{ "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": "Sendcloud scores 64.5 (B) on agent readiness against atoship's 43 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "sendcloud", "name": "Sendcloud", "vendor": "Sendcloud B.V.", "vendorUrl": "https://www.sendcloud.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "shipping", "summary": "Shipping platform for European online shops from Sendcloud B.V. in Eindhoven. Its API v3 and hosted MCP server quote carrier rates, create labels, validate addresses, track parcels and handle returns across the carriers an account has enabled.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sendcloud", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sendcloud.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sendcloud.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sendcloud.json", "dns": "sendcloud.grade.anchorterminal.com", "license": "Proprietary service under Sendcloud's terms and conditions", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://mcp.sendcloud.com/mcp", "packages": [], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve. A person signs up at account.sendcloud.com, adds an invoice and sender address, then creates a Sendcloud API integration in the panel, which issues a public and secret key pair. The pair works as HTTP Basic or is exchanged at https://account.sendcloud.com/oauth2/token for a one-hour Bearer token (client credentials, scope `api`). The MCP server uses an OAuth 2.0 sign-in at account.sendcloud.com, found through RFC 9728 metadata. Since 12 October 2026 its consent screen lists permission groups, and the token carries only the read and write scopes chosen. No partner or sales approval is needed for API v3.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan at €0 for up to 20 parcels a month at Sendcloud's carrier rates, and a 14-day trial of paid plans with no card per the pricing page. Lite is €28 a month plus €0.10 a label, Growth €87 plus €0.09, Premium €175 plus €0.08, Pro €639 plus €0.07, Enterprise on request, with 20 per cent off for yearly billing. Carrier postage is extra. There is no sandbox, but 50 Unstamped letter test labels are free. The pricing table has an API access row whose per-plan marks we couldn't read (https://www.sendcloud.com/pricing/).", "priceSummary": "$31.30 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the OpenAPI specs or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-07).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-07" }, "docsUrl": "https://sendcloud.dev", "llmsTxt": "https://sendcloud.dev/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://sendcloud.dev/.openapi/v3/shipments/openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "shipping.rates", "shipping.labels", "shipping.tracking", "shipping.address-validation", "shipping.returns" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "free-tier", "mcp", "oauth", "api-key", "openapi", "llms-txt", "webhooks", "status-page", "europe", "iso27001" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.5, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 461, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1486, "categoryRank": 2, "methodology": "0.7", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 67, "payments": 37, "reliability": 73, "schema": 89, "security": 58, "transparency": 72 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-11-02" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "21 and 25 September 2026, with more of the same kind in October. The API v3 changelog records `insurance.currency` and `insurance.value` removed from POST /parcels/tracking, and `status_code`, `status_description` and `sub_status_code` removed from tracking event responses, with no earlier deprecation entry. Entries of 21 and 26 October make `type` required on event subscription connection updates, cut the parcels allowed on synchronous shipments with rules from 50 to 15, and reject fractional insured amounts, each announced the day it applies. Repeats of one kind count once, at the minimum (https://sendcloud.dev/api/v3/changelog.md)" ], "verdict": "API v3 has 29 public OpenAPI 3.1 specs, an llms.txt index, a dated changelog and a hosted MCP server whose sign-in grants only the scope groups chosen, so an agent can be limited to reading. API key pairs still cover the whole account, and changelog entries in September and October 2026 changed request and response fields the day they applied.", "bestFor": "An agent shipping parcels for a European shop that wants many carriers behind one account, including its own carrier contracts on paid plans.", "strengths": [ "29 public OpenAPI 3.1 specs covering 104 API v3 operations, with an llms.txt index and Markdown copies of every docs page", "Hosted MCP server at mcp.sendcloud.com/mcp with 24 toolsets, a `?toolsets=` filter, scope groups chosen at sign-in and read-only, idempotent and destructive annotations per the docs", "A repeated `external_reference_id` on shipment creation returns the existing shipment with a 409 instead of buying a second label", "Free test labels through the `sendcloud:letter` and `sendcloud:letterreturn` shipping options, up to 50 before charges apply", "Dated API v3 changelog with 52 entries between 4 August and 30 October 2026" ], "weaknesses": [ "API key pairs get one scope, `api`, with full account access. Read and write scopes apply