EasyPost vs. Shipium
Shipium optimizes the network you already run. EasyPost runs the whole operation — including the insurance, claims, and global carriers Shipium hands off to someone else.
Two platforms. Two very different ceilings.
Shipium helps you analyze and optimize your network. EasyPost helps you optimize every shipment and run the whole operation in one place: carriers, AI, protection, and tracking. Where you land depends on how much of the operation you want on a single platform.
EasyPost
100+ carriers, Luma AI, built-in protection, and 99.99% uptime. One platform carries a shipment from label to claim, and 100,000+ shippers run on it worldwide.
- 100+ carriers worldwide, one integration
- Automatic best-value label selection across every carrier with Luma AI
- Peer benchmarking against similar shippers, on billions of shipments
- Shipping insurance and automated claims, built in
- Free to start, live within a day
Shipium
A shipping analytics and optimization platform built for large North America operators who want deep diagnostics and a managed rules-and-routing layer over an existing supply chain.
- Deep analytics and root-cause diagnostics (Orca AI)
- Standalone simulation before you commit to a change
- A business rules engine you configure without IT
- No native shipping insurance or claims
- No peer benchmarking, warehouse or omnichannel analytics
- North America-focused carrier network
- No public pricing or free trial
The full breakdown
Every dimension that affects your cost, flexibility, and ability to grow.
| What Matters | EasyPost | Shipium |
|---|---|---|
| Platform Scope & Lifecycle | ||
| End-to-end coverage | Connectivity, AI, insurance, claims, tracking, and analytics on one platform EP Wins | Optimization, execution, and analytics; insurance and post-purchase handled elsewhere |
| Native shipping insurance | ✓ Guard — in-house coverage at a flat 1% EP Wins | ✗ Not offered natively; connects third parties |
| Automated claims | ✓ USPS and FedEx claims filed automatically; $1M+ recovered for shippers EP Wins | ✗ Not offered |
| Branded post-purchase tracking | ✓ Track — branded pages, SMS and email, delivery estimates EP Wins | Shipment tracking (event consolidation) |
| Carrier Network & Reach | ||
| Carrier count | 100+ national, regional, same-day, cross-border, and consolidator carriers EP Wins | Carrier network, North America-focused |
| International shipping | Full global support on the same integration EP Wins | North America-focused |
| Pre-negotiated rates, no contract | ✓ Wallet Carriers — up to 88% off retail EP Wins | Bring your own carrier contracts |
| Intelligence & AI — Luma AI vs. Orca AI | ||
| Automated carrier selection | Luma AI Select shops the best-value label across 100+ carriers on every shipment EP Wins | Carrier optimization across a more limited network |
| Data set behind the AI | Billions of shipments, 100,000+ shippers, 13 years EP Wins | A smaller, newer dataset |
| Peer shipper benchmarking | ✓ Benchmarks you against similar shippers EP Wins | ✗ Not available |
| Warehouse and omnichannel analytics | ✓ Warehouse and omnichannel ops in the same analytics, one view past the parcel EP Wins | ✗ Parcel only; out of scope |
| Embedded natural-language querying | ✓ Built into the platform EP Wins | Analytics and chatbot |
| Root-cause analysis | ✓ Yes, on a deeper dataset Tie | ✓ Yes — a genuine Orca AI strength Tie |
| Carrier and delivery performance monitoring | Full, across 100+ carriers EP Wins | Limited by a smaller carrier network |
| Dashboards and analytics UI | ✓ Yes Tie | ✓ Yes Tie |
| Scenario simulation | Luma AI Insights simulates cost and delivery scenarios for EasyPost shippers | Standalone simulation engine SH Wins |
| Reliability & Scale | ||
| Published uptime SLA | 99.99%, maintained through consecutive peaks EP Wins | ✗ Not published |
| Proven volume | Billions of shipments, 100,000+ shippers worldwide EP Wins | Enterprise scale, North America |
| Access & Getting Started | ||
| Free self-serve signup | ✓ Start today with no contract EP Wins | ✗ Not available |
| Public pricing | Transparent, pay-per-use | Custom, enterprise only |
| API-first developer access | RESTful API, SDKs in seven languages EP Wins | Platform and integration-led |
| Time to first label | Within a day for most teams EP Wins | Enterprise implementation |
What Shipium wasn't built for
Shipium is strong inside its designed use case: optimizing and executing shipping for large North America operators. These are the moments that fall outside it.
When the platform choice actually matters
The difference is invisible at low volume. It shows up the first time shipping goes wrong, expands, or sprawls across too many tools.
A package is lost during peak, and it's one of thousands
There's no native insurance or claims. The team files through a third-party provider by hand, and at peak volume most small claims never get filed at all. The loss is simply absorbed.
