Comparison
Shipyu vs EasyPost (2026)
EasyPost is a shipping platform: label purchase, carrier rates, address verification, insurance, and tracking, sold as a suite of APIs. Shipyu is a shipment tracking API: one POST creates a tracker, and HMAC-signed webhooks deliver every status change. They overlap on tracking and diverge almost everywhere else — this page is an honest account of where each one wins.
The short answer
Choose EasyPost if you want labels, carrier rates, address verification, insurance, and tracking from one vendor, or if you need the lowest possible per-shipment price — their published tracking range starts at $0.01, below Shipyu's $0.020. Choose Shipyu if you want to know what tracking will cost before you talk to anyone. EasyPost lists its Tracking API at "$0.01-$0.03 per shipment" with "Contact sales" as the call to action, so the figure is a three-fold range settled in a sales conversation; Shipyu publishes a six-bracket rate card from $0.020 down to $0.015 that you can compute exactly for your volume before creating an account. Shipyu also does tracking and nothing else, so the roadmap, the docs, and the published operational contract — retry schedule, rate limits, retention — are all about tracking rather than about labels.
What each one costs
Shipyu · published
$0.020 per tracker
falling to $0.015 across six brackets
- 500 trackers$10.00
- 1,000 trackers$20.00
- 5,000 trackers$100.00
Computable before you create an account. No quote, no range, no call.
EasyPost · quoted
$0.01–$0.03 per shipment
Advanced Tracking listed at $0.03
A three-fold range, with “Contact sales” as the call to action on both tracking products. Their published floor is below ours — if per-shipment cost is the deciding factor, they may well come in cheaper. What their page does not say is what places a given account inside the range.
Source: EasyPost pricing →In EasyPost's own words
Quoted directly from their pricing page and plan comparison, so you can check the claims above against the source rather than take our summary of them.
“$0.01-$0.03 per shipment”
“Contact sales”
“Branded tracking, notifications, and full shipment visibility.”
Side by side
Every Shipyu claim below is implemented and verifiable in our codebase. Where we could not confirm EasyPost's behaviour from their published documentation, the row says so rather than guessing.
What tracking costs
Edge: Shipyu- Shipyu
- A published six-bracket rate card: $0.020 per tracker falling to $0.015 at volume. You can compute your exact monthly bill before creating an account, and the calculator on the pricing page does it for you.
- EasyPost
- EasyPost lists its Tracking API at "$0.01-$0.03 per shipment" and Advanced Tracking at "$0.03 per shipment", both with "Contact sales" as the call to action. The page does not say what places a given account inside that three-fold range.
This row is about certainty, not cost. Their floor is genuinely below ours — see the next row.
Lowest achievable price
Edge: EasyPost- Shipyu
- $0.020 per tracker at entry, falling to $0.015 in the top bracket. There is no rate below $0.015 without a negotiated contract.
- EasyPost
- The published tracking range starts at $0.01 per shipment — below Shipyu's entry rate and below our volume rate. If the only thing that matters is per-shipment cost, EasyPost can win.
Getting started
Edge: Comparable- Shipyu
- Self-serve signup, and a free test key is issued as soon as your email is verified. Test mode never expires and needs no card.
- EasyPost
- Also self-serve: signup takes a name, email and password, and test mode is free with keys available immediately. Reaching a tracking price, though, means the sales form the pricing page links to.
Both products let you start building for free in minutes. The difference is not access, it is whether you can find out the price without asking.
Product focus
Edge: Shipyu- Shipyu
- Shipment tracking and nothing else. The whole roadmap, documentation set, and support surface is about trackers, carrier status normalization, and webhook delivery.
- EasyPost
- Tracking is one product in a shipping suite that also covers label purchase, carrier rates, address verification, and insurance.
Which way this cuts depends on what you need. A single vendor for labels and tracking is a real advantage if you buy labels; if you only track, it means your use case is one of several competing for attention.
Breadth of the platform
Edge: EasyPost- Shipyu
- No label purchase, no rate shopping, no address verification, no insurance. If you need those, you need another vendor alongside Shipyu.
