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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": []
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      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 149,
        "npmWeekly": 99736,
        "pypiWeekly": 41831,
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      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.easypost.com",
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      "capabilities": [
        "shipping.rates",
        "shipping.labels",
        "shipping.tracking",
        "shipping.address-validation",
        "shipping.returns"
      ],
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        "hosted",
        "closed-source",
        "api-key",
        "llms-txt",
        "mcp",
        "webhooks",
        "sandbox",
        "free-tier",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "go",
        "java",
        "php",
        "ruby",
        "dotnet",
        "status-page",
        "soc2"
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      "graded": true,
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        "score": 54.3,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 614,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 842,
        "categoryRank": 7,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "maintenance": 85,
          "payments": 22,
          "reliability": 53,
          "schema": 55,
          "security": 47,
          "transparency": 70
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        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-07"
        },
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        "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
        },
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        "avgRating": 0,
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            "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
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        ],
        "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"
        }
      ],
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        "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",
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://www.easypoststatus.com",
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          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
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            "registry": "github",
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            "registry": "pypi",
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          "url": "https://easypost.com/.well-known/security.txt",
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            "url": "https://docs.easypost.com/releases",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:18:43.380604863Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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            "url": "https://legal.easypost.com/",
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    "answer": "EasyPost scores 54.3 (C) on agent readiness against ShippyPro's 48.7 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ShippyPro leads on reliability and schema \u0026 documentation.",
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      "slug": "shippypro",
      "name": "ShippyPro",
      "vendor": "Italian Valley S.r.l.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.shippypro.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "shipping",
      "summary": "Multi-carrier shipping platform from ShippyPro (Italian Valley S.r.l., Florence). Its REST API quotes rates on a customer's own carrier contracts, creates labels and returns, validates addresses, books pickups and tracks parcels. API access is sold with the Enterprise plan.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippypro",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippypro.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippypro.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shippypro.json",
      "license": "Proprietary service under ShippyPro's Terms \u0026 Conditions. Both OpenAPI files state the licence as Proprietary",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.shippypro.com",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Sales approval, then a key. The help centre says APIs can only be activated with an Enterprise plan and tells users to contact sales. Keys are created in the account panel under API, more than one per account, as Full Access, Maps (pickup-point map only) or PII Excluded (personal data hidden). Calls send `Authorization: Bearer \u003cAPI key\u003e`, per both OpenAPI files. The help centre article still describes the key as a Basic auth username with a blank password. No expiry or rotation was found in the reviewed documentation.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "Enterprise plan, custom price through sales, billed annually. It is the only plan the pricing page lists with full access to the Multicarrier APIs. The self-serve plans (49 to 259 EUR a month at regular monthly prices, up to 4,000 shipments) are marked UI only. A 14-day, 30-order trial needs no card per the terms, and whether a trial account can call the API was not established. No sandbox. The Generic carrier creates test labels and rates. A higher rate limit costs extra (https://www.shippypro.com/en/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "Paid",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI files, the API page or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-09).",
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        "pypiWeekly": null,
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      "openapi": "https://api.shippypro.com/docs/v1.json",
      "capabilities": [
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        "shipping.labels",
        "shipping.tracking",
        "shipping.address-validation",
        "shipping.returns"
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        "hosted",
        "paid",
        "sales-led",
        "enterprise",
        "api-key",
        "openapi",
        "webhooks",
        "soap",
        "status-page",
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        "europe"
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      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 48.7,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 718,
        "ranked": true,
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        "categoryRank": 9,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "payments": 5,
          "reliability": 70,
          "schema": 64,
          "security": 51,
          "transparency": 58
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        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-09"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Two OpenAPI 3.1 files, a published limit of 20 calls per 10 seconds and a 99.5 per cent monthly SLA with service credits are public. API access needs an Enterprise plan arranged through sales, no changelog or SDK was found, and label creation on v1 has no idempotency key.",
        "bestFor": "A European shipper or logistics platform with its own carrier contracts that already holds a ShippyPro Enterprise plan and wants rates, labels, pickups and tracking across many regional carriers through one API.",
        "strengths": [
          "OpenAPI 3.1 files for v1 (55 operations) and v2 (17 operations) are public at api.shippypro.com/docs, with 812 examples in the v1 file",
          "Published SLA of 99.5 per cent monthly availability with service credits of 0.5 to 5 per cent",
          "API keys come in three types, Full Access, Maps and PII Excluded, and an account can hold several",
