# HiBob vs Humaans

> HiBob scores 57 (C) on agent readiness against Humaans's 54.4 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Humaans leads on agent ergonomics. Both do hr employees. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
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- Updated: 2026-10-08

HiBob scores 57 (C) on agent readiness against Humaans's 54.4 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Humaans leads on agent ergonomics. Both do hr employees.

- HiBob: grade C, 57/100, rank #484 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hibob.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hibob.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

### HiBob (C)

Good for: An agent working inside a company that already runs Bob and needs field-level control over employee data, time off requests, documents and tasks.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 78 against 44

Watch for: No public price, free tier or trial. The sandbox is a purchased module

### 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:
- Agent ergonomics, 60 against 47

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


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | HiBob | Humaans | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 70 | Humaans +3 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 44 | HiBob +34 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 47 | 60 | Humaans +13 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 70 | Humaans +2 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 0 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 56 | HiBob +3 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 73 | Humaans +2 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **57 · C** | **54.4 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | HiBob | Humaans |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Hi Bob Ltd. | Humaans Software UK Ltd |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.hibob.com/v1` | `https://app.humaans.io/api` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under HiBob's customer subscription terms and API Terms of Use | Proprietary service under Humaans' Terms of Service |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-10 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-10-06 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-10-06 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |

## Verdicts

**HiBob.** 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.

**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

### HiBob

1. Send `Authorization: Basic base64(SERVICE-USER-ID:TOKEN)` to https://api.hibob.com/v1. Ask the Bob admin to put the service user in a permission group first, because it starts with none
2. Request only the fields needed in `fields` on POST /people/search (maximum 400). The call returns all matching employees at once, so batch by `root.id` in large companies
3. Compare returned fields with requested ones. Missing permission or a wrong field ID yields 200 with the field omitted
4. Stop on 401 or 403. More than 50 in 10 seconds blocks the IP for 5 minutes
5. Back off on 429 using Retry-After. Writes such as update, create and terminate employee allow 10 calls a minute, and no idempotency key exists, so check state before retrying a write

### 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, HiBob or Humaans?

HiBob scores 57 (C) on agent readiness against Humaans's 54.4 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. Humaans leads on agent ergonomics.

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

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

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

Yes. HiBob has a hosted endpoint at https://api.hibob.com/v1 and Humaans at https://app.humaans.io/api.


## For agents

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

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