# Ship24 vs ShipStation API (slim)

> ShipStation API scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against Ship24's 55 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Ship24 leads on security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do shipping tracking. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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ShipStation API scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against Ship24's 55 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Ship24 leads on security & auth and maintenance & community. Both do shipping tracking.

- Ship24: C 55, rank #522 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ship24.min.md
- ShipStation API: C 59.3, rank #433 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shipstation.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. Ahead on Security & auth, 37 against 32; Maintenance & community, 80 against 73.
- ShipStation API, good for An agent working inside a merchant's existing ShipStation account (orders, batches, inventory, labels), or a developer who wants a free sandbox through the ShipStation API plans. Ahead on Reliability, 64 against 45; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Transparency & trust, 64 against 52.

| Category | Ship24 | ShipStation API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 45 | 64 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 68 | 64 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 37 | 32 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 52 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Ship24 | ShipStation API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Ship24 Limited | Auctane LLC d/b/a ShipStation |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.ship24.com/public/v1` | `https://api.shipstation.com/v2` |
| Price for shipping tracking | $0.045 per transaction | not published |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Ship24's Terms and Conditions. The Node SDK and the AI plugin on GitHub are MIT | Proprietary service under ShipStation's terms of service. The v2 OpenAPI file is marked MIT and the SDKs on GitHub are Apache 2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 12 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `com.ship24/tracking-mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-01 | 2026-03-18 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| 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 | yes |
| Popularity | 0 stars, 79 npm/wk | 6.8k npm/wk |