# Easyship vs ShipBob (slim)

> Easyship scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against ShipBob's 60.8 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. ShipBob leads on transparency & trust. 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 ShipBob's 60.8 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. ShipBob leads on transparency & trust. Both do shipping rates.

- Easyship: B 68.8, rank #173 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easyship.min.md
- ShipBob: C 60.8, rank #387 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shipbob.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 Agent ergonomics, 73 against 56; Security & auth, 61 against 55; Payments & pricing, 40 against 20; Maintenance & community, 56 against 41. Also Runs on your own machine.
- ShipBob, good for An agent working for a merchant that already stores stock with ShipBob, to create and track orders, check inventory, book inbound stock and handle returns. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 77 against 71.

| Category | Easyship | ShipBob |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 77 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 85 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 56 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 61 | 55 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 56 | 41 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 71 | 77 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Easyship | ShipBob |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Easyship Inc. | ShipBob, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://public-api.easyship.com` | `https://api.shipbob.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| 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 | Proprietary service under ShipBob's Terms of Service. The MCP tutorials repository on GitHub has no licence file |
| Tools exposed | 25 | 73 |
| MCP registry | `com.easyship/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-07-31 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-28 | 2026-05-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-28 | 2024-03-29 |
| Popularity | 0 stars, 79 PyPI/wk | none |