# EasyPost vs Shippo (slim)

> 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 & community and transparency & trust. Both do shipping rates. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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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 & community and transparency & trust. Both do shipping rates.

- EasyPost: C 54.3, rank #531 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easypost.min.md
- Shippo: C 61.9, rank #355 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippo.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 Maintenance & community, 85 against 77; Transparency & trust, 70 against 61.
- Shippo, good 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. Ahead on Reliability, 59 against 53; Schema & documentation, 83 against 55; Security & auth, 52 against 47; Payments & pricing, 40 against 22.

| Category | EasyPost | Shippo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 53 | 59 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 55 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 64 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 52 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 22 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 70 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | EasyPost | Shippo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Simpler Postage, Inc. (d/b/a EasyPost) | Shippo |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.easypost.com/v2` | `https://api.goshippo.com` |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Price for shipping rates | not published | $0.01 per call |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | none | 4 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.shippo/shippo-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-09-28 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-25 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-25 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 149 stars, 100k npm/wk, 42k PyPI/wk | 3 stars, 73k npm/wk, 20k PyPI/wk |