# EasyPost vs Karrio (slim)

> EasyPost scores 54.3 (C) on agent readiness against Karrio's 48.7 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Karrio leads on reliability, schema & documentation and payments & pricing. Both do shipping rates. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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EasyPost scores 54.3 (C) on agent readiness against Karrio's 48.7 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Karrio leads on reliability, schema & documentation and payments & pricing. Both do shipping rates.

- EasyPost: C 54.3, rank #531 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easypost.min.md
- Karrio: D 48.7, rank #617 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/karrio.min.md
- EasyPost, good for An agent that quotes rates across carriers, buys a label, verifies an address, follows tracking by webhook and requests a refund from one merchant account, mainly on US carriers. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 63 against 57; Maintenance & community, 85 against 29; Transparency & trust, 70 against 56. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Karrio loses 7 points for them.
- Karrio, good for A team that wants to host its own multi-carrier API with its own carrier contracts and can maintain a Django and PostgreSQL stack. Ahead on Reliability, 76 against 53; Schema & documentation, 68 against 55; Payments & pricing, 40 against 22. Also Open source.

| Category | EasyPost | Karrio |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 53 | 76 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 55 | 68 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 57 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 44 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 22 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 29 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 70 | 56 |

| Fact (where they differ) | EasyPost | Karrio |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Simpler Postage, Inc. (d/b/a EasyPost) | Karrio, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.easypost.com/v2` | no (local only) |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the EasyPost Master Customer Agreement. The official client libraries on GitHub are MIT, with the Go library under ISC | LGPL-3.0 for the server, SDK and modules. Code under `ee/` is under the Karrio Enterprise licence and needs a subscription for production use. The MCP package in `packages/mcp` is Apache-2.0 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-06-23 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-25 | 2025-04-08 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-25 | 2025-04-08 |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 149 stars, 100k npm/wk, 42k PyPI/wk | 799 stars, 338 PyPI/wk |