freee
freee K.K. (freee株式会社) is a Japanese cloud business-management SaaS company. Its core products are freee Accounting (会計freee) - cloud accounting and bookkeeping - and freee HR & Payroll (人事労務freee) - HR, attendance, and payroll - plus invoicing (freee請求書) and sales management. freee exposes well-documented public REST APIs for both accounting and HR, authenticated with OAuth 2.0 (authorization code). Accounting endpoints live under https://api.freee.co.jp/api/1 and HR / payroll endpoints under https://api.freee.co.jp/hr/api/v1, and freee publishes machine-readable OpenAPI schemas for its platform.
freee publishes 12 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Account Items API, Attendance API, Companies API, and 9 more. Tagged areas include Accounting, Bookkeeping, Human Resources, Payroll, and Invoicing.
The freee catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
freee’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, documentation, and 9 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 2
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agent Skills (SKILL.md packages) | builds-on | 42.1 | - | 1 |
| Zoom App Marketplace and Partner Ecosystem (builders and partners on Zoom) | builds-on | 42.1 | - | 1 |
| Japan FSA Registered Fintech (crypto exchanges, stablecoin intermediaries, funds transfer, bank-API agents, prepaid) | builds-on | 42.1 | - | 1 |
| Japan ISMAP Cloud Security Assessments (TISAX unreadable) | builds-on | 42.1 | - | 1 |
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.
Standards implemented 2
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 12
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
freee Account Items API
Accounting account items / chart of accounts (勘定科目).
freee Attendance API
Time clocks (打刻) and work records (勤怠).
freee Companies API
freee companies (事業所) the authenticated user can access.
freee Deals API
Accounting deals / transactions (取引) - income and expense records.
freee Employees API
HR employees (従業員).
freee HR Users API
Authenticated HR user context.
freee Invoices API
Issued invoices and quotations (請求書・見積書).
freee Journals API
Journals (仕訳帳), manual journals, and trial-balance reports.
freee Partners API
Trading partners / counterparties (取引先).
freee Payroll API
Employee payroll statements (給与明細) and bonuses.
freee Taxes API
Tax codes (税区分) available to a company.
freee Wallet Transactions API
Wallet transactions / statement lines (明細) and walletables (口座).
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Open Collections 13
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
freee API (Accounting and HR/Payroll) Account Items API
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freee API pricing
Not yet checked against freee's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-07-12 from www.freee.co.jp/pricing/; confirm before you rely on a figure.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| freee Accounting - Starter (会計freee スターター 法人) paid | JPY 5480 per base Subscription (annual billing) / month |
| freee Accounting - Standard (会計freee スタンダード 法人) paid | JPY 8980 per base Subscription (annual billing) / month |
| freee Accounting - Advance / Enterprise (アドバンス / エンタープライズ) enterprise | — |
| freee HR & Payroll - Starter (人事労務freee スターター) paid | JPY 3000 per base Subscription (annual billing, up to 5 employees) / month · JPY 600 per additional Employee (from 6th) / month |
| freee HR & Payroll - Standard (人事労務freee スタンダード) paid | JPY 5500 per base Subscription (annual billing, up to 5 employees) / month · JPY 1100 per additional Employee (from 6th) / month |
Plan details, limits and sources →
Rate limits
- Per-Endpoint Request Rate: enforced (numeric limit surfaced via x-ratelimit-limit header) requests
- Sustained Excessive Access: blocked with 403 requests
Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against freee's documentation. Rate-limit details →
Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
freee Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
freee Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
freee Finops
FINOPSSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.
freee API Rules
SPECTRALSecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
freee API — frequently asked questions
Does freee have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 12 APIs from freee, including freee Account Items API, freee Attendance API and freee Companies API, and 9 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the freee API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 12 OpenAPI specifications for freee, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the freee API?
freee documents its authentication (oauth2 · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as freee Authentication.
How much does the freee API cost?
APIs.io lists 5 pricing plans for freee, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the freee API ready for AI agents?
freee has a Kin Score of 27.3 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.4 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.
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