{ "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": "2026-10-08T21:53:24.003936195Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 46, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 47, "p95ms24h": 92, "samples24h": 28, "samples30d": 28, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 28, "ok": 28 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://humaansstatus.io", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T19:38:41.212585168Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:24.003936195Z" } }, "answer": "Zoho People and Humaans score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 55 (C) and 54.4 (C). Humaans leads on agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "zoho-people", "name": "Zoho People", "vendor": "Zoho", "vendorUrl": "https://www.zoho.com/people/", "kind": "http-api", "category": "hr", "summary": "Cloud HR system from Zoho covering employee records, leave, attendance, timesheets, onboarding, performance and learning. Agents reach it through a REST API with OAuth 2.0, available on paid plans.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-people", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-people.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-people.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zoho-people.json", "license": "Proprietary service under the Zoho Terms of Service", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://people.zoho.com/api", "packages": [], "auth": "oauth", "authNotes": "OAuth 2.0 only in the current docs. A person registers a client in the Zoho API console (web, mobile, JavaScript, non-browser or a self client for one organisation) and approves scopes of the form `ZOHOPEOPLE.\u003carea\u003e.\u003coperation\u003e`. The access token lasts one hour and goes in `Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken \u003ctoken\u003e`. The refresh token lasts until revoked. Each data centre (US, EU, India, Australia, Japan, China) has its own accounts host. Registration is self-serve, with no app review or sales approval for use inside one's own organisation. The authentication page still links to a legacy authentication token page, which returns 404.", "pricing": "paid", "pricingNotes": "Paid plans only for the API. Essential HR, Professional, Premium and Enterprise cost $1.25, $2, $3 and $4.50 a user a month billed yearly ($1.50, $2.50, $3.50 and $5 monthly), with a five-user minimum. A separate United States plan set costs $3 to $8 a user a month billed yearly. The Free plan covers five users and has no API access. A 30-day trial of any paid plan is self-serve, and the account drops to Free when it ends. Prices come from the feed the pricing page loads (https://www.zoho.com/people/zohopeople-pricing.html, checked 2026-10-08).", "priceSummary": "$1.25 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the pricing pages or the terms (checked 2026-10-08).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-08" }, "docsUrl": "https://www.zoho.com/people/api/overview.html", "llmsTxt": "https://www.zoho.com/people/api/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "hr.employees", "hr.time-off", "hr.org", "hr.onboarding", "hr.documents" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "closed-source", "paid", "free-trial", "oauth", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "status-page", "bug-bounty", "soc2" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 55, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 523, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 722, "categoryRank": 6, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 48, "maintenance": 48, "payments": 30, "reliability": 77, "schema": 43, "security": 60, "transparency": 73 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-08" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The REST API covers employee forms, leave, attendance, timesheets, files and learning, with per-endpoint rate limits and Markdown docs listed in an llms.txt. No OpenAPI spec, official SDK or dated API changelog was found, the Free plan has no API access, and several scopes come only as ALL.", "bestFor": "An agent working inside a company that already runs Zoho People on a paid plan, for directory reads, leave requests, attendance and timesheet entries at modest volume.", "strengths": [ "OAuth 2.0 scopes name an area and an operation, such as `ZOHOPEOPLE.forms.READ` and `ZOHOPEOPLE.leave.CREATE`, with one-hour access tokens", "Every reference page states a per-minute threshold and a five-minute lock period, and daily call caps are published per plan", "An llms.txt at `/people/api/llms.txt` lists 339 reference pages, each served as Markdown", "Plan prices are public, from $1.25 a user a month billed yearly, with a 30-day trial of any paid plan", "security.txt valid to 30 June 2028, a bug bounty, SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO/IEC 27001, 27701, 27017 and 27018" ], "weaknesses": [ "No OpenAPI spec, official SDK or dated API changelog found. The product What's New page has no API entries for 2026", "The Free plan has no API access. Paid plans cap calls at 5,000 to 25,000 a day", "Employee, attendance, time tracker, dashboard and automation scopes are listed only as ALL, with no read-only form", "Three URL styles coexist (unversioned form endpoints, v2 and v3), with different parameter names, paging and error formats", "The documented token refresh call carries the refresh token and client secret in the URL query string" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use the accounts host and API host of the organisation's data centre. Tokens issued in one region fail in another", "Stay under each page's threshold, often 30 calls a minute. Exceeding it locks that endpoint for five minutes", "Page form records with `sIndex` and `limit`, at most 200 a call, and use `modifiedtime` to fetch only changes", "Look up form and field label names with `/api/forms` before writing. `inputData` takes label names, and lookup fields take record IDs", "Send the refresh token and client secret in the POST body, not the query string, and store the refresh token, which never expires" ], "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": 55 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 48, "maintenance": 48, "payments": 30, "reliability": 77, "schema": 43, "security": 60, "transparency": 51 }, "provenanceScore": 95 }, "connect": { "http": "curl --location 'https://people.zoho.com/api/forms' \\\n --header \"Authorization: Zoho-oauthtoken $ZOHO_ACCESS_TOKEN\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/hr.employees", "tool": "https://letme.dev/zoho-people" }, "sameCompany": [ "zoho-books", "zoho-zeptomail", "zoho-crm", "zoho-recruit" ], "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Essential