{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "atoship", "name": "atoship", "vendor": "atoship LLC", "vendorUrl": "https://atoship.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "shipping", "summary": "atoship is US shipping software for e-commerce sellers that sells discounted USPS, UPS, FedEx and DHL labels with no subscription. Agents use its REST API v1 or an MCP server, hosted with OAuth or local through npx.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/atoship", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/atoship.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/atoship.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/atoship.json", "dns": "atoship.grade.anchorterminal.com", "transports": [ "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://atoship.com/api/mcp", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@atoship/mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "REST and the local MCP server take API keys from the dashboard, `ak_live_` for production and `ak_test_` for sandbox, sent as Bearer tokens; the docs advise separate keys with limited scopes and periodic rotation. The hosted MCP server uses OAuth with PKCE (S256) and dynamic registration or a published public client ID, and its approval screen lists what the assistant may do, including buying and voiding labels.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "No subscription or seat fee. Wallet-funded labels cost the discounted carrier rate shown live when quoting. Metered fees are $0.08 a label on your own carrier account, $0.03 a number for tracking labels bought elsewhere and $0.03 a call for the standalone Address Verification API. Sign-up is free with no card, and test keys create no real labels.", "priceSummary": "$0.08 / tx", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the MCP docs, API docs, llms.txt or pricing page (checked 2026-11-06). Labels are paid from a prefunded wallet.", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 12, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-11-06" }, "docsUrl": "https://atoship.com/docs/mcp", "llmsTxt": "https://atoship.com/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "shipping.rates", "shipping.labels", "shipping.tracking", "shipping.address-validation", "shipping.returns" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "mcp", "remote-mcp", "oauth", "llms-txt", "usage", "prepaid", "no-card", "sandbox", "webhooks", "postman" ], "lastRelease": "2026-02-18", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 43, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1247, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 9, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 53, "maintenance": 10, "payments": 40, "reliability": 30, "schema": 55, "security": 55, "transparency": 45 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-11-06" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "atoship gives agents twelve MCP tools and a REST API for US labels with published per-unit fees, free sign-up, test keys and a wallet the agent cannot overspend. No status page, rate-limit figures, OpenAPI spec or changelog was found, and the npm MCP package has not changed since February 2026.", "bestFor": "US sellers who want cheap USPS, UPS and FedEx labels bought by an agent from a capped wallet.", "strengths": [ "Free account with no card, and `ak_test_` keys that create no real labels", "Per-unit fees published: $0.08 a label on your own carrier account, $0.03 a tracking number or address check", "Hosted MCP server with OAuth and PKCE, whose consent screen names label buying and voiding", "An agent can spend only what is already in the wallet", "Errors carry machine-readable codes and a `retryAfter` on 429" ], "weaknesses": [ "No status page; status.atoship.com serves the home page", "Rate limits are not given in numbers, and no OpenAPI spec was found", "No changelog, and @atoship/mcp was last published on 18 February 2026", "Most listed SDKs are not published; only Go installs", "No security certification, subprocessor list or retention periods found" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use an `ak_test_` key until the user confirms live labels; test mode creates no real labels", "Ask the user before `purchase_label`, since it spends the wallet balance", "Call `void_label` promptly for a mistaken label, and check the carrier's refund rules", "Branch on `error.code`, and on 429 wait `error.retryAfter` seconds", "Validate the address with `validate_address` before buying; the standalone endpoint costs $0.03 a call" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 43 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 53, "maintenance": 10, "payments": 40, "reliability": 30, "schema": 55, "security": 55, "transparency": 25 }, "provenanceScore": 65, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-06", "maintenance": "2026-11-06", "payments": "2026-11-06", "reliability": "2026-11-06", "schema": "2026-11-06", "security": "2026-11-06", "transparency": "2026-11-06" }, "last": "2026-11-06", "oldest": "2026-11-06", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "npx -y @atoship/mcp", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http atoship https://atoship.com/api/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "atoship": { "url": "https://atoship.com/api/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/shipping.rates", "tool": "https://letme.dev/atoship" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Label on your own carrier account", "unit": "tx", "usd": 0.08, "note": "Per label; the carrier bills postage" }, { "item": "External tracking number", "unit": "tx", "usd": 0.03, "note": "Only for labels bought elsewhere" }, { "item": "Address Verification API call", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.03, "note": "Standalone endpoint only; checks inside rate quotes are free" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "atoship LLC", "domain": "atoship.