# Karrio vs ShippyPro (slim)

> Karrio and ShippyPro score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 48.7 (D) and 48.7 (D). ShippyPro leads on security & auth. Both do shipping rates. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Karrio and ShippyPro score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 48.7 (D) and 48.7 (D). ShippyPro leads on security & auth. Both do shipping rates.

- Karrio: D 48.7, rank #717 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/karrio.min.md
- ShippyPro: D 48.7, rank #718 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippypro.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 70; Agent ergonomics, 57 against 46; Payments & pricing, 40 against 5. Also Open source.
- ShippyPro, 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. Ahead on Security & auth, 51 against 44. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; No incidents deducted, where Karrio loses 7 points for them.

| Category | Karrio | ShippyPro |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 76 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 68 | 64 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 57 | 46 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 44 | 51 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 40 | 5 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 29 | 25 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 56 | 58 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Karrio | ShippyPro |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Karrio, Inc. | Italian Valley S.r.l. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.shippypro.com` |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| 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 ShippyPro's Terms & Conditions. Both OpenAPI files state the licence as Proprietary |
| Last release | 2026-06-23 | none |
| Terms last updated | 2025-04-08 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-04-08 | no date given |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 799 stars, 338 PyPI/wk | none |