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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": 194,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 842,
        "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": "2026-10-09T11:46:27.348979324Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 200,
          "lastMs": 615,
          "authRequired": false,
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          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 697,
          "p95ms24h": 1576,
          "samples24h": 218,
          "samples30d": 218,
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              "date": "2026-10-08",
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              "ok": 93
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              "date": "2026-10-09",
              "probes": 125,
              "ok": 125
            }
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        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.easyship.com",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T11:39:08.536615225Z"
        },
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            "registry": "mcp-registry",
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            "registry": "pypi",
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        ],
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        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://easyship.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:30.640097558Z"
        },
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            "url": "https://developers.easyship.com/reference/changelog",
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            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:17:33.323091568Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "c61b1b5ffd8f"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://www.easyship.com/legal/privacy-policy",
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            "status": 200,
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            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "e83631b37fda"
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          {
            "url": "https://www.easyship.com/legal/terms/us",
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    },
    "answer": "Easyship scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against ShippyPro's 48.7 (D), and leads in every scored category.",
    "b": {
      "slug": "shippypro",
      "name": "ShippyPro",
      "vendor": "Italian Valley S.r.l.",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.shippypro.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "shipping",
      "summary": "Multi-carrier shipping platform from ShippyPro (Italian Valley S.r.l., Florence). Its REST API quotes rates on a customer's own carrier contracts, creates labels and returns, validates addresses, books pickups and tracks parcels. API access is sold with the Enterprise plan.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippypro",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippypro.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippypro.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shippypro.json",
      "license": "Proprietary service under ShippyPro's Terms \u0026 Conditions. Both OpenAPI files state the licence as Proprietary",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.shippypro.com",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Sales approval, then a key. The help centre says APIs can only be activated with an Enterprise plan and tells users to contact sales. Keys are created in the account panel under API, more than one per account, as Full Access, Maps (pickup-point map only) or PII Excluded (personal data hidden). Calls send `Authorization: Bearer \u003cAPI key\u003e`, per both OpenAPI files. The help centre article still describes the key as a Basic auth username with a blank password. No expiry or rotation was found in the reviewed documentation.",
      "pricing": "paid",
      "pricingNotes": "Enterprise plan, custom price through sales, billed annually. It is the only plan the pricing page lists with full access to the Multicarrier APIs. The self-serve plans (49 to 259 EUR a month at regular monthly prices, up to 4,000 shipments) are marked UI only. A 14-day, 30-order trial needs no card per the terms, and whether a trial account can call the API was not established. No sandbox. The Generic carrier creates test labels and rates. A higher rate limit costs extra (https://www.shippypro.com/en/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "Paid",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the OpenAPI files, the API page or the pricing page (checked 2026-10-09).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": null,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": null,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-09"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://api.shippypro.com/docs",
      "openapi": "https://api.shippypro.com/docs/v1.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "shipping.rates",
        "shipping.labels",
        "shipping.tracking",
        "shipping.address-validation",
        "shipping.returns"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "paid",
        "sales-led",
        "enterprise",
        "api-key",
        "openapi",
        "webhooks",
        "soap",
        "status-page",
        "sla",
        "europe"
      ],