- EasyPost
- Labels, rates, address verification, insurance, and tracking through one integration and one contract.
Published operational contract
Not verified- Shipyu
- Retry schedule (5 attempts at 1 minute, 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 2 hours, 12 hours with ±20% jitter), rate limits (100/minute, 1,000/hour), and 90-day log retention are all published, so you can design your receiver against them.
- EasyPost
- Not verified against their documentation at the time of writing.
Webhook signing
Not verified- Shipyu
- Every delivery is HMAC-SHA256 signed as t=<timestamp>,v1=<signature>, so receivers can verify origin and reject replays. Secrets rotate from the console.
- EasyPost
- EasyPost supports webhooks with signature verification. We have not verified the current scheme against their documentation.
AI agent access
Edge: Shipyu- Shipyu
- Official MCP server at /api/mcp with seven tools, so Claude Code, Cursor, and other agents create and read trackers directly.
- EasyPost
- No official MCP server found in EasyPost's published documentation as of August 2026.
Which one should you choose?
Choose EasyPost if…
- You buy shipping labels as well as tracking them, and want one integration and one invoice for both.
- Per-shipment cost is the deciding factor — their published range starts below Shipyu's entry rate.
- You need address verification, rate shopping, or parcel insurance alongside tracking.
- You want branded tracking pages and customer notifications, which their Advanced Tracking product covers and Shipyu does not offer.
Choose Shipyu if…
- You want to know what tracking will cost before you create an account, rather than after a sales call.
- Tracking is the problem you are solving, and you would rather it were your vendor's whole product than one of five.
- You want the operational contract in writing — retry schedule, rate limits, retention — so you can design your receiver against published behaviour.
- Your team works through AI agents and you want shipment tracking available to them directly over MCP.
Frequently asked questions
Is Shipyu cheaper than EasyPost?
Not necessarily, and possibly not at all. EasyPost publishes a tracking range starting at $0.01 per shipment, below Shipyu's $0.020 entry rate and below the $0.015 volume rate. What Shipyu offers is not a lower price but a knowable one: the full six-bracket rate card is published and you can compute your exact bill before signing up, whereas EasyPost's tracking figure is a three-fold range with "Contact sales" as the call to action.
How much does the EasyPost Tracking API cost?
EasyPost lists its Tracking API at "$0.01-$0.03 per shipment" and Advanced Tracking, which adds branded tracking and notifications, at "$0.03 per shipment". Both carry "Contact sales" rather than a self-serve purchase path, and the pricing page does not state what determines where inside that range a given account falls. Figures read from their pricing page in August 2026 — check it for current pricing.
Can I try EasyPost for free?
Yes. EasyPost signup is self-serve — name, email and password — and test mode is free with API keys available immediately, so you can build against their API without paying. The same is true of Shipyu: a free test key is issued as soon as your email is verified and test mode never expires. Neither product requires you to pay to start building; the difference is that Shipyu also publishes what production will cost.
Does Shipyu do everything EasyPost does?
No, and not close. EasyPost covers label purchase, carrier rate shopping, address verification, insurance, and tracking. Shipyu does shipment tracking only — no labels, no rates, no address verification, no branded tracking pages. If you need those, EasyPost or another shipping platform is the right choice, and Shipyu would be an addition rather than a replacement.
Why would I use a tracking-only API instead of a shipping platform?
Because focus shows up in the parts you rely on. A vendor whose entire product is tracking publishes its retry schedule, rate limits, and retention policy; its documentation, error messages, and roadmap are about carrier status rather than about labels. If tracking is incidental to your product, a suite is simpler. If tracking is load-bearing, a specialist is easier to design against.
Sources and accuracy
EasyPost information on this page was compiled on . EasyPost's tracking prices and calls to action above are quoted from their public pricing page on the date shown, and the signup description comes from their live signup form. Where we could not confirm something from their documentation — their webhook retry schedule and published rate limits — the row says so rather than implying an absence. EasyPost's published range starts below Shipyu's rate, and this page says so plainly rather than omitting it. Pricing changes: check the links below before deciding, and tell us if anything here is wrong.