only to the MCP sign-in", "Changelog entries of 21 and 25 September and 21 and 26 October 2026 removed fields or tightened requests on the day, with no earlier notice", "No Retry-After header or backoff guidance was found for 429 responses", "No official SDK was found in the reviewed documentation, and the MCP server isn't in the official MCP registry", "No test environment. Labels other than the Unstamped letter options are charged unless the carrier accepts a cancellation" ], "agentNotes": [ "Use API v3 at https://panel.sendcloud.sc/api/v3. The v2 create-parcel endpoint is closed to accounts created from April 2026", "Test with `shipping_option_code` `sendcloud:letter` (returns use `sendcloud:letterreturn`). Any other label is billed unless cancelled within the carrier's deadline", "Set `external_reference_id` on every shipment so a retry returns the existing shipment (409) instead of a second label", "Read the `errors` array on synchronous announce responses. A carrier failure can arrive inside a success status", "Connect MCP with `?toolsets=shipments,shipping-options,parcel-tracking,returns` to keep the tool list short. Create and cancel tools act on the live account", "At MCP sign-in, grant only the permission groups the task needs. A tool outside the granted scopes fails with a permission error" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.7", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 71, "maintenance": 67, "payments": 37, "reliability": 73, "schema": 89, "security": 58, "transparency": 62 }, "provenanceScore": 82, "checked": { "categories": { "ergonomics": "2026-11-02", "maintenance": "2026-11-02", "payments": "2026-11-02", "reliability": "2026-11-02", "schema": "2026-11-02", "security": "2026-11-02", "transparency": "2026-11-02" }, "last": "2026-11-02", "lastMoved": "2026-11-02", "oldest": "2026-11-02", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "http": "curl -X POST --location \"https://account.sendcloud.com/oauth2/token\" \\\n --header \"Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\" \\\n -d \"grant_type=client_credentials\u0026scope=api\" \\\n --basic --user your_sendcloud_public_key:your_sendcloud_private_key", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http sendcloud https://mcp.sendcloud.com/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "sendcloud": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.sendcloud.com/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/shipping.rates", "tool": "https://letme.dev/sendcloud" }, "area": "business", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Lite plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 31.3, "note": "€28, 400 labels a month, plus €0.10 a label" }, { "item": "Growth plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 97.24, "note": "€87, 1,000 labels a month, plus €0.09 a label" }, { "item": "Premium plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 195.6, "note": "€175, 10,000 labels a month, plus €0.08 a label" }, { "item": "Pro plan", "unit": "month", "usd": 714.21, "note": "€639, 30,000 labels a month, plus €0.07 a label" }, { "item": "Label fee on Lite", "unit": "tx", "usd": 0.11, "note": "€0.10 a label on top of carrier postage, €0.25 above the monthly limit" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Sendcloud B.V.", "domain": "sendcloud.com", "domainRegistered": "2008-07-29", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.sendcloud.com/terms-conditions/", "privacy": "https://www.sendcloud.com/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.sendcloud.com", "changelog": "https://sendcloud.dev/api/v3/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-07", "notes": [ "The terms, last updated 1 September 2026, name Sendcloud B.V., registration 66572959, Stadhuisplein 10, 5611 EM Eindhoven, with Sendcloud GmbH, Ltd., SAS and Srl for Germany and Austria, the UK, France and Italy. Dutch law applies.", "The MCP server answers at mcp.sendcloud.com and tokens come from account.sendcloud.com. The REST API answers at panel.sendcloud.sc, a second Sendcloud domain.", "www.sendcloud.com/.well-known/security.txt and /security.txt return 404. The bug bounty page sends reports to security@sendcloud.com.", "RDAP for sendcloud.com gives a registration date of 2008-07-29.", "Unit prices are converted from euros at the ECB reference rate of 1.1177 for 7 October 2026, read through api.frankfurter.dev." ], "score": 82 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sendcloud.json", "live": { "slug": "sendcloud", "probe": { "target": "https://mcp.sendcloud.com/mcp", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-07T18:20:53.537574709Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 112, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 89, "p95ms24h": 192, "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": 247 }, { "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": 252 }, { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 253, "ok": 253 }, { "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": 253 }, { "date": "2026-10-23", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "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": 250, "ok": 250 }, { "date": "2026-10-29", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "date": "2026-10-30", "probes": 249, "ok": 249 }, { "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": 248 }, { "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.sendcloud.