# BambooHR vs Deel (slim)

> 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 & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do hr employees. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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 & pricing and transparency & trust. Both do hr employees.

- BambooHR: C 61.7, rank #357 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bamboohr.min.md
- Deel: B 69.1, rank #168 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deel.min.md
- BambooHR, good 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. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 35 against 30; Transparency & trust, 74 against 69.
- Deel, good 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. Ahead on Reliability, 88 against 50; Maintenance & community, 70 against 62.

| Category | BambooHR | Deel |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 50 | 88 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 88 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 61 | 65 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 64 | 64 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 62 | 70 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 74 | 69 |

| Fact (where they differ) | BambooHR | Deel |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Bamboo HR LLC | Deel, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://{companyDomain}.bamboohr.com/api/v1` | `https://api.letsdeel.com/rest` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | 56 | 86 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-08-26 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-02-01 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-01 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 34 stars | 17 npm/wk |