{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "humaans", "name": "Humaans", "vendor": "Humaans Software UK Ltd", "vendorUrl": "https://humaans.io", "kind": "http-api", "category": "hr", "summary": "Humaans is an HR system of record for employee profiles, job roles, compensation, time away, timesheets, documents and equipment. Agents reach it through a REST API with scoped access tokens, signed webhooks and a hosted MCP server that uses OAuth.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/humaans", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/humaans.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/humaans.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/humaans.json", "license": "Proprietary service under Humaans' Terms of Service", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://app.humaans.io/api", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Access is granted by a customer, with no self-serve route for outsiders. A signed-in user creates an API access token in the Humaans app and sends it as a Bearer header. The token is limited by any of eight scopes and by its creator's role (Owner, Admin, Finance, Tech, Manager or User), can be set to expire after 1 to 365 days, and can be rotated with the old secret valid for up to seven days. The hosted MCP server at https://mcp.humaans.ai/mcp uses OAuth 2.0 with dynamic client registration and PKCE, signs the user in through a browser and follows that person's permissions, with 32 scopes chosen at connection.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public prices. The Growth and Enterprise plans and the Athena agent platform all say Talk to sales, and the terms describe per-seat fees set in a sales agreement. No free tier or trial was found. Growth lists Integrations and API access. Enterprise adds Webhooks and a dedicated sandbox account, and integration builders can ask for a sandbox through a request form. The MCP server is included for all customers at no extra cost per the MCP page (https://humaans.io/pricing, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API reference, the terms or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.humaans.io/api/", "capabilities": [ "hr.employees", "hr.time-off", "hr.org", "hr.documents", "hr.onboarding" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "sales-led", "api-key", "oauth", "mcp", "webhooks", "sandbox", "status-page", "soc2", "iso27001", "eu-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-10", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 54.4, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 529, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 0, "reliability": 70, "schema": 44, "security": 70, "transparency": 73 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "API tokens carry any of eight scopes, are capped by the creator's role, can expire after 1 to 365 days and rotate with a seven-day overlap", "Rate limit published as a token bucket of 40 refilling at 7 a second, with `X-RateLimit-*` headers and `Retry-After` on 429", "Time away requests can be approved or declined by setting `requestStatus` on `PATCH /api/time-away/:id`", "Incremental sync is documented, with `updatedAt` filters and tombstones for records deleted in the last 30 days", "DPA, sub-processor list with locations and 14 days' notice of changes are public, with SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 stated" ], "weaknesses": [ "No OpenAPI file or Markdown docs. The reference is one HTML page of about 2 MB", "No public price, free tier or trial. Growth and Enterprise both say Talk to sales", "No idempotency keys, and deletes are permanent with no confirmation step", "The API is unversioned with no API changelog, and the docs say unused APIs may be removed", "No official SDK found. The only npm package and MCP registry entry come from a third party" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` to https://app.humaans.io/api. Call `GET /api/token-info` first to read the token's scopes and expiry", "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", "Page with `$limit` (maximum 250) and `$skip`, and pass `-g` to curl because parameters use `$` and `[]`", "On 429 wait the seconds in `Retry-After`. The bucket holds 40 requests and refills at 7 a second per token", "Check state before retrying a POST. No idempotency key exists, and `DELETE /api/people/:id` cannot be undone" ], "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": 54.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 60, "maintenance": 56, "payments": 0, "reliability": 70, "schema": 44, "security": 70, "transparency": 65 }, "provenanceScore": 81 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://app.humaans.io/api/me \\\n -H 'Authorization: Bearer \u003cyour_api_access_token\u003e'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/hr.employees", "tool": "https://letme.dev/humaans" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Humaans Software UK Ltd", "domain": "humaans.io", "domainRegistered": "2019-03-29", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://humaans.io/terms", "privacy": "https://humaans.io/privacy", "statusPage": "https://humaansstatus.io", "changelog": "https://humaans.io/blog/tag/product-updates", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service (effective 6 October 2026) define Humaans as Humaans Software UK Ltd and govern the subscription and the platform, including access through the published APIs. They are governed by the laws of England and Wales.", "The privacy policy (effective 6 October 2026) names Humaans Software UK LTD, company number 11496946, Office 7, 35-37 Ludgate Hill, London EC4M 7JN. It covers data Humaans controls and says customer employee data is governed by the Data Processing Addendum at https://humaans.io/data-processing.", "The site footer reads Humaans Inc. with offices in London, New York and San Francisco. The legal documents name only the UK company.", "The API answers at https://app.humaans.io/api. The MCP server is on a second domain, mcp.humaans.ai, and names app.humaans.io as its authorisation server. The status page is on humaansstatus.io.", "humaans.io/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. The API reference gives security@humaans.io for reporting security issues.", "The changelog link is the product updates section of the blog. No API changelog was found.", "RDAP for humaans.io gives a registration date of 2019-03-29." ], "score": 81 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/humaans.json", "live": { "slug": "humaans", "probe": { "target": "https://app.humaans.io/api", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:12.266311232Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 44, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 47, "p95ms24h": 58, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://humaansstatus.io", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:41.212585168Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:12.266311232Z" } }, "answer": "Rippling scores 60.8 (C) on agent readiness against Humaans's 54.4 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Humaans leads on reliability and transparency \u0026 trust.", "b": { "slug": "rippling", "name": "Rippling", "vendor": "People Center, Inc. dba Rippling", "vendorUrl": "https://www.rippling.