# Deel vs Humaans

> Deel scores 69.1 (B) on agent readiness against Humaans's 54.4 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Humaans leads on security & auth. Both do hr employees. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-08

Deel scores 69.1 (B) on agent readiness against Humaans's 54.4 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Humaans leads on security & auth. Both do hr employees.

- Deel: grade B, 69.1/100, rank #168 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deel.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deel.json
- Humaans: grade C, 54.4/100, rank #529 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/humaans.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/humaans.json

## Which one, for what

### Deel (B)

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 70
- Schema & documentation, 85 against 44
- Agent ergonomics, 65 against 60
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 0
- Maintenance & community, 70 against 56

Watch 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

### Humaans (C)

Good 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.

Ahead on:
- Security & auth, 70 against 64

Watch for: No OpenAPI file or Markdown docs. The reference is one HTML page of about 2 MB


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Deel | Humaans | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 88 | 70 | Deel +18 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 85 | 44 | Deel +41 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 65 | 60 | Deel +5 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 70 | Humaans +6 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 0 | Deel +30 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 56 | Deel +14 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 69 | 73 | Humaans +4 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **69.1 · B** | **54.4 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Deel | Humaans |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Deel, Inc. | Humaans Software UK Ltd |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.letsdeel.com/rest` | `https://app.humaans.io/api` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Deel's platform terms. The Deel CLI on GitHub is MIT | Proprietary service under Humaans' Terms of Service |
| Tools exposed | 86 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-05 | 2026-09-10 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-10-06 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-10-06 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 17 npm/wk | none |

## Verdicts

**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.

**Humaans.** 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.

## Before you call either

### Deel

1. Queue calls to stay under 5 requests a second for the whole organisation. Other integrations on the same account share the limit
2. Send `X-Version: 2026-01-01` on REST calls, and watch `X-State`, `Deprecation` and `Sunset` response headers
3. Send a UUID `Idempotency-Key` on POST and PATCH. Only retry a 5xx on a write when the request carried one
4. Test against https://api-staging.letsdeel.com/rest with a sandbox token. Production and sandbox tokens aren't interchangeable
5. Request read scopes only (people:read, time-off:read) for a read-only agent. Rejecting a time-off request is irreversible

### Humaans

1. Send `Authorization: Bearer <token>` to https://app.humaans.io/api. Call `GET /api/token-info` first to read the token's scopes and expiry
2. Expect a role limit as well as scopes. A token made by a user with the User role reads only public company data and that person's own profile
3. Page with `$limit` (maximum 250) and `$skip`, and pass `-g` to curl because parameters use `$` and `[]`
4. On 429 wait the seconds in `Retry-After`. The bucket holds 40 requests and refills at 7 a second per token
5. Check state before retrying a POST. No idempotency key exists, and `DELETE /api/people/:id` cannot be undone

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Deel or Humaans?

Deel scores 69.1 (B) on agent readiness against Humaans's 54.4 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Humaans leads on security & auth.

### Do Deel and Humaans need an API key?

Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.

### Can an agent call Deel and Humaans without installing anything?

Yes. Deel has a hosted endpoint at https://api.letsdeel.com/rest and Humaans at https://app.humaans.io/api.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deel-vs-humaans.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deel-vs-humaans.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "deel", "b": "humaans"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare deel humaans`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/deel.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/humaans.json

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