug": "humaans",
        "strengths": [
          "API tokens carry any of eight scopes, are capped by the creator's role, can expire after 1 to 365 days and rotate with a seven-day overlap",
          "Rate limit published as a token bucket of 40 refilling at 7 a second, with `X-RateLimit-*` headers and `Retry-After` on 429",
          "Time away requests can be approved or declined by setting `requestStatus` on `PATCH /api/time-away/:id`"
        ],
        "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/humaans",
        "verdict": "API tokens are limited by eight scopes and the creator's role, can expire and can be rotated with a seven-day overlap, and rate limits are published with Retry-After on 429. No OpenAPI file, API changelog, official SDK or idempotency keys were found, and prices are by quote, so an agent needs a paying customer's token.",
        "weaknesses": [
          "No OpenAPI file or Markdown docs. The reference is one HTML page of about 2 MB",
          "No public price, free tier or trial. Growth and Enterprise both say Talk to sales",
          "No idempotency keys, and deletes are permanent with no confirmation step"
        ],
        "where": "hosted",
        "x402": "no"
      }
    ],
    "updated": "2026-10-08"
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    "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json",
    "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/hr/",
    "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/hr/index.json",
    "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt",
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  "markdown": "All 8 ranked HR systems and employee records on the Anchor benchmark, with a pick for each need and where each one falls short. Scores come from public evidence, re-checked as vendors change.\n\n- Ranked: 8 · agent-ready (BB or better): 1 · accept x402: 0 · hosted endpoints: 8\n- Full ranked table: https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/hr.md\n- Head-to-head comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hr/index.md (28)\n- Methodology: https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/index.md\n\n## The shortlist\n\n| # | Tool | Grade | Score | Best for | Price | Where |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | [Remote](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/remote.md) | BB | 70.7 | A company that employs people through Remote (EOR, payroll, contractors or its HRIS) and wants an agent to read employments, file and review time off, track onboarding, and read payslips and documents. | $29 / seat-mo | hosted |\n| 2 | [Deel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deel.md) | B | 69.1 | A company that already runs HR, contractors, EOR or payroll on Deel and wants an agent to read the directory, update personal information, file and review time off, follow onboarding and fetch compliance documents. | $5 / seat-mo | hosted |\n| 3 | [Factorial](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/factorial.md) | B | 66.3 | An agent working for a company that already runs Factorial and needs employee records, leave requests with approval, attendance clock-ins, recruiting or expenses through one API. | $8 / seat-mo | hosted |\n| 4 | [BambooHR](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bamboohr.md) | C | 61.7 | An agent working inside one company's BambooHR account on directory lookups, time off, reports and goals, with the user's own permissions as the limit. | $10 / seat-mo | hosted |\n| 5 | [Rippling](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rippling.md) | C | 60.8 | An agent working for a company already on Rippling that needs scoped reads of people, organisation and time off data, and writes that wait for human review. | Paid | hosted |\n| 6 | [HiBob](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hibob.md) | C | 57 | An agent working inside a company that already runs Bob and needs field-level control over employee data, time off requests, documents and tasks. | Paid | hosted |\n| 7 | [Zoho People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-people.md) | C | 55 | An agent working inside a company that already runs Zoho People on a paid plan, for directory reads, leave requests, attendance and timesheet entries at modest volume. | $1.25 / seat-mo | hosted |\n| 8 | [Humaans](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/humaans.md) | C | 54.4 | An agent working for a company that already runs Humaans and needs to read and update profiles, job roles and compensation, book and approve time away, and attach documents with a token narrowed by scope. | Paid | hosted |\n\n## Picks by need\n\n- Highest score overall: [Remote](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/remote.md), BB, 70.7/100 on the benchmark. Also [Deel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deel.md), B, 69.1/100.\n- Schema \u0026 documentation: [BambooHR](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bamboohr.md), 88/100 on schema \u0026 documentation, against 78 for the overall leader.\n- Agent ergonomics: [Rippling](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rippling.md), 75/100 on agent ergonomics, against 57 for the overall leader.\n- Security \u0026 auth: [Rippling](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rippling.md), 90/100 on security \u0026 auth, against 74 for the overall leader.\n- Maintenance \u0026 community: [Factorial](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/factorial.md), 84/100 on maintenance \u0026 community, against 72 for the overall leader.