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Deel

Deel is a global workforce platform combining payroll, Employer of Record (EOR), independent contractor management, HRIS, ATS, IT/device management, immigration, and background screenings across 150+ countries. The Deel Public API and SCIM API expose the full worker lifecycle — hire, onboard, pay, manage time off, run payroll, terminate — through a REST surface at api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2 with bearer-token and OAuth2 authentication, a sandbox at api-sandbox.demo.deel.com, HMAC-signed webhooks, a Deel App Store for partner apps, an Embedded "Deel as a Service" model, and a public MCP server for AI agent integration. Deel has compliantly processed over $20B in global payroll for 40,000+ companies.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Deel the way a machine reads it — 86 machine-readable artifacts across 39 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Deel scores 63.6/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 63.6/100 · strong
Contract Quality 16.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.6 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 54/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
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 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Deel

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Deel. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 39

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

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

Deel Adjustments API

Gross-to-net payroll adjustments — bonuses, deductions, one-time payments

Deel Applications API

Application lifecycle and pipeline stages

Deel Candidates API

Candidate records and resume attachments

Deel Contractor Amendments API

Amend active contractor contracts

Deel Contractor Hiring API

Create and onboard IC, PAYG, milestone, and COR contracts

Deel Contracts API

IC and EOR contract list and detail

Deel Custom Fields API

Custom fields on contracts and people

Deel Deel IT API

Device provisioning and equipment lifecycle

Deel EOR Amendments API

Amend active EOR contracts with structured approval flow

Deel EOR Benefits API

Country-specific benefit plans and worker enrollment

Deel EOR Cost Calculator API

Employment cost calculator including salary, benefits, and Deel fees

Deel EOR Hiring API

Hiring guides, contract creation, three-party quote signing

Deel EOR Terminations API

Terminate EOR contracts with cause and offboarding workflow

Deel EOR Worker Information API

Worker-side accounts, banks, documents, payslips, compliance

Deel Global Payroll API

Payroll cycles and events for Global Payroll legal entities

Deel GP Hiring API

Global Payroll employee hiring

Deel IC Invoicing Taxes API

Contractor invoicing and tax handling

Deel Immigration API

Visas, work permits, immigration case management

Deel Invoice Adjustments API

Add, update, delete, and review invoice line items

Deel Jobs API

Job and job-posting management

Deel Legal Entities API

Client legal entities, industries

Deel Lookups API

Countries, currencies, job titles, seniority levels, time-off types

Deel Magic Link API

Generate single-use deep links into the Deel app

Deel Managers API

Manager directory for the organization

Deel Milestones API

Milestone-based contract deliverables

Deel Off Cycle API

One-off payments outside the normal cycle

Deel Offers API

Offer creation and acceptance

Deel Organizations API

Organization profile, child organizations, structure, departments, groups

Deel Payslips API

Employee payslips

Deel Paystubs API

US paystubs

Deel People API

Unified directory across IC, EOR, and direct employees

Deel Reference Data API

Departments, locations, employment types, sources, tags, reasons

Deel SCIM API

SCIM 2.0 user provisioning per RFC 7643/7644

Deel Screenings API

KYC and AML background screenings

Deel Time Off API

Time-off policies, requests, entitlements, events, work schedules

Deel Time Tracking API

Time tracking shifts for Global Payroll employees

Deel Timesheets API

Submit, approve, and manage contractor timesheets

Deel Webhook Events API

Discover available webhook event types

Deel Webhooks API

Create, list, update, and delete webhook subscriptions

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Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Deel ATS API

OPEN COLLECTION

Deel Contractors API

OPEN COLLECTION

Deel Core API

OPEN COLLECTION

Deel Global Payroll API

OPEN COLLECTION

Deel HRIS API

OPEN COLLECTION

Deel Webhooks API

OPEN COLLECTION

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GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Deel GraphQL Schema

Deel is a global workforce platform combining payroll, Employer of Record (EOR), independent contractor management, HRIS, ATS, IT/device management, immigration, and background ...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Deel Com Plans Pricing

15 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Deel Com Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

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

Features 25

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Global payroll in 120+ countries with local compliance and tax handling
Employer of Record (EOR) in 100+ countries via Deel-owned local entities
Contractor management with IC, Pay-As-You-Go, milestone, and COR contract types
Pay workers in 150+ currencies including crypto (Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC)
Unified HRIS across all worker types (employee, contractor, EOR)
Time off, time tracking, and work schedule management
SCIM 2.0 user provisioning for Okta, Azure AD, and other identity providers
ATS (Applicant Tracking System) with jobs, candidates, applications, offers, and pipeline tracking
Deel IT — device provisioning, MDM, and equipment lifecycle for distributed teams
Deel Mobility — in-house visa and immigration case management
Deel Engage — performance, learning, and 1:1 management
Background checks (KYC and AML screenings)
Bearer-token authentication with Organization and Personal token types and granular scopes
OAuth2 authentication for Deel App Store partner integrations
Date-based API versioning with documented endpoint lifecycle states
Rate limiting at 5 requests per second per organization (shared across tokens)
Idempotency keys on POST/PATCH via UUID v4 with 24-hour response cache
Webhooks with HMAC-SHA256 signatures and a no-code subscription manager
Webhook simulation in sandbox without affecting production data
Sandbox environment at api-sandbox.demo.deel.com with pre-populated test workers
Deel as a Service (Embedded) — partners embed EOR/IC workflows directly into their own products
Deel MCP Server for AI agent integration with Claude Code, Cursor, and other MCP clients
LLM-ready docs via .md page suffix and llms-full.txt aggregated documentation
Postman collection, Insomnia collection, and inline OpenAPI per endpoint
2,000+ in-country experts plus AI-driven compliance logic

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Deel Com Context

1 classes · 9 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Deel API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Deel Contract

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Deel EOR Contract

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Deel Payroll Event

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Deel Person

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Deel Time Off Request

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

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

Deel Com Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Deel Com Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Deel Com Agentic Access

93 operations · 40 acting

93 operations · 40 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Deel — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/deel · machine-readable index on apis.io