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      "slug": "easypost",
      "name": "EasyPost",
      "vendor": "Simpler Postage, Inc. (d/b/a EasyPost)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.easypost.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "shipping",
      "summary": "EasyPost is a multi-carrier shipping API from Simpler Postage, Inc. Its REST API quotes carrier rates, buys labels, verifies addresses, tracks parcels and files refunds and insurance claims, with a hosted read-only MCP server in early release.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easypost",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easypost.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easypost.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/easypost.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/EasyPost/easypost-node",
      "license": "Proprietary service under the EasyPost Master Customer Agreement. The official client libraries on GitHub are MIT, with the Go library under ISC",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.easypost.com/v2",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@easypost/api"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "easypost"
        },
        {
          "registry": "go",
          "name": "github.com/EasyPost/easypost-go/v5"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "A self-serve API key, sent as the HTTP Basic username with an empty password. The docs say a wallet and a ship-from address must be set up before keys can be seen or generated. Test and production keys exist, both with full account access, and they can be created, disabled, enabled and deleted through /api_keys or the dashboard. The hosted MCP server takes a production key as a Bearer token. No OAuth, partner review or sales approval is needed for the core API.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free for up to 3,000 labels on wallet carriers, with postage charged separately and a per-label fee after that which the pricing page doesn't state. Bringing your own carrier accounts costs $20 a month plus a per-label fee. Tracking is listed at $0.01 to $0.03 a shipment and insurance at 1 per cent of value, minimum $1.00. Test keys cost nothing, so an agent can build without a contract. Forge, GlobalShip and Luma are priced by sales (checked 2026-10-07).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.02 / call",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the pricing page or the legal centre (checked 2026-10-07).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 149,
        "npmWeekly": 99736,
        "pypiWeekly": 41831,
        "asOf": "2026-10-07"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.easypost.com",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.easypost.com/llms.txt",
      "capabilities": [
        "shipping.rates",
        "shipping.labels",
        "shipping.tracking",
        "shipping.address-validation",
        "shipping.returns"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "closed-source",
        "api-key",
        "llms-txt",
        "mcp",
        "webhooks",
        "sandbox",
        "free-tier",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "go",
        "java",
        "php",
        "ruby",
        "dotnet",
        "status-page",
        "soc2"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-28",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 54.3,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 468,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 629,
        "categoryRank": 5,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 63,
          "maintenance": 85,
          "payments": 22,
          "reliability": 53,
          "schema": 55,
          "security": 47,
          "transparency": 70
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-07"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Docs written for agents (llms.txt, a Markdown copy of each page, a JSON page index), seven official SDKs and free test keys make the REST API easy to start on. No OpenAPI spec or idempotency keys were found, every key has full account access, and the status page shows a connectivity outage on 23 July 2026 that affected all operations.",
        "bestFor": "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.",
        "strengths": [
          "llms.txt, a Markdown copy of almost every docs page and a JSON page index with a note on when to read each page",
          "Test API keys run the rate, buy, track and webhook flow at no cost, with no postage bought and no carrier contacted",
          "Seven official SDKs (C#, Go, Java, Node, PHP, Python, Ruby), with Go 5.10.1 on 29 September 2026 and PHP 8.8.3 on 8 September",
          "Dated release notes almost every week, 10 entries between 12 July and 28 September 2026",
          "The data processing addendum names 12 subprocessors with purpose and country, and the legal centre keeps every past version of each agreement"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No OpenAPI spec was found in the docs or in the EasyPost GitHub organisation. The reference is prose and tables, with a Postman workspace",
          "No idempotency keys were found, and `reference` on a shipment isn't unique, so a retried buy can purchase a second label",
          "API keys allow full account access. Test and production modes and child users are the only separation, with no read-only or scoped key",
          "An outage on 23 July 2026 at the hosting provider affected all operations for about four and a half hours. Two carrier-side incidents were marked major in the same 90 days",
          "The Master Customer Agreement supplies the service as is, with no uptime commitment, and the per-label fee after 3,000 free labels isn't on the pricing page"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Use a test API key while building. It buys no postage and contacts no carrier, and test tracking codes simulate each tracking status",
          "Don't blind-retry `POST /shipments/:id/buy` after a timeout. Retrieve the shipment first and check for `postage_label`, since no idempotency key exists",
          "Send the API key as the HTTP Basic username with an empty password on the REST API, and as a Bearer token on the MCP server",
          "Handle `errors` as either an array of objects or an array of strings. The docs say both shapes occur",
          "Pass a scoped `carrier_accounts` list when rating. Only the first 60 accounts are rated and the call doesn't fail when more are enabled"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 54.3
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 63,
          "maintenance": 85,
          "payments": 22,
          "reliability": 53,
          "schema": 55,
          "security": 47,
          "transparency": 53
        },
        "provenanceScore": 87
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npm install @easypost/api",
        "http": "curl -u \"$EASYPOST_API_KEY\": https://api.easypost.com/v2/shipments",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --scope project --transport http easypost \\\n  https://app-api.easypost.com/mcp \\\n  --header 'Authorization: Bearer ${EASYPOST_API_KEY}'",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "easypost": {
