# Easyship vs Envia (slim)

> Easyship scores 70.6 (BB) to Envia's 36.5 (F) for shipping rates. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Easyship scores 70.6 (BB) on agent readiness against Envia's 36.5 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do shipping rates.

- Easyship: BB 70.6, rank #191 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easyship.min.md
- Envia: F 36.5, rank #1384 of 1510 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/envia.min.md
- Easyship, good for An agent that ships parcels for a small or mid-sized merchant, mostly cross-border, and wants rates, labels, duties and pickups from one account without carrier contracts. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 20; Schema & documentation, 87 against 80; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 53; Security & auth, 61 against 35; Payments & pricing, 40 against 20; Maintenance & community, 76 against 10; Transparency & trust, 72 against 16. Also Agent-ready, a grade of BB or better; A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.
- Envia, good for Shops and platforms shipping in Mexico and Latin America that want rates and labels from many local carriers.

| Category | Easyship | Envia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 20 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 80 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 53 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 61 | 35 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 10 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 72 | 16 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Easyship | Envia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Easyship Inc. | Envia Shipping |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://public-api.easyship.com` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | stdio |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |
| Price for shipping rates | $0.01 per call | not published |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Easyship's terms of service. The easyship-mcp server on PyPI and the plugin repository are MIT | none |
| Tools exposed | 25 | 10 |
| MCP registry | `com.easyship/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-28 | 2026-03-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-28 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-28 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not read yet |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not read yet |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not read yet |
| Popularity | 0 stars, 79 PyPI/wk | none |
| Agent reviews | 3.5/5 (4) | none |