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://atoship.com/terms", "privacy": "https://atoship.com/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-11-06", "notes": [ "atoship.com/robots.txt disallows /api/, /dashboard/, /admin/, /_next/ and /static/ for all agents, so the MCP and REST endpoints under /api/ were not requested.", "Terms last updated 20 August 2026 and privacy policy 7 May 2026. The terms forbid decompiling or reverse engineering the platform; no clause on reading public pages was found.", "security.txt names security@atoship.com, points its policy to the terms and expires 31 December 2027.", "status.atoship.com answers with the marketing home page and /docs/status rendered no status content, so no status page is recorded." ], "score": 65 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/atoship.json", "live": { "slug": "atoship", "probe": { "target": "https://atoship.com/api/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:11.359764372Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 404, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 366, "p95ms24h": 457, "samples24h": 200, "samples30d": 200, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 13, "ok": 13 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 187, "ok": 187 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@atoship/mcp", "version": "1.0.2", "seenAt": "2026-11-06T23:07:48.297476849Z" } ], "npmWeekly": 6, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://atoship.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-12-31T23:59:59.000Z", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T16:01:05.350843408Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://atoship.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:31:37.315201154Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://atoship.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T13:59:42.701099832Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "a06a9e463f87" }, { "url": "https://atoship.com/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T13:59:44.734681167Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "b9b07e284da6" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://atoship.com/api/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:42:32.687477466Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:42:32.687477466Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:11.359764372Z" } }, "answer": "Easyship scores 70.6 (BB) on agent readiness against atoship's 43 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "easyship", "name": "Easyship", "vendor": "Easyship Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.easyship.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "shipping", "summary": "Multi-carrier shipping platform from Easyship. Its public API and hosted MCP server quote courier rates, create shipments, buy labels, validate addresses, track parcels and book pickups across what Easyship says are 550+ courier services.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easyship", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easyship.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easyship.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/easyship.json", "dns": "easyship.grade.anchorterminal.com", "repo": "https://github.com/easyship/easyship-mcp-plugin", "license": "Proprietary service under Easyship's terms of service. The easyship-mcp server on PyPI and the plugin repository are MIT", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http", "stdio" ], "remoteUrl": "https://public-api.easyship.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "easyship-mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve. A person signs up, opens Connect in the dashboard, creates an API Integration and copies a Bearer token. On v2024-09 the token carries scopes of the form `public.\u003cresource\u003e:read` or `:write`, editable later, and some scopes (advanced or beta functions) are granted by Easyship on request. Sandbox tokens start `sand_` and production tokens `prod_`. Partner apps that connect other Easyship users register through a form and use OAuth 2.0 authorisation code. The MCP server accepts the same Bearer token, and also publishes OAuth metadata with PKCE and dynamic client registration.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with no card, 50 shipments a month in the US, and a sandbox, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. Plus is US$29 a month and Premier US$69, with Scale tiers from US$99 and Enterprise on request. Labels are charged at the courier rate the API quotes. Rates, address validation, tax and duty, HS code and off-platform tracking calls are metered, pay-as-you-go on Free and with monthly quotas on paid plans. Prices vary by country (https://www.easyship.com/plans, US figures, checked 2026-10-07).", "priceSummary": "$29 / mo", "where": "both", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the OpenAPI spec or the plans page (checked 2026-10-07).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 25, "popularity": { "githubStars": 0, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 79, "asOf": "2026-10-07" }, "docsUrl": "https://developers.easyship.com", "llmsTxt": "https://developers.easyship.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://developers.easyship.com/reference/rates_request.md", "registryName": "com.easyship/mcp", "capabilities": [ "shipping.rates", "shipping.labels", "shipping.tracking", "shipping.address-validation", "shipping.returns" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "api-key", "oauth", "mcp", "openapi", "llms-txt", "sandbox", "webhooks", "python", "status-page" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-28", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 70.6, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 190, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 1, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 40, "reliability": 80, "schema": 87, "security": 61, "transparency": 72 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-01" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "Per-resource read and write scopes, separate sandbox tokens, a 132-operation OpenAPI contract and a 25-tool hosted MCP server with read-only and destructive annotations on every tool. No idempotency keys or Retry-After were found, the MCP server has no test mode, and the API changelog's last entry is dated 30 October 2025.", "bestFor": "An agent that ships parcels for a small or mid-sized merchant, mostly cross-border, and wants rates, labels, duties and pickups from one account without carrier contracts.", "strengths": [ "Tokens carry per-resource read and write scopes, with separate sandbox (sand_) and production (prod_) tokens", "Hosted MCP server at mcp.easyship.com with 25 tools, each carrying readOnlyHint, destructiveHint and openWorldHint", "llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every reference page, each with its OpenAPI 3.0.3 definition", "Free plan with no card and 50 shipments a month in the US, and per-call prices for the metered endpoints", "status.easyship.com lists no incident since 5 December 2025, only scheduled maintenance" ], "weaknesses": [ "No idempotency keys in the 132-operation spec, and no Retry-After or backoff guidance for 429", "The MCP server has no test mode, so a label bought through it is charged", "API changelog's last entry is 30 October 2025, and no deprecation policy was found", "security.txt expired on 5 October 2025, and the sub-processor list is dated 15 October 2020", "No official SDKs found, and the published limit is 60 requests a minute" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use a sand_ token against https://public-api-sandbox.easyship.com for API tests. Production rejects sandbox tokens, and sandbox allows 6 requests a minute", "The MCP server calls production only. Create the shipment without buy_label first, then call create_label once the user confirms the courier and price", "Don't retry a timed-out label purchase blindly. There's no idempotency key, so read the shipment's label_state first", "Give every item a category or an hs_code. The API rejects shipments and rates requests that have neither", "Stay under 60 requests a minute and 10 a second, and wait for the next window on 429" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 70.