              "headers": {
                "Authorization": "Bearer ${EASYPOST_API_KEY}"
              },
              "type": "http",
              "url": "https://app-api.easypost.com/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/shipping.rates",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/easypost"
      },
      "area": "business",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Extra tracker call",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.02,
          "note": "one included with each label bought"
        },
        {
          "item": "Extra US address verification",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.02,
          "note": "one included with each label bought; $0.06 outside the US"
        },
        {
          "item": "Extra rating call",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.02,
          "note": "three included with each label bought"
        },
        {
          "item": "SmartRate call",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.03
        },
        {
          "item": "Bring your own carrier accounts",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 20,
          "note": "plus a per-label fee not stated on the pricing page"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Simpler Postage, Inc. (d/b/a EasyPost)",
        "domain": "easypost.com",
        "domainRegistered": "1998-01-18",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://legal.easypost.com/#mca",
        "privacy": "https://legal.easypost.com/#privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://www.easypoststatus.com",
        "changelog": "https://docs.easypost.com/releases",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-07",
        "notes": [
          "The Master Customer Agreement (version 6.1, effective 25 August 2026) names Simpler Postage, Inc. (d/b/a EasyPost), 2600 N. Ashton Blvd., Suite 300A, Lehi, UT 84043.",
          "www.easypost.com/.well-known/security.txt and api.easypost.com/.well-known/security.txt return 404. The legal centre carries a Responsible Disclosure Policy with the contact security-abuse@easypost.com.",
          "The privacy policy and the Data Protection Addendum are both version 1.0, effective 18 August 2025. The addendum's Annex D lists 12 subprocessors, all in the USA.",
          "The MCP server is on app-api.easypost.com and the REST API on api.easypost.com. The status page is on a separate domain, easypoststatus.com.",
          "trust.easypost.com answered 403 to our reader, so certifications are taken only from the addendum, which refers to a SOC 2 Type 2 report."
        ],
        "score": 87
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easypost.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "easypost",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.easypost.com/v2",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:29.276874515Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 616,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
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          "samples30d": 33,
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              "ok": 33
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://www.easypoststatus.com",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:21:57.327218266Z"
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "EasyPost/easypost-node",
            "version": "v8.9.0",
            "released": "2026-06-25",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:09:51.321427764Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@easypost/api",
            "version": "8.9.0",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:09:46.909448157Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "pypi",
            "name": "easypost",
            "version": "10.7.0",
            "released": "2026-06-25",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:09:51.109480743Z"
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        ],
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        "npmWeekly": 99736,
        "pypiWeekly": 43392,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://easypost.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:46.376321685Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://docs.easypost.com/releases",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:43.380604863Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "bdf82a55e910"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://legal.easypost.com/",
            "kind": "terms",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:21:24.366175945Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "c3f1c1d70fd7"
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        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T18:21:57.327218266Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "Shippo scores 61.9 (C) on agent readiness against EasyPost's 54.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. EasyPost leads on maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "shippo",
      "name": "Shippo",
      "vendor": "Shippo",
      "vendorUrl": "https://goshippo.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "shipping",
      "summary": "Multi-carrier shipping API from Shippo. It quotes rates, buys labels, validates addresses, tracks parcels and creates return labels across the carriers it connects, through a REST API, official SDKs and a hosted MCP server.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippo",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippo.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippo.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shippo.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/goshippo/ai",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Shippo's terms of use. The SDKs and the goshippo/ai repository (skills and MCP bridge) are MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.goshippo.com",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "shippo"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "shippo"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@shippo/shippo-mcp"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Self-serve API key. A person signs up at apps.goshippo.com/join and creates live (shippo_live_) and test (shippo_test_) keys in the API portal, with no review. Calls send `Authorization: ShippoToken \u003ckey\u003e`. Keys are shown once, can be deleted and replaced, and have no scopes. The hosted MCP server at mcp.shippo.com uses per-user OAuth against the live account, with one scope (\"*\"). OAuth credentials for a platform acting for other Shippo accounts come from the sales team. Client-side apps can use a 12-hour JWT from POST /embedded/authz.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "API Starter has no monthly fee. The first 30 labels a month are free, then 7 cents a label, on top of postage. Calls not tied to a Shippo label are charged per unit (see the price table). API Premier is custom, with volume discounts, through sales. Test mode is free with a test key, so an agent can start without a contract, and billing details are needed for live labels (https://goshippo.com/pricing/api).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.07 / tx",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the OpenAPI spec or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-07).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 4,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 3,