HR", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 1.25, "note": "billed yearly; $1.50 billed monthly; five-user minimum; API capped at 5,000 calls a day" }, { "item": "Professional", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 2, "note": "billed yearly; $2.50 billed monthly; API capped at 10,000 calls a day" }, { "item": "Premium", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 3, "note": "billed yearly; $3.50 billed monthly; API capped at 15,000 calls a day" }, { "item": "Enterprise", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 4.5, "note": "billed yearly; $5 billed monthly; API capped at 25,000 calls a day" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Zoho Corporation Private Limited", "domain": "zoho.com", "domainRegistered": "2004-01-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.zoho.com/terms.html", "privacy": "https://www.zoho.com/privacy.html", "statusPage": "https://status.zoho.com", "changelog": "https://www.zoho.com/people/whats-new.html", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-08", "notes": [ "The Terms of Service (last updated 2 March 2022) are the service agreement for Zoho's online services. The contracting entity depends on the customer's region, Zoho Corporation Private Limited for India and Zoho Corporation for the United States (https://www.zoho.com/legal/zoho-contracting-entities.html).", "The privacy policy was last updated on 22 December 2025. Its Part II covers data customers store in Zoho services. A separate Zoho People privacy notice at https://www.zoho.com/people/privacy-policy.html adds terms for facial recognition and location data in attendance.", "API calls go to people.zoho.com and its regional equivalents, on Zoho's own domains. OAuth runs on accounts.zoho.com.", "status.zoho.com redirects to us.zohostatus.com, which lists Zoho People as a component.", "security.txt at www.zoho.com gives a bug bounty contact, security@zohocorp.com, a policy link and an expiry of 30 June 2028.", "What's New is a product changelog dated by month, newest August 2026. No API changelog was found.", "RDAP for zoho.com gives a registration date of 2004-01-16." ], "score": 95 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-people.json", "live": { "slug": "zoho-people", "probe": { "target": "https://people.zoho.com/api", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:39.687130676Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 430, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 430, "p95ms24h": 460, "samples24h": 28, "samples30d": 28, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 28, "ok": 28 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:53:39.687130676Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Humaans Software UK Ltd", "b": "Zoho", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://app.humaans.io/api", "b": "https://people.zoho.com/api", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth", "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 the Zoho Terms of Service", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-09-10", "b": "2026-08-01", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-10-06", "b": "2022-03-02", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-10-06", "b": "2025-12-22", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Zoho People and Humaans score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 55 (C) and 54.4 (C). Humaans leads on agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Humaans or Zoho People?" }, { "answer": "Humaans takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Zoho People uses an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Humaans and Zoho People need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Humaans has a hosted endpoint at https://app.humaans.io/api and Zoho People at https://people.zoho.com/api.", "question": "Can an agent call Humaans and Zoho People without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 60 against 48", "Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 60", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 56 against 48" ], "also": null, "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": [ "Reliability, 77 against 70", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 0" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An agent working inside a company that already runs Zoho People on a paid plan, for directory reads, leave requests, attendance and timesheet entries at modest volume.", "slug": "zoho-people", "watchFor": "No OpenAPI spec, official SDK or dated API changelog found. The product What's New page has no API entries for 2026" } ], "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-zoho-people.json", "title": "BambooHR vs Zoho People", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-zoho-people" }, { "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-zoho-people.json", "title": "Deel vs Zoho People", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deel-vs-zoho-people" }, { "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-zoho-people.json", "title": "Factorial vs Zoho People", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/factorial-vs-zoho-people" }, { "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-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-rippling.json", "title": "Humaans vs Rippling", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/humaans-vs-rippling" }, { "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": 7, "edge": "zoho-people", "humaans": 70, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16, "zoho-people": 77 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 1, "edge": "humaans", "humaans": 44, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13, "zoho-people": 43 }, { "by": 12, "edge": "humaans", "humaans": 60, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13, "zoho-people": 48 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "humaans", "humaans": 70, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14, "zoho-people": 60 }, { "by": 30, "edge": "zoho-people", "humaans": 0, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10, "zoho-people": 30 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 8, "edge": "humaans", "humaans": 56, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7, "zoho-people": 48 }, { "by": 0, "edge": "", "humaans": 73, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7, "zoho-people": 73 } ], "summary": "Zoho People and Humaans score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 55 (C) and 54.4 (C). Humaans leads on agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and maintenance \u0026 community. 