Guusto

Guusto is an employee recognition and rewards platform that lets teams send digital gifts, run peer-to-peer and top-down recognition programs, and redeem rewards with 60,000+ merchant locations, prepaid Mastercard, and charitable donations. Guusto exposes a REST Gifts API - available on the Premium plan - for programmatically ordering gifts, tracking order status, retrieving workspace and member reward budgets, and pulling recognition activity and manager insight reports. Requests are authenticated with a Bearer API token plus an X-Workspace-id header against production (api.guusto.com) or a demo test environment (api-demo.guusto.io).

Guusto publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Account Budget API, Order Gift API, and Reports API. Tagged areas include Employee Recognition, Rewards, Gifting, Gift Cards, and Human Resources.

The Guusto catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Guusto’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 9 more developer resources.

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27.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Front door AI 2/6 trace Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

Employee Recognition Rewards Gifting Gift Cards Human ResourcesRewards and RecognitionLoyalty & Incentives

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 27.9/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.3 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.5 / 15

Access Clarity 1.9 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.5 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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

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

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
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) Ask about this →
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Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 12.8 — up to +17.4 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 29.8 — up to +14.0 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Quality scores 49.4 — up to +12.7 composite points Ask about this →

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Standards implemented 1

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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 3

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

Guusto Account Budget API

Retrieve available reward budget balances.

Guusto Order Gift API

Order digital gifts and track order status.

Guusto Reports API

Recognition activity and manager-insight reports.

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Guusto Gifts Account Budget API

OPEN COLLECTION

Guusto Gifts Account Budget Order Gift API

OPEN COLLECTION

Guusto Gifts Account Budget Reports API

OPEN COLLECTION

Guusto Gifts API

OPEN COLLECTION

Guusto API pricing

Not yet checked against Guusto's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-07-10 from guusto.com/pricing; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free free	Free
Lite flat	$150 per platform (1 sender + 250 recipient seats) / month
Essential paid	$4.00 per sender Seat / month · $0.70 per recipient Seat / month
Premium paid	$5.00 per sender Seat / month · $1.00 per recipient Seat / month

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Manager Insights (Last Recognized): published limit (numeric value not disclosed) requests
Gift Order Items: 20 items
General API Requests: not published requests

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Guusto's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Guusto Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Guusto Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Guusto Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Guusto API Rules

59 rules · 57 error-severity 1 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 3

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

Guusto Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Guusto Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Guusto Trust Center

SOC 2, PCI DSS

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Guusto Agentic Access

8 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: guusto
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/guusto/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Guusto
kind: company
description: Guusto is an employee recognition and rewards platform that lets teams send digital gifts, run peer-to-peer and
  top-down recognition programs, and redeem rewards with 60,000+ merchant locations, prepaid Mastercard, and charitable donations.
  Guusto exposes a REST Gifts API - available on the Premium plan - for programmatically ordering gifts, tracking order status,
  retrieving workspace and member reward budgets, and pulling recognition activity and manager insight reports. Requests are
  authenticated with a Bearer API token plus an X-Workspace-id header against production (api.guusto.com) or a demo test environment
  (api-demo.guusto.io).
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/guusto.png
x-docs-platform: redocly
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-03
tags:
- Employee Recognition
- Rewards
- Gifting
- Gift Cards
- Human Resources
- Rewards and Recognition
- Loyalty & Incentives
tags_raw:
- Employee Recognition
- Rewards
- Gifting
- Gift Cards
- HR
- Rewards and Recognition
- Loyalty & Incentives
created: '2026-07-10'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: guusto:guusto-account-budget-api
  name: Guusto Account Budget API
  description: Retrieve available reward budget balances.
  humanURL: https://docs.guusto.com/version/openapi/order-gift
  baseURL: https://api.guusto.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Account Budget
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/guusto-account-budget-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.guusto.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.guusto.com/version/openapi/order-gift
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/guusto.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/guusto.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.guusto.com/version/openapi/account-budget
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.guusto.com/version/openapi/reports
- aid: guusto:guusto-order-gift-api
  name: Guusto Order Gift API
  description: Order digital gifts and track order status.
  humanURL: https://docs.guusto.com/version/openapi/order-gift
  baseURL: https://api.guusto.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Order Gift
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/guusto-order-gift-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.guusto.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.guusto.com/version/openapi/order-gift
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/guusto.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/guusto.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.guusto.com/version/openapi/account-budget
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.guusto.com/version/openapi/reports
- aid: guusto:guusto-reports-api
  name: Guusto Reports API
  description: Recognition activity and manager-insight reports.
  humanURL: https://docs.guusto.com/version/openapi/order-gift
  baseURL: https://api.guusto.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Reports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/guusto-reports-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.guusto.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.guusto.com/version/openapi/order-gift
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/guusto.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/guusto.opencollection.json
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.guusto.com/version/openapi/account-budget
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.guusto.com/version/openapi/reports
common:
- url: https://blog.guusto.com/rss.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/guusto-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/guusto-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/guusto-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/guusto-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/guusto
- type: Website
  url: https://guusto.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.guusto.com/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/guusto-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/guusto-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/guusto-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Guusto API — frequently asked questions

Does Guusto have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Guusto, including Guusto Account Budget API, Guusto Order Gift API and Guusto Reports API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Guusto API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Guusto, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Guusto API?

Guusto uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Guusto Authentication.

How much does the Guusto API cost?

APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for Guusto, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Guusto API ready for AI agents?

Guusto has a Kin Score of 27.9 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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