# Breathe HR

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/breathe-hr/  
**Website:** https://www.breathehr.com  
**APIs profiled:** 6

Breathe is a UK-headquartered cloud HRIS designed for small and midsize businesses, covering employee records, holiday and sickness tracking, performance, documents, expenses, and rota scheduling. The Breathe API is a REST/JSON service that exposes employee, absence, account, and related HR resources for integration with payroll, identity, and analytics tools. Authentication uses a per-account API key passed in the X-API-KEY header against a production base URL of https://api.breathehr.com/v1 with a sandbox available at https://api.sandbox.breathehr.com/v1.

## Kin Score — 31.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 31.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 55.2 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 35.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 13.2 |
| Access Clarity | 13.2 |

## Agent readiness — 26.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (6)

- **Breathe HR REST API** — JSON REST API for managing employees, absences, holidays, sick leaves, accounts, and related HR records inside Breathe. Calls require an X-API-KEY header containing the account-...
- **Breathe HR Absences API** — The Absences API from Breathe HR — 2 operation(s) for absences.
- **Breathe HR Account API** — The Account API from Breathe HR — 1 operation(s) for account.
- **Breathe HR Employees API** — The Employees API from Breathe HR — 2 operation(s) for employees.
- **Breathe HR Holidays API** — The Holidays API from Breathe HR — 2 operation(s) for holidays.
- **Breathe HR Sicknesses API** — The Sicknesses API from Breathe HR — 2 operation(s) for sicknesses.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Breathe Hr Agentic Access** — 15 operations · 6 acting

## Security (2)

- **Breathe Hr Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Breathe Hr Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

HR, HRIS, Human Resources, Employee Management, Absence Management, Holiday Tracking, SMB, UK

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/breathe-hr/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.