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T18:22:00.443377612Z" }, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://sendcloud.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:59:55.580505566Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://sendcloud.dev/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T15:33:53.847083204Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "sendcloud.com", "registered": "2008-07-29", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/sendcloud.com", "checkedAt": "2026-11-01T14:18:44.125404298Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://sendcloud.dev/api/v3/changelog", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:19:26.720276409Z", "changedAt": "2026-11-06T13:40:58.445553572Z", "fingerprint": "13b3cfcd89e4" }, { "url": "https://www.sendcloud.com/pricing/", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:34:19.262787822Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-31T06:32:09.372200744Z", "fingerprint": "00854eea0e35" }, { "url": "https://www.sendcloud.com/privacy-policy/", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:34:21.281949533Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-31T06:32:11.767514859Z", "fingerprint": "327bb2ea2328" }, { "url": "https://www.sendcloud.com/terms-conditions/", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T14:34:23.318747593Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-31T06:32:13.4432563Z", "fingerprint": "9f2270264b6c" } ], "mcpTools": { "url": "https://mcp.sendcloud.com/mcp", "checkedAt": "2026-11-07T01:47:40.959795878Z", "status": "auth", "note": "asks for credentials before listing its tools", "changedAt": "2026-11-07T01:47:40.959795878Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-07T18:22:00.443377612Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 57, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "sendcloud", "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": "Latest API v3 changelog entry 30 October 2026 (30). 52 dated entries from 4 August to 30 October (20). Closed service with a dated changelog and a help centre with email and chat support. No developer forum or public issue tracker found (9). The MCP server isn't in the official MCP registry, and no official SDK was found. A public Postman workspace exists (3). No packages to assess. The specs change with the changelog (5)." }, "scores": { "a": 10, "b": 67 } }, { "by": 43, "category": "reliability", "leads": "sendcloud", "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 API v3 and the hosted MCP server, with the hosted lines. The status page at status.sendcloud.com, now on incident.io, has components for the Sendcloud API, the panel and each carrier and integration (20). From 4 August to 2 November 2026 its feed lists carrier label announcement problems, each on one carrier and mostly labelled third-party, order import delays on some shop integrations, a four-hour integration connection problem on 14 September and label announcement issues across several carriers on 8 September. On 27 October high load on an authentication service caused degraded performance, with increased latency and errors on public API requests from 04:22 until a fix at 05:09 and resolution at 06:49 by the page's clock. The Sendcloud API component shows 100 per cent uptime for the period. Every incident hit part of the service, so minor only (20 of 30). Limits published, 1,000 safe and 100 unsafe requests a minute with a burst of 15 a second (15). 429 is documented without Retry-After or backoff guidance. A repeated `external_reference_id` returns the existing shipment (8). The home page claims 99.99 per cent uptime, and no SLA document was found (0). API v3 is the current version and the MCP page carries no beta label (10)." }, "scores": { "a": 30, "b": 73 } }, { "by": 34, "category": "schema", "leads": "sendcloud", "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": "29 OpenAPI 3.1 specs for API v3, 104 operations, linked from llms.txt (25). llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page (10). Every operation has a description. Some state limits, such as when a cancellation is rejected, and many are one sentence. MCP tools take their text from the same specs (13). 243 enums, required fields and maxima such as `page_size` up to 100 (13). 216 example blocks and JSON:API error objects with `status`, `code` and `detail`. 429 responses appear only in the Support API spec (13). Versioned v2 and v3 with a dated v3 changelog of 174 entries back to 25 May 2023 (15)." }, "scores": { "a": 55, "b": 89 } }, { "by": 27, "category": "transparency", "leads": "sendcloud", "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 with terms dated 1 September 2026 naming Sendcloud B.V. and four country entities (15). The privacy policy keeps server logs for at most 7 days and contact forms for 6 years. The DPA deletes customers' order data within 365 days of shipment completion and gives 30 days' notice of new sub-processors. Neither page showed a version date we could read (22). API v2 maintenance mode announced for April 2026, and one endpoint deprecated with a date (9 June 2026). Other deprecated fields are to go \"in a future version\", and no notice-period policy was found (10). Trust centre names five sub-processors, and the