\n- Transparency \u0026 trust: [Factorial](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/factorial.md), 78/100 on transparency \u0026 trust, against 68 for the overall leader.\n\n## How to choose\n\n- Field-level permissions per token: Check whether fields such as pay can be hidden or blocked per token, since an agent should not see what its user cannot.\n- Time-off approval rights: Check whether time-off requests can be created and approved through the API by the correct approver, since approval rights decide what an agent may commit.\n- Audit record for each change: Check that each change records the token that made it, since an agent's edits to an employee record must be traceable like a person's.\n- Org chart and onboarding coverage: Check whether the org chart and onboarding tasks can be read and started through the API, since an agent needs reporting lines to route a hire.\n\n- How the benchmark tests this category: One test company of ten employees in each listing. The same tasks run through its API (read the directory, update a field, request and approve time off, start an onboarding task). We check field permissions, the audit record and events. In this run listings are graded from public evidence against the published checklist.\n\n## Each one in detail\n\n### 1. Remote, BB 70.7/100\n\nRemote is a global employment platform covering employer of record, payroll, contractors and HR records. Its REST API, hosted MCP server and CLI let an agent read and update employments, time off, timesheets, expenses, onboarding and documents.\n\n- Verdict: The REST API has 303 operations in a public OpenAPI document, 78 OAuth scopes split into read and write, a sandbox issued by email with no card, and a hosted MCP server using OAuth with PKCE. The REST changelog link redirects to a login page, and writes have no idempotency key.\n- Choose it for: A company that employs people through Remote (EOR, payroll, contractors or its HRIS) and wants an agent to read employments, file and review time off, track onboarding, and read payslips and documents.\n- Strength: OpenAPI 3.0 document with 303 operations and 116 webhook events, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page\n- Strength: 78 scopes in `resource:action` form, with a read-only preset for customer tokens and a 403 body that names the scopes that would have worked\n- Strength: Seeded sandbox company and `ra_test_` token issued after an email verification, available for 14 days, with no card\n- Weakness: The REST API changelog link in the docs redirects to a ReadMe dashboard login, so no public dated record of API changes was read\n- Weakness: No idempotency key on writes. The vendor's own skill notes list creates for employments, time off, expenses and webhooks as unsafe to retry\n- Weakness: A partner authorisation request that omits `scope` is issued `all:write`, per the scopes page\n- Price: $29 / seat-mo · Auth: OAuth or key · x402: no · Where: hosted\n- Full assessment: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/remote.md\n\n### 2. Deel, B 69.1/100\n\nDeel is a global HR, payroll and employer-of-record platform. Its REST API and hosted MCP server let an agent read and update people records, time off, organisation structure, onboarding, contracts and compliance documents.\n\n- Verdict: The API has 506 operations in public OpenAPI 3.1 specs, about 90 read and write OAuth scopes, a sandbox and a dated versioning policy with one year of deprecation notice. The limit is 5 requests a second for a whole organisation, and the legal documents load only with JavaScript, so data handling terms weren't read.\n- Choose it for: A company that already runs HR, contractors, EOR or payroll on Deel and wants an agent to read the directory, update personal information, file and review time off, follow onboarding and fetch compliance documents.\n- Strength: Public OpenAPI 3.1 specs with 506 operations and 55 webhook events, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page\n- Strength: OAuth 2 with PKCE and dynamic client registration, about 90 scopes split into read and write, and single-use refresh tokens\n- Strength: Date-based versions with at least one year stable, one year deprecated, and `Deprecation` and `Sunset` response headers\n- Weakness: 5 requests a second shared by every token in an organisation, with no rate limit headers on REST responses per the rate limits page\n- Weakness: The OpenAPI links in the docs index return 404. The working specs sit under developer.deel.com/openapi/\n- Weakness: The idempotency guide covers POST and PATCH, but the spec declares the `Idempotency-Key` header on one operation\n- Price: $5 / seat-mo · Auth: OAuth or key · x402: no · Where: hosted\n- Full assessment: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deel.md\n- Against #1: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deel-vs-remote.md\n\n### 3. Factorial, B 66.3/100\n\nFactorial is an HR platform from Barcelona for employee records, time off, attendance, payroll data, recruiting and expenses. Agents reach it through a versioned REST API with API keys or OAuth 2.0, webhooks and a hosted MCP server.\n\n- Verdict: A public OpenAPI 3.1 definition covers 615 operations, including leave approval and employee termination, and OAuth apps can be limited to 33 scopes. API keys always grant every scope and never expire. No idempotency keys exist, and a request to an expired API version is answered in an older schema with no error.