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 73, "maintenance": 76, "payments": 40, "reliability": 80, "schema": 87, "security": 61, "transparency": 51 }, "provenanceScore": 92, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-01", "maintenance": "2026-11-01", "payments": "2026-11-01", "reliability": "2026-11-01", "schema": "2026-11-01", "security": "2026-11-01", "transparency": "2026-11-01" }, "last": "2026-11-01", "lastMoved": "2026-11-01", "oldest": "2026-11-01", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST https://public-api.easyship.com/2024-09/rates \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $EASYSHIP_API_ACCESS_TOKEN\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d @rates-request.json", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http easyship \\\n https://mcp.easyship.com/mcp \\\n --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "easyship": { "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" }, "url": "https://mcp.easyship.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/shipping.rates", "tool": "https://letme.dev/easyship" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Free plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 0, "note": "US, 50 shipments a month, 1 team member" }, { "item": "Plus plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 29, "note": "US, billed monthly; $23 billed annually; 500 shipments, 2,000 rates calls included" }, { "item": "Premier plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 69, "note": "US, billed monthly; $55 billed annually; 2,500 shipments, 10,000 rates calls included" }, { "item": "Rates API call", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.01, "note": "Free plan pay-as-you-go; $0.008 on Plus and $0.007 on Premier beyond the included quota" }, { "item": "US address validation", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.02, "note": "Free and Plus; $0.01 on Premier" }, { "item": "International address validation", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.08, "note": "Free plan; $0.07 on Plus, $0.06 on Premier" }, { "item": "Tax and duty calculation", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.11, "note": "Free and Plus; $0.10 on Premier" }, { "item": "Off-platform tracking", "unit": "call", "usd": 0.05, "note": "Free plan; $0.04 on Plus and Premier. Tracking of Easyship's own shipments is free" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Easyship Inc.", "domain": "easyship.com", "domainRegistered": "2001-02-22", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.easyship.com/legal/terms/us", "privacy": "https://www.easyship.com/legal/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.easyship.com", "changelog": "https://developers.easyship.com/reference/changelog", "securityTxt": "expired", "checked": "2026-11-01", "notes": [ "The terms overview (last updated 12 August 2022) names a contracting entity by origin country. Easyship Inc., 61 Broadway, Suite 1705, New York for the United States, Easyship Fulfillment Services Ltd. in Hong Kong for countries not listed, and others for Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Singapore and the United Kingdom.", "The US terms were last updated on 28 July 2026 and promise 30 days' notice of material changes.", "The API answers at public-api.easyship.com and the MCP server at mcp.easyship.com, both on the vendor's domain.", "www.easyship.com/.well-known/security.txt carries Expires 2025-10-05 and a Policy link to https://vdp.easyship.com (re-read 1 November 2026).", "RDAP for easyship.com gives a registration date of 2001-02-22." ], "score": 92 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easyship.json", "live": { "slug": "easyship", "probe": { "target": "https://public-api.easyship.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:22.224115764Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 200, "lastMs": 2057, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 99.89, "p50ms24h": 717, "p95ms24h": 1717, "samples24h": 239, "samples30d": 7463, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 93, "ok": 93 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-10", "probes": 247, "ok": 246 }, { "date": "2026-10-11", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-12", "probes": 247, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-13", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-14", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-15", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-16", "probes": 252, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 256, "ok": 256 }, { "date": "2026-10-19", "probes": 255, "ok": 255 }, { "date": "2026-10-20", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-21", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-22", "probes": 253, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-10-24", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-10-25", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-26", "probes": 252, "ok": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-27", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-28", "probes": 251, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-29", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-30", "probes": 249, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-31", "probes": 251, "ok": 251 }, { "date": "2026-11-01", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-11-03", "probes": 248, "ok": 247 }, { "date": "2026-11-04", "probes": 246, "ok": 246 }, { "date": "2026-11-05", "probes": 185, "ok": 185 }, { "date": "2026-11-06", "probes": 241, "ok": 241 }, { "date": "2026-11-07", "probes": 187, "ok": 187 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.easyship.