# EasyPost vs ShippyPro

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

- Canonical: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easypost-vs-shippypro
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- Slim: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easypost-vs-shippypro.min.md (~730 tokens, same facts, less prose, for token-sensitive contexts)
- JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easypost-vs-shippypro.json (this page as data, same URL with Accept: application/json)
- Site index for agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt (full text: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms-full.txt)
- API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json
- Updated: 2026-10-09

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 & documentation. Both do shipping rates.

- EasyPost: grade C, 54.3/100, rank #614 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easypost.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/easypost.json
- ShippyPro: grade D, 48.7/100, rank #718 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippypro.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shippypro.json

## Which one, for what

### EasyPost (C)

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 46
- Payments & pricing, 22 against 5
- Maintenance & community, 85 against 25
- Transparency & trust, 70 against 58

Watch 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

### ShippyPro (D)

Good for: 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.

Ahead on:
- Reliability, 70 against 53
- Schema & documentation, 64 against 55

Watch for: The help centre says APIs can only be activated with an Enterprise plan, which has no public price and starts with sales


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | EasyPost | ShippyPro | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 53 | 70 | ShippyPro +17 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 55 | 64 | ShippyPro +9 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 46 | EasyPost +17 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 47 | 51 | ShippyPro +4 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 22 | 5 | EasyPost +17 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 25 | EasyPost +60 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 70 | 58 | EasyPost +12 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **54.3 · C** | **48.7 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | EasyPost | ShippyPro |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Simpler Postage, Inc. (d/b/a EasyPost) | Italian Valley S.r.l. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.easypost.com/v2` | `https://api.shippypro.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| x402 | no | no |
| 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 & Conditions. Both OpenAPI files state the licence as Proprietary |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-28 | none |
| Terms last updated | 2026-08-25 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-25 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 149 stars, 100k npm/wk, 42k PyPI/wk | none |

## Verdicts

**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.

**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.

## Before you call either

### EasyPost

1. Use a test API key while building. It buys no postage and contacts no carrier, and test tracking codes simulate each tracking status
2. 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
3. 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
4. Handle `errors` as either an array of objects or an array of strings. The docs say both shapes occur
5. 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

### ShippyPro

1. Send `Authorization: Bearer <API key>` and POST a JSON body with `Method` and `Params` to `https://api.shippypro.com/v1/<Method>`. Parameter names are case-sensitive
2. Check `Status` and `ErrorMessage` in every `Ship` response. HTTP 200 with `Status` 2 means no label was created
3. Before retrying a failed `Ship` call, look the order up by `TransactionID`. v1 has no idempotency key, and each label counts against the plan
4. Test with the Generic carrier. `Ship` and `Edit` calls on a real carrier create real labels
5. Stay under 20 calls per 10 seconds, and use webhooks for tracking. The docs advise against `GetTracking` in bulk

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, EasyPost or ShippyPro?

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 & documentation.

### Do EasyPost and ShippyPro need an API key?

Both need an API key.

### Can an agent call EasyPost and ShippyPro without installing anything?

Yes. EasyPost has a hosted endpoint at https://api.easypost.com/v2 and ShippyPro at https://api.shippypro.com.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easypost-vs-shippypro.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easypost-vs-shippypro.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "easypost", "b": "shippypro"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare easypost shippypro`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/easypost.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shippypro.json

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