# ShipBob vs Shippo (slim)

> Shippo scores 61.9 (C) on agent readiness against ShipBob's 60.8 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ShipBob leads on reliability and transparency & trust. 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 ShipBob's 60.8 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. ShipBob leads on reliability and transparency & trust. Both do shipping rates.

- ShipBob: C 60.8, rank #387 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shipbob.min.md
- Shippo: C 61.9, rank #355 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippo.min.md
- ShipBob, good for An agent working for a merchant that already stores stock with ShipBob, to create and track orders, check inventory, book inbound stock and handle returns. Ahead on Reliability, 77 against 59; Transparency & trust, 77 against 61.
- 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 Agent ergonomics, 64 against 56; Payments & pricing, 40 against 20; Maintenance & community, 77 against 41.

| Category | ShipBob | Shippo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 77 | 59 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 85 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 56 | 64 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 55 | 52 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 41 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ShipBob | Shippo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | ShipBob, Inc. | Shippo |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.shipbob.com` | `https://api.goshippo.com` |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Price for shipping rates | not published | $0.01 per call |
| Licence | Proprietary service under ShipBob's Terms of Service. The MCP tutorials repository on GitHub has no licence file | Proprietary service under Shippo's terms of use. The SDKs and the goshippo/ai repository (skills and MCP bridge) are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 73 | 4 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `com.shippo/shippo-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-07-31 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-05-22 | couldn't be read |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-03-29 | couldn't be read |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | couldn't be read |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | couldn't be read |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | none | 3 stars, 73k npm/wk, 20k PyPI/wk |