        "npmWeekly": 73114,
        "pypiWeekly": 20036,
        "asOf": "2026-10-07"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.goshippo.com",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.goshippo.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://docs.goshippo.com/spec/shippoapi/public-api.yaml",
      "registryName": "com.shippo/shippo-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",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "java",
        "webhooks",
        "sandbox",
        "status-page",
        "soc2"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-01",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 61.9,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 317,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 629,
        "categoryRank": 3,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 64,
          "maintenance": 77,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 59,
          "schema": 83,
          "security": 52,
          "transparency": 61
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-07"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Per-label and per-call prices are public, test keys are self-serve, and the OpenAPI spec, llms.txt and Markdown docs are open to a fetch. Label purchase has no idempotency key, API keys carry no scopes, and the status page logged carrier-side incidents on most days between July and October 2026.",
        "bestFor": "An agent that quotes and buys parcel labels across USPS, UPS, FedEx and DHL Express for a small or mid-size shipper, with a free test mode and public unit prices.",
        "strengths": [
          "Public prices per unit, 7 cents a label after 30 free a month, 1 cent a rate request and 2 cents a tracking request",
          "Test keys (shippo_test_) create free test labels and mock tracking, with data kept apart from live",
          "OpenAPI 3.1 spec with 71 operations, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of each docs page",
          "Hosted MCP server at mcp.shippo.com with four tools, reads and writes split so a client can require approval for writes",
          "Rate limits published per endpoint, with separate live and test figures",
          "SOC 2 Type II and PCI DSS listed on the trust centre, with an annual third-party penetration test"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No idempotency key on label purchase or other writes. Only the Reporting API accepts one",
          "API keys have no scopes or read-only mode, and the OAuth flow has one scope, \"*\"",
          "The hosted MCP server runs on the live account only, with no test mode",
          "Carrier-side incidents on the status page on most days from July to October 2026, many marked major or critical",
          "Terms of use and privacy notice load only with JavaScript, and no SLA or subprocessor list was found",
          "The Python SDK on PyPI is 3.9.0 from 26 November 2024"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Build and test with a shippo_test_ key. Test and live object IDs are separate, and the hosted MCP server has no test mode",
          "Send `Authorization: ShippoToken \u003ckey\u003e`, not Bearer, and pin `Shippo-API-Version: 2018-02-08`",
          "Before retrying a failed POST /transactions, list recent transactions. There is no idempotency key, and a second purchase is a second charge",
          "Pass `async: false` on shipments and transactions, or poll the object until its status leaves QUEUED",
          "Set `results` on list calls (under 200). Defaults vary by resource, and list calls are limited to 50 a minute on live keys"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 61.9
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        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 64,
          "maintenance": 77,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 59,
          "schema": 83,
          "security": 52,
          "transparency": 38
        },
        "provenanceScore": 84
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npm install shippo",
        "http": "curl https://api.goshippo.com/shipments/ \\\n  -H \"Authorization: ShippoToken \u003cAPI_TOKEN\u003e\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{...}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http shippo https://mcp.shippo.com",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "shippo": {
              "url": "https://mcp.shippo.com"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/shipping.rates",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/shippo"
      },
      "area": "business",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Label, API Starter, after 30 free a month, plus postage",
          "unit": "tx",
          "usd": 0.07
        },
        {
          "item": "Rate request not tied to a Shippo label",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.01
        },
        {
          "item": "Tracking request not tied to a Shippo label",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.02
        },
        {
          "item": "Delivery date estimate",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.03
        },
        {
          "item": "US address validation",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.02
        },
        {
          "item": "Non-US address validation",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.08
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Shippo",
        "domain": "goshippo.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2013-09-21",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://privacy.goshippo.com/policies?name=terms-of-use",
        "privacy": "https://privacy.goshippo.com/policies?name=privacy-notice",
        "statusPage": "https://status.goshippo.com",
        "changelog": "https://docs.goshippo.com/api-concepts/api-change-log",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-07",
        "notes": [
          "The registered legal entity wasn't confirmed. goshippo.com/terms and /privacy redirect to a privacy centre that returns no policy text without JavaScript. The SDK licences name \"Shippo\" as copyright holder.",
          "RDAP for goshippo.com gives a registration date of 2013-09-21.",
          "The API answers at api.goshippo.com and the MCP server at mcp.shippo.com, whose OAuth metadata names https://goshippo.com as the authorisation server.",
          "goshippo.com/.well-known/security.txt and goshippo.com/security both return 404. The trust centre gives security@shippo.com and the AI repository's SECURITY.md gives security@goshippo.com.",
          "The trust centre at trust.goshippo.com lists a SOC 2 Type II report (November 2024 to November 2025), a 2026 bridge letter and a PCI SAQ-A attestation, each on request."