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 48.7,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 718,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 842,
        "categoryRank": 9,
        "methodology": "0.4",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 46,
          "maintenance": 25,
          "payments": 5,
          "reliability": 70,
          "schema": 64,
          "security": 51,
          "transparency": 58
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-09"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Two OpenAPI 3.1 files, a published limit of 20 calls per 10 seconds and a 99.5 per cent monthly SLA with service credits are public. API access needs an Enterprise plan arranged through sales, no changelog or SDK was found, and label creation on v1 has no idempotency key.",
        "bestFor": "A European shipper or logistics platform with its own carrier contracts that already holds a ShippyPro Enterprise plan and wants rates, labels, pickups and tracking across many regional carriers through one API.",
        "strengths": [
          "OpenAPI 3.1 files for v1 (55 operations) and v2 (17 operations) are public at api.shippypro.com/docs, with 812 examples in the v1 file",
          "Published SLA of 99.5 per cent monthly availability with service credits of 0.5 to 5 per cent",
          "API keys come in three types, Full Access, Maps and PII Excluded, and an account can hold several",
          "The account panel keeps API request and response logs, an API error history and webhook logs",
          "The Generic carrier creates test labels and rates without a real carrier or tracking number",
          "The privacy policy lists sub-processors per product area and says customer data is never sold"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "The help centre says APIs can only be activated with an Enterprise plan, which has no public price and starts with sales",
          "No API changelog, release notes or deprecation policy was found, and the terms allow changes without notice",
          "`POST /v1/Ship` takes no idempotency key. Only the 17 v2 operations accept `Idempotency-Key`",
          "Carrier label incidents marked critical appear on the status page on most days from August to October 2026",
          "No official SDK, MCP server or llms.txt was found on the pages read",
          "v1 answers some failures with HTTP 200 and `Status` 2, and `LabelURL` can be a string or an array"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003cAPI key\u003e` and POST a JSON body with `Method` and `Params` to `https://api.shippypro.com/v1/\u003cMethod\u003e`. Parameter names are case-sensitive",
          "Check `Status` and `ErrorMessage` in every `Ship` response. HTTP 200 with `Status` 2 means no label was created",
          "Before retrying a failed `Ship` call, look the order up by `TransactionID`. v1 has no idempotency key, and each label counts against the plan",
          "Test with the Generic carrier. `Ship` and `Edit` calls on a real carrier create real labels",
          "Stay under 20 calls per 10 seconds, and use webhooks for tracking. The docs advise against `GetTracking` in bulk"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 0,
        "avgRating": 0,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
            "methodology": "0.4",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 48.7
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 46,
          "maintenance": 25,
          "payments": 5,
          "reliability": 70,
          "schema": 64,
          "security": 51,
          "transparency": 48
        },
        "provenanceScore": 68
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -X POST https://api.shippypro.com/v1/Ping \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer \u003cAPI_KEY\u003e\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"Method\": \"Ping\", \"Params\": {}}'"
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/shipping.rates",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/shippypro"
      },
      "area": "business",
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Italian Valley S.r.l.",
        "domain": "shippypro.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2016-10-24",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.shippypro.com/en/legal/terms",
        "privacy": "https://www.shippypro.com/en/legal/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.shippypro.com",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "unknown",
        "checked": "2026-10-09",
        "notes": [
          "The Terms \u0026 Conditions name Italian Valley Srl, registered number 06587610483, Piazza Francesca Morvillo 15, 50144 Firenze, Italy, as owner of the ShippyPro software. They cover every ShippyPro product and service, the API included, and carry no date or version.",
          "The privacy policy names ShippyPro by Italian Valley S.r.l. as data controller and covers shipment sender and recipient data handled by the product, not only the website.",
          "RDAP for shippypro.com gives a registration date of 2016-10-24.",
          "The API answers at api.shippypro.com and the reference is served from the same host.",
          "www.shippypro.com/robots.txt disallows every path outside the language folders, the blog and a short list, so /.well-known/security.txt and /llms.txt were not requested.",
          "No API changelog or release notes page was found on the API page, the reference or the help centre's API section.",
          "The SLA at https://www.shippypro.com/en/legal/sla is stated to be part of the agreement with the customer."