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.", "zoho-people": "The REST API covers employee forms, leave, attendance, timesheets, files and learning, with per-endpoint rate limits and Markdown docs listed in an llms.txt. No OpenAPI spec, official SDK or dated API changelog was found, the Free plan has no API access, and several scopes come only as ALL." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/humaans-vs-zoho-people", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/humaans-vs-zoho-people.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/humaans-vs-zoho-people.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/humaans-vs-zoho-people.min.md" }, "markdown": "Zoho People and Humaans score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 55 (C) and 54.4 (C). Humaans leads on agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and maintenance \u0026 community. 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- Zoho People: grade C, 55/100, rank #523 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zoho-people.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zoho-people.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- Agent ergonomics, 60 against 48\n- Security \u0026 auth, 70 against 60\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 56 against 48\n\nWatch for: No OpenAPI file or Markdown docs. The reference is one HTML page of about 2 MB\n\n### Zoho People (C)\n\nGood for: An agent working inside a company that already runs Zoho People on a paid plan, for directory reads, leave requests, attendance and timesheet entries at modest volume.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 77 against 70\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 0\n\nWatch for: No OpenAPI spec, official SDK or dated API changelog found. The product What's New page has no API entries for 2026\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Humaans | Zoho People | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 70 | 77 | Zoho People +7 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 44 | 43 | Humaans +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 60 | 48 | Humaans +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 70 | 60 | Humaans +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 30 | Zoho People +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 48 | Humaans +8 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 73 | 73 | even |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **54.4 · C** | **55 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Humaans | Zoho People |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Humaans Software UK Ltd | Zoho |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.humaans.io/api` | `https://people.zoho.com/api` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Humaans' Terms of Service | Proprietary service under the Zoho Terms of Service |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-09-10 | 2026-08-01 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-10-06 | 2022-03-02 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-06 | 2025-12-22 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\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**Zoho People.** The REST API covers employee forms, leave, attendance, timesheets, files and learning, with per-endpoint rate limits and Markdown docs listed in an llms.txt. No OpenAPI spec, official SDK or dated API changelog was found, the Free plan has no API access, and several scopes come only as ALL.\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### Zoho People\n\n1. Use the accounts host and API host of the organisation's data centre. Tokens issued in one region fail in another\n2. Stay under each page's threshold, often 30 calls a minute. Exceeding it locks that endpoint for five minutes\n3. Page form records with `sIndex` and `limit`, at most 200 a call, and use `modifiedtime` to fetch only changes\n4. Look up form and field label names with `/api/forms` before writing. `inputData` takes label names, and lookup fields take record IDs\n5. Send the refresh token and client secret in the POST body, not the query string, and store the refresh token, which never expires\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Humaans or Zoho People?\n\nZoho People and Humaans score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 55 (C) and 54.4 (C). Humaans leads on agent ergonomics, security \u0026 auth and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Humaans and Zoho People need an API key?\n\nHumaans takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Zoho People uses an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Humaans and Zoho People without installing anything?\n\nYes. Humaans has a hosted endpoint at https://app.humaans.io/api and Zoho People at https://people.zoho.com/api.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/humaans-vs-zoho-people.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/humaans-vs-zoho-people.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"humaans\", \"b\": \"zoho-people\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare humaans zoho-people`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/humaans.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zoho-people.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Humaans or Zoho People\n\n- [BambooHR vs Humaans](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-humaans.md)\n- [BambooHR vs Zoho People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-zoho-people.md)\n- [Deel vs Humaans](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deel-vs-humaans.md)\n- [Deel vs Zoho People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deel-vs-zoho-people.md)\n- [Factorial vs Humaans](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/factorial-vs-humaans.md)\n- [Factorial vs Zoho People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/factorial-vs-zoho-people.md)\n- [HiBob vs Humaans](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hibob-vs-humaans.md)\n- [HiBob vs Zoho People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hibob-vs-zoho-people.md)\n- [Humaans vs Rippling](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/humaans-vs-rippling.md)\n- [Rippling vs Zoho People](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rippling-vs-zoho-people.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-08", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.4", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "Humaans vs Zoho People", "url": "" } ], "description": "Zoho People and Humaans score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 55 (C) and 54.4 (C). 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