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The developer terms let BambooHR require review before production access or a marketplace listing.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Core $10, Pro $17 and Elite $25 per employee per month, or $250, $425 and $650 a month flat for companies of 25 employees or fewer, with volume discounts that aren't quantified. No separate fee for the API or the MCP server was found, and the pricing page doesn't say which plans include the API. A free trial needs no credit card (length not stated) and the developer portal account is free, so an agent's owner can start without a contract (https://www.bamboohr.com/pricing/, checked 2026-10-07).", "priceSummary": "$10 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the OpenAPI spec or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-07).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 56, "popularity": { "githubStars": 34, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-07" }, "docsUrl": "https://documentation.bamboohr.com", "llmsTxt": "https://documentation.bamboohr.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://openapi.bamboohr.io/main/latest/docs/openapi/public-openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "hr.employees", "hr.time-off", "hr.org", "hr.onboarding", "hr.documents", "recruiting.applications", "recruiting.jobs" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "paid", "free-trial", "oauth", "api-key", "mcp", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "php", "status-page", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-26", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61.7, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 319, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 629, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 62, "payments": 35, "reliability": 50, "schema": 88, "security": 64, "transparency": 74 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-07" }, "negative": 0, "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.", "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.", "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", "Dated API changelog with 14 entries between 23 July and 26 August 2026", "Free trial with no card, and plan prices per employee published without a login" ], "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", "PHP is the only maintained official SDK. The .NET and Java SDKs are marked unmaintained", "No security.txt, and the SOC 2 report sits in a trust centre behind registration and an NDA" ], "agentNotes": [ "Treat a short or empty result as what this caller may see. `list_employees` drops employees when a filter or sort field is restricted", "Honour `Retry-After` on 429. Rate-limited calls returned 503 before 16 September 2026, so handle both", "Ask for read scopes only unless the task writes. Write access needs the matching `.write` scope", "Request `offline_access` to receive a refresh token. 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The OpenAPI spec is served from openapi.bamboohr.io.", "www.bamboohr.com/.well-known/security.txt and /security.txt return 404.", "The privacy notice is dated September 2025 and the data processing agreement was last updated 3 June 2022.", "RDAP for bamboohr.com gives a registration date of 2009-07-23 and Amazon Registrar, Inc. as registrar." ], "score": 83 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bamboohr.json", "live": { "slug": "bamboohr", "probe": { "target": "https://{companyDomain}.bamboohr.com/api/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:25.477008751Z", "lastOk": false, "lastStatus": 0, "lastMs": 0, "lastNote": "invalid character \"{\" in host name", "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 0, "uptime30d": 0, "p50ms24h": 0, "p95ms24h": 0, "samples24h": 33, "samples30d": 33, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 33, "ok": 0 } ], "outages": [ { "start": "2026-10-08T15:28:56.936598984Z", "end": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "note": "invalid character \"{\" in host name" } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.bamboohr.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T17:50:23.675113949Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "BambooHR/bhr-api-php", "version": "v2.0.1", "released": "2025-12-09", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:01:43.024945444Z" } ], "githubStars": 34, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://bamboohr.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:37.569543491Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://documentation.bamboohr.com/docs/past-changes-to-the-api", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:19:54.999704896Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "f7d3d57fae58" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:25.477008751Z" } }, "answer": "Deel scores 69.1 (B) on agent readiness against BambooHR's 61.7 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. BambooHR leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "deel", "name": "Deel", "vendor": "Deel, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.deel.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "hr", "summary": "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.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deel", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deel.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deel.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deel.json", "repo": "https://github.com/letsdeel/deel-cli", "license": "Proprietary service under Deel's platform terms. The Deel CLI on GitHub is MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "sse" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.letsdeel.com/rest", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@deel-org/cli" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@deel-developers/deel" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve for an existing Deel customer. An admin creates an organisation or personal token in the Developer Centre (More, Developer, Access Tokens), choosing scopes and what sensitive data it can read, or registers an OAuth 2 app. No partner or sales approval is documented for a company's own data. Publishing to the Deel App Store has its own submission step, and worker tokens need the Embedded partnership. The MCP server takes OAuth with PKCE and dynamic client registration, or a personal token. Scopes follow `{resource}:read` and `{resource}:write`.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No separate API charge was found. Access comes with a Deel account, priced per person a month. Deel HR is $5 (Core), $19 (Advanced) or $29 (Elite) per employee, contractor management $49 per contractor and EOR $599 per employee. No free plan is on the pricing page, whose buttons book a demo. The quickstart says a sandbox can be created from the Developer Centre after signing up at app.deel.com. We didn't sign up, so whether that needs a card or a contract is unconfirmed (https://www.deel.com/pricing/, checked 2026-10-07).", "priceSummary": "$5 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the OpenAPI specs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-07).