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T18:21:04.43401606Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "com.easyship/mcp", "version": "0.6.8", "seenAt": 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"name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "No changelog or release notes found. The newest dated release is @atoship/mcp 1.0.2 on 18 February 2026, more than 180 days ago (0). No dated releases in the 90 days from 8 August (0). Support by email, with no public tracker; the repository named on npm is not public (5 of 15). The MCP package is official, and only the Go SDK of eight listed is installable (5 of 15). No public CI (0). 0 + 0 + 5 + 5 + 0 = 10.", "b": "easyship-mcp 0.6.7 was published on 28 October 2026, 4 days before the check, after 0.6.6 on 19 October, both on PyPI and in the MCP registry. Neither has release notes and their source packages couldn't be read on 1 November, so what they change is unchecked, but nothing shows them to be dependency or version bumps only, so they count as releases (30, was 20). The API changelog's last entry is still 30 October 2025. Five releases in the 90 days on three dates, 0.6.3 to 0.6.5 on 21 August, 0.6.6 and 0.6.7 (20, was 10). Closed service with a support desk and a bug report form. The plugin repository has seven commits, the last on 23 June 2026, and the API changelog has been silent for 12 months (6). Listed in the official MCP registry as com.easyship/mcp, a domain-verified namespace, with 0.6.7 as latest (15). The package pins fastmcp below 4 with a uv.lock and has version-check and deploy workflows. No tests ship in the 0.6.5 source package (5). 30 + 20 + 6 + 15 + 5 = 76." }, "scores": { "a": 10, "b": 76 } }, { "by": 50, "category": "reliability", "leads": "easyship", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Graded as a hosted service on the MCP server at atoship.com/api/mcp and REST API v1. status.atoship.com serves the marketing home page and the docs' API Status page rendered no status content, so no status page is counted (0). No readable incident history (5). 429 and a `RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED` code are documented, without numbers (5 of 15). A 429 carries `error.retryAfter` and Retry-After; no idempotency key for label purchases was found (10 of 15). No SLA (0). Not labelled beta (10). 0 + 5 + 5 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 30.", "b": "Graded on the public API v2024-09, which the hosted MCP server calls. Statuspage at status.easyship.com with nine Easyship components, among them Core API, Open API and Rates API (20). Re-read on 1 November from the history feed (history.atom), because status.easyship.com's robots.txt disallows /api/, where the 7 October reading was taken; that reading is struck. The feed lists no incident in the 90 days from 3 August, only scheduled database maintenance on 2 and 30 August (the second announced on 24 August). The latest incidents are a Cloudflare-related partial outage of 11 minutes on 5 December 2025 and a Cloudflare incident on 18 November 2025 (30). Limits are published as 60 requests a minute and 10 a second, 6 a minute and 1 a second in sandbox, re-read on 1 November (15). The 429 `too_many_requests` code is documented with the advice to wait for the next window. No Retry-After header, backoff guidance or idempotency key was found in the docs or the spec (5). The developers page claims both 99.9% and 99.99% uptime, the US terms disclaim uninterrupted access, and no SLA was found (0). Version 2024-09 is described as the latest stable version. The MCP package is classified beta on PyPI (10). 20 + 30 + 15 + 5 + 0 + 10 = 80." }, "scores": { "a": 30, "b": 80 } }, { "by": 32, "category": "schema", "leads": "easyship", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "No OpenAPI found (/openapi.json is 404); a Postman collection v2.1 of 15 endpoints is the only machine-readable contract, and the hosted MCP tools' schemas were not read because /api/ is disallowed (15 of 25). llms.txt (10). The MCP page gives each tool a one-line description and an example prompt (8 of 20). Input typing could not be checked beyond the docs' object pages (5 of 15). The errors page documents status codes, `error.code` values and `retryAfter`, with examples (12 of 15). v1 API, no changelog found (5 of 15). 15 + 10 + 8 + 5 + 12 + 5 = 55.", "b": "Every reference page has a Markdown twin with its OpenAPI 3.0.3 definition, and the full v2024-09 spec (132 operations on 98 paths) ships in the easyship-mcp source package. No single spec URL was found on the docs site. MCP inputs are typed with Pydantic (25). llms.txt at developers.easyship.com lists 240 lines of Markdown pages (10). MCP descriptions state what to collect before calling, when to buy a label or only draft a shipment, and which tool to use for detail. Not every tool says when not to use it (17). The spec has 177 enum declarations and required fields. In the MCP, incoterms, currency and item category are free strings (12). Twelve error codes are documented with HTTP status and a worked example, and endpoints list 402 and 422 responses (13). Versions are dated in the path (2023-01, 2024-09) with migration guides. The changelog's last entry is 30 October 2025, and the MCP server has no changelog (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 55, "b": 87 } }, { "by": 27, "category": "transparency", "leads": "easyship", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "Closed service under terms naming atoship LLC of California (15 of 30). The privacy policy (7 May 2026) keeps data as long as necessary with no periods and names no processors (10 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (0). No subprocessor list or data locations found (0). 15 + 10 + 0 + 0 = 25.", "b": "Closed service under country-specific terms, the US version updated 28 July 2026 and naming Easyship Inc. The MCP server and plugin are MIT (17). The privacy policy of 28 July 2026 gives retention periods (account and shipment data for their lifetime plus seven years) and bars providers from training general-purpose AI on personal information. The DPA of 28 March 2025 says personal data is deleted on deactivation unless law requires otherwise, which sits uneasily with seven years (18). Deprecated endpoints are marked and migration guides exist, and the US terms promise 30 days' notice of material changes. No API deprecation policy with dates was found (8). The sub-processor list the DPA points to is dated 15 October 2020, names only analytics, advertising and CRM tools and cites Privacy Shield. The privacy policy names the United States and Singapore as processing locations (8)." }, "scores": { "a": 45, "b": 72 } }, { "by": 20, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "easyship", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "12 MCP tools (15, for 11 to 30). List tools for orders and labels, with paging not documented in the pages read (8 of 20). Machine-readable error codes with a retry delay (18 of 20). The npm package's tools carry no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint, and no idempotency key was found; `void_label` undoes a mistaken purchase (5 of 20). Only the Go SDK installs, the hosted server is one URL, and test keys give a safe default (7 of 15). 