# Easyship vs Ship24

> Easyship scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against Ship24's 55 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Ship24 leads on maintenance & community. Both do shipping tracking. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-08

Easyship scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against Ship24's 55 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Ship24 leads on maintenance & community. Both do shipping tracking.

- Easyship: grade B, 68.8/100, rank #173 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easyship.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/easyship.json
- Ship24: grade C, 55/100, rank #522 of 722. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ship24.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ship24.json

## Which one, for what

### Easyship (B)

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 45
- Schema & documentation, 87 against 81
- Agent ergonomics, 73 against 68
- Security & auth, 61 against 37
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 30
- Transparency & trust, 71 against 52

Also in its favour:
- Runs on your own machine

Watch for: No idempotency keys in the 132-operation spec, and no Retry-After or backoff guidance for 429

### Ship24 (C)

Good for: An agent that only needs tracking events across many couriers, by webhook or by lookup, from a tracking number alone.

Ahead on:
- Maintenance & community, 80 against 56

Watch for: No status page was found. `status.ship24.com` doesn't resolve, and neither the site nor the docs link to one


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Easyship | Ship24 | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 80 | 45 | Easyship +35 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 81 | Easyship +6 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 68 | Easyship +5 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 61 | 37 | Easyship +24 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 30 | Easyship +10 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 80 | Ship24 +24 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 52 | Easyship +19 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **68.8 · B** | **55 · C** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Easyship | Ship24 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Easyship Inc. | Ship24 Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://public-api.easyship.com` | `https://api.ship24.com/public/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Price for shipping tracking | $0.05 per call | $0.045 per transaction |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Easyship's terms of service. The easyship-mcp server on PyPI and the plugin repository are MIT | Proprietary service under Ship24's Terms and Conditions. The Node SDK and the AI plugin on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 25 | 12 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | yes |
| MCP registry | `com.easyship/mcp` | `com.ship24/tracking-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-28 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-28 | 2026-08-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| 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 |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 0 stars, 79 PyPI/wk | 0 stars, 79 npm/wk |

## Verdicts

**Easyship.** Per-resource read and write scopes, separate sandbox tokens, a 132-operation OpenAPI contract and a 25-tool hosted MCP server with read-only and destructive annotations on every tool. No idempotency keys or Retry-After were found, the MCP server has no test mode, and the API changelog's last entry is dated 30 October 2025.

**Ship24.** The REST API and the hosted MCP server share one public OpenAPI 3.1 spec, numbered rate limits with Retry-After, and tracker creation that is idempotent by payload. No status page, SLA or security certification was found, API keys carry no scopes, and the API agreement and data processing agreement named in the terms aren't published.

## Before you call either

### Easyship

1. Use a sand_ token against https://public-api-sandbox.easyship.com for API tests. Production rejects sandbox tokens, and sandbox allows 6 requests a minute
2. The MCP server calls production only. Create the shipment without buy_label first, then call create_label once the user confirms the courier and price
3. Don't retry a timed-out label purchase blindly. There's no idempotency key, so read the shipment's label_state first
4. Give every item a category or an hs_code. The API rejects shipments and rates requests that have neither
5. Stay under 60 requests a minute and 10 a second, and wait for the next window on 429

### Ship24

1. Send `Authorization: Bearer apik_...` to `https://api.ship24.com/public/v1`. The same key works on the MCP server, which lists tools without a key but answers 401 on calls
2. Store the `trackerId` or set a unique `clientTrackerId`. Tracking numbers aren't unique, and any changed field on a repeat `POST /trackers` creates a second tracker that uses quota
3. Allow up to 60 seconds for the first `POST /trackers/track` or `POST /tracking/search` call, since results are fetched from the courier synchronously
4. Cache `GET /couriers`. It is limited to one request a second and returns the whole courier list, and courier auto-detection usually makes `courierCode` unnecessary
5. Check for `quota_limit_reached` and `no_active_subscription`. `POST /tracking/search` needs a separate per-call plan, and the free plan blocks at 10 shipments a month

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Easyship or Ship24?

Easyship scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against Ship24's 55 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Ship24 leads on maintenance & community.

### Do Easyship and Ship24 need an API key?

Easyship takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. Ship24 needs an API key.

### Can an agent call Easyship and Ship24 without installing anything?

Yes. Easyship has a hosted endpoint at https://public-api.easyship.com and Ship24 at https://api.ship24.com/public/v1.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-ship24.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-ship24.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "easyship", "b": "ship24"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare easyship ship24`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/easyship.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ship24.json

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