Result: Revenue written off. Manual filing under pressure.Guard covers the shipment at a flat 1%, and USPS and FedEx claims file automatically. Recovery happens without anyone opening a ticket.
Result: Losses recovered. No manual work.A North America retailer starts shipping internationally
International sits outside the platform's core reach, so cross-border becomes a separate, manual workflow disconnected from domestic operations.
Result: Two systems to run. Fragmented from day one.International carriers activate through the same integration already handling domestic volume. Address verification, customs, and rate comparison run in one place.
Result: Global expansion in days, on one platform.An ops team is paying for five tools to run one shipping operation
Optimization and execution are covered, but labels for every carrier, insurance, claims, branded tracking, and lifecycle analytics still come from separate vendors, each with its own contract and dashboard.
Result: Duplicated cost. Data that doesn't connect.The API Suite covers the full lifecycle in one platform: connectivity, Luma AI, Guard, and Track. One integration, one source of shipping data.
Result: Fewer vendors. One operation, one view.Where Shipium shines
Shipium is a genuinely capable platform, and its analytics engine is a real strength. Here's where it's the right call.
Shipium is the right call — if you…
- Want deep analytics and root-cause diagnostics — Orca AI gives teams strong dashboards and clear answers on why costs and delivery times move
- Need network optimization — route, mode, and packaging optimization and zone skipping, purpose-built for complex North America supply chains
- Want rules without IT — a business rules engine an operations team configures directly, without waiting on engineering
- Model before you commit — a standalone simulation engine lets large operators test network changes against their own volume before rolling them out
What you get with EasyPost instead
- The full lifecycle on one platform: connectivity, Luma AI, Guard insurance and claims, and Track
- Peer benchmarking against similar shippers, on a dataset of billions of shipments across 100,000+ shippers over 13 years
- 100+ carriers with full global reach on the same integration, not a North America-focused network
- A free account and transparent pricing, so you can evaluate before you ever talk to sales
The honest answer on who should use which
The right platform depends on where your operation is today and where it's headed.
EasyPost
- ✓Want the full shipping lifecycle on one platform: labels, AI, insurance, claims, and tracking
- ✓Need shipping insurance and automated claims built in, not bolted on
- ✓Ship internationally, or plan to
- ✓Want AI that picks the best-value label and answers cost questions on demand
- ✓Want to benchmark your performance against similar shippers
- ✓Need warehouse and omnichannel analytics, not just parcel
- ✓Require a published uptime SLA and proven peak-season reliability
- ✓Prefer to start free and go live in a day, with transparent pricing
- ✓Manage shipping for multiple brands, clients, or channels
Shipium
- →Are a large North America retailer wanting a managed optimization layer
- →Need deep route, mode, and packaging optimization across a complex network
- →Want a rules engine your ops team configures without engineering
- →Rely on simulation to model network changes before committing
- →Want deep standalone analytics and root-cause diagnostics over your existing network
- →Don't need native insurance, global carrier reach, peer benchmarking, or a self-serve on-ramp
Proof from the operators who made the switch
Trusted by 100,000+ shippers worldwide, including Walmart, eBay, and Starbucks.
The technical comparison, for the team that will build it
Most of this decision is operational. But someone has to integrate it, so here's what the two platforms look like at the integration level.
EasyPost
API-first. One integration, every carrier. A single RESTful API and one key. Every carrier uses identical request and response patterns, so adding a carrier is configuration, not new code. SDKs for Python, Node.js, Ruby, PHP, Java, C#, and Go, with a full sandbox at production parity.
Shipium
Platform and integration-led. Shipium connects into an existing enterprise stack and coordinates workflows across systems like Manhattan and BlueYonder. It's built around a console and rules engine rather than a public, self-serve developer API, and there's no public sandbox or free developer account to build against.
| Capability | EasyPost | Shipium |
|---|---|---|
| Official SDKs | Seven languages EP Wins | Not publicly published |
| Sandbox / test env | Full production parity EP Wins | ✗ Not public |
| Self-serve API access | Free account, build today EP Wins | Sales-led onboarding |
| AI / carrier optimization | Luma AI across the full process, billions of shipments Tie | Orca AI analytics and optimization Tie |
| Carrier change management | EasyPost absorbs carrier changes; your code stays intact EP Wins | Managed within the platform |
| Uptime SLA | 99.99% published EP Wins | ✗ Not published |
// Add UPS to an existing USPS integration. // No new auth, no new endpoints, no new error handling. const shipment = await client.Shipment.create({ to_address, from_address, parcel }); const rate = shipment.lowestRate(['UPS', 'USPS', 'FedEx']); await shipment.buy(rate); // On Shipium, carrier and routing changes are managed inside the // platform's rules engine rather than a public, self-serve API.
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