15 + 8 + 18 + 5 + 7 = 53.", "b": "The MCP server loads 25 tools with no toolsets. List tools return allow-listed summaries, and documents and contact details come back only when asked for (18). List endpoints take page and per_page (default 20) and filters by state, date, country and order number (20). Errors carry a code, type, details array, documentation links and a request_id (18). No idempotency keys, so a retried label purchase isn't protected. All 25 MCP tools set readOnlyHint, destructiveHint and openWorldHint (10). create_shipment picks a courier when none is given and get_rates needs six fields. No official SDK was found among the 15 public repositories in Easyship's GitHub organisation, though the developers page mentions SDKs (7)." }, "scores": { "a": 53, "b": 73 } }, { "by": 6, "category": "security", "leads": "easyship", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "Live and test API keys sent as Bearer tokens, with the docs advising separate keys with limited scopes and rotation, and OAuth with PKCE for the hosted MCP server (25 of 30). Test keys create no real labels, the consent screen names label buying and voiding, and the docs say the agent can spend only funds already in the wallet, with no per-call confirmation (12 of 20). Responses carry addresses and carrier tracking data rather than free text from strangers (10). No audit log found (0). security.txt valid to December 2027 with a security contact; no certification, bounty or disclosure policy beyond the terms (8 of 20). 25 + 12 + 10 + 0 + 8 = 55.", "b": "API tokens are created in the dashboard with per-resource scopes such as `public.shipment:read` and `public.label:write` on v2024-09, are revocable, and are separate for sandbox and production. The MCP server also publishes OAuth metadata with PKCE S256 and dynamic client registration. No token expiry was found (26). Read-only scopes make a read-only agent possible. Confirmation before delete and cancel exists only as a rule file in the plugin repository, not in the server (14). The MCP server strips tax identifiers from every response and withholds contact details and document links by default. No guidance on untrusted text in tracking or address fields was found (7). Transaction records and a request_id on errors are available. No API call log for the operator was found (4). security.txt is present but still expired on 5 October 2025, re-read on 1 November. It points to a disclosure policy at vdp.easyship.com, which needs JavaScript and went unread. The developers page claims SOC certification with no report or trust page found (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 55, "b": 61 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "atoship LLC", "b": "Easyship Inc.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://atoship.com/api/mcp", "b": "https://public-api.easyship.com", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "Streamable HTTP, stdio", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "not published", "b": "$0.01 per call", "name": "Price for shipping rates" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary service under Easyship's terms of service. The easyship-mcp server on PyPI and the plugin repository are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "12", "b": "25", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "not listed", "b": "com.easyship/mcp", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-02-18", "b": "2026-10-28", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-08-20", "b": "2026-07-28", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-07", "b": "2026-07-28", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "none", "b": "0 stars, 79 PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "none", "b": "3.5/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Easyship scores 70.6 (BB) on agent readiness against atoship's 43 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, atoship or Easyship?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do atoship and Easyship need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. atoship has a hosted endpoint at https://atoship.com/api/mcp and Easyship at https://public-api.easyship.com.", "question": "Can an agent call atoship and Easyship without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "Free to start without a card" ], "goodFor": "US sellers who want cheap USPS, UPS and FedEx labels bought by an agent from a capped wallet.", "slug": "atoship", "watchFor": "No status page; status.atoship.com serves the home page" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 80 against 30", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 55", "Agent ergonomics, 73 against 53", "Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 55", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 76 against 10", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 45" ], "also": [ "Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better" ], "goodFor": "An agent that ships parcels for a small or mid-sized merchant, mostly cross-border, and wants rates, labels, duties and pickups from one account without carrier contracts.", "slug": "easyship", "watchFor": "No idempotency keys in the 132-operation spec, and no Retry-After or backoff guidance for 429" } ], "history": { "atoship": null, "easyship": [ { "causes": [ "product" ], "date": "2026-11-01", "delta": 1.7, "from": 68.9, "fromGrade": "B", "to": 70.6, "toGrade": "BB" }, { "causes": [ "method" ], "date": "2026-10-27", "delta": 0.1, "from": 68.8, "fromGrade": "B", "to": 68.9, "toGrade": "B" } ] }, "job": { "capability": "shipping.rates", "name": "Shipping rates" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-easypost.json", "title": "atoship vs EasyPost", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-easypost" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-envia.json", "title": "atoship vs Envia", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-envia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-karrio.json", "title": "atoship vs