Rippling API
Rippling exposes a REST API at developer.rippling.com covering employees, compensation, payroll runs, time off, and benefits, with OAuth 2.0 and API key auth. Access is gated: you register an application and pass partner approval, not open self-serve. No official SDK exists.
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Rippling scores C+ on the API Report Card. Rippling exposes a REST API at developer.rippling.com covering employees, compensation, payroll runs, time off, and benefits, with OAuth 2.0 and API key auth. Access is gated: you register an application and pass partner approval, not open self-serve. No official SDK exists.
Rippling has an official API, but teams routinely hit its limits: gated access, partial coverage, or paid tiers. Most end up supplementing it with exports or an unofficial API layer like Supergood.
Rippling is a unified workforce management platform that combines HR, IT, Finance, and Payroll on a single employee data layer.
Vertical: Enterprise HR / HCM / Workforce Management. Target market spans startups (StartupStack program) through mid-market and enterprise (4,000+ employee orgs). Customers use Rippling as the system of record for employee data and to centralize HR, payroll, IT provisioning, and finance workflows.
7/10. Rippling is one of the fastest-growing HR platforms in the market with 20,000+ customers, ~$570M ARR, and a $16.8B valuation as of May 2025.
Rippling holds highly sensitive PII (SSNs, bank details, compensation, immigration data), payroll tax filings, benefits enrollments, employee device/identity inventory, and financial transaction data (corporate cards, expenses, bill pay).
Founded in 2016. Modern, cloud-native, single-tenant architecture built on a unified employee data model. UI and developer experience are considered best-in-class in the HR category. Heavy ongoing investment in AI (Rippling AI for automation and insights).
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.