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "hr", "summary": "Rippling is a workforce platform for HR, payroll, IT and spend. Its REST Platform API v2 reads and writes worker, time off and organisation data with scoped Bearer tokens. A first-party MCP server runs as the signed-in employee.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rippling", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rippling.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rippling.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/rippling.json", "license": "Proprietary service under Rippling's customer terms and Developer Terms of Use. The JavaScript SDK on npm is Apache-2.0", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://rest.ripplingapis.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@rippling/rippling-sdk" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "A Rippling customer creates API tokens in Tools \u003e Developer \u003e API Tokens and sends them as `Authorization: Bearer` to https://rest.ripplingapis.com. A token's access is the overlap of its chosen scopes (162 listed, most split into read and read-write) and its owner's permission profile. It is shown once, can't change owner, and is revoked when the owner is terminated or after 30 days unused. App Shop partners must use OAuth 2.0 (authorisation code with refresh, one token per customer company) and get a partner account only after applying and being approved. The Rippling MCP signs in as the employee, after an admin assigns tools in MCP Gateway.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "No public prices. rippling.com/pricing says most products are billed per employee per month and asks for a quote, with no free tier or trial found. Reference pages name the package an endpoint needs, such as API Tier 1, with no price shown. Partners pay nothing to use the API or list in the App Shop, but must apply, and their customers need the Identity \u0026 Access Management package. Approved partners get a test company, and the API can create sandboxes. Rippling MCP tool calls need a Rippling AI trial or subscription (checked 2026-10-07).", "priceSummary": "Paid", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in llms.txt, the REST API essentials pages or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-07).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 3633, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-07" }, "docsUrl": "https://developer.rippling.com/documentation/rest-api", "llmsTxt": "https://developer.rippling.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "hr.employees", "hr.time-off", "hr.org", "hr.onboarding", "hr.documents", "recruiting.candidates" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "enterprise", "api-key", "oauth", "mcp", "llms-txt", "typescript", "webhooks", "sales-led", "status-page", "soc2", "iso27001" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.8, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 386, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 4, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 74, "payments": 5, "reliability": 62, "schema": 73, "security": 90, "transparency": 51 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-07" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-05-21 and 2026-06-17. The changelog labels 14 changes breaking since October 2025, among them `draft_hire_id` removed from POST /draft-hires/ responses on 21 May 2026 and `candidate_id` made required on GET /candidate-applications/ on 17 June 2026, while the reference still shows a single version, 2024-08-01. The versioning page says a breaking change requires a version update. Each change is documented on the day, so the smallest deduction applies (https://developer.rippling.com/documentation/rest-api/essentials/changelog)." ], "verdict": "API tokens carry any of 162 scopes and can never see more than their owner, and hires and worker changes land as drafts for a person to review. There is no public price, trial or self-serve signup, and status.rippling.com shows five incidents marked critical between 16 July and 29 September 2026.", "bestFor": "An agent working for a company already on Rippling that needs scoped reads of people, organisation and time off data, and writes that wait for human review.", "strengths": [ "API tokens are limited to chosen scopes (162 listed) and to the owner's permission profile, and are revoked after 30 days unused", "Hires and worker changes are created as drafts for review in Rippling, and leave requests follow the normal approval flow", "Dated changelog with 141 entries since 6 August 2025, 46 of them between 9 July and 28 September 2026, each labelled breaking or not", "llms.txt with integration guidance for agents, cursor pagination, filter, expand and order_by on list endpoints", "SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 27018, ISO 42001 and CSA STAR Level 2 listed, with a paid vulnerability reporting programme" ], "weaknesses": [ "No public price, free tier or trial. rippling.com/pricing is a quote form, and endpoints name a paid package such as API Tier 1", "Five incidents marked critical and three marked major on status.rippling.com between 16 July and 29 September 2026", "The changelog labels 14 changes breaking since October 2025 while the reference still shows one version, 2024-08-01", "No downloadable OpenAPI file found, and the documentation site renders only with JavaScript", "One official SDK, JavaScript at 0.2.0-alpha.106, and the documented @rippling/rippling-sdk-mcp package returned 404 on npm" ], "agentNotes": [ "Call https://rest.ripplingapis.com with a Bearer token and pin `Rippling-Api-Version`. Use V1 at api.rippling.com only for resources that exist nowhere else", "Treat a null field as possibly hidden. Check `__meta.redacted_fields`, the token's scopes and whether `expand` was sent", "Follow `next_link` until it is null. The default page is 50 records and a `limit` above 100 returns 400", "Stay under 300 requests per IP in any 10 seconds. Going over rejects every request for the next 10 seconds", "Send an `Idempotency-Key` on POST /hires/ and POST /draft-transitions/, then poll the request until it reaches a final status" ], "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": 60.