\n- Choose it for: An agent working for a company that already runs Factorial and needs employee records, leave requests with approval, attendance clock-ins, recruiting or expenses through one API.\n- Strength: OpenAPI 3.1.0 definition at `https://api.factorialhr.com/oas/` with 615 operations and 137 webhook events, plus `llms.txt` and a Markdown twin of every docs page\n- Strength: OAuth 2.0 with 33 scopes, PKCE for public clients, 1-hour access tokens and a revoke endpoint. User tokens are bound to an employee's permission group\n- Strength: Time off can be requested, approved and rejected through the API (`/timeoff/leaves/approve` and `/timeoff/leaves/reject`)\n- Weakness: An API key grants every scope, cannot be narrowed and does not expire\n- Weakness: No idempotency keys. The docs say the API does not deduplicate requests, so a blind retry can create a duplicate record\n- Weakness: A request to an unsupported API version is served in the oldest supported schema with no error\n- Price: $8 / seat-mo · Auth: OAuth or key · x402: no · Where: hosted\n- Full assessment: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/factorial.md\n- Against #1: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/factorial-vs-remote.md\n\n### 4. BambooHR, C 61.7/100\n\nHR system of record for small and medium-sized businesses, covering employee records, time off, hiring, onboarding and performance. Agents reach it through a REST API with a public OpenAPI spec, or a hosted MCP server in beta.\n\n- Verdict: The REST API publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 spec with 389 operations, llms.txt and OAuth scopes with separate write variants, and every call runs with the authorising user's permissions. No rate limit numbers are published, the MCP server is in beta, and its results can omit records without saying so.\n- Choose it for: An agent working inside one company's BambooHR account on directory lookups, time off, reports and goals, with the user's own permissions as the limit.\n- Strength: Public OpenAPI 3.1 spec with 389 operations, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page\n- Strength: OAuth 2.0 with read and `.write` scopes per data area, such as `employee:job` and `time_off:requests.write`\n- Strength: Every API and MCP call runs with the permissions of the user who authorised it, down to field level\n- Weakness: No rate limit numbers in the reviewed documentation. The terms reserve the right to throttle\n- Weakness: The MCP server is in beta, loads 56 tools and has no dynamic client registration\n- Weakness: Restricted records and fields can be dropped from MCP and API results with no marker\n- Price: $10 / seat-mo · Auth: OAuth or key · x402: no · Where: hosted\n- Full assessment: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bamboohr.md\n- Against #1: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-remote.md\n\n### 5. Rippling, C 60.8/100\n\nRippling is a workforce platform for HR, payroll, IT and spend. Its REST Platform API v2 reads and writes worker, time off and organisation data with scoped Bearer tokens. A first-party MCP server runs as the signed-in employee.\n\n- Verdict: API tokens carry any of 162 scopes and can never see more than their owner, and hires and worker changes land as drafts for a person to review. There is no public price, trial or self-serve signup, and status.rippling.com shows five incidents marked critical between 16 July and 29 September 2026.\n- Choose it for: An agent working for a company already on Rippling that needs scoped reads of people, organisation and time off data, and writes that wait for human review.\n- Strength: API tokens are limited to chosen scopes (162 listed) and to the owner's permission profile, and are revoked after 30 days unused\n- Strength: Hires and worker changes are created as drafts for review in Rippling, and leave requests follow the normal approval flow\n- Strength: Dated changelog with 141 entries since 6 August 2025, 46 of them between 9 July and 28 September 2026, each labelled breaking or not\n- Weakness: No public price, free tier or trial. rippling.com/pricing is a quote form, and endpoints name a paid package such as API Tier 1\n- Weakness: Five incidents marked critical and three marked major on status.rippling.com between 16 July and 29 September 2026\n- Weakness: The changelog labels 14 changes breaking since October 2025 while the reference still shows one version, 2024-08-01\n- Price: Paid · Auth: OAuth or key · x402: no · Where: hosted\n- Full assessment: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rippling.md\n- Against #1: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/remote-vs-rippling.md\n\n### 6. HiBob, C 57/100\n\nBob is HiBob's HR platform for employee records, time off, attendance, tasks, documents and hiring. Agents reach it through a REST API authenticated with service users, 30 webhook events and a hosted MCP server that uses OAuth.\n\n- Verdict: Service users start with no permissions and gain view or edit rights per field, and the docs are served as Markdown with an OpenAPI definition on each endpoint page. There is no public price, trial or free sandbox, so an agent needs a paying customer's admin to issue credentials. No idempotency keys or official SDKs were found.\n- Choose it for: An agent working inside a company that already runs Bob and needs field-level control over employee data, time off requests, documents and tasks.