# HiBob vs Remote

> 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. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-09

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.

- 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
- 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

## 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.

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

### Remote (BB)

Good 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.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 96 against 67
- Agent ergonomics, 57 against 47
- Security & auth, 74 against 68
- Payments & pricing, 35 against 0
- Maintenance & community, 72 against 59

Also in its favour:
- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better

Watch 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


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | HiBob | Remote | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 67 | 96 | Remote +29 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 78 | even |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 47 | 57 | Remote +10 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 68 | 74 | Remote +6 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 35 | Remote +35 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 72 | Remote +13 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 68 | HiBob +3 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **57 · C** | **70.7 · BB** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | HiBob | Remote |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Hi Bob Ltd. | Remote Technology, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.hibob.com/v1` | `https://gateway.remote.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable 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 Remote's terms of use. The remote-for-ai plugin and the Remote CLI repository on GitHub are MIT |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-08 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-08-03 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-08-03 |
| 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 | yes |
| Popularity | none | 1.8k npm/wk |

## 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.

## 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

### Remote

1. 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
2. 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)
3. Check for an existing record before retrying a create, or set `external_id` on employments and treat a 422 for a duplicate as success
4. Fetch the country form schema (`GET /v1/countries/{country_code}/{form}`) before writing employment data. Country codes are three-letter ISO
5. Use the REST API for unattended work. The MCP server needs a browser sign-in and its write tools cover employee self-service only

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, HiBob or Remote?

Remote scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against HiBob's 57 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.

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

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

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

Yes. HiBob has a hosted endpoint at https://api.hibob.com/v1 and Remote at https://gateway.remote.com.


## For agents

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

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