{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "hibob", "name": "HiBob", "vendor": "Hi Bob Ltd.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.hibob.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "hr", "summary": "Bob is HiBob's HR platform for employee records, time off, attendance, tasks, documents and hiring. Agents reach it through a REST API authenticated with service users, 30 webhook events and a hosted MCP server that uses OAuth.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hibob", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hibob.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hibob.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hibob.json", "license": "Proprietary service under HiBob's customer subscription terms and API Terms of Use", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.hibob.com/v1", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access is granted by a customer's Bob admin, with no self-serve route for outsiders. Customer-built integrations use a service user, an ID and token sent as HTTP Basic, which starts with no permissions and gains them through a permission group (product areas, fields by View, View history and Edit, and which employees). OAuth 2.0 authorisation code apps are open only to approved Marketplace and technology partners through the Developer Portal, with 28 scopes, an audience the customer chooses at install, 5-minute access tokens and 30-day refresh tokens. The hosted MCP server uses OAuth as the signed-in employee and follows that person's Bob permissions.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public prices. HiBob quotes per employee by company size and chosen modules, and the pricing page asks for a demo or a custom quote. No free tier or trial was found. The API sandbox at api.sandbox.hibob.com is available only to accounts that have bought the Sandbox module, so an agent cannot start without a customer contract (https://www.hibob.com/pricing-plans, checked 2026-10-07).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the API terms or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-07).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-07" }, "docsUrl": "https://apidocs.hibob.com", "llmsTxt": "https://apidocs.hibob.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "hr.employees", "hr.time-off", "hr.org", "hr.onboarding", "hr.documents" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "enterprise", "sales-led", "api-key", "oauth", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "webhooks", "sandbox", "status-page", "bug-bounty", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 57, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 562, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 47, "maintenance": 59, "payments": 0, "reliability": 67, "schema": 78, "security": 68, "transparency": 71 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-07" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "An agent working inside a company that already runs Bob and needs field-level control over employee data, time off requests, documents and tasks.", "strengths": [ "Service users have no permissions by default, and view, edit and history rights are granted per category or field through permission groups", "llms.txt index and a Markdown twin of every docs page, with an OpenAPI 3.1.1 definition embedded in each endpoint page", "Per-endpoint rate limits are published, and 429 responses carry Retry-After and X-RateLimit headers", "Webhooks v2 retry with exponential backoff for up to three days, with signed requests", "SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2022, ISO 27018:2019 and a Bugcrowd bug bounty listed on the security page" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public price, free tier or trial. The sandbox is a purchased module", "People search has no pagination and returns every matching employee in one response", "Fields without permission or with invalid IDs are dropped from a 200 response with no warning", "No idempotency keys and no official SDK found in the reviewed documentation", "MCP setup and tool documentation sit in the help centre, which returned 403 to our reader" ], "agentNotes": [ "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", "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", "Compare returned fields with requested ones. Missing permission or a wrong field ID yields 200 with the field omitted", "Stop on 401 or 403. More than 50 in 10 seconds blocks the IP for 5 minutes", "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" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 57 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 47, "maintenance": 59, "payments": 0, "reliability": 67, "schema": 78, "security": 68, "transparency": 58 }, "provenanceScore": 83 }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST \"https://api.hibob.com/v1/people/search\" \\\n -u \"$BOB_SERVICE_USER_ID:$BOB_SERVICE_USER_TOKEN\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"fields\":[\"root.id\",\"root.email\",\"work.department\"]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/hr.employees", "tool": "https://letme.dev/hibob" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Hi Bob Ltd.", "domain": "hibob.com", "domainRegistered": "2010-02-25", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/api-terms-of-use", "privacy": "https://www.hibob.com/privacy/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.hibob.io", "changelog": "https://apidocs.hibob.com/changelog", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-07", "notes": [ "The API Terms of Use name Hi Bob Ltd. and its subsidiaries. The privacy policy (updated 16 February 2026) names Hi Bob (UK) Limited, 5 New Street Square, London EC4A 3TW, and says it does not cover people who use Bob at a customer's direction.", "The customer subscription terms (revised January 2026) list contracting entities by region, among them Hi Bob, Inc., Hi Bob Ltd., Hi Bob (UK) Limited and Hi Bob (NL) B.V.", "The API answers at https://api.hibob.com/v1 and the sandbox at https://api.sandbox.hibob.com/v1. OAuth tokens are exchanged at https://auth.app.hibob.com/oauth2/v1/apps/token. The status page is on a separate domain, status.hibob.io.", "www.hibob.com/.well-known/security.txt returned a Cloudflare block page (403) to both of our fetchers, so its presence is unknown.", "RDAP for hibob.com gives a registration date of 2010-02-25.", "The data processing addendum page (updated September 2026) links to a pre-signed DocuSign document and does not show the terms." ], "score": 83 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hibob.json", "live": { "slug": "hibob", "probe": { "target": "https://api.hibob.com/v1", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T09:26:52.401033625Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 119, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 92, "p95ms24h": 151, "samples24h": 194, "samples30d": 194, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 93, "ok": 93 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 101, "ok": 101 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.hibob.io", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T09:25:14.201577023Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://hibob.