# Easyship vs ShippyPro

> Easyship scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against ShippyPro's 48.7 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do shipping rates. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-09

Easyship scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against ShippyPro's 48.7 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do shipping rates.

- Easyship: grade B, 68.8/100, rank #194 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/easyship.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/easyship.json
- ShippyPro: grade D, 48.7/100, rank #718 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippypro.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shippypro.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 70
- Schema & documentation, 87 against 64
- Agent ergonomics, 73 against 46
- Security & auth, 61 against 51
- Payments & pricing, 40 against 5
- Maintenance & community, 56 against 25
- Transparency & trust, 71 against 58

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

### ShippyPro (D)

Good 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.

Watch for: The help centre says APIs can only be activated with an Enterprise plan, which has no public price and starts with sales


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Easyship | ShippyPro | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 80 | 70 | Easyship +10 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 87 | 64 | Easyship +23 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 46 | Easyship +27 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 61 | 51 | Easyship +10 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 5 | Easyship +35 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 56 | 25 | Easyship +31 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 58 | Easyship +13 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **68.8 · B** | **48.7 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Easyship | ShippyPro |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Easyship Inc. | Italian Valley S.r.l. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://public-api.easyship.com` | `https://api.shippypro.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Price for shipping rates | $0.01 per call | not published |
| 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 ShippyPro's Terms & Conditions. Both OpenAPI files state the licence as Proprietary |
| Tools exposed | 25 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `com.easyship/mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | none |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-28 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-07-28 | no date given |
| 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 | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 0 stars, 79 PyPI/wk | none |

## 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.

**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.

## 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

### ShippyPro

1. Send `Authorization: Bearer <API key>` and POST a JSON body with `Method` and `Params` to `https://api.shippypro.com/v1/<Method>`. Parameter names are case-sensitive
2. Check `Status` and `ErrorMessage` in every `Ship` response. HTTP 200 with `Status` 2 means no label was created
3. Before retrying a failed `Ship` call, look the order up by `TransactionID`. v1 has no idempotency key, and each label counts against the plan
4. Test with the Generic carrier. `Ship` and `Edit` calls on a real carrier create real labels
5. Stay under 20 calls per 10 seconds, and use webhooks for tracking. The docs advise against `GetTracking` in bulk

## Questions

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

Easyship scores 68.8 (B) on agent readiness against ShippyPro's 48.7 (D), and leads in every scored category.

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

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

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

Yes. Easyship has a hosted endpoint at https://public-api.easyship.com and ShippyPro at https://api.shippypro.com.


## For agents

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

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