# Ship24 vs ShippyPro

> Ship24 scores 55 (C) on agent readiness against ShippyPro's 48.7 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ShippyPro leads on reliability, security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do shipping tracking. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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- Updated: 2026-10-09

Ship24 scores 55 (C) on agent readiness against ShippyPro's 48.7 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ShippyPro leads on reliability, security & auth and transparency & trust. Both do shipping tracking.

- Ship24: grade C, 55/100, rank #604 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ship24.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ship24.json
- ShippyPro: grade D, 48.7/100, rank #718 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippypro.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shippypro.json

## Which one, for what

### Ship24 (C)

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 64
- Agent ergonomics, 68 against 46
- Payments & pricing, 30 against 5
- Maintenance & community, 80 against 25

Watch for: No status page was found. `status.ship24.com` doesn't resolve, and neither the site nor the docs link to one

### ShippyPro (D)

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:
- Reliability, 70 against 45
- Security & auth, 51 against 37
- Transparency & trust, 58 against 52

Watch for: The help centre says APIs can only be activated with an Enterprise plan, which has no public price and starts with sales


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Ship24 | ShippyPro | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 45 | 70 | ShippyPro +25 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 81 | 64 | Ship24 +17 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 68 | 46 | Ship24 +22 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 37 | 51 | ShippyPro +14 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 5 | Ship24 +25 |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 25 | Ship24 +55 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 52 | 58 | ShippyPro +6 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **55 · C** | **48.7 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Ship24 | ShippyPro |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Ship24 Limited | Italian Valley S.r.l. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.ship24.com/public/v1` | `https://api.shippypro.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | API key |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Price for shipping tracking | $0.045 per transaction | not published |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Ship24's Terms and Conditions. The Node SDK and the AI plugin on GitHub are MIT | Proprietary service under ShippyPro's Terms & Conditions. Both OpenAPI files state the licence as Proprietary |
| Tools exposed | 12 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `com.ship24/tracking-mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | none |
| Terms last updated | no date given | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-01 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 0 stars, 79 npm/wk | none |

## Verdicts

**Ship24.** The REST API and the hosted MCP server share one public OpenAPI 3.1 spec, numbered rate limits with Retry-After, and tracker creation that is idempotent by payload. No status page, SLA or security certification was found, API keys carry no scopes, and the API agreement and data processing agreement named in the terms aren't published.

**ShippyPro.** Two OpenAPI 3.1 files, a published limit of 20 calls per 10 seconds and a 99.5 per cent monthly SLA with service credits are public. API access needs an Enterprise plan arranged through sales, no changelog or SDK was found, and label creation on v1 has no idempotency key.

## Before you call either

### Ship24

1. Send `Authorization: Bearer apik_...` to `https://api.ship24.com/public/v1`. The same key works on the MCP server, which lists tools without a key but answers 401 on calls
2. Store the `trackerId` or set a unique `clientTrackerId`. Tracking numbers aren't unique, and any changed field on a repeat `POST /trackers` creates a second tracker that uses quota
3. Allow up to 60 seconds for the first `POST /trackers/track` or `POST /tracking/search` call, since results are fetched from the courier synchronously
4. Cache `GET /couriers`. It is limited to one request a second and returns the whole courier list, and courier auto-detection usually makes `courierCode` unnecessary
5. Check for `quota_limit_reached` and `no_active_subscription`. `POST /tracking/search` needs a separate per-call plan, and the free plan blocks at 10 shipments a month

### ShippyPro

1. Send `Authorization: Bearer <API key>` and POST a JSON body with `Method` and `Params` to `https://api.shippypro.com/v1/<Method>`. Parameter names are case-sensitive
2. Check `Status` and `ErrorMessage` in every `Ship` response. HTTP 200 with `Status` 2 means no label was created
3. Before retrying a failed `Ship` call, look the order up by `TransactionID`. v1 has no idempotency key, and each label counts against the plan
4. Test with the Generic carrier. `Ship` and `Edit` calls on a real carrier create real labels
5. Stay under 20 calls per 10 seconds, and use webhooks for tracking. The docs advise against `GetTracking` in bulk

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Ship24 or ShippyPro?

Ship24 scores 55 (C) on agent readiness against ShippyPro's 48.7 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. ShippyPro leads on reliability, security & auth and transparency & trust.

### Do Ship24 and ShippyPro need an API key?

Both need an API key.

### Can an agent call Ship24 and ShippyPro without installing anything?

Yes. Ship24 has a hosted endpoint at https://api.ship24.com/public/v1 and ShippyPro at https://api.shippypro.com.


## For agents

- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ship24-vs-shippypro.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/ship24-vs-shippypro.min.md
- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {"a": "ship24", "b": "shippypro"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare ship24 shippypro`
- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/ship24.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/shippypro.json

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