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    "a": {
      "slug": "easyship",
      "name": "Easyship",
      "vendor": "Easyship Inc.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.easyship.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "shipping",
      "summary": "Multi-carrier shipping platform from Easyship. Its public API and hosted MCP server quote courier rates, create shipments, buy labels, validate addresses, track parcels and book pickups across what Easyship says are 550+ courier services.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easyship",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easyship.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easyship.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/easyship.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/easyship/easyship-mcp-plugin",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Easyship's terms of service. The easyship-mcp server on PyPI and the plugin repository are MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://public-api.easyship.com",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "easyship-mcp"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Self-serve. A person signs up, opens Connect in the dashboard, creates an API Integration and copies a Bearer token. On v2024-09 the token carries scopes of the form `public.\u003cresource\u003e:read` or `:write`, editable later, and some scopes (advanced or beta functions) are granted by Easyship on request. Sandbox tokens start `sand_` and production tokens `prod_`. Partner apps that connect other Easyship users register through a form and use OAuth 2.0 authorisation code. The MCP server accepts the same Bearer token, and also publishes OAuth metadata with PKCE and dynamic client registration.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free plan with no card, 50 shipments a month in the US, and a sandbox, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. Plus is US$29 a month and Premier US$69, with Scale tiers from US$99 and Enterprise on request. Labels are charged at the courier rate the API quotes. Rates, address validation, tax and duty, HS code and off-platform tracking calls are metered, pay-as-you-go on Free and with monthly quotas on paid plans. Prices vary by country (https://www.easyship.com/plans, US figures, checked 2026-10-07).",
      "priceSummary": "$29 / mo",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the developer docs, the OpenAPI spec or the plans page (checked 2026-10-07).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 25,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 0,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": 79,
        "asOf": "2026-10-07"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://developers.easyship.com",
      "llmsTxt": "https://developers.easyship.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://developers.easyship.com/reference/rates_request.md",
      "registryName": "com.easyship/mcp",
      "capabilities": [
        "shipping.rates",
        "shipping.labels",
        "shipping.tracking",
        "shipping.address-validation",
        "shipping.returns"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "free-tier",
        "api-key",
        "oauth",
        "mcp",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "sandbox",
        "webhooks",
        "python",
        "status-page"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-08-21",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 68.8,
        "grade": "B",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 163,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 629,
        "categoryRank": 1,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 73,
          "maintenance": 56,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 80,
          "schema": 87,
          "security": 61,
          "transparency": 71
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-07"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "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.",
        "bestFor": "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.",
        "strengths": [
          "Tokens carry per-resource read and write scopes, with separate sandbox (sand_) and production (prod_) tokens",
          "Hosted MCP server at mcp.easyship.com with 25 tools, each carrying readOnlyHint, destructiveHint and openWorldHint",
          "llms.txt and a Markdown twin of every reference page, each with its OpenAPI 3.0.3 definition",
          "Free plan with no card and 50 shipments a month in the US, and per-call prices for the metered endpoints",
          "status.easyship.com lists no incident since 5 December 2025"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No idempotency keys in the 132-operation spec, and no Retry-After or backoff guidance for 429",
          "The MCP server has no test mode, so a label bought through it is charged",
          "API changelog's last entry is 30 October 2025, and no deprecation policy was found",
          "security.txt expired on 5 October 2025, and the sub-processor list is dated 15 October 2020",
          "No official SDKs found, and the published limit is 60 requests a minute"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "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",
          "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",
          "Don't retry a timed-out label purchase blindly. There's no idempotency key, so read the shipment's label_state first",
          "Give every item a category or an hs_code. The API rejects shipments and rates requests that have neither",
          "Stay under 60 requests a minute and 10 a second, and wait for the next window on 429"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "B",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 68.8
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 73,
          "maintenance": 56,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 80,
          "schema": 87,
          "security": 61,
          "transparency": 51
        },
        "provenanceScore": 91
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -X POST https://public-api.easyship.com/2024-09/rates \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $EASYSHIP_API_ACCESS_TOKEN\" -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d @rates-request.json",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http easyship \\\n  https://mcp.easyship.com/mcp \\\n  --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN'",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "easyship": {
              "headers": {
                "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"
              },
              "url": "https://mcp.easyship.com/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/shipping.rates",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/easyship"
      },
      "area": "business",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Free plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 0,
