# Personio

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/personio/  
**Website:** https://www.personio.com  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 29.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 29.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 54.4 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 10.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

## Agent readiness — 19.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (6)

- **Personio Public API v2** — 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 subsequen...
- **Personio Absence Periods API** — Manage absence periods.
- **Personio Auth API** — OAuth 2.0 token exchange.
- **Personio Persons API** — Manage person (employee) records.
- **Personio Projects API** — Read project definitions.
- **Personio Webhooks API** — Manage event webhook subscriptions.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Personio Agentic Access** — 9 operations · 6 acting

## Security (3)

- **Personio Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Personio Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Personio Trust Center** — ISO 27001, ISO 27017, GDPR

## Tags

Human Resources, HRIS, Recruiting, Applicant Tracking, Absence Management, Time Tracking, Europe HR

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/personio/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.