# Karrio vs Ship24 (slim)

> Ship24 scores 55 (C) on agent readiness against Karrio's 48.7 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Karrio leads on reliability, security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do shipping tracking. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Ship24 scores 55 (C) on agent readiness against Karrio's 48.7 (D), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Karrio leads on reliability, security & auth and payments & pricing. Both do shipping tracking.

- Karrio: D 48.7, rank #617 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/karrio.min.md
- Ship24: C 55, rank #522 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ship24.min.md
- Karrio, good for A team that wants to host its own multi-carrier API with its own carrier contracts and can maintain a Django and PostgreSQL stack. Ahead on Reliability, 76 against 45; Security & auth, 44 against 37; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30. Also Open source.
- Ship24, good for An agent that only needs tracking events across many couriers, by webhook or by lookup, from a tracking number alone. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 81 against 68; Agent ergonomics, 68 against 57; Maintenance & community, 80 against 29. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Karrio loses 7 points for them.

| Category | Karrio | Ship24 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 76 | 45 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 68 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 57 | 68 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 44 | 37 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 29 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 56 | 52 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Karrio | Ship24 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Karrio, Inc. | Ship24 Limited |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.ship24.com/public/v1` |
| Price for shipping tracking | not published | $0.045 per transaction |
| Licence | LGPL-3.0 for the server, SDK and modules. Code under `ee/` is under the Karrio Enterprise licence and needs a subscription for production use. The MCP package in `packages/mcp` is Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under Ship24's Terms and Conditions. The Node SDK and the AI plugin on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 12 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.ship24/tracking-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-06-23 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-04-08 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-04-08 | 2026-08-01 |
| Popularity | 799 stars, 338 PyPI/wk | 0 stars, 79 npm/wk |