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 75, "maintenance": 74, "payments": 5, "reliability": 62, "schema": 73, "security": 90, "transparency": 33 }, "provenanceScore": 69 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install @rippling/rippling-sdk", "http": "curl -X GET 'https://rest.ripplingapis.com/companies/' \\\n -H 'Accept: application/json' \\\n -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/hr.employees", "tool": "https://letme.dev/rippling" }, "area": "business", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "People Center, Inc. dba Rippling", "domain": "rippling.com", "domainRegistered": "2002-02-25", "endpointOnVendorDomain": false, "terms": "https://app.rippling.com/legal", "privacy": "https://app.rippling.com/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.rippling.com", "changelog": "https://developer.rippling.com/documentation/rest-api/essentials/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-07", "notes": [ "The Vulnerability Reporting Terms and Conditions, last updated 21 August 2024, name People Center, Inc. dba Rippling and its affiliates.", "The v2 API answers at rest.ripplingapis.com, a separate domain from rippling.com that the vendor's llms.txt and quickstart name. V1 and the OAuth token exchange use api.rippling.com and app.rippling.com.", "www.rippling.com/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. Reports go through the form at rippling.com/vulnerability-reporting or to security@rippling.com.", "The terms, privacy notice, DPA and Developer Terms of Use sit on app.rippling.com, which returned only a JavaScript application to our reader, so their text is unread.", "RDAP for rippling.com gives a registration date of 2002-02-25." ], "score": 69 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rippling.json", "live": { "slug": "rippling", "probe": { "target": "https://rest.ripplingapis.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:20.346180206Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 277, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 273, "p95ms24h": 617, "samples24h": 64, "samples30d": 64, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 64, "ok": 64 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.rippling.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T21:06:24.407012126Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@rippling/rippling-sdk", "version": "0.2.0-alpha.106", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:27:45.404049579Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 3633, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://rippling.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:49.166690021Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://developer.rippling.com/documentation/rest-api/essentials/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:17:17.596835563Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "e3b0c44298fc" }, { "url": "https://app.rippling.com/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:15:21.558708711Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "8a3694d85aaa" }, { "url": "https://app.rippling.com/legal", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:15:19.356857643Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "8a3694d85aaa" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:20.346180206Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Humaans Software UK Ltd", "b": "People Center, Inc. dba Rippling", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://app.humaans.io/api", "b": "https://rest.ripplingapis.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "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 Humaans' Terms of Service", "b": "Proprietary service under Rippling's customer terms and Developer Terms of Use. The JavaScript SDK on npm is Apache-2.0", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-10", "b": "2026-10-07", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-10-06", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-10-06", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "couldn't be read", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.6k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Rippling scores 60.8 (C) on agent readiness against Humaans's 54.4 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Humaans leads on reliability and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Humaans or Rippling?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Humaans and Rippling need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Humaans has a hosted endpoint at https://app.humaans.io/api and Rippling at https://rest.ripplingapis.com.", "question": "Can an agent call Humaans and Rippling without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 70 against 62", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 51" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where Rippling loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "humaans", "watchFor": "No OpenAPI file or Markdown docs. The reference is one HTML page of about 2 MB" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 73 against 44", "Agent ergonomics, 75 against 60", "Security \u0026 auth, 90 against 70", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 5 against 0", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 74 against 56" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An agent working for a company already on Rippling that needs scoped reads of people, organisation and time off data, and writes that wait for human review.", "slug": "rippling", "watchFor": "No public price, free tier or trial. rippling.com/pricing is a quote form, and endpoints name a paid package such as API Tier 1" } ], "job": { "capability": "hr.employees", "name": "Hr employees" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-humaans.json", "title": "BambooHR vs Humaans", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-humaans" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-rippling.json", "title": "BambooHR vs Rippling", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-rippling" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deel-vs-humaans.json", "title": "Deel vs Humaans", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deel-vs-humaans" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deel-vs-rippling.json", "title": "Deel vs Rippling", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deel-vs-rippling" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/factorial-vs-humaans.json", "title": "Factorial vs Humaans", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/factorial-vs-humaans" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/factorial-vs-rippling.json", "title": "Factorial vs