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.
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.
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.
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.
Every dimension that shapes your cost, coverage, and ability to grow—compared honestly.
| 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 | ||
| Automated carrier selection | Luma AI Select shops the best-value label across 100+ carriers on every shipment.EP edge | Carrier optimization across a more limited network |
| Peer benchmarking | Benchmarks you against similar shippers, powered by billions of shipments.EP WINS | Not available |
| Warehouse & omnichannel analytics | Warehouse and omnichannel ops in the same analytics, one view past the parcel.EP WINS | Parcel only; out of scope |
| Scenario simulation | Luma AI Insights simulates cost and delivery scenarios for EasyPost shippers | Standalone simulation engine.Shipium strength |
| 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 | Yes, 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 |
Shipium helps you analyze your operation. EasyPost helps you optimize every shipment. Orca AI is a capable analytics and diagnostics engine. Luma AI runs across the whole process, connecting benchmarking, advisory, and automated rate shopping directly to execution, on a dataset built from billions of shipments across 100,000+ shippers.
| Capability | EasyPost — Luma AI | Shipium — Orca AI |
|---|---|---|
| Dashboards & analytics UI | Yes | Yestie |
| Embedded natural-language querying | Built into the platform.Luma | Analytics and chatbot |
| Root-cause analysis | Yes, on a deeper dataset.Luma | YesShipium strength |
| Data set behind the AI | Billions of shipments, 100,000+ shippers, 13 years.Luma | A smaller, newer dataset |
| Carrier & delivery performance monitoring | Full, across 100+ carriers.Luma | Limited by a smaller carrier network |
| Peer shipper benchmarking | Yes.Luma | Not available |
| Scenario simulation | Yes, for EasyPost shippers | Standalone engine.Shipium |
| Warehouse operations analytics | Yes.Luma | Not available |
| Omnichannel operations | Yes.Luma | Not available |
One honest call: Shipium's standalone simulation engine is a genuine strength. Luma AI Insights simulates cost and delivery scenarios for EasyPost shippers today, and the rest of the AI layer, from benchmarking to embedded advisory to warehouse and omnichannel analytics, is coverage Orca AI doesn't offer.
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 a package is lost or damaged, insurance and claims live with a separate vendor. Recovery is manual, and small claims rarely get filed.
Revenue riskCross-border and international volume runs on a different system, so global expansion fragments your operation.
Coverage riskOptimization and execution are covered; labels, insurance, tracking, and analytics for the full lifecycle still pull in other tools.
Vendor-sprawl riskWith a smaller, newer dataset, there's no peer benchmarking to show how you stack up against similar shippers. You optimize in a vacuum.
Blind-spot riskWith no public pricing or free trial, every evaluation runs through sales before you can test anything.
Evaluation frictionThe difference is invisible at low volume. It shows up the first time shipping goes wrong, expands, or sprawls across too many tools.
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.
Guard covers the shipment at a flat 1%, and USPS and FedEx claims file automatically. Recovery happens without anyone opening a ticket.
International sits outside the platform's core reach, so cross-border becomes a separate, manual workflow disconnected from domestic operations.
International carriers activate through the same integration already handling domestic volume. Address verification, customs, and rate comparison run in one place.
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.
The API Suite covers the full lifecycle in one platform: connectivity, Luma AI, Guard, and Track. One integration, one source of shipping data.
“We've been able to reduce costs, improve delivery timelines, and keep our premium customer experience intact.”
Read the full story: how Kase uses EasyPost
Trusted by 100,000+ shippers worldwide, including Walmart, eBay, and Starbucks.
Shipium is a genuinely capable platform, and its analytics engine is a real strength. Here's where it's the right call.
Orca AI gives teams strong dashboards and clear answers on why costs and delivery times move.
Route, mode, and packaging optimization and zone skipping, purpose-built for complex North America supply chains.
A business rules engine an operations team configures directly, without waiting on engineering.
A standalone simulation engine lets large operators test network changes against their own volume before rolling them out.
Shipium is a strong analytics, simulation, and optimization platform for large North America operators. The real question isn't whether it works. It's how much of your operation you want on one platform, and how deep the data behind your AI goes. Shipium helps you analyze and optimize your network. EasyPost helps you optimize every shipment and run all of it globally: connectivity, AI, protection, and tracking, on billions of shipments across 100,000+ shippers over 13 years.
The right platform depends on where your operation is today and where it's headed.
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.
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 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 | Orca AI analytics and optimization.both |
| 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.
Free to start. Most teams are live within a day. Bring the carriers you already use, and gain the AI, protection, and global reach you don't have yet.