The Savings Your Rate Card Will Never Show You

A rate card tells you what a carrier charges. It doesn’t tell you what a wrong service-level decision costs you on a single label. At real volume, a few cents of avoidable spend per shipment adds up to millions a year, and because it never lands as its own line item on an invoice, most teams never catch it.

That gap between what a rate card shows and what a shipping decision actually costs is the problem Luma AI was built to close. And now shippers can give it a try for free with our new Luma Savings Estimator.

The Luma Savings Estimator answers a specific question: based on how shippers with a profile like yours are actually performing, what could you be saving right now? Not hypothetically. It’s an estimate modeled against more than a billion comparable shipments, built from your own answers about how you ship today.

How it works

You answer a short set of questions about your shipping operation: your volume, carriers, package weight, and zones. The Savings Estimator models those answers against a billion-plus comparable shipments and surfaces your biggest opportunity first, as a directional read rather than a full zone-by-zone breakdown.

There’s no carrier switch required to see the number, no contract, and no sales call to sit through first. You see where the money is before you change a single label.

See how others saved

One of Europe’s largest re-commerce marketplaces was shipping more than 25,000 U.S. labels a day, mostly through a single carrier, at an 80% on-time rate. Luma AI modeled a different service level for each shipment instead of a blanket default.

The result: cost per label dropped 4–5%, late deliveries fell by about 273,000 a year, and the marketplace saved more than $2M annually without adding a carrier or renegotiating a single contract. They didn’t switch carriers to get there. They changed how they decided which service level to use for each shipment, and the volume did the rest.

That’s the pattern behind most of the savings Luma AI finds. It’s rarely the base rate. It’s the decision layered on top of it, repeated across thousands of shipments a day, that most teams have never gone back and questioned.

The Estimator lets you try Luma AI for free

Luma Savings Estimator runs on a sample of comparable shipment data to produce your estimate. Once you’re on the EasyPost Suite, you can continuously run models on your live shipments instead, as part of Luma AI:

• Luma AI Insights turns your shipping data into decisions, benchmarking performance and modeling changes before you make them.
• Luma AI Advisor answers plain-language questions about cost, carriers, or delays, pulling across your cost, carrier, and delivery data instead of one dashboard at a time.
• Luma AI Select acts on what the other two surface, automatically choosing your best-value label based on rules you set.

Luma AI’s Savings Estimator surfaces the money that never shows up as its own line on an invoice. It’s buried across thousands of labels, and it compounds until someone finally goes looking.

Luma Savings Estimator is the first step towards taking that look. It shows you exactly where your decisions are costing more than your rate card ever could. Give it a try today.