Karrio", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-karrio" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-sendcloud.json", "title": "atoship vs Sendcloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-sendcloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-shipbob.json", "title": "atoship vs ShipBob", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-shipbob" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-shippo.json", "title": "atoship vs Shippo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-shippo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-shippypro.json", "title": "atoship vs ShippyPro", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-shippypro" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-shipstation.json", "title": "atoship vs ShipStation API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-shipstation" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easypost-vs-easyship.json", "title": "EasyPost vs Easyship", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easypost-vs-easyship" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-envia.json", "title": "Easyship vs Envia", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-envia" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-karrio.json", "title": "Easyship vs Karrio", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-karrio" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-sendcloud.json", "title": "Easyship vs Sendcloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-sendcloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-shipbob.json", "title": "Easyship vs ShipBob", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-shipbob" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-shippo.json", "title": "Easyship vs Shippo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-shippo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-shippypro.json", "title": "Easyship vs ShippyPro", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-shippypro" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-shipstation.json", "title": "Easyship vs ShipStation API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-shipstation" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-ship24.json", "title": "atoship vs Ship24", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-ship24" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-trackingmore.json", "title": "atoship vs TrackingMore", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-trackingmore" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-ship24.json", "title": "Easyship vs Ship24", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-ship24" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-trackingmore.json", "title": "Easyship vs TrackingMore", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-trackingmore" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "atoship": 30, "by": 50, "easyship": 80, "edge": "easyship", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "atoship": 55, "by": 32, "easyship": 87, "edge": "easyship", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "atoship": 53, "by": 20, "easyship": 73, "edge": "easyship", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "atoship": 55, "by": 6, "easyship": 61, "edge": "easyship", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "atoship": 40, "by": 0, "easyship": 40, "edge": "", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "atoship": 10, "by": 66, "easyship": 76, "edge": "easyship", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "atoship": 45, "by": 27, "easyship": 72, "edge": "easyship", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Easyship scores 70.6 (BB) on agent readiness against atoship's 43 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do shipping rates.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "atoship": "atoship gives agents twelve MCP tools and a REST API for US labels with published per-unit fees, free sign-up, test keys and a wallet the agent cannot overspend. No status page, rate-limit figures, OpenAPI spec or changelog was found, and the npm MCP package has not changed since February 2026.", "easyship": "Per-resource read and write scopes, separate sandbox tokens, a 132-operation OpenAPI contract and a 25-tool hosted MCP server with read-only and destructive annotations on every tool. No idempotency keys or Retry-After were found, the MCP server has no test mode, and the API changelog's last entry is dated 30 October 2025." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-easyship", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-easyship.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-easyship.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-easyship.min.md" }, "markdown": "Easyship scores 70.6 (BB) on agent readiness against atoship's 43 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do shipping rates.\n\n- atoship: grade E, 43/100, rank #1247 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/atoship.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/atoship.json\n- Easyship: grade BB, 70.6/100, rank #190 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easyship.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/easyship.json\n- Best shipping and fulfilment APIs for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/shipping/index.md\n- All 66 shipping comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shipping/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### atoship (E)\n\nGood for: US sellers who want cheap USPS, UPS and FedEx labels bought by an agent from a capped wallet.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n\nWatch for: No status page; status.atoship.com serves the home page\n\n### Easyship (BB)\n\nGood for: An agent that ships parcels for a small or mid-sized merchant, mostly cross-border, and wants rates, labels, duties and pickups from one account without carrier contracts.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 80 against 30\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 55\n- Agent ergonomics, 73 against 53\n- Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 55\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 76 against 10\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 45\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better\n\nWatch for: No idempotency keys in the 132-operation spec, and no Retry-After or backoff guidance for 429\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Easyship +66\n\n- atoship (10): No changelog or release notes found. The newest dated release is @atoship/mcp 1.0.2 on 18 February 2026, more than 180 days ago (0). No dated releases in the 90 days from 8 August (0). Support by email, with no public tracker; the repository named on npm is not public (5 of 15). The MCP package is official, and only the Go SDK of eight listed is installable (5 of 15). No public CI (0). 