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 APIs on the APIs.io network: Account Budget API, Order Gift API, and Reports API. Tagged areas include Employee Recognition, Rewards, Gifting, Gift Cards, and HR.

Guusto’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 8 more developer resources.

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40.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

3 APIs

Employee RecognitionRewardsGiftingGift CardsHRRewards and Recognition

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

Composite quality — 40.5/100 · thin

Contract Quality 15.6 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 9.5 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

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

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APIs 3

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

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.

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 2

The organization behind the API

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).
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/guusto.png
tags:
- Employee Recognition
- Rewards
- Gifting
- Gift Cards
- HR
- Rewards and Recognition
created: '2026-07-10'
modified: '2026-07-10'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
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:
- 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

Kin Score

APIs 3

Guusto Account Budget API

Guusto Order Gift API

Guusto Reports API

Open Collections 1

Guusto Gifts API

Pricing Plans 1

Guusto Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Guusto Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Guusto Finops

Security Posture 3

Guusto Authentication

Guusto Domain Security

Guusto Trust Center

Agentic Access 1

Guusto Agentic Access

Resources