Oyster HR

Global employment platform with a REST API for hiring international employees, managing contracts, processing global payroll, and ensuring local compliance in 180+ countries. The API enables integration with HRIS and payroll systems, time-off management, expense management, invoicing, benefits, offboarding, and provides embeddable web components for partners and resellers.

Oyster HR publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include HR, Global Employment, Payroll, Employer of Record, and EOR.

Oyster HR’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 10 more developer resources.

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32.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 16/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

AccessPaid

1 APIs

HR Global Employment Payroll Employer of Record EOR Contractors Compliance Remote Work

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 32.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 6.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.4 / 20

Access Clarity 11.6 / 20

Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 16/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 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 Surface 0 / 5

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Rate Limits 1

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Oyster Hr Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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Documentation

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GitHubOrg

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TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

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StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

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Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

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Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 1

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: oyster-hr
name: Oyster HR
description: Global employment platform with a REST API for hiring international employees, managing contracts, processing
  global payroll, and ensuring local compliance in 180+ countries. The API enables integration with HRIS and payroll systems,
  time-off management, expense management, invoicing, benefits, offboarding, and provides embeddable web components for partners
  and resellers.
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/oyster-hr.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/oyster-hr/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- HR
- Global Employment
- Payroll
- Employer of Record
- EOR
- Contractors
- Compliance
- Remote Work
apis:
- aid: oyster-hr:oyster-hr-api
  name: Oyster HR API
  description: REST API for global employment operations including hiring, payroll, benefits, time off, expenses, invoicing,
    offboarding, and webhooks. Supports both customer-direct and reseller/partner integration patterns with OAuth2 client
    credentials authentication.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.oysterhr.com/developer-api
  baseURL: https://api.oysterhr.com/v1
  tags:
  - HR
  - Payroll
  - Global Employment
  - Employer of Record
  - Benefits
  - Expenses
  - Invoicing
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - HR
  - Payroll
  - Global Employment
  - Employer of Record
  - Benefits
  - Expenses
  - Invoicing
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.oysterhr.com/
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://docs.oysterhr.com/llms.txt
common:
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/oyster-hr-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/oyster-hr-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.oysterhr.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.oysterhr.com/
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/oysterhr
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/oysterhr
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.oysterhr.com/library
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.oysterhr.com/pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.oysterhr.com/
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/oyster_hr
- type: Plans
  url: plans/oyster-hr-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/oyster-hr-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/oyster-hr-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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