0 + 0 + 5 + 5 + 0 = 10.\n- Easyship (76): easyship-mcp 0.6.7 was published on 28 October 2026, 4 days before the check, after 0.6.6 on 19 October, both on PyPI and in the MCP registry. Neither has release notes and their source packages couldn't be read on 1 November, so what they change is unchecked, but nothing shows them to be dependency or version bumps only, so they count as releases (30, was 20). The API changelog's last entry is still 30 October 2025. Five releases in the 90 days on three dates, 0.6.3 to 0.6.5 on 21 August, 0.6.6 and 0.6.7 (20, was 10). Closed service with a support desk and a bug report form. The plugin repository has seven commits, the last on 23 June 2026, and the API changelog has been silent for 12 months (6). Listed in the official MCP registry as com.easyship/mcp, a domain-verified namespace, with 0.6.7 as latest (15). The package pins fastmcp below 4 with a uv.lock and has version-check and deploy workflows. No tests ship in the 0.6.5 source package (5). 30 + 20 + 6 + 15 + 5 = 76.\n\n### Reliability: Easyship +50\n\n- atoship (30): Graded as a hosted service on the MCP server at atoship.com/api/mcp and REST API v1. status.atoship.com serves the marketing home page and the docs' API Status page rendered no status content, so no status page is counted (0). No readable incident history (5). 429 and a `RATE_LIMIT_EXCEEDED` code are documented, without numbers (5 of 15). A 429 carries `error.retryAfter` and Retry-After; no idempotency key for label purchases was found (10 of 15). No SLA (0). Not labelled beta (10). 0 + 5 + 5 + 10 + 0 + 10 = 30.\n- Easyship (80): Graded on the public API v2024-09, which the hosted MCP server calls. Statuspage at status.easyship.com with nine Easyship components, among them Core API, Open API and Rates API (20). Re-read on 1 November from the history feed (history.atom), because status.easyship.com's robots.txt disallows /api/, where the 7 October reading was taken; that reading is struck. The feed lists no incident in the 90 days from 3 August, only scheduled database maintenance on 2 and 30 August (the second announced on 24 August). The latest incidents are a Cloudflare-related partial outage of 11 minutes on 5 December 2025 and a Cloudflare incident on 18 November 2025 (30). Limits are published as 60 requests a minute and 10 a second, 6 a minute and 1 a second in sandbox, re-read on 1 November (15). The 429 `too_many_requests` code is documented with the advice to wait for the next window. No Retry-After header, backoff guidance or idempotency key was found in the docs or the spec (5). The developers page claims both 99.9% and 99.99% uptime, the US terms disclaim uninterrupted access, and no SLA was found (0). Version 2024-09 is described as the latest stable version. The MCP package is classified beta on PyPI (10). 20 + 30 + 15 + 5 + 0 + 10 = 80.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Easyship +32\n\n- atoship (55): No OpenAPI found (/openapi.json is 404); a Postman collection v2.1 of 15 endpoints is the only machine-readable contract, and the hosted MCP tools' schemas were not read because /api/ is disallowed (15 of 25). llms.txt (10). The MCP page gives each tool a one-line description and an example prompt (8 of 20). Input typing could not be checked beyond the docs' object pages (5 of 15). The errors page documents status codes, `error.code` values and `retryAfter`, with examples (12 of 15). v1 API, no changelog found (5 of 15). 15 + 10 + 8 + 5 + 12 + 5 = 55.\n- Easyship (87): Every reference page has a Markdown twin with its OpenAPI 3.0.3 definition, and the full v2024-09 spec (132 operations on 98 paths) ships in the easyship-mcp source package. No single spec URL was found on the docs site. MCP inputs are typed with Pydantic (25). llms.txt at developers.easyship.com lists 240 lines of Markdown pages (10). MCP descriptions state what to collect before calling, when to buy a label or only draft a shipment, and which tool to use for detail. Not every tool says when not to use it (17). The spec has 177 enum declarations and required fields. In the MCP, incoterms, currency and item category are free strings (12). Twelve error codes are documented with HTTP status and a worked example, and endpoints list 402 and 422 responses (13). Versions are dated in the path (2023-01, 2024-09) with migration guides. The changelog's last entry is 30 October 2025, and the MCP server has no changelog (10).\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Easyship +27\n\n- atoship (45): Closed service under terms naming atoship LLC of California (15 of 30). The privacy policy (7 May 2026) keeps data as long as necessary with no periods and names no processors (10 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices found (0). No subprocessor list or data locations found (0). 15 + 10 + 0 + 0 = 25.\n- Easyship (72): Closed service under country-specific terms, the US version updated 28 July 2026 and naming Easyship Inc. The MCP server and plugin are MIT (17). The privacy policy of 28 July 2026 gives retention periods (account and shipment data for their lifetime plus seven years) and bars providers from training general-purpose AI on personal information. The DPA of 28 March 2025 says personal data is deleted on deactivation unless law requires otherwise, which sits uneasily with seven years (18). Deprecated endpoints are marked and migration guides exist, and the US terms promise 30 days' notice of material changes. No API deprecation policy with dates was found (8). The sub-processor list the DPA points to is dated 15 October 2020, names only analytics, advertising and CRM tools and cites Privacy Shield. The privacy policy names the United States and Singapore as processing locations (8).\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Easyship +20\n\n- atoship (53): 12 MCP tools (15, for 11 to 30). List tools for orders and labels, with paging not documented in the pages read (8 of 20). Machine-readable error codes with a retry delay (18 of 20). The npm package's tools carry no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint, and no idempotency key was found; `void_label` undoes a mistaken purchase (5 of 20). Only the Go SDK installs, the hosted server is one URL, and test keys give a safe default (7 of 15). 15 + 8 + 18 + 5 + 7 = 53.