          "note": "US, 50 shipments a month, 1 team member"
        },
        {
          "item": "Plus plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 29,
          "note": "US, billed monthly; $23 billed annually; 500 shipments, 2,000 rates calls included"
        },
        {
          "item": "Premier plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 69,
          "note": "US, billed monthly; $55 billed annually; 2,500 shipments, 10,000 rates calls included"
        },
        {
          "item": "Rates API call",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.01,
          "note": "Free plan pay-as-you-go; $0.008 on Plus and $0.007 on Premier beyond the included quota"
        },
        {
          "item": "US address validation",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.02,
          "note": "Free and Plus; $0.01 on Premier"
        },
        {
          "item": "International address validation",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.08,
          "note": "Free plan; $0.07 on Plus, $0.06 on Premier"
        },
        {
          "item": "Tax and duty calculation",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.11,
          "note": "Free and Plus; $0.10 on Premier"
        },
        {
          "item": "Off-platform tracking",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.05,
          "note": "Free plan; $0.04 on Plus and Premier. Tracking of Easyship's own shipments is free"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Easyship Inc.",
        "domain": "easyship.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2001-02-22",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.easyship.com/legal/terms/us",
        "privacy": "https://www.easyship.com/legal/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.easyship.com",
        "changelog": "https://developers.easyship.com/reference/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "expired",
        "checked": "2026-10-07",
        "notes": [
          "The terms overview (last updated 12 August 2022) names a contracting entity by origin country. Easyship Inc., 61 Broadway, Suite 1705, New York for the United States, Easyship Fulfillment Services Ltd. in Hong Kong for countries not listed, and others for Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Singapore and the United Kingdom.",
          "The US terms were last updated on 28 July 2026 and promise 30 days' notice of material changes.",
          "The API answers at public-api.easyship.com and the MCP server at mcp.easyship.com, both on the vendor's domain.",
          "www.easyship.com/.well-known/security.txt carries Expires 2025-10-05 and a Policy link to https://vdp.easyship.com.",
          "RDAP for easyship.com gives a registration date of 2001-02-22."
        ],
        "score": 91
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easyship.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "easyship",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://public-api.easyship.com",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:29.286038003Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 200,
          "lastMs": 640,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 788,
          "p95ms24h": 1772,
          "samples24h": 33,
          "samples30d": 33,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-10-08",
              "probes": 33,
              "ok": 33
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.easyship.com",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:21:57.427080033Z"
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "pypi",
            "name": "easyship-mcp",
            "version": "0.6.5",
            "released": "2026-08-21",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:09:53.609079021Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 0,
        "pypiWeekly": 83,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://easyship.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:30.640097558Z"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://developers.easyship.com/reference/changelog",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:17:33.323091568Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "c61b1b5ffd8f"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-08T18:21:57.427080033Z"
      }
    },
    "answer": "Easyship scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against Shippo's 61.9 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Shippo leads on maintenance \u0026 community.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "shippo",
      "name": "Shippo",
      "vendor": "Shippo",
      "vendorUrl": "https://goshippo.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "shipping",
      "summary": "Multi-carrier shipping API from Shippo. It quotes rates, buys labels, validates addresses, tracks parcels and creates return labels across the carriers it connects, through a REST API, official SDKs and a hosted MCP server.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippo",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippo.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippo.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shippo.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/goshippo/ai",
      "license": "Proprietary service under Shippo's terms of use. The SDKs and the goshippo/ai repository (skills and MCP bridge) are MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.goshippo.com",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "shippo"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "shippo"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@shippo/shippo-mcp"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Self-serve API key. A person signs up at apps.goshippo.com/join and creates live (shippo_live_) and test (shippo_test_) keys in the API portal, with no review. Calls send `Authorization: ShippoToken \u003ckey\u003e`. Keys are shown once, can be deleted and replaced, and have no scopes. The hosted MCP server at mcp.shippo.com uses per-user OAuth against the live account, with one scope (\"*\"). OAuth credentials for a platform acting for other Shippo accounts come from the sales team. Client-side apps can use a 12-hour JWT from POST /embedded/authz.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "API Starter has no monthly fee. The first 30 labels a month are free, then 7 cents a label, on top of postage. Calls not tied to a Shippo label are charged per unit (see the price table). API Premier is custom, with volume discounts, through sales. Test mode is free with a test key, so an agent can start without a contract, and billing details are needed for live labels (https://goshippo.com/pricing/api).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.07 / tx",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the API docs, the OpenAPI spec or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-07).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 4,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 3,
