# Easyship vs Karrio (slim)

> Easyship scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against Karrio's 48.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do shipping rates. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Easyship scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against Karrio's 48.7 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do shipping rates.

- Easyship: B 68.8, rank #173 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easyship.min.md
- Karrio: D 48.7, rank #617 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/karrio.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 Schema & documentation, 87 against 68; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 57; Security & auth, 61 against 44; Maintenance & community, 56 against 29; Transparency & trust, 71 against 56. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where Karrio loses 7 points for them.
- Karrio, good for A team that wants to host its own multi-carrier API with its own carrier contracts and can maintain a Django and PostgreSQL stack. Also Open source.

| Category | Easyship | Karrio |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 76 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 68 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 57 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 61 | 44 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 56 | 29 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 71 | 56 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Easyship | Karrio |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Easyship Inc. | Karrio, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://public-api.easyship.com` | no (local only) |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| 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 | LGPL-3.0 for the server, SDK and modules. Code under `ee/` is under the Karrio Enterprise licence and needs a subscription for production use. The MCP package in `packages/mcp` is Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 25 | none |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `com.easyship/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-06-23 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-28 | 2025-04-08 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-28 | 2025-04-08 |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 0 stars, 79 PyPI/wk | 799 stars, 338 PyPI/wk |