BetterWorks

BetterWorks is an enterprise continuous performance management platform that enables organizations to align, develop, and engage their workforce through OKR-based goal setting, check-ins, feedback, and calibration. The platform provides a REST API allowing developers to programmatically access and update goals, employee data, feedback, recognition, and performance ratings. API access supports integration with business-critical applications to automate progress tracking and synchronize workforce data across enterprise systems. BetterWorks serves mid-market and enterprise organizations starting at 500 employees, with robust API and integration capabilities included across all plans.

BetterWorks is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include OKRs, Performance Management, Goals, Employee Data, and Human Resources.

The BetterWorks catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

BetterWorks’ developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 11 more developer resources.

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15.8/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 1/100 human only Front door AI 5/6 prominent Heartbeat 79/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessEnterprise

1 API

OKRs Performance Management Goals Employee Data Human Resources Enterprise Feedback Check-inContinuous PerformancePeople Analytics

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 15.8/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 2.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.8 / 17

Access Clarity 3.1 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 1/100 · 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 7 / 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Employment & Payroll regime (on an ambiguous tag, where no other regime matched), so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 10.7 — up to +22.3 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 16.7 — up to +16.7 composite points
Access Clarity scores 18.4 — up to +16.3 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
HCM and Payroll Marketplaces (ADP, Workday, UKG, Paylocity)	builds-on	37.0	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

BetterWorks API

The BetterWorks REST API enables programmatic access to goals, milestones, employee data, feedback, recognition, calibration data, and performance ratings. Developers can retrie...

BetterWorks API pricing

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Plan	Price
Mid-Market	—
Enterprise	—
Employee Engagement Standalone	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Betterworks Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Betterworks Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Betterworks Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Betterworks Context

3 classes · 16 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 1

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

Betterworks Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLDContext

JSONLDContext

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

BlogPosts

BlogPosts

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: betterworks
name: BetterWorks
description: BetterWorks is an enterprise continuous performance management platform that enables organizations to align,
  develop, and engage their workforce through OKR-based goal setting, check-ins, feedback, and calibration. The platform provides
  a REST API allowing developers to programmatically access and update goals, employee data, feedback, recognition, and performance
  ratings. API access supports integration with business-critical applications to automate progress tracking and synchronize
  workforce data across enterprise systems. BetterWorks serves mid-market and enterprise organizations starting at 500 employees,
  with robust API and integration capabilities included across all plans.
type: Index
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: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/betterworks.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/betterworks/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: 2026-06-13
modified: 2026-06-13
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- OKRs
- Performance Management
- Goals
- Employee Data
- Human Resources
- Enterprise
- Feedback
- Check-in
- Continuous Performance
- People Analytics
tags_raw:
- OKR
- Performance Management
- Goals
- Employee Data
- HR
- Enterprise
- Feedback
- Check-ins
- Continuous Performance
- People Analytics
apis:
- aid: betterworks:betterworks-api
  name: BetterWorks API
  description: The BetterWorks REST API enables programmatic access to goals, milestones, employee data, feedback, recognition,
    calibration data, and performance ratings. Developers can retrieve complete goal details including owners, comments, and
    progress, as well as automatically push real-time updates from external enterprise applications into BetterWorks.
  humanURL: https://developers.betterworks.com/
  baseURL: https://app.betterworks.com/services/core
  tags:
  - Goals
  - OKRs
  - Employee Data
  - Feedback
  - Calibration
  - Performance Ratings
  tags_raw:
  - Goals
  - OKR
  - Employee Data
  - Feedback
  - Calibration
  - Performance Ratings
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.betterworks.com/documentation/
  - type: Support
    url: https://developers.betterworks.com/support/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/betterworks-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.betterworks.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.betterworks.com/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/BetterWorks
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betterworks
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.betterworks.com/magazine/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.betterworks.com/plans
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://www.betterworks.com/system-uptime-metrics/
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/betterworks
- type: Plans
  url: plans/betterworks-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/betterworks-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/betterworks-finops.yml
- type: BlogPosts
  url: blogs/blogs.json
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: json-ld/betterworks-context.jsonld
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

BetterWorks API — frequently asked questions

Does BetterWorks have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from BetterWorks, including BetterWorks API.

How much does the BetterWorks API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for BetterWorks, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the BetterWorks API ready for AI agents?

BetterWorks has a Kin Score of 15.8 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.6 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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