# Easyship vs Shippo (slim)

> 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 & community. 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 Shippo's 61.9 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Shippo leads on maintenance & community. Both do shipping rates.

- Easyship: B 68.8, rank #163 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easyship.min.md
- Shippo: C 61.9, rank #317 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippo.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 59; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 64; Security & auth, 61 against 52; Transparency & trust, 71 against 61. Also Runs on your own machine.
- Shippo, good 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. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 77 against 56.

| Category | Easyship | Shippo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 59 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 87 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 64 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 61 | 52 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 56 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 71 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Easyship | Shippo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Easyship Inc. | Shippo |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://public-api.easyship.com` | `https://api.goshippo.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| 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 |
| Tools exposed | 25 | 4 |
| MCP registry | `com.easyship/mcp` | `com.shippo/shippo-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-28 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-28 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 0 stars, 79 PyPI/wk | 3 stars, 73k npm/wk, 20k PyPI/wk |