\n- Strength: Service users have no permissions by default, and view, edit and history rights are granted per category or field through permission groups\n- Strength: llms.txt index and a Markdown twin of every docs page, with an OpenAPI 3.1.1 definition embedded in each endpoint page\n- Strength: Per-endpoint rate limits are published, and 429 responses carry Retry-After and X-RateLimit headers\n- Weakness: No public price, free tier or trial. The sandbox is a purchased module\n- Weakness: People search has no pagination and returns every matching employee in one response\n- Weakness: Fields without permission or with invalid IDs are dropped from a 200 response with no warning\n- Price: Paid · Auth: OAuth or key · x402: no · Where: hosted\n- Full assessment: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hibob.md\n- Against #1: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hibob-vs-remote.md\n\n### 7. Zoho People, C 55/100\n\nCloud HR system from Zoho covering employee records, leave, attendance, timesheets, onboarding, performance and learning. Agents reach it through a REST API with OAuth 2.0, available on paid plans.\n\n- Verdict: The REST API covers employee forms, leave, attendance, timesheets, files and learning, with per-endpoint rate limits and Markdown docs listed in an llms.txt. No OpenAPI spec, official SDK or dated API changelog was found, the Free plan has no API access, and several scopes come only as ALL.\n- Choose it for: An agent working inside a company that already runs Zoho People on a paid plan, for directory reads, leave requests, attendance and timesheet entries at modest volume.\n- Strength: OAuth 2.0 scopes name an area and an operation, such as `ZOHOPEOPLE.forms.READ` and `ZOHOPEOPLE.leave.CREATE`, with one-hour access tokens\n- Strength: Every reference page states a per-minute threshold and a five-minute lock period, and daily call caps are published per plan\n- Strength: An llms.txt at `/people/api/llms.txt` lists 339 reference pages, each served as Markdown\n- Weakness: No OpenAPI spec, official SDK or dated API changelog found. The product What's New page has no API entries for 2026\n- Weakness: The Free plan has no API access. Paid plans cap calls at 5,000 to 25,000 a day\n- Weakness: Employee, attendance, time tracker, dashboard and automation scopes are listed only as ALL, with no read-only form\n- Price: $1.25 / seat-mo · Auth: OAuth · x402: no · Where: hosted\n- Full assessment: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-people.md\n- Against #1: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/remote-vs-zoho-people.md\n\n### 8. Humaans, C 54.4/100\n\nHumaans is an HR system of record for employee profiles, job roles, compensation, time away, timesheets, documents and equipment. Agents reach it through a REST API with scoped access tokens, signed webhooks and a hosted MCP server that uses OAuth.\n\n- Verdict: API tokens are limited by eight scopes and the creator's role, can expire and can be rotated with a seven-day overlap, and rate limits are published with Retry-After on 429. No OpenAPI file, API changelog, official SDK or idempotency keys were found, and prices are by quote, so an agent needs a paying customer's token.\n- Choose it for: An agent working for a company that already runs Humaans and needs to read and update profiles, job roles and compensation, book and approve time away, and attach documents with a token narrowed by scope.\n- Strength: API tokens carry any of eight scopes, are capped by the creator's role, can expire after 1 to 365 days and rotate with a seven-day overlap\n- Strength: Rate limit published as a token bucket of 40 refilling at 7 a second, with `X-RateLimit-*` headers and `Retry-After` on 429\n- Strength: Time away requests can be approved or declined by setting `requestStatus` on `PATCH /api/time-away/:id`\n- Weakness: No OpenAPI file or Markdown docs. The reference is one HTML page of about 2 MB\n- Weakness: No public price, free tier or trial. Growth and Enterprise both say Talk to sales\n- Weakness: No idempotency keys, and deletes are permanent with no confirmation step\n- Price: Paid · Auth: OAuth or key · x402: no · Where: hosted\n- Full assessment: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/humaans.md\n- Against #1: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/humaans-vs-remote.md\n\n## Head to head\n\n- [Deel vs Remote](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deel-vs-remote.md)\n- [Factorial vs Remote](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/factorial-vs-remote.md)\n- [BambooHR vs Remote](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-remote.md)\n- [Remote vs Rippling](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/remote-vs-rippling.md)\n- [Deel vs Factorial](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deel-vs-factorial.md)\n- [BambooHR vs Deel](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-deel.md)\n- [Deel vs Rippling](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deel-vs-rippling.md)\n- [BambooHR vs Factorial](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-factorial.md)\n- [Factorial vs Rippling](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/factorial-vs-rippling.md)\n- [BambooHR vs Rippling](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-rippling.md)\n\n## Questions\n\n### What are the highest-rated HR systems and employee records for AI agents?\n\nRemote has the highest benchmark score of the 8 ranked HR systems and employee records, 70.7 (BB). 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