# ShippyPro vs ShipStation API (slim)

> ShipStation API scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against ShippyPro's 48.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ShippyPro leads on reliability and security & auth. Both do shipping rates. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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ShipStation API scores 59.3 (C) on agent readiness against ShippyPro's 48.7 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. ShippyPro leads on reliability and security & auth. Both do shipping rates.

- ShippyPro: D 48.7, rank #718 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shippypro.min.md
- ShipStation API: C 59.3, rank #501 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/shipstation.min.md
- 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 Reliability, 70 against 64; Security & auth, 51 against 32.
- 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 Schema & documentation, 83 against 64; Agent ergonomics, 64 against 46; Payments & pricing, 40 against 5; Maintenance & community, 73 against 25; Transparency & trust, 64 against 58.

| Category | ShippyPro | ShipStation API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 70 | 64 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 64 | 83 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 46 | 64 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 51 | 32 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 5 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 25 | 73 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 58 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | ShippyPro | ShipStation API |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Italian Valley S.r.l. | Auctane LLC d/b/a ShipStation |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.shippypro.com` | `https://api.shipstation.com/v2` |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary service under ShippyPro's Terms & Conditions. Both OpenAPI files state the licence as Proprietary | Proprietary service under ShipStation's terms of service. The v2 OpenAPI file is marked MIT and the SDKs on GitHub are Apache 2.0 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | 2026-03-18 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | none | 6.8k npm/wk |