# Ship24 vs Shippo (slim)

> Shippo scores 61.9 (C) on agent readiness against Ship24's 55 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do shipping tracking. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Shippo scores 61.9 (C) on agent readiness against Ship24's 55 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do shipping tracking.

- Ship24: C 55, rank #522 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ship24.min.md
- Shippo: C 61.9, rank #355 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippo.min.md
- Ship24, good for An agent that only needs tracking events across many couriers, by webhook or by lookup, from a tracking number alone.
- 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 Reliability, 59 against 45; Security & auth, 52 against 37; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Transparency & trust, 61 against 52.

| Category | Ship24 | Shippo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 45 | 59 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 68 | 64 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 37 | 52 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 52 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Ship24 | Shippo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Ship24 Limited | Shippo |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.ship24.com/public/v1` | `https://api.goshippo.com` |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Price for shipping tracking | $0.045 per transaction | $0.02 per call |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Ship24's Terms and Conditions. The Node SDK and the AI plugin on GitHub are MIT | Proprietary service under Shippo's terms of use. The SDKs and the goshippo/ai repository (skills and MCP bridge) are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 12 | 4 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `com.ship24/tracking-mcp` | `com.shippo/shippo-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-01 | 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 | 0 stars, 79 npm/wk | 3 stars, 73k npm/wk, 20k PyPI/wk |