# Karrio vs Shippo (slim)

> Shippo scores 61.9 (C) on agent readiness against Karrio's 48.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Karrio leads on reliability. Both do shipping rates. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Shippo scores 61.9 (C) on agent readiness against Karrio's 48.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Karrio leads on reliability. Both do shipping rates.

- Karrio: D 48.7, rank #617 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/karrio.min.md
- Shippo: C 61.9, rank #355 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippo.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 59. Also Open source.
- 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 Schema & documentation, 83 against 68; Agent ergonomics, 64 against 57; Security & auth, 52 against 44; Maintenance & community, 77 against 29; Transparency & trust, 61 against 56. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Karrio loses 7 points for them.

| Category | Karrio | Shippo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 76 | 59 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 68 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 57 | 64 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 44 | 52 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 29 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 56 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Karrio | Shippo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Karrio, Inc. | Shippo |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.goshippo.com` |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Price for shipping rates | not published | $0.01 per call |
| 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 Shippo's terms of use. The SDKs and the goshippo/ai repository (skills and MCP bridge) are MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 4 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.shippo/shippo-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-06-23 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-04-08 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-04-08 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 799 stars, 338 PyPI/wk | 3 stars, 73k npm/wk, 20k PyPI/wk |