{ "data": { "a": { "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" } }, "answer": "Rippling scores 60.8 (C) on agent readiness against Zoho People's 55 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Zoho People leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "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": "2026-10-08T21:12:26.857117856Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 421, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 431, "p95ms24h": 460, "samples24h": 21, "samples30d": 21, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T21:12:26.857117856Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "People Center, Inc. dba Rippling", "b": "Zoho", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://rest.ripplingapis.com", "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 Rippling's customer terms and Developer Terms of Use. The JavaScript SDK on npm is Apache-2.0", "b": "Proprietary service under the Zoho Terms of Service", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-07", "b": "2026-08-01", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "2022-03-02", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "2025-12-22", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "3.6k npm/wk", "b": "none", "name": "Popularity" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Rippling scores 60.8 (C) on agent readiness against Zoho People's 55 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Zoho People leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Rippling or Zoho People?" }, { "answer": "Rippling takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Zoho People uses an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Rippling and Zoho People need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Rippling has a hosted endpoint at https://rest.ripplingapis.com and Zoho People at https://people.zoho.com/api.", "question": "Can an agent call Rippling and Zoho People without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Schema \u0026 documentation, 73 against 43", "Agent ergonomics, 75 against 48", "Security \u0026 auth, 90 against 60", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 74 against 48" ], "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" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 77 against 62", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 5", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 73 against 51" ], "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where Rippling loses 3 points for them" ], "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-rippling.json", "title": "BambooHR vs Rippling", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bamboohr-vs-rippling" }, { "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-rippling.json", "title": "Deel vs Rippling", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deel-vs-rippling" }, { "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-rippling.json", "title": "Factorial vs Rippling", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/factorial-vs-rippling" }, { "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-rippling.json", "title": "HiBob vs Rippling", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hibob-vs-rippling" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hibob-vs-zoho-people.json", "title": "HiBob vs Zoho People", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/hibob-vs-zoho-people" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/humaans-vs-rippling.json", "title": "Humaans vs Rippling", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/humaans-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" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 15, "edge": "zoho-people", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "rippling": 62, "weight": 16, "zoho-people": 77 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 30, "edge": "rippling", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "rippling": 73, "weight": 13, "zoho-people": 43 }, { "by": 27, "edge": "rippling", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "rippling": 75, "weight": 13, "zoho-people": 48 }, { "by": 30, "edge": "rippling", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "rippling": 90, "weight": 14, "zoho-people": 60 }, { "by": 25, "edge": "zoho-people", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "rippling": 5, "weight": 10, "zoho-people": 30 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 26, "edge": "rippling", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "rippling": 74, "weight": 7, "zoho-people": 48 }, { "by": 22, "edge": "zoho-people", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "rippling": 51, "weight": 7, "zoho-people": 73 } ], "summary": "Rippling scores 60.8 (C) on agent readiness against Zoho People's 55 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Zoho People leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do hr employees.", "verdicts": { "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.", "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/rippling-vs-zoho-people", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rippling-vs-zoho-people.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rippling-vs-zoho-people.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/rippling-vs-zoho-people.min.md" }, "markdown": "Rippling scores 60.8 (C) on agent readiness against Zoho People's 55 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Zoho People leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust. Both do hr employees.\n\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- 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### 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 43\n- Agent ergonomics, 75 against 48\n- Security \u0026 auth, 90 against 60\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 74 against 48\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### 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 62\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 30 against 5\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 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 | Rippling | Zoho People | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 62 | 77 | Zoho People +15 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 43 | Rippling +30 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 48 | Rippling +27 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 90 | 60 | Rippling +30 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 5 | 30 | Zoho People +25 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 74 | 48 | Rippling +26 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 51 | 73 | Zoho People +22 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.8 · C** | **55 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Rippling | Zoho People |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | People Center, Inc. dba Rippling | Zoho |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://rest.ripplingapis.com` | `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 Rippling's customer terms and Developer Terms of Use. The JavaScript SDK on npm is Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under the Zoho Terms of Service |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-08-01 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2022-03-02 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2025-12-22 |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | yes |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 3.6k npm/wk | none |\n\n## Verdicts\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**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### 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. Send an `Idempotency-Key` on POST /hires/ and POST /draft-transitions/, then poll the request until it reaches a final status\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, Rippling or Zoho People?\n\nRippling scores 60.8 (C) on agent readiness against Zoho People's 55 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Zoho People leads on reliability, payments \u0026 pricing and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do Rippling and Zoho People need an API key?\n\nRippling takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Zoho People uses an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Rippling and Zoho People without installing anything?\n\nYes. 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