        "npmWeekly": 73114,
        "pypiWeekly": 20036,
        "asOf": "2026-10-07"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.goshippo.com",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.goshippo.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://docs.goshippo.com/spec/shippoapi/public-api.yaml",
      "registryName": "com.shippo/shippo-mcp",
      "capabilities": [
        "shipping.rates",
        "shipping.labels",
        "shipping.tracking",
        "shipping.address-validation",
        "shipping.returns"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "free-tier",
        "api-key",
        "oauth",
        "mcp",
        "openapi",
        "llms-txt",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "java",
        "webhooks",
        "sandbox",
        "status-page",
        "soc2"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-10-01",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 61.9,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 317,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 629,
        "categoryRank": 3,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 64,
          "maintenance": 77,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 59,
          "schema": 83,
          "security": 52,
          "transparency": 61
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-07"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Per-label and per-call prices are public, test keys are self-serve, and the OpenAPI spec, llms.txt and Markdown docs are open to a fetch. Label purchase has no idempotency key, API keys carry no scopes, and the status page logged carrier-side incidents on most days between July and October 2026.",
        "bestFor": "An agent that quotes and buys parcel labels across USPS, UPS, FedEx and DHL Express for a small or mid-size shipper, with a free test mode and public unit prices.",
        "strengths": [
          "Public prices per unit, 7 cents a label after 30 free a month, 1 cent a rate request and 2 cents a tracking request",
          "Test keys (shippo_test_) create free test labels and mock tracking, with data kept apart from live",
          "OpenAPI 3.1 spec with 71 operations, plus llms.txt and a Markdown copy of each docs page",
          "Hosted MCP server at mcp.shippo.com with four tools, reads and writes split so a client can require approval for writes",
          "Rate limits published per endpoint, with separate live and test figures",
          "SOC 2 Type II and PCI DSS listed on the trust centre, with an annual third-party penetration test"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No idempotency key on label purchase or other writes. Only the Reporting API accepts one",
          "API keys have no scopes or read-only mode, and the OAuth flow has one scope, \"*\"",
          "The hosted MCP server runs on the live account only, with no test mode",
          "Carrier-side incidents on the status page on most days from July to October 2026, many marked major or critical",
          "Terms of use and privacy notice load only with JavaScript, and no SLA or subprocessor list was found",
          "The Python SDK on PyPI is 3.9.0 from 26 November 2024"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Build and test with a shippo_test_ key. Test and live object IDs are separate, and the hosted MCP server has no test mode",
          "Send `Authorization: ShippoToken \u003ckey\u003e`, not Bearer, and pin `Shippo-API-Version: 2018-02-08`",
          "Before retrying a failed POST /transactions, list recent transactions. There is no idempotency key, and a second purchase is a second charge",
          "Pass `async: false` on shipments and transactions, or poll the object until its status leaves QUEUED",
          "Set `results` on list calls (under 200). Defaults vary by resource, and list calls are limited to 50 a minute on live keys"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 61.9
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 64,
          "maintenance": 77,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 59,
          "schema": 83,
          "security": 52,
          "transparency": 38
        },
        "provenanceScore": 84
      },
      "connect": {
        "install": "npm install shippo",
        "http": "curl https://api.goshippo.com/shipments/ \\\n  -H \"Authorization: ShippoToken \u003cAPI_TOKEN\u003e\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{...}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http shippo https://mcp.shippo.com",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "shippo": {
              "url": "https://mcp.shippo.com"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/shipping.rates",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/shippo"
      },
      "area": "business",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Label, API Starter, after 30 free a month, plus postage",
          "unit": "tx",
          "usd": 0.07
        },
        {
          "item": "Rate request not tied to a Shippo label",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.01
        },
        {
          "item": "Tracking request not tied to a Shippo label",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.02
        },
        {
          "item": "Delivery date estimate",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.03
        },
        {
          "item": "US address validation",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.02
        },
        {
          "item": "Non-US address validation",
          "unit": "call",
          "usd": 0.08
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Shippo",
        "domain": "goshippo.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2013-09-21",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://privacy.goshippo.com/policies?name=terms-of-use",
        "privacy": "https://privacy.goshippo.com/policies?name=privacy-notice",
        "statusPage": "https://status.goshippo.com",
        "changelog": "https://docs.goshippo.com/api-concepts/api-change-log",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-07",
        "notes": [
          "The registered legal entity wasn't confirmed. goshippo.com/terms and /privacy redirect to a privacy centre that returns no policy text without JavaScript. The SDK licences name \"Shippo\" as copyright holder.",
          "RDAP for goshippo.com gives a registration date of 2013-09-21.",
          "The API answers at api.goshippo.com and the MCP server at mcp.shippo.com, whose OAuth metadata names https://goshippo.com as the authorisation server.",
          "goshippo.com/.well-known/security.txt and goshippo.com/security both return 404. The trust centre gives security@shippo.com and the AI repository's SECURITY.md gives security@goshippo.com.",
          "The trust centre at trust.goshippo.com lists a SOC 2 Type II report (November 2024 to November 2025), a 2026 bridge letter and a PCI SAQ-A attestation, each on request."