security page names AWS EU Central and EU North (15)." }, "scores": { "a": 45, "b": 72 } }, { "by": 18, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "sendcloud", "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 makes one tool per operation, about 98 by the specs for its 24 toolsets, all on by default, which scores 5, and a `?toolsets=` filter enforced on calls adds 10. The API has `page_size` and no field selection (15). Cursor pagination through Link headers and filters by status, tracking number, reference and dates on shipments (18). JSON:API errors, though a carrier failure on a synchronous announce arrives in an `errors` array inside a success response (15). `external_reference_id` deduplicates shipment creation, and the docs say tools carry read-only, idempotent and destructive hints by HTTP method, which we couldn't confirm without an account (16). Shipping rules and defaults cut required fields. No official SDK was found (7)." }, "scores": { "a": 53, "b": 71 } } ], "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "atoship LLC", "b": "Sendcloud B.V.", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://atoship.com/api/mcp", "b": "https://mcp.sendcloud.com/mcp", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "Streamable HTTP, stdio", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Pay per use", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary service under Sendcloud's terms and conditions", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "12", "b": "none", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "yes", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-02-18", "b": "2026-10-30", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-08-20", "b": "no date given", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-07", "b": "no date given", "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": "yes", "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": "2.8/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Sendcloud scores 64.5 (B) 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 Sendcloud?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do atoship and Sendcloud need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. atoship has a hosted endpoint at https://atoship.com/api/mcp and Sendcloud at https://mcp.sendcloud.com/mcp.", "question": "Can an agent call atoship and Sendcloud without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "Runs on your own machine", "Free to start without a card", "No incidents deducted, where Sendcloud loses 3 points for them" ], "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, 73 against 30", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 55", "Agent ergonomics, 71 against 53", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 67 against 10", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 45" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An agent shipping parcels for a European shop that wants many carriers behind one account, including its own carrier contracts on paid plans.", "slug": "sendcloud", "watchFor": "API key pairs get one scope, `api`, with full account access. Read and write scopes apply only to the MCP sign-in" } ], "history": { "atoship": null, "sendcloud": [ { "causes": [ "product", "correction" ], "date": "2026-11-02", "delta": 2.5, "from": 62, "fromGrade": "B", "to": 64.5, "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-easyship.json", "title": "atoship vs Easyship", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-easyship" }, { "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-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-sendcloud.json", "title": "EasyPost vs Sendcloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easypost-vs-sendcloud" }, { "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/envia-vs-sendcloud.json", "title": "Envia vs Sendcloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/envia-vs-sendcloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/karrio-vs-sendcloud.json", "title": "Karrio vs Sendcloud", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/karrio-vs-sendcloud" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sendcloud-vs-shipbob.json", "title": "Sendcloud vs ShipBob", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sendcloud-vs-shipbob" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sendcloud-vs-shippo.json", "title": "Sendcloud vs Shippo", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sendcloud-vs-shippo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sendcloud-vs-shippypro.json", "title": "Sendcloud vs ShippyPro", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sendcloud-vs-shippypro" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sendcloud-vs-shipstation.json", "title": "Sendcloud vs ShipStation API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sendcloud-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/sendcloud-vs-ship24.json", "title": "Sendcloud vs Ship24", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sendcloud-vs-ship24" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sendcloud-vs-trackingmore.json", "title": "Sendcloud vs TrackingMore", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sendcloud-vs-trackingmore" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "atoship": 30, "by": 