          "The account panel keeps API request and response logs, an API error history and webhook logs",
          "The Generic carrier creates test labels and rates without a real carrier or tracking number",
          "The privacy policy lists sub-processors per product area and says customer data is never sold"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "The help centre says APIs can only be activated with an Enterprise plan, which has no public price and starts with sales",
          "No API changelog, release notes or deprecation policy was found, and the terms allow changes without notice",
          "`POST /v1/Ship` takes no idempotency key. Only the 17 v2 operations accept `Idempotency-Key`",
          "Carrier label incidents marked critical appear on the status page on most days from August to October 2026",
          "No official SDK, MCP server or llms.txt was found on the pages read",
          "v1 answers some failures with HTTP 200 and `Status` 2, and `LabelURL` can be a string or an array"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003cAPI key\u003e` and POST a JSON body with `Method` and `Params` to `https://api.shippypro.com/v1/\u003cMethod\u003e`. Parameter names are case-sensitive",
          "Check `Status` and `ErrorMessage` in every `Ship` response. HTTP 200 with `Status` 2 means no label was created",
          "Before retrying a failed `Ship` call, look the order up by `TransactionID`. v1 has no idempotency key, and each label counts against the plan",
          "Test with the Generic carrier. `Ship` and `Edit` calls on a real carrier create real labels",
          "Stay under 20 calls per 10 seconds, and use webhooks for tracking. The docs advise against `GetTracking` in bulk"
        ],
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          "measured": false
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            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
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              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 48.7
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          "maintenance": 25,
          "payments": 5,
          "reliability": 70,
          "schema": 64,
          "security": 51,
          "transparency": 48
        },
        "provenanceScore": 68
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -X POST https://api.shippypro.com/v1/Ping \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer \u003cAPI_KEY\u003e\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"Method\": \"Ping\", \"Params\": {}}'"
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      "letme": {
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        "tool": "https://letme.dev/shippypro"
      },
      "area": "business",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Italian Valley S.r.l.",
        "domain": "shippypro.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2016-10-24",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.shippypro.com/en/legal/terms",
        "privacy": "https://www.shippypro.com/en/legal/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.shippypro.com",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "unknown",
        "checked": "2026-10-09",
        "notes": [
          "The Terms \u0026 Conditions name Italian Valley Srl, registered number 06587610483, Piazza Francesca Morvillo 15, 50144 Firenze, Italy, as owner of the ShippyPro software. They cover every ShippyPro product and service, the API included, and carry no date or version.",
          "The privacy policy names ShippyPro by Italian Valley S.r.l. as data controller and covers shipment sender and recipient data handled by the product, not only the website.",
          "RDAP for shippypro.com gives a registration date of 2016-10-24.",
          "The API answers at api.shippypro.com and the reference is served from the same host.",
          "www.shippypro.com/robots.txt disallows every path outside the language folders, the blog and a short list, so /.well-known/security.txt and /llms.txt were not requested.",
          "No API changelog or release notes page was found on the API page, the reference or the help centre's API section.",
          "The SLA at https://www.shippypro.com/en/legal/sla is stated to be part of the agreement with the customer."
        ],
        "score": 68
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippypro.json",
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        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.shippypro.com",
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          "lastAt": "2026-10-09T09:27:04.562167291Z",
          "lastOk": true,
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        "name": "Kind"
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        "a": "HTTP",
        "b": "HTTP",
        "name": "Transports"
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        "a": "API key",
        "b": "API key",
        "name": "Auth"
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        "a": "Freemium",
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        "name": "Pricing"
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        "a": "no",
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        "b": "Proprietary service under ShippyPro's Terms \u0026 Conditions. Both OpenAPI files state the licence as Proprietary",
        "name": "Licence"
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        "a": "no",
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        "a": "2026-09-28",
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        "a": "2026-08-25",
        "b": "no date given",
        "name": "Terms last updated"
      },
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        "a": "2026-08-25",
        "b": "no date given",
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(d/b/a EasyPost) | Italian Valley S.r.l. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.easypost.com/v2` | `https://api.shippypro.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\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 ShippyPro's Terms \u0026 Conditions. Both OpenAPI files state the licence as Proprietary |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| Last release | 2026-09-28 | none |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-08-25 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-25 | 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 | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | 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 | 149 stars, 100k npm/wk, 42k PyPI/wk | none |\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**ShippyPro.** Two OpenAPI 3.1 files, a published limit of 20 calls per 10 seconds and a 99.5 per cent monthly SLA with service credits are public. API access needs an Enterprise plan arranged through sales, no changelog or SDK was found, and label creation on v1 has no idempotency key.\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### ShippyPro\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003cAPI key\u003e` and POST a JSON body with `Method` and `Params` to `https://api.shippypro.com/v1/\u003cMethod\u003e`. Parameter names are case-sensitive\n2. Check `Status` and `ErrorMessage` in every `Ship` response. HTTP 200 with `Status` 2 means no label was created\n3. Before retrying a failed `Ship` call, look the order up by `TransactionID`. v1 has no idempotency key, and each label counts against the plan\n4. Test with the Generic carrier. `Ship` and `Edit` calls on a real carrier create real labels\n5. Stay under 20 calls per 10 seconds, and use webhooks for tracking. 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