HiBob

HiBob is a modern HR platform (known as Bob) offering a REST API for managing employee profiles, onboarding, time off, attendance, payroll integration, goals, documents, workforce planning, and company culture data. The API supports service user authentication and webhooks for event-driven integrations across HR workflows.

HiBob publishes 10 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Attendance API, Documents API, Employee Tables API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Human Resources, HRIS, Employee Management, Time Off, and Attendance.

The HiBob catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

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

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29.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Heartbeat 50/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0 · Show this score on your site →

8 published contracts

Human Resources HRIS Employee Management Time Off Attendance Payroll Workforce Planning Onboarding Goals OKRs

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Human Capital Management

BC-300

AttendanceDocumentsEmployee TablesGoalsHiringLearning

GET /people/{id}/employment GET /people/{id}/salaries POST /people/{id}/bank-accounts POST /learning/lms-integrations

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0

Composite quality — 29.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.5 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 2.9 / 15

Access Clarity 2.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.6 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.4 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Employment & Payroll regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 18.4 — up to +16.3 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 19.0 — up to +16.2 composite points
Contract Quality scores 45.3 — up to +13.7 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Zoom App Marketplace and Partner Ecosystem (builders and partners on Zoom)	builds-on	32.1	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 10

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

Bob Public API

REST API for managing employee data, time off, tasks, documents, and lifecycle events in HiBob. Authentication uses HTTP Basic with an API service user ID and token (Base64-enco...

Bob Webhooks

Webhooks for receiving real-time notifications of employee lifecycle and data change events from HiBob to drive downstream automation.

HiBob Attendance API

The Attendance API from HiBob — 4 operation(s) for attendance.

HiBob Documents API

The Documents API from HiBob — 3 operation(s) for documents.

HiBob Employee Tables API

The Employee Tables API from HiBob — 4 operation(s) for employee tables.

HiBob Goals API

The Goals API from HiBob — 3 operation(s) for goals.

HiBob Hiring API

The Hiring API from HiBob — 4 operation(s) for hiring.

HiBob Learning API

The Learning API from HiBob — 2 operation(s) for learning.

HiBob People API

The People API from HiBob — 4 operation(s) for people.

HiBob Projects API

The Projects API from HiBob — 3 operation(s) for projects.

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Bob Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Bob Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Bob Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

HiBob API Rules

55 rules · 52 errors 1 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 1

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

Bob Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: bob
name: HiBob
description: HiBob is a modern HR platform (known as Bob) offering a REST API for managing employee profiles, onboarding,
  time off, attendance, payroll integration, goals, documents, workforce planning, and company culture data. The API supports
  service user authentication and webhooks for event-driven integrations across HR workflows.
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:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-02'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bob.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bob/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
x-docs-platform: readme
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-20
tags:
- Human Resources
- HRIS
- Employee Management
- Time Off
- Attendance
- Payroll
- Workforce Planning
- Onboarding
- Goals
- OKRs
tags_raw:
- HR
- Human Resources
- HRIS
- Employee Management
- Time Off
- Attendance
- Payroll
- Workforce Planning
- Onboarding
- Goals
- OKR
apis:
- aid: bob:public-api
  name: Bob Public API
  description: REST API for managing employee data, time off, tasks, documents, and lifecycle events in HiBob. Authentication
    uses HTTP Basic with an API service user ID and token (Base64-encoded).
  humanURL: https://apidocs.hibob.com/
  baseURL: https://api.hibob.com/v1
  tags:
  - Employees
  - Time Off
  - Task
  - Documents
  tags_raw:
  - Employees
  - Time Off
  - Tasks
  - Documents
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/reference/getting-started-with-bob-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/reference/authorization
- aid: bob:webhooks
  name: Bob Webhooks
  description: Webhooks for receiving real-time notifications of employee lifecycle and data change events from HiBob to drive
    downstream automation.
  humanURL: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/webhooks
  baseURL: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/webhooks
  tags:
  - Webhook
  - Event
  tags_raw:
  - Webhooks
  - Events
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/webhooks
- aid: bob:bob-attendance-api
  name: HiBob Attendance API
  description: The Attendance API from HiBob — 4 operation(s) for attendance.
  humanURL: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/getting-started
  baseURL: https://api.hibob.com/v1
  tags:
  - Attendance
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bob-attendance-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/getting-started
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/reference/rate-limiting
- aid: bob:bob-documents-api
  name: HiBob Documents API
  description: The Documents API from HiBob — 3 operation(s) for documents.
  humanURL: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/getting-started
  baseURL: https://api.hibob.com/v1
  tags:
  - Documents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bob-documents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/getting-started
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/reference/rate-limiting
- aid: bob:bob-employee-tables-api
  name: HiBob Employee Tables API
  description: The Employee Tables API from HiBob — 4 operation(s) for employee tables.
  humanURL: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/getting-started
  baseURL: https://api.hibob.com/v1
  tags:
  - Employee Tables
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bob-employee-tables-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/getting-started
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/reference/rate-limiting
- aid: bob:bob-goals-api
  name: HiBob Goals API
  description: The Goals API from HiBob — 3 operation(s) for goals.
  humanURL: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/getting-started
  baseURL: https://api.hibob.com/v1
  tags:
  - Goals
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bob-goals-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/getting-started
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/reference/rate-limiting
- aid: bob:bob-hiring-api
  name: HiBob Hiring API
  description: The Hiring API from HiBob — 4 operation(s) for hiring.
  humanURL: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/getting-started
  baseURL: https://api.hibob.com/v1
  tags:
  - Hiring
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bob-hiring-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/getting-started
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/reference/rate-limiting
- aid: bob:bob-learning-api
  name: HiBob Learning API
  description: The Learning API from HiBob — 2 operation(s) for learning.
  humanURL: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/getting-started
  baseURL: https://api.hibob.com/v1
  tags:
  - Learning
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bob-learning-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/getting-started
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/reference/rate-limiting
- aid: bob:bob-people-api
  name: HiBob People API
  description: The People API from HiBob — 4 operation(s) for people.
  humanURL: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/getting-started
  baseURL: https://api.hibob.com/v1
  tags:
  - People
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bob-people-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/getting-started
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/reference/rate-limiting
- aid: bob:bob-projects-api
  name: HiBob Projects API
  description: The Projects API from HiBob — 3 operation(s) for projects.
  humanURL: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/getting-started
  baseURL: https://api.hibob.com/v1
  tags:
  - Project
  tags_raw:
  - Projects
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bob-projects-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/getting-started
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/reference/rate-limiting
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/bob-capability-edges.yml
  name: HiBob Business Capability Map
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bob-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.hibob.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://apidocs.hibob.com/docs/getting-started
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/speakeasy-sdks/hibob
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hibob
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.hibob.com/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.hibob.com/pricing/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.hibob.io/
- type: X
  url: https://twitter.com/HiBob_HR
- type: Plans
  url: plans/bob-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/bob-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/bob-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

HiBob API — frequently asked questions

Does HiBob have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 10 APIs from HiBob, including Bob Public API, Bob Webhooks and HiBob Attendance API, and 7 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the HiBob API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 8 OpenAPI specifications for HiBob, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the HiBob API?

HiBob uses bearer-token authentication.

How much does the HiBob API cost?

APIs.io lists 5 pricing plans for HiBob, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing Plans on this page.

Is the HiBob API ready for AI agents?

HiBob has a Kin Score of 29.2 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.7 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-02.

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