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "unknown", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:39:05.839381908Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://apidocs.hibob.com/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:15:14.469649765Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "981f915fbe41" }, { "url": "https://www.hibob.com/pricing-plans", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:28:16.10467361Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "ac07b0d6702c" }, { "url": "https://www.hibob.com/privacy/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:28:18.345425875Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "1bf3ce3c5701" }, { "url": "https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/api-terms-of-use", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:15:16.937981436Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "d6b463c8c703" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T09:26:52.401033625Z" } }, "answer": "Remote scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against HiBob's 57 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "remote", "name": "Remote", "vendor": "Remote Technology, Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://remote.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "hr", "summary": "Remote is a global employment platform covering employer of record, payroll, contractors and HR records. Its REST API, hosted MCP server and CLI let an agent read and update employments, time off, timesheets, expenses, onboarding and documents.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/remote", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/remote.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/remote.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/remote.json", "repo": "https://github.com/remoteoss/remote-for-ai", "license": "Proprietary service under Remote's terms of use. The remote-for-ai plugin and the Remote CLI repository on GitHub are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://gateway.remote.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@remoteoss/remote-flows" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve for an existing Remote customer. A company admin or owner generates a Customer API token under Company Settings, Integrations and APIs, choosing read only, full access or custom scopes, after accepting the Remote API Terms of Use. Tokens are prefixed `ra_live_` or `ra_test_`. Partners building for many companies use OAuth 2.0, with credentials and scopes set up by Remote's partnerships team. The MCP server and the CLI sign in through a browser with OAuth 2.0 and PKCE, and MCP clients register dynamically. Scopes follow `resource:read` and `resource:write`.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No separate API charge was found. Access comes with a Remote account, priced per person a month, from $29 per employee for Payroll or per contractor for Contractor Management to $699 per employee for employer of record. Each plan's button books a demo, and no free production plan was found. A seeded sandbox company and API token are issued after an email verification and last 14 days, with no card (https://remote.com/pricing, https://developer.remote.com/docs/sandbox-quickstart, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$29 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the OpenAPI document or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 1775, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.remote.com", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.remote.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://gateway.remote.com/v1/docs/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "hr.employees", "hr.time-off", "hr.onboarding", "hr.org", "hr.documents" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "official", "mcp", "closed-source", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "sandbox", "scim", "cli", "status-page", "soc2", "sales-led" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-08", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 70.7, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 142, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 72, "payments": 35, "reliability": 96, "schema": 78, "security": 74, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The REST API has 303 operations in a public OpenAPI document, 78 OAuth scopes split into read and write, a sandbox issued by email with no card, and a hosted MCP server using OAuth with PKCE. The REST changelog link redirects to a login page, and writes have no idempotency key.", "bestFor": "A company that employs people through Remote (EOR, payroll, contractors or its HRIS) and wants an agent to read employments, file and review time off, track onboarding, and read payslips and documents.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.0 document with 303 operations and 116 webhook events, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page", "78 scopes in `resource:action` form, with a read-only preset for customer tokens and a 403 body that names the scopes that would have worked", "Seeded sandbox company and `ra_test_` token issued after an email verification, available for 14 days, with no card", "Hosted MCP server with OAuth 2.0, PKCE and dynamic client registration. Its writes are employee self-service and follow the product's approval flow", "Terms warrant 99.5 per cent monthly uptime, and status.remote.com lists no API or platform incident from August to October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "The REST API changelog link in the docs redirects to a ReadMe dashboard login, so no public dated record of API changes was read", "No idempotency key on writes. The vendor's own skill notes list creates for employments, time off, expenses and webhooks as unsafe to retry", "A partner authorisation request that omits `scope` is issued `all:write`, per the scopes page", "No general server SDK. The Remote Flows SDK is React, and the CLI ships as binaries for macOS on Apple Silicon and Linux x86_64 only", "The sub-processor list sits behind a customer login, and remote.com has no security.txt" ], "agentNotes": [ "Match the token prefix to the host. `ra_test_` works only on https://gateway.remote-sandbox.com and `ra_live_` only on https://gateway.remote.com", "Stay under 300 requests a minute per company for customer tokens, shared by every token, and read `x-ratelimit-remaining` and `x-ratelimit-reset` (milliseconds)", "Check for an existing record before retrying a create, or set `external_id` on employments and treat a 422 for a duplicate as success", "Fetch the country form schema (`GET /v1/countries/{country_code}/{form}`) before writing employment data. Country codes are three-letter ISO", "Use the REST API for unattended work. The MCP server needs a browser sign-in and its write tools cover employee self-service only" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 70.