43, "edge": "sendcloud", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "sendcloud": 73, "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "atoship": 55, "by": 34, "edge": "sendcloud", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "sendcloud": 89, "weight": 13 }, { "atoship": 53, "by": 18, "edge": "sendcloud", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "sendcloud": 71, "weight": 13 }, { "atoship": 55, "by": 3, "edge": "sendcloud", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "sendcloud": 58, "weight": 14 }, { "atoship": 40, "by": 3, "edge": "atoship", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "sendcloud": 37, "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "atoship": 10, "by": 57, "edge": "sendcloud", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "sendcloud": 67, "weight": 7 }, { "atoship": 45, "by": 27, "edge": "sendcloud", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "sendcloud": 72, "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Sendcloud scores 64.5 (B) 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.", "sendcloud": "API v3 has 29 public OpenAPI 3.1 specs, an llms.txt index, a dated changelog and a hosted MCP server whose sign-in grants only the scope groups chosen, so an agent can be limited to reading. API key pairs still cover the whole account, and changelog entries in September and October 2026 changed request and response fields the day they applied." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-sendcloud", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-sendcloud.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-sendcloud.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-sendcloud.min.md" }, "markdown": "Sendcloud scores 64.5 (B) 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- Sendcloud: grade B, 64.5/100, rank #461 of 1486. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sendcloud.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/sendcloud.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- Runs on your own machine\n- Free to start without a card\n- No incidents deducted, where Sendcloud loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: No status page; status.atoship.com serves the home page\n\n### Sendcloud (B)\n\nGood for: An agent shipping parcels for a European shop that wants many carriers behind one account, including its own carrier contracts on paid plans.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 73 against 30\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 89 against 55\n- Agent ergonomics, 71 against 53\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 67 against 10\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 72 against 45\n\nWatch for: API key pairs get one scope, `api`, with full account access. Read and write scopes apply only to the MCP sign-in\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: Sendcloud +57\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- Sendcloud (67): Latest API v3 changelog entry 30 October 2026 (30). 52 dated entries from 4 August to 30 October (20). Closed service with a dated changelog and a help centre with email and chat support. No developer forum or public issue tracker found (9). The MCP server isn't in the official MCP registry, and no official SDK was found. A public Postman workspace exists (3). No packages to assess. The specs change with the changelog (5).\n\n### Reliability: Sendcloud +43\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- Sendcloud (73): Graded on API v3 and the hosted MCP server, with the hosted lines. The status page at status.sendcloud.com, now on incident.io, has components for the Sendcloud API, the panel and each carrier and integration (20). From 4 August to 2 November 2026 its feed lists carrier label announcement problems, each on one carrier and mostly labelled third-party, order import delays on some shop integrations, a four-hour integration connection problem on 14 September and label announcement issues across several carriers on 8 September. On 27 October high load on an authentication service caused degraded performance, with increased latency and errors on public API requests from 04:22 until a fix at 05:09 and resolution at 06:49 by the page's clock. The Sendcloud API component shows 100 per cent uptime for the period. Every incident hit part of the service, so minor only (20 of 30). Limits published, 1,000 safe and 100 unsafe requests a minute with a burst of 15 a second (15). 429 is documented without Retry-After or backoff guidance. A repeated `external_reference_id` returns the existing shipment (8). The home page claims 99.99 per cent uptime, and no SLA document was found (0). API v3 is the current version and the MCP page carries no beta label (10).\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: Sendcloud +34\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- Sendcloud (89): 29 OpenAPI 3.1 specs for API v3, 104 operations, linked from llms.txt (25). llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page (10). Every operation has a description. Some state limits, such as when a cancellation is rejected, and many are one sentence. MCP tools take their text from the same specs (13). 243 enums, required fields and maxima such as `page_size` up to 100 (13). 216 example blocks and JSON:API error objects with `status`, `code` and `detail`. 