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 86, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 17, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-07" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.deel.com", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.deel.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developer.deel.com/openapi/endpoints-5.json", "capabilities": [ "hr.employees", "hr.time-off", "hr.org", "hr.onboarding", "hr.documents" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "mcp", "closed-source", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "sandbox", "scim", "typescript", "status-page", "soc2", "sales-led" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.1, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 158, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 629, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 30, "reliability": 88, "schema": 85, "security": 64, "transparency": 69 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-07" }, "negative": 0, "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.", "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.", "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", "Changelog with 20 dated entries between 2 September and 5 October 2026", "Sandbox at api-staging.letsdeel.com with sample data, simulated payments and no emails sent to workers" ], "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", "TypeScript SDK last published on 13 March 2025, and no Python SDK found", "Privacy policy, DPA and platform terms render only with JavaScript, and no public sub-processor list or SLA was read" ], "agentNotes": [ "Queue calls to stay under 5 requests a second for the whole organisation. Other integrations on the same account share the limit", "Send `X-Version: 2026-01-01` on REST calls, and watch `X-State`, `Deprecation` and `Sunset` response headers", "Send a UUID `Idempotency-Key` on POST and PATCH. Only retry a 5xx on a write when the request carried one", "Test against https://api-staging.letsdeel.com/rest with a sandbox token. Production and sandbox tokens aren't interchangeable", "Request read scopes only (people:read, time-off:read) for a read-only agent. Rejecting a time-off request is irreversible" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 69.1 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 65, "maintenance": 70, "payments": 30, "reliability": 88, "schema": 85, "security": 64, "transparency": 43 }, "provenanceScore": 94 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g @deel-org/cli", "http": "curl -X GET 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/contracts' \\\n -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE' \\\n -H 'X-Version: 2026-01-01'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "deel": { "url": "https://api.letsdeel.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/hr.employees", "tool": "https://letme.dev/deel" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Deel HR Core", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 5, "note": "per employee" }, { "item": "Deel HR Advanced", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 19, "note": "per employee" }, { "item": "Deel HR Elite", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 29, "note": "per employee" }, { "item": "Contractor management", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 49, "note": "per contractor" }, { "item": "Employer of record", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 599, "note": "per EOR employee" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Deel, Inc.", "domain": "deel.com", "domainRegistered": "1998-04-21", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.deel.com/legal/platform-terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.deel.com/legal/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.deel.com", "changelog": "https://developer.deel.com/api/changelog", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-07", "notes": [ "The entity name comes from the copyright line of the MIT licence in letsdeel/deel-cli (Copyright (c) 2026 Deel, Inc.). The legal pages on deel.com returned no document text without JavaScript, so the contracting entity in the terms wasn't read.", "The API and MCP server answer on api.letsdeel.com and the sandbox on api-staging.letsdeel.com. letsdeel.com is Deel's second domain, registered 2018-10-16 per RDAP, and the docs on developer.deel.com name it.", "https://www.deel.com/.well-known/security.txt gives a Contact and Policy of https://www.deel.com/security and expires on 21 July 2027. api.letsdeel.com and app.deel.com return 404 for the same path.", "RDAP for deel.com gives a registration date of 1998-04-21.", "trust.deel.com is a JavaScript application and returned no readable content." ], "score": 94 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deel.json", "live": { "slug": "deel", "probe": { "target": "https://api.letsdeel.com/rest", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:28.522515382Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 103, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 103, "p95ms24h": 224, "samples24h": 33, "samples30d": 33, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 33, "ok": 33 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.deel.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T17:50:33.060832245Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "letsdeel/deel-cli", "version": "v0.2.0", "released": "2026-09-24", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:08:05.333667497Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@deel-developers/deel", "version": "2.1.56", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:08:05.112276669Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@deel-org/cli", "version": "0.2.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:08:01.624087654Z" } ], "githubStars": 0, "npmWeekly": 17, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://deel.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-07-21T00:00:00.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:48.747560221Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developer.deel.com/api/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:17:10.934265548Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "541eae2b1eb3" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:28.522515382Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Bamboo HR LLC", "b": "Deel, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://{companyDomain}.bamboohr.com/api/v1", "b": "https://api.letsdeel.com/rest", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy)", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Paid", "b": "Paid", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Proprietary service under BambooHR's terms of service and developer terms. The official PHP SDK on GitHub is MIT", "b": "Proprietary service under Deel's platform terms. The Deel CLI on GitHub is MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "56", "b": "86", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-08-26", "b": "2026-10-05", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-02-01", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2025-09-01", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "34 stars", "b": "17 npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Deel scores 69.1 (B) on agent readiness against BambooHR's 61.7 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. BambooHR leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, BambooHR or Deel?