# Envia vs Sendcloud (slim)

> Sendcloud scores 64.5 (B) to Envia's 36.5 (F) for shipping rates. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Sendcloud scores 64.5 (B) on agent readiness against Envia's 36.5 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do shipping rates.

- Envia: F 36.5, rank #1362 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/envia.min.md
- Sendcloud: B 64.5, rank #461 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sendcloud.min.md
- Envia, good for Shops and platforms shipping in Mexico and Latin America that want rates and labels from many local carriers. Also Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where Sendcloud loses 3 points for them.
- Sendcloud, good for An agent shipping parcels for a European shop that wants many carriers behind one account, including its own carrier contracts on paid plans. Ahead on Reliability, 73 against 20; Schema & documentation, 89 against 80; Agent ergonomics, 71 against 53; Security & auth, 58 against 35; Payments & pricing, 37 against 20; Maintenance & community, 67 against 10; Transparency & trust, 72 against 16. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Envia | Sendcloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 20 | 73 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 80 | 89 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 53 | 71 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 35 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 37 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 10 | 67 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 16 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Envia | Sendcloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Envia Shipping | Sendcloud B.V. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://mcp.sendcloud.com/mcp` |
| Transports | stdio | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | none | Proprietary service under Sendcloud's terms and conditions |
| Tools exposed | 10 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-03-06 | 2026-10-30 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not read yet | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not read yet | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not read yet | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not read yet | not found in the text |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Maintenance & community, Sendcloud +57: Envia 10 (The latest dated change found is the docs changelog for March 2026 and @envia/envia-mcp 0.1.0 on 4 March 2026, more than 180 days ago; doc pages show later `updatedAt` stamps (28 October for the FAQ) that record no change (0). No dated entries in the 90 days from 8 August (0). Support through the dashboard and docs, with no public tracker; the MCP repository named on npm could not be cloned (5 of 15). The MCP package is official, with no API SDK and no registry entry (5 of 15). No public CI to read (0). 0 + 0 + 5 + 5 + 0 = 10.); Sendcloud 67 (Latest API v3 changelog entry 30 October 2026 (30). 52 dated entries from 4 August to 30 October (20). Closed service with a dated changelog and a help centre with email and chat support. No developer forum or public issue tracker found (9). The MCP server isn't in the official MCP registry, and no official SDK was found. A public Postman workspace exists (3). No packages to assess. The specs change with the changelog (5).)
- Transparency & trust, Sendcloud +56: Envia 16 (Every terms URL tried answered 500 and the privacy policy is drawn by script, so no terms, entity or data-handling statement was read (0 of 30, 0 of 30). No deprecation policy or dated notices (0). No subprocessors or data locations found (0). 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 = 0, as unread rather than absent where the pages exist.); Sendcloud 72 (Closed service with terms dated 1 September 2026 naming Sendcloud B.V. and four country entities (15). The privacy policy keeps server logs for at most 7 days and contact forms for 6 years. The DPA deletes customers' order data within 365 days of shipment completion and gives 30 days' notice of new sub-processors. Neither page showed a version date we could read (22). API v2 maintenance mode announced for April 2026, and one endpoint deprecated with a date (9 June 2026). Other deprecated fields are to go "in a future version", and no notice-period policy was found (10). Trust centre names five sub-processors, and the security page names AWS EU Central and EU North (15).)