        ],
        "score": 84
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippo.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "shippo",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.goshippo.com",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:39.999435351Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 401,
          "lastMs": 391,
          "lastNote": "asks for credentials",
          "authRequired": true,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 149,
          "p95ms24h": 392,
          "samples24h": 33,
          "samples30d": 33,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-10-08",
              "probes": 33,
              "ok": 33
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.goshippo.com",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:22:19.2097254Z"
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "goshippo/ai",
            "version": "v1.5.4",
            "released": "2026-07-23",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:29:07.821314571Z"
          },
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shippo.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### EasyPost (C)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 77\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 70 against 61\n\nWatch for: No OpenAPI spec was found in the docs or in the EasyPost GitHub organisation. The reference is prose and tables, with a Postman workspace\n\n### Shippo (C)\n\nGood for: An agent that quotes and buys parcel labels across USPS, UPS, FedEx and DHL Express for a small or mid-size shipper, with a free test mode and public unit prices.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 59 against 53\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 83 against 55\n- Security \u0026 auth, 52 against 47\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 22\n\nWatch for: No idempotency key on label purchase or other writes. Only the Reporting API accepts one\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | EasyPost | Shippo | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 53 | 59 | Shippo +6 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 83 | Shippo +28 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 64 | Shippo +1 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 47 | 52 | Shippo +5 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 22 | 40 | Shippo +18 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 77 | EasyPost +8 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 61 | EasyPost +9 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **54.3 · C** | **61.9 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | EasyPost | Shippo |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Simpler Postage, Inc. (d/b/a EasyPost) | Shippo |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.easypost.com/v2` | `https://api.goshippo.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| Price for shipping rates | not published | $0.01 per call |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under the EasyPost Master Customer Agreement. The official client libraries on GitHub are MIT, with the Go library under ISC | Proprietary service under Shippo's terms of use. The SDKs and the goshippo/ai repository (skills and MCP bridge) are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | none | 4 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | `com.shippo/shippo-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-25 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-25 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 149 stars, 100k npm/wk, 42k PyPI/wk | 3 stars, 73k npm/wk, 20k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**EasyPost.** Docs written for agents (llms.txt, a Markdown copy of each page, a JSON page index), seven official SDKs and free test keys make the REST API easy to start on. No OpenAPI spec or idempotency keys were found, every key has full account access, and the status page shows a connectivity outage on 23 July 2026 that affected all operations.\n\n**Shippo.** Per-label and per-call prices are public, test keys are self-serve, and the OpenAPI spec, llms.txt and Markdown docs are open to a fetch. Label purchase has no idempotency key, API keys carry no scopes, and the status page logged carrier-side incidents on most days between July and October 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### EasyPost\n\n1. Use a test API key while building. It buys no postage and contacts no carrier, and test tracking codes simulate each tracking status\n2. Don't blind-retry `POST /shipments/:id/buy` after a timeout. Retrieve the shipment first and check for `postage_label`, since no idempotency key exists\n3. Send the API key as the HTTP Basic username with an empty password on the REST API, and as a Bearer token on the MCP server\n4. Handle `errors` as either an array of objects or an array of strings. The docs say both shapes occur\n5. Pass a scoped `carrier_accounts` list when rating. Only the first 60 accounts are rated and the call doesn't fail when more are enabled\n\n### Shippo\n\n1. Build and test with a shippo_test_ key. Test and live object IDs are separate, and the hosted MCP server has no test mode\n2. Send `Authorization: ShippoToken \u003ckey\u003e`, not Bearer, and pin `Shippo-API-Version: 2018-02-08`\n3. Before retrying a failed POST /transactions, list recent transactions. There is no idempotency key, and a second purchase is a second charge\n4. Pass `async: false` on shipments and transactions, or poll the object until its status leaves QUEUED\n5. Set `results` on list calls (under 200). Defaults vary by resource, and list calls are limited to 50 a minute on live keys\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, EasyPost or Shippo?\n\nShippo scores 61.9 (C) on agent readiness against EasyPost's 54.3 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. EasyPost leads on maintenance \u0026 community and transparency \u0026 trust.\n\n### Do EasyPost and Shippo need an API key?\n\nEasyPost needs an API key. Shippo takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call EasyPost and Shippo without installing anything?\n\nYes. EasyPost has a hosted endpoint at https://api.easypost.com/v2 and Shippo at https://api.goshippo.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easypost-vs-shippo.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easypost-vs-shippo.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"easypost\", \"b\": \"shippo\"}`. 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