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do BambooHR and Deel need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. BambooHR has a hosted endpoint at https://{companyDomain}.bamboohr.com/api/v1 and Deel at https://api.letsdeel.com/rest.", "question": "Can an agent call BambooHR and Deel without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 74 against 69" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "bamboohr", "watchFor": "No rate limit numbers in the reviewed documentation. The terms reserve the right to throttle" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 88 against 50", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 70 against 62" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "deel", "watchFor": "5 requests a second shared by every token in an organisation, with no rate limit headers on REST responses per the rate limits page" } ], "job": { "capability": "hr.employees", "name": "Hr employees" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-hibob.json", "title": "BambooHR vs HiBob", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-hibob" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-rippling.json", "title": "BambooHR vs Rippling", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-rippling" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deel-vs-hibob.json", "title": "Deel vs HiBob", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deel-vs-hibob" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deel-vs-rippling.json", "title": "Deel vs Rippling", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deel-vs-rippling" } ], "scores": [ { "bamboohr": 50, "by": 38, "deel": 88, "edge": "deel", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "bamboohr": 88, "by": 3, "deel": 85, "edge": "bamboohr", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "bamboohr": 61, "by": 4, "deel": 65, "edge": "deel", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "bamboohr": 64, "by": 0, "deel": 64, "edge": "", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "bamboohr": 35, "by": 5, "deel": 30, "edge": "bamboohr", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "bamboohr": 62, "by": 8, "deel": 70, "edge": "deel", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "bamboohr": 74, "by": 5, "deel": 69, "edge": "bamboohr", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Deel scores 69.1 (B) on agent readiness against BambooHR's 61.7 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. BambooHR leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do hr employees.", "verdicts": { "bamboohr": "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.", "deel": "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." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-deel", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-deel.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-deel.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-deel.min.md" }, "markdown": "Deel scores 69.1 (B) on agent readiness against BambooHR's 61.7 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. BambooHR leads on payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do hr employees.\n\n- BambooHR: grade C, 61.7/100, rank #319 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bamboohr.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bamboohr.json\n- Deel: grade B, 69.1/100, rank #158 of 629. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deel.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deel.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### BambooHR (C)\n\nGood 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\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 74 against 69\n\nWatch for: No rate limit numbers in the reviewed documentation. The terms reserve the right to throttle\n\n### Deel (B)\n\nGood 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\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 88 against 50\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 70 against 62\n\nWatch for: 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\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | BambooHR | Deel | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 88 | Deel +38 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 88 | 85 | BambooHR +3 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 61 | 65 | Deel +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 64 | even |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 30 | BambooHR +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 70 | Deel +8 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 69 | BambooHR +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **61.7 · C** | **69.1 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | BambooHR | Deel |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Bamboo HR LLC | Deel, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://{companyDomain}.bamboohr.com/api/v1` | `https://api.letsdeel.com/rest` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under BambooHR's terms of service and developer terms. The official PHP SDK on GitHub is MIT | Proprietary service under Deel's platform terms. The Deel CLI on GitHub is MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 56 | 86 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-08-26 | 2026-10-05 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-02-01 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-01 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 34 stars | 17 npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**BambooHR.** 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\n**Deel.** 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\n## Before you call either\n\n### BambooHR\n\n1. Treat a short or empty result as what this caller may see. `list_employees` drops employees when a filter or sort field is restricted\n2. Honour `Retry-After` on 429. Rate-limited calls returned 503 before 16 September 2026, so handle both\n3. Ask for read scopes only unless the task writes. Write access needs the matching `.write` scope\n4. Request `offline_access` to receive a refresh token. Access tokens last one hour\n5. Use `list-employees` with `fields`, `filter` and cursor paging in place of the unpaginated directory endpoint\n\n### Deel\n\n1. Queue calls to stay under 5 requests a second for the whole organisation. Other integrations on the same account share the limit\n2. Send `X-Version: 2026-01-01` on REST calls, and watch `X-State`, `Deprecation` and `Sunset` response headers\n3. Send a UUID `Idempotency-Key` on POST and PATCH. Only retry a 5xx on a write when the request carried one\n4. Test against https://api-staging.letsdeel.com/rest with a sandbox token. Production and sandbox tokens aren't interchangeable\n5. Request read scopes only (people:read, time-off:read) for a read-only agent. Rejecting a time-off request is irreversible\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, BambooHR or Deel?\n\nDeel scores 69.1 (B) on agent readiness against BambooHR's 61.7 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. 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