80,000 Hours

80,000 Hours is an independent nonprofit, founded in 2011 by Benjamin Todd and William MacAskill out of Oxford, that provides free research and support to help people use their careers to help solve the world's most pressing problems. The name refers to the roughly 80,000 hours a typical person works over their lifetime. It publishes an evidence-based career guide, in-depth problem profiles, a long-form podcast, and one-on-one advising, and runs a curated high-impact job board at jobs.80000hours.org. Since 2016 it has ranked helping navigate the transition to advanced AI as its top priority. It is a content and career-advice organization rather than an API producer; no public developer API is published, though it does serve a machine-readable llms.txt index of its content.

80,000 Hours is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Non-Profit, Careers, Career Advice, and Effective Altruism.

80,000 Hours’ developer surface includes engineering blog, signup flow, support, and 11 more developer resources.

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14.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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Company Non-Profit CareersCareer AdviceEffective AltruismJob Board AI Safety Research Podcast Content

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Composite quality — 14.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.4 / 20

Access Clarity 6.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

80 000 Hours Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

CareerGuide

CareerGuide

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

About

About

Blog

Blog

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Podcast

ProblemProfiles

JobBoard

App

Source (apis.yml)

aid: 80-000-hours
name: 80,000 Hours
description: 80,000 Hours is an independent nonprofit, founded in 2011 by Benjamin Todd and William MacAskill out of Oxford,
  that provides free research and support to help people use their careers to help solve the world's most pressing problems.
  The name refers to the roughly 80,000 hours a typical person works over their lifetime. It publishes an evidence-based career
  guide, in-depth problem profiles, a long-form podcast, and one-on-one advising, and runs a curated high-impact job board
  at jobs.80000hours.org. Since 2016 it has ranked helping navigate the transition to advanced AI as its top priority. It
  is a content and career-advice organization rather than an API producer; no public developer API is published, though it
  does serve a machine-readable llms.txt index of its content.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/80-000-hours/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://80000hours.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/og-image1.jpg
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
tags:
- Company
- Non-Profit
- Careers
- Career Advice
- Effective Altruism
- Job Board
- AI Safety
- Research
- Podcast
- Content
tags_raw:
- Company
- Nonprofit
- Careers
- Career Advice
- Effective Altruism
- Job Board
- AI Safety
- Research
- Podcast
- Content
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/80-000-hours-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://80000hours.org/
- type: About
  url: https://80000hours.org/about/
- type: Blog
  url: https://80000hours.org/latest/
- type: Podcast
  url: https://80000hours.org/podcast/
- type: CareerGuide
  url: https://80000hours.org/career-guide/
- type: ProblemProfiles
  url: https://80000hours.org/problem-profiles/
- type: JobBoard
  url: https://jobs.80000hours.org/
- type: App
  url: https://app.80000hours.org/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://80000hours.org/newsletter/
- type: Support
  url: https://80000hours.org/contact-us/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://80000hours.org/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://80000hours.org/privacy-policy/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/80-000-hours-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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