        ],
        "score": 68
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippypro.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "shippypro",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.shippypro.com",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-09T11:46:40.325234562Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 80,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 57,
          "p95ms24h": 116,
          "samples24h": 44,
          "samples30d": 44,
          "days": [
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              "date": "2026-10-09",
              "probes": 44,
              "ok": 44
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.shippypro.com",
          "indicator": "major",
          "summary": "Partial System Outage",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T11:40:39.243896432Z"
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      {
        "a": "HTTP API",
        "b": "HTTP API",
        "name": "Kind"
      },
      {
        "a": "Easyship Inc.",
        "b": "Italian Valley S.r.l.",
        "name": "Vendor"
      },
      {
        "a": "https://public-api.easyship.com",
        "b": "https://api.shippypro.com",
        "name": "Hosted endpoint"
      },
      {
        "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio",
        "b": "HTTP",
        "name": "Transports"
      },
      {
        "a": "OAuth or key",
        "b": "API key",
        "name": "Auth"
      },
      {
        "a": "Freemium",
        "b": "Paid",
        "name": "Pricing"
      },
      {
        "a": "$0.01 per call",
        "b": "not published",
        "name": "Price for shipping rates"
      },
      {
        "a": "no",
        "b": "no",
        "name": "x402"
      },
      {
        "a": "Proprietary service under Easyship's terms of service. The easyship-mcp server on PyPI and the plugin repository are MIT",
        "b": "Proprietary service under ShippyPro's Terms \u0026 Conditions. Both OpenAPI files state the licence as Proprietary",
        "name": "Licence"
      },
      {
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippypro.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shippypro.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 70\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 87 against 64\n- Agent ergonomics, 73 against 46\n- Security \u0026 auth, 61 against 51\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 40 against 5\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 56 against 25\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 71 against 58\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### ShippyPro (D)\n\nGood for: A European shipper or logistics platform with its own carrier contracts that already holds a ShippyPro Enterprise plan and wants rates, labels, pickups and tracking across many regional carriers through one API.\n\nWatch for: The help centre says APIs can only be activated with an Enterprise plan, which has no public price and starts with sales\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Easyship | ShippyPro | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 80 | 70 | Easyship +10 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 64 | Easyship +23 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 46 | Easyship +27 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 61 | 51 | Easyship +10 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 5 | Easyship +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 25 | Easyship +31 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 58 | Easyship +13 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **68.8 · B** | **48.7 · D** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Easyship | ShippyPro |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Easyship Inc. | Italian Valley S.r.l. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://public-api.easyship.com` | `https://api.shippypro.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |\n| Price for shipping rates | $0.01 per call | not published |\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 ShippyPro's Terms \u0026 Conditions. Both OpenAPI files state the licence as Proprietary |\n| Tools exposed | 25 | none |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | no |\n| MCP registry | `com.easyship/mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-08-21 | none |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-07-28 | no date given |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-28 | no date given |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 0 stars, 79 PyPI/wk | none |\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**ShippyPro.** Two OpenAPI 3.1 files, a published limit of 20 calls per 10 seconds and a 99.5 per cent monthly SLA with service credits are public. API access needs an Enterprise plan arranged through sales, no changelog or SDK was found, and label creation on v1 has no idempotency key.\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### ShippyPro\n\n1. Send `Authorization: Bearer \u003cAPI key\u003e` and POST a JSON body with `Method` and `Params` to `https://api.shippypro.com/v1/\u003cMethod\u003e`. Parameter names are case-sensitive\n2. Check `Status` and `ErrorMessage` in every `Ship` response. HTTP 200 with `Status` 2 means no label was created\n3. Before retrying a failed `Ship` call, look the order up by `TransactionID`. v1 has no idempotency key, and each label counts against the plan\n4. Test with the Generic carrier. `Ship` and `Edit` calls on a real carrier create real labels\n5. Stay under 20 calls per 10 seconds, and use webhooks for tracking. 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From a terminal: `anchor compare easyship shippypro`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/easyship.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shippypro.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Easyship or ShippyPro\n\n- [EasyPost vs Easyship](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easypost-vs-easyship.md)\n- [EasyPost vs ShippyPro](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easypost-vs-shippypro.md)\n- [Easyship vs Karrio](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-karrio.md)\n- [Easyship vs Sendcloud](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-sendcloud.md)\n- [Easyship vs ShipBob](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-shipbob.md)\n- [Easyship vs Shippo](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-shippo.md)\n- [Easyship vs ShipStation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-shipstation.md)\n- [Karrio vs ShippyPro](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/karrio-vs-shippypro.md)\n- [Sendcloud vs ShippyPro](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/sendcloud-vs-shippypro.md)\n- [ShipBob vs ShippyPro](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shipbob-vs-shippypro.md)\n- [Shippo vs ShippyPro](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shippo-vs-shippypro.md)\n- [ShippyPro vs ShipStation API](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/shippypro-vs-shipstation.md)\n- [Easyship vs Ship24](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/easyship-vs-ship24.md)\n- [Ship24 vs ShippyPro](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ship24-vs-shippypro.md)\n",
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