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 57, "maintenance": 72, "payments": 35, "reliability": 96, "schema": 78, "security": 74, "transparency": 51 }, "provenanceScore": 85 }, "connect": { "install": "curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/remoteoss/remote-cli/main/install.sh | sh", "http": "curl https://gateway.remote-sandbox.com/v1/employments \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $REMOTE_API_TOKEN\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --scope user --transport http remote-com-mcp https://mcp.remote.com/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "remote-com-mcp": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.remote.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/hr.employees", "tool": "https://letme.dev/remote" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Payroll", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 29, "note": "per employee" }, { "item": "Contractor Management", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 29, "note": "per contractor" }, { "item": "Contractor Management Plus", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 99, "note": "per contractor" }, { "item": "PEO", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 99, "note": "from, per employee, United States" }, { "item": "Contractor of Record", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 325, "note": "from, per contractor" }, { "item": "Employer of Record", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 699, "note": "per employee" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Remote Europe Holding B.V.", "domain": "remote.com", "domainRegistered": "1992-06-24", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://remote.com/policy/terms-of-use", "privacy": "https://remote.com/policy/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.remote.com", "changelog": "https://developer.remote.com/docs/changelogs", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The terms of use (last updated 3 August 2026) are an agreement with Remote Europe Holding B.V., Kraijenhoffstraat 137A, 1018 RG Amsterdam. The privacy policy names Remote Technology, Inc. as the group's holding company, and the site's copyright line and the MIT licences on GitHub carry that name.", "The terms of use cover the platform and products, with sections on use through the API and on AI clients and the MCP server. The docs also name a Remote API Terms of Use at remote.com/api-terms-of-use, which draws a PDF by script and was not read.", "The privacy policy (last updated 3 August 2026) covers remote.com, employ.remote.com, the mobile app and the services where Remote is the controller. Customer data processed on a client's behalf falls under the Data Processing Addendum at remote.com/policy/data-protection.", "The API answers on gateway.remote.com and the MCP server on mcp.remote.com. The sandbox uses a second domain, remote-sandbox.com. OAuth for MCP is issued by api.employ.remote.com.", "https://remote.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The security page gives a contact email address.", "The changelog link is the docs page that lists where each component's changelog lives. The REST API changelog it names redirected to a ReadMe dashboard login on 8 October 2026.", "RDAP for remote.com gives a registration date of 1992-06-24." ], "score": 85 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/remote.json", "live": { "slug": "remote", "probe": { "target": "https://gateway.remote.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T09:27:02.601987051Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 67, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 64, "p95ms24h": 86, "samples24h": 20, "samples30d": 20, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 20, "ok": 20 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.remote.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T07:58:28.834580334Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T09:27:02.601987051Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Hi Bob Ltd.", "b": "Remote Technology, Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.hibob.com/v1", "b": "https://gateway.remote.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "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 HiBob's customer subscription terms and API Terms of Use", "b": "Proprietary service under Remote's terms of use. The remote-for-ai plugin and the Remote CLI repository on GitHub are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-07", "b": "2026-10-08", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2026-08-03", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "no date given", "b": "2026-08-03", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "1.8k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Remote scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against HiBob's 57 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, HiBob or Remote?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do HiBob and Remote need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. HiBob has a hosted endpoint at https://api.hibob.com/v1 and Remote at https://gateway.remote.com.", "question": "Can an agent call HiBob and Remote without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "goodFor": "An agent working inside a company that already runs Bob and needs field-level control over employee data, time off requests, documents and tasks.", "slug": "hibob", "watchFor": "No public price, free tier or trial. The sandbox is a purchased module" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 96 against 67", "Agent ergonomics, 57 against 47", "Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 68", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 0", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 72 against 59" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better" ], "goodFor": "A company that employs people through Remote (EOR, payroll, contractors or its HRIS) and wants an agent to read employments, file and review time off, track onboarding, and read payslips and documents.", "slug": "remote", "watchFor": "The REST API changelog link in the docs redirects to a ReadMe dashboard login, so no public dated record of API changes was read" } ], "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-remote.json", "title": "BambooHR vs Remote", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-remote" }, { "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-remote.json", "title": "Deel vs Remote", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deel-vs-remote" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/factorial-vs-hibob.json", "title": "Factorial vs HiBob", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/factorial-vs-hibob" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/factorial-vs-remote.json", "title": "Factorial vs Remote", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/factorial-vs-remote" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hibob-vs-humaans.json", "title": "HiBob