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Palette

Palette (Palette HQ) is a sales commission and incentive compensation management platform that automates the calculation, tracking, and payout of sales commissions in real time. It lets revenue operations and finance teams design complex commission plans, run scenario analysis and forecasting, give reps live visibility into earnings through performance dashboards, and keep audit trails for compliance. Palette connects to CRMs (Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Close, Outreach, Bullhorn, Sellsy), billing systems (Stripe, Chargebee, QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Pennylane), and data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) via one-click integrations rather than a public developer API. The company is SOC 2 Type II compliant and backed by Bain Capital Ventures.

Palette is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Ai Apps, Sales Compensation, Commission Management, and Revenue Operations.

Palette’s developer surface includes documentation, pricing, engineering blog, support, and 13 more developer resources.

26.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
0 APIs
CompanyAi AppsSales CompensationCommission ManagementRevenue OperationsSalesFinOpsSoftware-as-a-Service

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Palette Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Palette Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

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

Palette Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Palette Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: palette
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/palette.png
name: Palette
description: Palette (Palette HQ) is a sales commission and incentive compensation management platform that automates the
  calculation, tracking, and payout of sales commissions in real time. It lets revenue operations and finance teams design
  complex commission plans, run scenario analysis and forecasting, give reps live visibility into earnings through performance
  dashboards, and keep audit trails for compliance. Palette connects to CRMs (Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Close, Outreach,
  Bullhorn, Sellsy), billing systems (Stripe, Chargebee, QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Pennylane), and data warehouses (Snowflake,
  BigQuery, Redshift) via one-click integrations rather than a public developer API. The company is SOC 2 Type II compliant
  and backed by Bain Capital Ventures.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/palette/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bain-capital-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-13'
tags:
- Company
- Ai Apps
- Sales Compensation
- Commission Management
- Revenue Operations
- Sales
- FinOps
- Software-as-a-Service
tags_raw:
- Company
- Ai Apps
- Sales Compensation
- Commission Management
- Revenue Operations
- Sales
- FinOps
- SaaS
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://palettehq.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://doc.palettehq.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://palettehq.com/plans
- type: Blog
  url: https://palettehq.com/blog
- type: Login
  url: https://app.palettehq.com/#/login
- type: Support
  url: https://palettehq.com/support
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://palettehq.com/terms-conditions
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://palette.statuspage.io/
- type: Security
  url: https://palettehq.com/security
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/palette-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/palette-domain-security.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/palette-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://palettehq.com/security
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/palette-llms.txt
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/PaletteHQ
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/palette-lifecycle.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/palette-plans-pricing.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 5
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: gated
  reason: customer-only-docs
  detail: Palette's only documentation host, doc.palettehq.com, historically 302'd to https://app.palettehq.com/#/login —
    the reference required an active tenant — and it now returns CloudFront 502 "Failed to contact the origin" on every path,
    while the API host api.palettehq.com is a dangling CNAME to an NXDOMAIN Elastic Beanstalk environment, so the API that
    Palette monitors as a component on its own status page has no reachable reference at all.
  evidence:
  - url: https://doc.palettehq.com/
    status: 502
  - url: https://palettehq.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://palettehq.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-08-13'

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