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Head to head · Payroll records · October 2026 research run

Employment Hero Payroll vs PayFit

PayFit scores 55.5 (C) on agent readiness against Employment Hero Payroll's 50.4 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Employment Hero Payroll leads on maintenance & community. Both do payroll records.

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Employment Hero PayrollEmployment Hero Pty Ltd · HTTP API D50.4/100#769 of 950 PayFitPayFit SAS · HTTP API C55.5/100#656 of 950

Which one, for what

Employment Hero Payroll D

Good for An agent acting for an employer or bureau already on Employment Hero Payroll in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Singapore or Malaysia, and white label partners who create businesses through the brand endpoints.

Ahead on

  • Maintenance & community, 68 against 28

Watch for

An API key carries the whole access of the user who generated it. No per-key scopes were found

PayFit C

Good for An agent working for an employer that already runs payroll on PayFit in France, the UK or Spain and needs employees, contracts, payslips, absences or the payroll journal.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 79 against 65
  • Schema & documentation, 78 against 51
  • Security & auth, 51 against 46
  • Transparency & trust, 70 against 60

Watch for

No operation runs, previews or approves a payroll. The API reads payroll status, payslips and accounting exports

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runEmployment Hero PayrollPayFitEdge
Reliability16%206579PayFit +14
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25178PayFit +27
Agent ergonomics13%16.25351Employment Hero Payroll +2
Security & auth14%17.54651PayFit +5
Payments & pricing10%12.51010even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.86828Employment Hero Payroll +40
Transparency & trust7%8.86070PayFit +10
Negative events≤1500
Total50.4 · D55.5 · C

Facts side by side

FactEmployment Hero PayrollPayFit
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorEmployment Hero Pty LtdPayFit SAS
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthOAuth or keyOAuth or key
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Employment Hero's General Terms. The KeyPayV2 .NET client is MITProprietary service under PayFit's general terms of service
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnoyes
Last release2026-10-082026-07-23
Terms last updatedno date given2026-06-15
Privacy policy last updatedno date given2026-06-15
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the textyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the textyes
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the textnot found in the text
Popularity6 starsnone

Verdicts

Employment Hero Payroll

Five public Swagger 2.0 files describe 660 to 821 operations per region, and any payroll user can generate an API key without a partner review. The key carries its user's whole access, no idempotency keys or API changelog were found, and the only official client is for .NET.

PayFit

A public OpenAPI 3.0 file, llms.txt and scoped keys let a paying customer's agent read payroll outputs and write absences. The API cannot run or approve a payroll, new partner integrations are not being accepted, and no idempotency keys or SDKs were found.

Before you call either

Employment Hero Payroll

  1. Send the API key as the Basic auth username with a blank password, for example curl -u {api_key}: https://api.yourpayroll.com.au/api/v2/user
  2. Pick the Swagger file for the business's region (swagger-au.json, swagger-nz.json, swagger-uk.json, swagger-sg.json, swagger-my.json). Paths and models differ by region
  3. Stay under 5 requests a second per key and IP address. A 429 answered our test with retry-after: 1
  4. Page lists with $skip and $top (100 at most). Filter property names are capitalised, unlike the camelCase JSON
  5. Read GET /api/v2/business/{businessId}/payrun/{payRunId}/warnings before POST .../finalise. Finalise can lodge with the tax office and publish pay slips in the same call

PayFit

  1. Have a company admin create the key at app.payfit.com/integrations/hub/api with only the scopes the task needs. The key is shown once
  2. POST the key to https://oauth.payfit.com/introspect to get company_id, then call https://partner-api.payfit.com/companies/{companyId}/...
  3. Page lists with nextPageToken and maxResults, which defaults to 10 and stops at 50
  4. Check before repeating a failed POST. There is no idempotency key, and POST /absences creates an absence that is already validated
  5. A collaborator or contract created through the API stays incomplete until an HR admin finishes it in the PayFit app, and a new contract takes 2 to 5 minutes to appear

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Employment Hero Payroll or PayFit?

PayFit scores 55.5 (C) on agent readiness against Employment Hero Payroll's 50.4 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Employment Hero Payroll leads on maintenance & community.

Do Employment Hero Payroll and PayFit need an API key?

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

Can an agent call Employment Hero Payroll and PayFit without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for Employment Hero Payroll. No hosted endpoint is listed for PayFit.

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