429 responses appear only in the Support API spec (13). Versioned v2 and v3 with a dated v3 changelog of 174 entries back to 25 May 2023 (15).\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: Sendcloud +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- Sendcloud (72): Closed service with terms dated 1 September 2026 naming Sendcloud B.V. and four country entities (15). The privacy policy keeps server logs for at most 7 days and contact forms for 6 years. The DPA deletes customers' order data within 365 days of shipment completion and gives 30 days' notice of new sub-processors. Neither page showed a version date we could read (22). API v2 maintenance mode announced for April 2026, and one endpoint deprecated with a date (9 June 2026). Other deprecated fields are to go \"in a future version\", and no notice-period policy was found (10). Trust centre names five sub-processors, and the security page names AWS EU Central and EU North (15).\n\n### Agent ergonomics: Sendcloud +18\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- Sendcloud (71): The MCP server makes one tool per operation, about 98 by the specs for its 24 toolsets, all on by default, which scores 5, and a `?toolsets=` filter enforced on calls adds 10. The API has `page_size` and no field selection (15). Cursor pagination through Link headers and filters by status, tracking number, reference and dates on shipments (18). JSON:API errors, though a carrier failure on a synchronous announce arrives in an `errors` array inside a success response (15). `external_reference_id` deduplicates shipment creation, and the docs say tools carry read-only, idempotent and destructive hints by HTTP method, which we couldn't confirm without an account (16). Shipping rules and defaults cut required fields. No official SDK was found (7).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | atoship | Sendcloud | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 30 | 73 | Sendcloud +43 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 89 | Sendcloud +34 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 53 | 71 | Sendcloud +18 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 55 | 58 | Sendcloud +3 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 37 | atoship +3 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 10 | 67 | Sendcloud +57 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 45 | 72 | Sendcloud +27 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **43 · E** | **64.5 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | atoship | Sendcloud |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | atoship LLC | Sendcloud B.V. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://atoship.com/api/mcp` | `https://mcp.sendcloud.com/mcp` |\n| Transports | Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service under Sendcloud's terms and conditions |\n| Tools exposed | 12 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-02-18 | 2026-10-30 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-20 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-07 | no date given |\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 | yes |\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| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### atoship\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n### Sendcloud\n\n- +2.5 on 2 November 2026: product, correction\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**Sendcloud.** API v3 has 29 public OpenAPI 3.1 specs, an llms.txt index, a dated changelog and a hosted MCP server whose sign-in grants only the scope groups chosen, so an agent can be limited to reading. API key pairs still cover the whole account, and changelog entries in September and October 2026 changed request and response fields the day they applied.\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### Sendcloud\n\n1. Use API v3 at https://panel.sendcloud.sc/api/v3. The v2 create-parcel endpoint is closed to accounts created from April 2026\n2. Test with `shipping_option_code` `sendcloud:letter` (returns use `sendcloud:letterreturn`). Any other label is billed unless cancelled within the carrier's deadline\n3. Set `external_reference_id` on every shipment so a retry returns the existing shipment (409) instead of a second label\n4. Read the `errors` array on synchronous announce responses. A carrier failure can arrive inside a success status\n5. Connect MCP with `?toolsets=shipments,shipping-options,parcel-tracking,returns` to keep the tool list short. Create and cancel tools act on the live account\n6. At MCP sign-in, grant only the permission groups the task needs. A tool outside the granted scopes fails with a permission error\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, atoship or Sendcloud?\n\nSendcloud scores 64.5 (B) on agent readiness against atoship's 43 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Do atoship and Sendcloud need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call atoship and Sendcloud without installing anything?\n\nYes. atoship has a hosted endpoint at https://atoship.com/api/mcp and Sendcloud at https://mcp.sendcloud.com/mcp.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-sendcloud.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/atoship-vs-sendcloud.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"atoship\", \"b\": \"sendcloud\"}`. 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