Cargoson

Cargoson is an Estonian B2B cloud transport management software (TMS) platform for manufacturers and wholesalers. Its unified REST API lets shippers request freight rates, book shipments, generate labels, and track deliveries across 2,000+ carriers using one set of endpoints, authentication, and data formats. Cargoson is carrier-neutral; customers contract directly with their own carriers and upload their own freight rates.

Cargoson publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Carriers API, Price Requests API, Shipments API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Transport Management, TMS, Freight, Shipping, and Logistics.

The Cargoson catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Cargoson’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 10 more developer resources.

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1 published contract

Transport Management TMS Freight Shipping Logistics Carrier

What this lets a business do 3

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Shipment Visibility & Tracking Management

BC-2510

Transports & Tracking

GET /bookings/{reference}

Freight Rating & Tariff Management

BC-2520

Price Requests

POST /freightPrices/list

Freight Capacity Management

BC-2400

Shipments

POST /queries

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 27.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.4 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.4 / 15

Access Clarity 1.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.8 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 2.3 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
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Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 22.6 — up to +15.5 composite points
Contract Quality scores 50.2 — up to +12.5 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Cargoson Webhooks

Cargoson can deliver real-time event notifications (shipment status updates, booking confirmations, shipment changes) to a customer-configured endpoint URL, set up under Setting...

Cargoson Carriers API

List carrier services available on the account.

Cargoson Price Requests API

Retrieve live freight rate quotes across activated carriers.

Cargoson Shipments API

Create shipment queries and direct bookings, retrieve labels.

Cargoson Transports & Tracking API

Retrieve booking, transport, and tracking details.

Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Cargoson Carriers API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cargoson Carriers Price Requests API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cargoson Carriers Shipments API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cargoson Carriers Transports & Tracking API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cargoson API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cargoson API pricing

Not yet checked against Cargoson's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-21 from www.cargoson.com/; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Retail subscription	—
Industry subscription	—
Corporation subscription	—
Custom enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Account Request Limit: see provider documentation requests
Carrier-Relayed Limits: see carrier documentation requests

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Cargoson's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Cargoson Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cargoson Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Cargoson

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Cargoson Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Cargoson API Rules

63 rules · 61 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Cargoson Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Cargoson Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Cargoson Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Cargoson Agentic Access

5 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cargoson
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cargoson/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Cargoson
kind: company
description: Cargoson is an Estonian B2B cloud transport management software (TMS) platform for manufacturers and wholesalers.
  Its unified REST API lets shippers request freight rates, book shipments, generate labels, and track deliveries across 2,000+
  carriers using one set of endpoints, authentication, and data formats. Cargoson is carrier-neutral; customers contract directly
  with their own carriers and upload their own freight rates.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cargoson.png
tags:
- Transport Management
- TMS
- Freight
- Shipping
- Logistics
- Carrier
tags_raw:
- Transport Management
- TMS
- Freight
- Shipping
- Logistics
- Carriers
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: cargoson:webhooks
  name: Cargoson Webhooks
  tags:
  - Webhook
  - Event
  - Notification
  tags_raw:
  - Webhooks
  - Events
  - Notifications
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.cargoson.com/en/blog/what-are-webhooks-and-how-do-they-work
  baseURL: https://www.cargoson.com/api/v1
  properties:
  - url: https://www.cargoson.com/en/blog/what-are-webhooks-and-how-do-they-work
    type: Documentation
  description: Cargoson can deliver real-time event notifications (shipment status updates, booking confirmations, shipment
    changes) to a customer-configured endpoint URL, set up under Settings > Integrations > Webhooks. Public payload schemas
    are not documented; setup is arranged with Cargoson support.
- aid: cargoson:cargoson-carriers-api
  name: Cargoson Carriers API
  description: List carrier services available on the account.
  humanURL: https://www.cargoson.com/en/integrations
  baseURL: https://www.cargoson.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Carrier
  tags_raw:
  - Carriers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cargoson-carriers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cargoson.com/en/integrations
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/cargoson.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/cargoson.opencollection.json
- aid: cargoson:cargoson-price-requests-api
  name: Cargoson Price Requests API
  description: Retrieve live freight rate quotes across activated carriers.
  humanURL: https://www.cargoson.com/en/integrations
  baseURL: https://www.cargoson.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Price Requests
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cargoson-price-requests-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cargoson.com/en/integrations
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/cargoson.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/cargoson.opencollection.json
- aid: cargoson:cargoson-shipments-api
  name: Cargoson Shipments API
  description: Create shipment queries and direct bookings, retrieve labels.
  humanURL: https://www.cargoson.com/en/integrations
  baseURL: https://www.cargoson.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Shipments
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cargoson-shipments-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cargoson.com/en/integrations
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/cargoson.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/cargoson.opencollection.json
- aid: cargoson:cargoson-transports-tracking-api
  name: Cargoson Transports & Tracking API
  description: Retrieve booking, transport, and tracking details.
  humanURL: https://www.cargoson.com/en/integrations
  baseURL: https://www.cargoson.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Transports & Tracking
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cargoson-transports-tracking-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.cargoson.com/en/integrations
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/cargoson.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/cargoson.opencollection.json
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/cargoson-capability-edges.yml
  name: Cargoson Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/cargoson-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/cargoson-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cargoson-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cargoson-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/cargoson
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cargoson
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cargoson.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.cargoson.com/en/integrations
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cargoson-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cargoson-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/cargoson-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Cargoson API — frequently asked questions

Does Cargoson have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Cargoson, including Cargoson Webhooks, Cargoson Carriers API and Cargoson Price Requests API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Cargoson API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 4 OpenAPI specifications for Cargoson, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Cargoson API?

Cargoson uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Cargoson Authentication.

How much does the Cargoson API cost?

APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for Cargoson, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Cargoson API ready for AI agents?

Cargoson has a Kin Score of 27.8 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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