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Candidates

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Providers using this tag (37)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 14 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 11 Limited public surface area
Emerging 9 Early or largely undocumented

APIs with this tag (41)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 2 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 16 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
HeyMilo Candidates APIIngest candidates into an interviewer's workflow (sync or async, single or bulk) and list candidates with t...54.0Greenhouse Candidates APICreate or retrieve candidates / prospects in the customer's Greenhouse account.50.7Mavrck Candidates APIThe Candidates API from Mavrck — 5 operation(s) for candidates.49.8PeopleSoft Candidates APICandidate and application operations49.4Coupa CCW APIThe Coupa Contingent Workforce (CCW) REST API enables customers and partners to build applications and inte...49.1Paradox Candidates APIManage candidates including creating, retrieving, updating, deleting, messaging, and unsubscribing48.3Phenom Candidates APIAdd, update, delete and retrieve candidate records.48.2Trakstar Candidates APIManage job candidates47.6StackOne Candidates APIThe Candidates API from StackOne — 4 operation(s) for candidates.46.7The Predictive Index Candidates APIThe Candidates API from The Predictive Index — 3 operation(s) for candidates.46.7Indeed Candidates APIOperations for retrieving and managing candidate applications. Part of the Candidate Sync APIs, these endpo...42.7Indeed Retrieve Candidates APIPart of the Candidate Sync APIs, this API enables ATS partners to get candidate and application information...42.7Workday Recruiting Candidates APICreate, retrieve, and update candidate profiles including personal information, attachments, photos, and as...42.3Workday Recruiting SOAP Web Services APISOAP-based web service providing comprehensive access to Workday Recruiting business services data for inte...42.3Truto Candidates APICandidate profiles and contact information41.9Accurate Background Candidates APIScreening subjects that background checks are run against.39.3
Thin 13 Limited public surface area
Zoho RecruitThe Zoho Recruit API provides REST endpoints with JSON format and OAuth2.0 authentication for integrating r...38.5Workable Candidates APIThe Candidates API from Workable — 16 operation(s) for candidates.38.3Sterling Candidates APICandidate (subject) records that screenings are run against.37.6Checkr Candidates APICandidate records that background checks are run against.37.4Lever Candidates APILegacy Candidates endpoints maintained for backward compatibility. New integrations should use Opportunitie...36.7Rippling Recruiting APISync candidates, applications, and offers between external ATS platforms and Rippling's recruiting and onbo...35.6SmartRecruiters Application APIThe Application API enables integration of the full candidate application including screening questions, an...35.1SmartRecruiters Candidates APIThe Candidates API from SmartRecruiters — 6 operation(s) for candidates.35.1Comeet Recruiting APIThe Recruiting API is a partner-scoped REST API for building on top of Spark Hire Recruit (Comeet). It supp...32.9Cornerstone Recruiting APIManage the full recruiting lifecycle including job requisitions, candidate profiles, applications, and offe...32.9OpenFEC Candidates APIThe Candidates API from OpenFEC — 2 operation(s) for candidates.28.5Greenhouse Assessment APIThe Assessment Partner API enables assessment platforms (code testing, video interviewing, personality test...28.0Greenhouse Candidates APIThe Candidates API from Greenhouse — 2 operation(s) for candidates.28.0
Emerging 9 Early or largely undocumented

Score breakdown

Frequency
54.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
1.0
spread across providers
Quality lift
46.6
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
0.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

ATS 17 co-occurrences Interviews 9 co-occurrences Departments 9 co-occurrences Time Off 8 co-occurrences Recruiting 19 co-occurrences Applicant Tracking 7 co-occurrences Background Checks 5 co-occurrences Talent Acquisition 8 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Api tag42
Provider tag3
Openapi tag25
Openapi op tag128

Cohort brief

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The 37 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Candidates, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
37
all scored
Mean Kin Score
38.4
+17.7 vs catalog 20.7
Mean Agent Readiness
22.2
+12.5 vs catalog 9.7
Spread
15.3–83.3
median 38.3 · σ 13.8
How the 37 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 2Developing 14Thin 11Emerging 9Minimal 0
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 47.8 17.5 +30.3 37
Access Clarity 39.1 22.3 +16.8 37
Developer Ergonomics 32.4 17.9 +14.5 37
Operational Transparency 25 11.3 +13.7 37
Discoverability 70.2 60.4 +9.8 37
Contract Governance 13 6.4 +6.6 37

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 22% 16% +6
MCP server (first-party) 5% 7% -2
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 32% 9% +23
Security 100% 88% +12
Arazzo workflows 11% 2% +9
Governance rules 46% 13% +33

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Salesforce 83.3
  2. 2 Workday 56.8
  3. 3 Deel 55
  4. 4 HeyMilo 54
  5. 5 Greenhouse 50.7
  6. 6 Mavrck 49.8
  7. 7 PeopleSoft 49.4
  8. 8 Coupa 49.1
  9. 9 Paradox 48.3
  10. 10 Phenom 48.2
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 HeyMilo 52.3
  2. 2 Salesforce 52.2
  3. 3 Workday Recruiting 35.6
  4. 4 Bindbee 35.4
  5. 5 Workday 32.7
  6. 6 Mavrck 30
  7. 7 Indeed 28.1
  8. 8 Coupa 27.3
  9. 9 PeopleSoft 27.3
  10. 10 Sterling 26.9
All 37 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 25 August 2026, across 26891 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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