Rippling", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/factorial-vs-rippling" }, { "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/humaans-vs-zoho-people.json", "title": "Humaans vs Zoho People", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/humaans-vs-zoho-people" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rippling-vs-zoho-people.json", "title": "Rippling vs Zoho People", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rippling-vs-zoho-people" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 8, "edge": "humaans", "humaans": 70, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "rippling": 62, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 29, "edge": "rippling", "humaans": 44, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "rippling": 73, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "rippling", "humaans": 60, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "rippling": 75, "weight": 13 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "rippling", "humaans": 70, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "rippling": 90, "weight": 14 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "rippling", "humaans": 0, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "rippling": 5, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 18, "edge": "rippling", "humaans": 56, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "rippling": 74, "weight": 7 }, { "by": 22, "edge": "humaans", "humaans": 73, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "rippling": 51, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Rippling scores 60.8 (C) on agent readiness against Humaans's 54.4 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Humaans leads on reliability and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do hr employees.", "verdicts": { "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.", "rippling": "API tokens carry any of 162 scopes and can never see more than their owner, and hires and worker changes land as drafts for a person to review. There is no public price, trial or self-serve signup, and status.rippling.com shows five incidents marked critical between 16 July and 29 September 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/humaans-vs-rippling", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/humaans-vs-rippling.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/humaans-vs-rippling.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/humaans-vs-rippling.min.md" }, "markdown": "Rippling scores 60.8 (C) on agent readiness against Humaans's 54.4 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Humaans leads on reliability and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do hr employees.\n\n- 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\n- Rippling: grade C, 60.8/100, rank #386 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/rippling.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/rippling.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Humaans (C)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 70 against 62\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 51\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where Rippling loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: No OpenAPI file or Markdown docs. The reference is one HTML page of about 2 MB\n\n### Rippling (C)\n\nGood for: An agent working for a company already on Rippling that needs scoped reads of people, organisation and time off data, and writes that wait for human review.\n\nAhead on:\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 73 against 44\n- Agent ergonomics, 75 against 60\n- Security \u0026 auth, 90 against 70\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 5 against 0\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 74 against 56\n\nWatch for: No public price, free tier or trial. rippling.com/pricing is a quote form, and endpoints name a paid package such as API Tier 1\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Humaans | Rippling | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 62 | Humaans +8 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 44 | 73 | Rippling +29 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 60 | 75 | Rippling +15 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 90 | Rippling +20 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 5 | Rippling +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 74 | Rippling +18 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 51 | Humaans +22 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **54.4 · C** | **60.8 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Humaans | Rippling |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Humaans Software UK Ltd | People Center, Inc. dba Rippling |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.humaans.io/api` | `https://rest.ripplingapis.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Humaans' Terms of Service | Proprietary service under Rippling's customer terms and Developer Terms of Use. The JavaScript SDK on npm is Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-10 | 2026-10-07 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-06 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-06 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | none | 3.6k npm/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**Rippling.** API tokens carry any of 162 scopes and can never see more than their owner, and hires and worker changes land as drafts for a person to review. There is no public price, trial or self-serve signup, and status.rippling.com shows five incidents marked critical between 16 July and 29 September 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Humaans\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003ctoken\u003e` to https://app.humaans.io/api. Call `GET /api/token-info` first to read the token's scopes and expiry\n2. 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\n3. Page with `$limit` (maximum 250) and `$skip`, and pass `-g` to curl because parameters use `$` and `[]`\n4. On 429 wait the seconds in `Retry-After`. The bucket holds 40 requests and refills at 7 a second per token\n5. Check state before retrying a POST. No idempotency key exists, and `DELETE /api/people/:id` cannot be undone\n\n### Rippling\n\n1. Call https://rest.ripplingapis.com with a Bearer token and pin `Rippling-Api-Version`. Use V1 at api.rippling.com only for resources that exist nowhere else\n2. Treat a null field as possibly hidden. Check `__meta.redacted_fields`, the token's scopes and whether `expand` was sent\n3. Follow `next_link` until it is null. The default page is 50 records and a `limit` above 100 returns 400\n4. Stay under 300 requests per IP in any 10 seconds. Going over rejects every request for the next 10 seconds\n5. 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