- Reliability, Sendcloud +53: Envia 20 (Graded as a hosted service on Envia's REST APIs, with the local MCP server noted. No status page is linked and status.envia.com did not connect (0). No readable incident history (5). No rate limits found in the docs index, FAQs, integration guide or production checklist (0). The production checklist asks for 5xx retry logic and webhook deduplication, with no 429 or idempotency guidance for label creation (5 of 15). No SLA found (0). Neither the APIs nor the MCP server is labelled beta (10). 0 + 5 + 0 + 5 + 0 + 10 = 20.); Sendcloud 73 (Graded on API v3 and the hosted MCP server, with the hosted lines. The status page at status.sendcloud.com, now on incident.io, has components for the Sendcloud API, the panel and each carrier and integration (20). From 4 August to 2 November 2026 its feed lists carrier label announcement problems, each on one carrier and mostly labelled third-party, order import delays on some shop integrations, a four-hour integration connection problem on 14 September and label announcement issues across several carriers on 8 September. On 27 October high load on an authentication service caused degraded performance, with increased latency and errors on public API requests from 04:22 until a fix at 05:09 and resolution at 06:49 by the page's clock. The Sendcloud API component shows 100 per cent uptime for the period. Every incident hit part of the service, so minor only (20 of 30). Limits published, 1,000 safe and 100 unsafe requests a minute with a burst of 15 a second (15). 429 is documented without Retry-After or backoff guidance. A repeated `external_reference_id` returns the existing shipment (8). The home page claims 99.99 per cent uptime, and no SLA document was found (0). API v3 is the current version and the MCP page carries no beta label (10).)
- Security & auth, Sendcloud +23: Envia 35 (Bearer tokens bound to one environment, several per account, revocable by deleting them, with no scopes (20). No read-only token; the MCP server's sandbox default keeps test calls from spending money (5 of 20). Responses carry carrier and address data rather than free text from strangers (10). No audit log found (0). No security page, certification, security.txt or disclosure policy found (0). 20 + 5 + 10 + 0 + 0 = 35.); Sendcloud 58 (A key pair per API integration, usable as Basic or exchanged for a one-hour Bearer token whose only scope is `api`, covering the whole account. Since 12 October 2026 the MCP sign-in lists permission groups on its consent screen and the token carries only the scopes chosen, with separate read and write scopes for each area (25 of 30). Scopes let an MCP connection read parcels without creating shipments, the toolset filter is enforced on the server, and annotations let a client prompt before creates and cancels. API key pairs have no read-only form (12). Responses carry text written by others, such as addresses, order data and support tickets. The MCP page says results are reference information only and gives no injection guidance (3). Integration exception logs are in the API. A `read:audit-log` scope is listed, but no audit log endpoint was found in the reference (3). ISO/IEC 27001, annual penetration tests, a private HackerOne programme reached through security@sendcloud.com, and a disclosure address. No security.txt and no SOC 2 found (15).)
- Agent ergonomics, Sendcloud +18: Envia 53 (Ten compact MCP tools (25). Rates take one carrier per request, and the Queries API filters carriers by country and shipment type; no paging or field selection was found (10 of 20). The FAQ maps common errors to fixes, but the changelog says the three APIs return different error formats that need a normalisation helper (10 of 20). No idempotency key for labels; an unscanned label can be cancelled for an automatic refund, and the MCP tools carry no annotations (3 of 20). The MCP server defaults to sandbox, with no official API SDK (5 of 15). 25 + 10 + 10 + 3 + 5 = 53.); Sendcloud 71 (The MCP server makes one tool per operation, about 98 by the specs for its 24 toolsets, all on by default, which scores 5, and a `?toolsets=` filter enforced on calls adds 10. The API has `page_size` and no field selection (15). Cursor pagination through Link headers and filters by status, tracking number, reference and dates on shipments (18). JSON:API errors, though a carrier failure on a synchronous announce arrives in an `errors` array inside a success response (15). `external_reference_id` deduplicates shipment creation, and the docs say tools carry read-only, idempotent and destructive hints by HTTP method, which we couldn't confirm without an account (16). Shipping rules and defaults cut required fields. No official SDK was found (7).)
- Payments & pricing, Sendcloud +17: Envia 20 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). No public price list: each cost is shown when quoting, and volume plans go through sales (0). A free sandbox account creates test labels with no charges (20). A person signs up in a browser and tops up a balance for live labels (0). 0 + 0 + 20 + 0 = 20.); Sendcloud 37 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plan prices and per-label fees are public in euros, from €28 a month plus €0.10 a label to €639 plus €0.07, with sample carrier rates. We couldn't read which plans the API access row covers (17). A Free plan for 20 parcels a month and a 14-day trial, both stated as needing no card, plus free Unstamped letter test labels (20). A person signs up in a browser, adds an invoice address and creates the keys in the panel (0).)