vs Humaans", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hibob-vs-humaans" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hibob-vs-rippling.json", "title": "HiBob vs Rippling", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hibob-vs-rippling" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hibob-vs-zoho-people.json", "title": "HiBob vs Zoho People", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hibob-vs-zoho-people" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/humaans-vs-remote.json", "title": "Humaans vs Remote", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/humaans-vs-remote" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/remote-vs-rippling.json", "title": "Remote vs Rippling", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/remote-vs-rippling" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/remote-vs-zoho-people.json", "title": "Remote vs Zoho People", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/remote-vs-zoho-people" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 29, "edge": "remote", "hibob": 67, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "remote": 96, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "hibob": 78, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "remote": 78, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "remote", "hibob": 47, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "remote": 57, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 6, "edge": "remote", "hibob": 68, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "remote": 74, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 35, "edge": "remote", "hibob": 0, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "remote": 35, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 13, "edge": "remote", "hibob": 59, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "remote": 72, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 3, "edge": "hibob", "hibob": 71, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "remote": 68, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Remote scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against HiBob's 57 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do hr employees.", "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.", "remote": "The REST API has 303 operations in a public OpenAPI document, 78 OAuth scopes split into read and write, a sandbox issued by email with no card, and a hosted MCP server using OAuth with PKCE. The REST changelog link redirects to a login page, and writes have no idempotency key." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hibob-vs-remote", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hibob-vs-remote.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hibob-vs-remote.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hibob-vs-remote.min.md" }, "markdown": "Remote scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against HiBob's 57 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do hr employees.\n\n- HiBob: grade C, 57/100, rank #562 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hibob.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hibob.json\n- Remote: grade BB, 70.7/100, rank #142 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/remote.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/remote.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### HiBob (C)\n\nGood 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.\n\nWatch for: No public price, free tier or trial. The sandbox is a purchased module\n\n### Remote (BB)\n\nGood for: A company that employs people through Remote (EOR, payroll, contractors or its HRIS) and wants an agent to read employments, file and review time off, track onboarding, and read payslips and documents.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 96 against 67\n- Agent ergonomics, 57 against 47\n- Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 68\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 0\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 72 against 59\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: The REST API changelog link in the docs redirects to a ReadMe dashboard login, so no public dated record of API changes was read\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | HiBob | Remote | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 96 | Remote +29 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 78 | even |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 47 | 57 | Remote +10 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 74 | Remote +6 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 35 | Remote +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 72 | Remote +13 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 68 | HiBob +3 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **57 · C** | **70.7 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | HiBob | Remote |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Hi Bob Ltd. | Remote Technology, Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.hibob.com/v1` | `https://gateway.remote.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under HiBob's customer subscription terms and API Terms of Use | Proprietary service under Remote's terms of use. The remote-for-ai plugin and the Remote CLI repository on GitHub are MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-08 |\n| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-08-03 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-08-03 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |\n| Popularity | none | 1.8k npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**Remote.** The REST API has 303 operations in a public OpenAPI document, 78 OAuth scopes split into read and write, a sandbox issued by email with no card, and a hosted MCP server using OAuth with PKCE. The REST changelog link redirects to a login page, and writes have no idempotency key.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### HiBob\n\n1. 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\n2. 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\n3. Compare returned fields with requested ones. Missing permission or a wrong field ID yields 200 with the field omitted\n4. Stop on 401 or 403. More than 50 in 10 seconds blocks the IP for 5 minutes\n5. 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\n\n### Remote\n\n1. Match the token prefix to the host. `ra_test_` works only on https://gateway.remote-sandbox.com and `ra_live_` only on https://gateway.remote.com\n2. Stay under 300 requests a minute per company for customer tokens, shared by every token, and read `x-ratelimit-remaining` and `x-ratelimit-reset` (milliseconds)\n3. Check for an existing record before retrying a create, or set `external_id` on employments and treat a 422 for a duplicate as success\n4. Fetch the country form schema (`GET /v1/countries/{country_code}/{form}`) before writing employment data. Country codes are three-letter ISO\n5. Use the REST API for unattended work. 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