\n- Easyship (73): The MCP server loads 25 tools with no toolsets. List tools return allow-listed summaries, and documents and contact details come back only when asked for (18). List endpoints take page and per_page (default 20) and filters by state, date, country and order number (20). Errors carry a code, type, details array, documentation links and a request_id (18). No idempotency keys, so a retried label purchase isn't protected. All 25 MCP tools set readOnlyHint, destructiveHint and openWorldHint (10). create_shipment picks a courier when none is given and get_rates needs six fields. No official SDK was found among the 15 public repositories in Easyship's GitHub organisation, though the developers page mentions SDKs (7).\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: Easyship +6\n\n- atoship (55): Live and test API keys sent as Bearer tokens, with the docs advising separate keys with limited scopes and rotation, and OAuth with PKCE for the hosted MCP server (25 of 30). Test keys create no real labels, the consent screen names label buying and voiding, and the docs say the agent can spend only funds already in the wallet, with no per-call confirmation (12 of 20). Responses carry addresses and carrier tracking data rather than free text from strangers (10). No audit log found (0). security.txt valid to December 2027 with a security contact; no certification, bounty or disclosure policy beyond the terms (8 of 20). 25 + 12 + 10 + 0 + 8 = 55.\n- Easyship (61): API tokens are created in the dashboard with per-resource scopes such as `public.shipment:read` and `public.label:write` on v2024-09, are revocable, and are separate for sandbox and production. The MCP server also publishes OAuth metadata with PKCE S256 and dynamic client registration. No token expiry was found (26). Read-only scopes make a read-only agent possible. Confirmation before delete and cancel exists only as a rule file in the plugin repository, not in the server (14). The MCP server strips tax identifiers from every response and withholds contact details and document links by default. No guidance on untrusted text in tracking or address fields was found (7). Transaction records and a request_id on errors are available. No API call log for the operator was found (4). security.txt is present but still expired on 5 October 2025, re-read on 1 November. It points to a disclosure policy at vdp.easyship.com, which needs JavaScript and went unread. The developers page claims SOC certification with no report or trust page found (10).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | atoship | Easyship | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 30 | 80 | Easyship +50 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 87 | Easyship +32 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 53 | 73 | Easyship +20 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 55 | 61 | Easyship +6 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 10 | 76 | Easyship +66 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 72 | Easyship +27 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **43 · E** | **70.6 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | atoship | Easyship |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | atoship LLC | Easyship Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://atoship.com/api/mcp` | `https://public-api.easyship.com` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| Price for shipping rates | not published | $0.01 per call |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service under Easyship's terms of service. The easyship-mcp server on PyPI and the plugin repository are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 12 | 25 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `com.easyship/mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-02-18 | 2026-10-28 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-20 | 2026-07-28 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-07 | 2026-07-28 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | none | 0 stars, 79 PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (4) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### atoship\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Easyship\n\n- +1.7 on 1 November 2026 (B to BB): product\n- +0.1 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**atoship.** atoship gives agents twelve MCP tools and a REST API for US labels with published per-unit fees, free sign-up, test keys and a wallet the agent cannot overspend. No status page, rate-limit figures, OpenAPI spec or changelog was found, and the npm MCP package has not changed since February 2026.\n\n**Easyship.** Per-resource read and write scopes, separate sandbox tokens, a 132-operation OpenAPI contract and a 25-tool hosted MCP server with read-only and destructive annotations on every tool. No idempotency keys or Retry-After were found, the MCP server has no test mode, and the API changelog's last entry is dated 30 October 2025.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### atoship\n\n1. Use an `ak_test_` key until the user confirms live labels; test mode creates no real labels\n2. Ask the user before `purchase_label`, since it spends the wallet balance\n3. Call `void_label` promptly for a mistaken label, and check the carrier's refund rules\n4. Branch on `error.code`, and on 429 wait `error.retryAfter` seconds\n5. Validate the address with `validate_address` before buying; the standalone endpoint costs $0.03 a call\n\n### Easyship\n\n1. Use a sand_ token against https://public-api-sandbox.easyship.com for API tests. Production rejects sandbox tokens, and sandbox allows 6 requests a minute\n2. The MCP server calls production only. Create the shipment without buy_label first, then call create_label once the user confirms the courier and price\n3. Don't retry a timed-out label purchase blindly. There's no idempotency key, so read the shipment's label_state first\n4. Give every item a category or an hs_code. The API rejects shipments and rates requests that have neither\n5. Stay under 60 requests a minute and 10 a second, and wait for the next window on 429\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, atoship or Easyship?\n\nEasyship scores 70.6 (BB) on agent readiness against atoship's 43 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do atoship and Easyship need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call atoship and Easyship without installing anything?\n\nYes. atoship has a hosted endpoint at https://atoship.com/api/mcp and Easyship at https://public-api.easyship.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-easyship.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-easyship.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"atoship\", \"b\": \"easyship\"}`. 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