        ],
        "score": 84
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippo.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "shippo",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.goshippo.com",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-08T18:20:39.999435351Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 401,
          "lastMs": 391,
          "lastNote": "asks for credentials",
          "authRequired": true,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 149,
          "p95ms24h": 392,
          "samples24h": 33,
          "samples30d": 33,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-10-08",
              "probes": 33,
              "ok": 33
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.goshippo.com",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:22:19.2097254Z"
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "goshippo/ai",
            "version": "v1.5.4",
            "released": "2026-07-23",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:29:07.821314571Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@shippo/shippo-mcp",
            "version": "3.0.4",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:29:06.611030249Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "shippo",
            "version": "2.18.0",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:29:05.577126262Z"
          },
          {
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippo.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shippo.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Easyship (B)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 80 against 59\n- Agent ergonomics, 73 against 64\n- Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 52\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 61\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n\nWatch for: No idempotency keys in the 132-operation spec, and no Retry-After or backoff guidance for 429\n\n### Shippo (C)\n\nGood for: An agent that quotes and buys parcel labels across USPS, UPS, FedEx and DHL Express for a small or mid-size shipper, with a free test mode and public unit prices.\n\nAhead on:\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 77 against 56\n\nWatch for: No idempotency key on label purchase or other writes. Only the Reporting API accepts one\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Easyship | Shippo | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 80 | 59 | Easyship +21 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 83 | Easyship +4 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 64 | Easyship +9 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 61 | 52 | Easyship +9 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 77 | Shippo +21 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 61 | Easyship +10 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **68.8 · B** | **61.9 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Easyship | Shippo |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Easyship Inc. | Shippo |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://public-api.easyship.com` | `https://api.goshippo.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| Price for shipping rates | $0.01 per call | $0.01 per call |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Proprietary service under Easyship's terms of service. The easyship-mcp server on PyPI and the plugin repository are MIT | Proprietary service under Shippo's terms of use. The SDKs and the goshippo/ai repository (skills and MCP bridge) are MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 25 | 4 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `com.easyship/mcp` | `com.shippo/shippo-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-07-28 | couldn't be read |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-28 | couldn't be read |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |\n| Popularity | 0 stars, 79 PyPI/wk | 3 stars, 73k npm/wk, 20k PyPI/wk |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**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.\n\n**Shippo.** Per-label and per-call prices are public, test keys are self-serve, and the OpenAPI spec, llms.txt and Markdown docs are open to a fetch. Label purchase has no idempotency key, API keys carry no scopes, and the status page logged carrier-side incidents on most days between July and October 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Easyship\n\n1. 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\n2. 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\n3. Don't retry a timed-out label purchase blindly. There's no idempotency key, so read the shipment's label_state first\n4. Give every item a category or an hs_code. The API rejects shipments and rates requests that have neither\n5. Stay under 60 requests a minute and 10 a second, and wait for the next window on 429\n\n### Shippo\n\n1. Build and test with a shippo_test_ key. Test and live object IDs are separate, and the hosted MCP server has no test mode\n2. Send `Authorization: ShippoToken \u003ckey\u003e`, not Bearer, and pin `Shippo-API-Version: 2018-02-08`\n3. Before retrying a failed POST /transactions, list recent transactions. There is no idempotency key, and a second purchase is a second charge\n4. Pass `async: false` on shipments and transactions, or poll the object until its status leaves QUEUED\n5. Set `results` on list calls (under 200). Defaults vary by resource, and list calls are limited to 50 a minute on live keys\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Easyship or Shippo?\n\nEasyship scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against Shippo's 61.9 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. 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