Why the edge:
- Maintenance & community, Easyship +66: Easyship 76 (easyship-mcp 0.6.7 was published on 28 October 2026, 4 days before the check, after 0.6.6 on 19 October, both on PyPI and in the MCP registry. Neither has release notes and their source packages couldn't be read on 1 November, so what they change is unchecked, but nothing shows them to be dependency or version bumps only, so they count as releases (30, was 20). The API changelog's last entry is still 30 October 2025. Five releases in the 90 days on three dates, 0.6.3 to 0.6.5 on 21 August, 0.6.6 and 0.6.7 (20, was 10). Closed service with a support desk and a bug report form. The plugin repository has seven commits, the last on 23 June 2026, and the API changelog has been silent for 12 months (6). Listed in the official MCP registry as com.easyship/mcp, a domain-verified namespace, with 0.6.7 as latest (15). The package pins fastmcp below 4 with a uv.lock and has version-check and deploy workflows. No tests ship in the 0.6.5 source package (5). 30 + 20 + 6 + 15 + 5 = 76.); Envia 10 (The latest dated change found is the docs changelog for March 2026 and @envia/envia-mcp 0.1.0 on 4 March 2026, more than 180 days ago; doc pages show later `updatedAt` stamps (28 October for the FAQ) that record no change (0). No dated entries in the 90 days from 8 August (0). Support through the dashboard and docs, with no public tracker; the MCP repository named on npm could not be cloned (5 of 15). The MCP package is official, with no API SDK and no registry entry (5 of 15). No public CI to read (0). 0 + 0 + 5 + 5 + 0 = 10.)
- Reliability, Easyship +60: Easyship 80 (Graded on the public API v2024-09, which the hosted MCP server calls. Statuspage at status.easyship.com with nine Easyship components, among them Core API, Open API and Rates API (20). Re-read on 1 November from the history feed (history.atom), because status.easyship.com's robots.txt disallows /api/, where the 7 October reading was taken; that reading is struck. The feed lists no incident in the 90 days from 3 August, only scheduled database maintenance on 2 and 30 August (the second announced on 24 August). The latest incidents are a Cloudflare-related partial outage of 11 minutes on 5 December 2025 and a Cloudflare incident on 18 November 2025 (30). Limits are published as 60 requests a minute and 10 a second, 6 a minute and 1 a second in sandbox, re-read on 1 November (15). The 429 `too_many_requests` code is documented with the advice to wait for the next window. No Retry-After header, backoff guidance or idempotency key was found in the docs or the spec (5). The developers page claims both 99.9% and 99.99% uptime, the US terms disclaim uninterrupted access, and no SLA was found (0). Version 2024-09 is described as the latest stable version. The MCP package is classified beta on PyPI (10). 20 + 30 + 15 + 5 + 0 + 10 = 80.); Envia 20 (Graded as a hosted service on Envia's REST APIs, with the local MCP server noted. No status page is linked and status.envia.com did not connect (0). No readable incident history (5). No rate limits found in the docs index, FAQs, integration guide or production checklist (0). The production checklist asks for 5xx retry logic and webhook deduplication, with no 429 or idempotency guidance for label creation (5 of 15). No SLA found (0). Neither the APIs nor the MCP server is labelled beta (10). 0 + 5 + 0 + 5 + 0 + 10 = 20.)
- Transparency & trust, Easyship +56: Easyship 72 (Closed service under country-specific terms, the US version updated 28 July 2026 and naming Easyship Inc. The MCP server and plugin are MIT (17). The privacy policy of 28 July 2026 gives retention periods (account and shipment data for their lifetime plus seven years) and bars providers from training general-purpose AI on personal information. The DPA of 28 March 2025 says personal data is deleted on deactivation unless law requires otherwise, which sits uneasily with seven years (18). Deprecated endpoints are marked and migration guides exist, and the US terms promise 30 days' notice of material changes. No API deprecation policy with dates was found (8). The sub-processor list the DPA points to is dated 15 October 2020, names only analytics, advertising and CRM tools and cites Privacy Shield. The privacy policy names the United States and Singapore as processing locations (8).); Envia 16 (Every terms URL tried answered 500 and the privacy policy is drawn by script, so no terms, entity or data-handling statement was read (0 of 30, 0 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices (0). No subprocessors or data locations found (0). 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0, as unread rather than absent where the pages exist.)
- Security & auth, Easyship +26: Easyship 61 (API tokens are created in the dashboard with per-resource scopes such as `public.shipment:read` and `public.label:write` on v2024-09, are revocable, and are separate for sandbox and production. The MCP server also publishes OAuth metadata with PKCE S256 and dynamic client registration. No token expiry was found (26). Read-only scopes make a read-only agent possible. Confirmation before delete and cancel exists only as a rule file in the plugin repository, not in the server (14). The MCP server strips tax identifiers from every response and withholds contact details and document links by default. No guidance on untrusted text in tracking or address fields was found (7). Transaction records and a request_id on errors are available. No API call log for the operator was found (4). security.txt is present but still expired on 5 October 2025, re-read on 1 November. It points to a disclosure policy at vdp.easyship.com, which needs JavaScript and went unread. The developers page claims SOC certification with no report or trust page found (10).); Envia 35 (Bearer tokens bound to one environment, several per account, revocable by deleting them, with no scopes (20). No read-only token; the MCP server's sandbox default keeps test calls from spending money (5 of 20). Responses carry carrier and address data rather than free text from strangers (10). No audit log found (0). No security page, certification, security.txt or disclosure policy found (0). 20 + 5 + 10 + 0 + 0 = 35.)
- Agent ergonomics, Easyship +20: Easyship 73 (The MCP server loads 25 tools with no toolsets. List tools return allow-listed summaries, and documents and contact details come back only when asked for (18). List endpoints take page and per_page (default 20) and filters by state, date, country and order number (20). Errors carry a code, type, details array, documentation links and a request_id (18). No idempotency keys, so a retried label purchase isn't protected. All 25 MCP tools set readOnlyHint, destructiveHint and openWorldHint (10). create_shipment picks a courier when none is given and get_rates needs six fields. No official SDK was found among the 15 public repositories in Easyship's GitHub organisation, though the developers page mentions SDKs (7).); Envia 53 (Ten compact MCP tools (25). Rates take one carrier per request, and the Queries API filters carriers by country and shipment type; no paging or field selection was found (10 of 20). The FAQ maps common errors to fixes, but the changelog says the three APIs return different error formats that need a normalisation helper (10 of 20). No idempotency key for labels; an unscanned label can be cancelled for an automatic refund, and the MCP tools carry no annotations (3 of 20). The MCP server defaults to sandbox, with no official API SDK (5 of 15). 25 + 10 + 10 + 3 + 5 = 53.)
- Payments & pricing, Easyship +20: Easyship 40 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices and per-call prices for the metered endpoints are public in the data file the plans page loads, for example US$0.01 a rates call on Free and US$29 a month for Plus. Label prices depend on the courier and come back from the rates call (20). The Free plan needs no card and covers 50 shipments a month in the US, and paid plans have a 14-day trial (20). A person signs up in a browser and creates the token in the dashboard, or approves OAuth (0).); Envia 20 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). No public price list: each cost is shown when quoting, and volume plans go through sales (0). A free sandbox account creates test labels with no charges (20). A person signs up in a browser and tops up a balance for live labels (0). 0 + 0 + 20 + 0 = 20.)