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      "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",
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        "slug": "remote",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://gateway.remote.com",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:38.601186785Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 57,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
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          "p95ms24h": 98,
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          "samples30d": 44,
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.remote.com",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T07:58:28.834580334Z"
        },
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:38.601186785Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "Remote scores 70.7 (BB) on agent readiness against Zoho People's 55 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Zoho People leads on transparency \u0026 trust.",
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      "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": []
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      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-08"
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      "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,
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        "graded": true,
        "score": 55,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 605,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 842,
        "categoryRank": 7,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "maintenance": 48,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 77,
          "schema": 43,
          "security": 60,
          "transparency": 73
        },
        "pending": [
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          "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,
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
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              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 55
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
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          "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\""
      },
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/hr.employees",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/zoho-people"
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      "sameCompany": [
        "zoho-books",
        "zoho-zeptomail",
        "zoho-crm",
        "zoho-desk",
        "zoho-recruit",
        "zoho-mail"
      ],
      "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",
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        "name": "Kind"
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        "a": "Remote Technology, Inc.",
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        "name": "Vendor"
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        "a": "Paid",
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        "name": "Pricing"
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        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
      },
      {
        "a": "Proprietary service under Remote's terms of use. The remote-for-ai plugin and the Remote CLI repository on GitHub are MIT",
        "b": "Proprietary service under the Zoho Terms of Service",
        "name": "Licence"
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        "a": "yes",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "Read-only variant documented"
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        "a": "yes",
        "b": "yes",
        "name": "llms.txt"
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        "a": "not found in the text",
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        "name": "Customer content may train models"
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        "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": "yes",
        "b": "not found in the text",
        "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver"
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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### 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 77\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 78 against 43\n- Agent ergonomics, 57 against 48\n- Security \u0026 auth, 74 against 60\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 72 against 48\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### 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- Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 68\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 | Remote | Zoho People | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 96 | 77 | Remote +19 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 78 | 43 | Remote +35 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 57 | 48 | Remote +9 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 74 | 60 | Remote +14 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 35 | 30 | Remote +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 72 | 48 | Remote +24 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 73 | Zoho People +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **70.7 · BB** | **55 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Remote | Zoho People |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Remote Technology, Inc. | Zoho |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://gateway.remote.com` | `https://people.zoho.com/api` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth |\n| Pricing | Paid | Paid |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Remote's terms of use. The remote-for-ai plugin and the Remote CLI repository on GitHub are MIT | Proprietary service under the Zoho Terms of Service |\n| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-08-01 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-03 | 2022-03-02 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-03 | 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 | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 1.8k npm/wk | none |\n\n## Verdicts\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**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### 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. The MCP server needs a browser sign-in and its write tools cover employee self-service only\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. 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