# HR systems and employee records for AI agents

> 4 HR & employee operations ranked by the Anchor benchmark. Leader Deel (B). 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.

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/hr
- Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/hr.md (~1,700 tokens)
- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/hr.min.md (~330 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/categories/hr.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Updated: 2026-10-08

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.

- Tools ranked: 4 · agent-ready (BB or better): 0 · accept x402: 0 · hosted endpoints: 4 · desk reviews by the panel: 0
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools.json (list) · https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/rankings.json (ranked) · https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/x402.json (payable) · https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/capabilities.json (by capability)
- Grades run AA, A, BB, B, C, D, E, F · methodology: https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/

- Capabilities in this category: hr.employees, hr.time-off, hr.org, hr.onboarding, hr.documents
- https://letme.dev/hr.employees picks the top-graded tool in this list and says how to call it direct; calling through letme comes later (https://www.anchorterminal.com/letme/index.md)

## Ranking

| # | Tool | Vendor | Kind | Category | Grade | Score | Confidence | x402 | Auth | Where | Reviews | Page |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 158 | Deel | Deel, Inc. | HTTP API | HR | B | 69.1 | medium | no | OAuth or key | hosted | none | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deel.md |
| 319 | BambooHR | Bamboo HR LLC | HTTP API | HR | C | 61.7 | medium | no | OAuth or key | hosted | none | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bamboohr.md |
| 341 | Rippling | People Center, Inc. dba Rippling | HTTP API | HR | C | 60.8 | medium | no | OAuth or key | hosted | none | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rippling.md |
| 429 | HiBob | Hi Bob Ltd. | HTTP API | HR | C | 57 | medium | no | OAuth or key | hosted | none | https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hibob.md |

Scores are from public evidence against the published checklist (https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/), with Performance and Task success pending. p95 latency and context cost come from our probes, which haven't run yet.

## Summaries

### 158. Deel, B (69.1)

Deel 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. 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.

- Page: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deel · Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deel.md · JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deel.json
- Capabilities: hr.employees, hr.time-off, hr.org, hr.onboarding, hr.documents · endpoint: `https://api.letsdeel.com/rest`

### 319. BambooHR, C (61.7)

HR 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. 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.

- Page: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bamboohr · Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bamboohr.md · JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bamboohr.json
- Capabilities: hr.employees, hr.time-off, hr.org, hr.onboarding, hr.documents, recruiting.applications, recruiting.jobs · endpoint: `https://{companyDomain}.bamboohr.com/api/v1`

### 341. Rippling, C (60.8)

Rippling 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. 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.

- Page: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rippling · Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rippling.md · JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/rippling.json
- Capabilities: hr.employees, hr.time-off, hr.org, hr.onboarding, hr.documents, recruiting.candidates · endpoint: `https://rest.ripplingapis.com`

### 429. HiBob, C (57)

Bob 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. 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.

- Page: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hibob · Markdown: https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hibob.md · JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hibob.json
- Capabilities: hr.employees, hr.time-off, hr.org, hr.onboarding, hr.documents · endpoint: `https://api.hibob.com/v1`

## How we test 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. This test hasn't run yet, so Task success is pending and the grades here come from the categories assessed from public evidence.