Personio

Personio is a European HR management and recruiting platform serving small and mid-sized businesses with a unified HRIS covering employee records, absence management, time tracking, payroll preparation, performance, and applicant tracking. The platform is headquartered in Munich and is widely adopted across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the UK, the Netherlands, and Spain. Personio exposes a Public API at api.personio.de that supports Bearer token authentication via Client ID/Secret (v1 token endpoint and v2 OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow), with webhooks now available for Person entity events.

Personio publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Absence Periods API, Auth API, Persons API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Human Resources, HRIS, Recruiting, Applicant Tracking, and Absence Management.

Personio’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, pricing, signup flow, and 7 more developer resources.

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31.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

AccessSelf serve

6 APIs

Human ResourcesHRISRecruitingApplicant TrackingAbsence ManagementTime TrackingEurope HR

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1

Composite quality — 31.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 15.5 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 3.7 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 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 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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 6

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

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup

Signup

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

LlmsText

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: personio
name: Personio
description: Personio is a European HR management and recruiting platform serving small and mid-sized businesses with a unified
  HRIS covering employee records, absence management, time tracking, payroll preparation, performance, and applicant tracking.
  The platform is headquartered in Munich and is widely adopted across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the UK, the Netherlands,
  and Spain. Personio exposes a Public API at api.personio.de that supports Bearer token authentication via Client ID/Secret
  (v1 token endpoint and v2 OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow), with webhooks now available for Person entity events.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/personio.png
tags:
- Human Resources
- HRIS
- Recruiting
- Applicant Tracking
- Absence Management
- Time Tracking
- Europe HR
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/personio/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-05-11'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: personio:public-api-v2
  name: Personio Public API v2
  description: Next-generation REST API with OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Grant authentication. Token endpoint POST /v2/auth/token
    returns access tokens used as Bearer credentials on subsequent calls.
  humanURL: https://developer.personio.de/reference/post_v2-auth-token
  baseURL: https://api.personio.de/v2
  tags:
  - HRIS
  - OAuth 2.0
  - Employees
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.personio.de/reference/post_v2-auth-token
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/personio/api-docs
- aid: personio:personio-absence-periods-api
  name: Personio Absence Periods API
  description: Manage absence periods.
  humanURL: https://developer.personio.de/reference/authentication
  baseURL: https://api.personio.de/v1
  tags:
  - Absence Periods
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/personio-absence-periods-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.personio.de/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.personio.de/reference/authentication
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.personio.de/docs/getting-started-with-the-personio-api
- aid: personio:personio-auth-api
  name: Personio Auth API
  description: OAuth 2.0 token exchange.
  humanURL: https://developer.personio.de/reference/authentication
  baseURL: https://api.personio.de/v1
  tags:
  - Auth
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/personio-auth-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.personio.de/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.personio.de/reference/authentication
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.personio.de/docs/getting-started-with-the-personio-api
- aid: personio:personio-persons-api
  name: Personio Persons API
  description: Manage person (employee) records.
  humanURL: https://developer.personio.de/reference/authentication
  baseURL: https://api.personio.de/v1
  tags:
  - Persons
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/personio-persons-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.personio.de/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.personio.de/reference/authentication
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.personio.de/docs/getting-started-with-the-personio-api
- aid: personio:personio-projects-api
  name: Personio Projects API
  description: Read project definitions.
  humanURL: https://developer.personio.de/reference/authentication
  baseURL: https://api.personio.de/v1
  tags:
  - Projects
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/personio-projects-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.personio.de/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.personio.de/reference/authentication
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.personio.de/docs/getting-started-with-the-personio-api
- aid: personio:personio-webhooks-api
  name: Personio Webhooks API
  description: Manage event webhook subscriptions.
  humanURL: https://developer.personio.de/reference/authentication
  baseURL: https://api.personio.de/v1
  tags:
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/personio-webhooks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.personio.de/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.personio.de/reference/authentication
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.personio.de/docs/getting-started-with-the-personio-api
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/personio-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/personio-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/personio-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/personio-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/personio
- type: Website
  url: https://www.personio.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.personio.de/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.personio.com/pricing/
- type: Signup
  url: https://www.personio.com/contact/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/personio
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://developer.personio.de/llms.txt
features:
- name: Core HRIS
  description: Unified employee master data, organizational charts, custom attributes, and document management across the
    employee lifecycle.
- name: Absence Management
  description: Configurable absence types, accruals, approval workflows, and team calendars with country-specific holiday
    support.
- name: Time Tracking
  description: Manual and project-based time tracking with overtime rules and attestation workflows feeding into payroll preparation.
- name: Recruiting and ATS
  description: Career pages, multi-posting job boards, structured interviews, and collaborative hiring decisions.
- name: Payroll Preparation
  description: Pre-payroll consolidation of master data, absences, and time entries ready for export to external payroll providers.
- name: Webhooks
  description: Subscribe to Person entity webhook events to react to employee changes in real time from external systems.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Personio

Kin Score

APIs 6

Personio Public API v2

Personio Absence Periods API

Personio Auth API

Personio Persons API

Personio Projects API

Personio Webhooks API

Open Collections 1

Personio Public API v2

Security Posture 3

Personio Authentication

Personio Domain Security

Personio Trust Center

Agentic Access 1

Personio Agentic Access

Resources