shippingrates-org

ShippingRates provides a freight rate API, quote builder, and shipping intelligence platform. It offers tools for calculating shipping costs, historical carrier rates, detention, local charges, and demurrage. The service includes a public API for freight data, rate comparisons, and landed cost calculations, targeting logistics agents and developers seeking shipping rate automation.

shippingrates-org is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Shipping, Freight, API, Logistics, and Rates.

The shippingrates-org catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

shippingrates-org’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, engineering blog, and 10 more developer resources.

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32.6/100 thin Agent 18/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →
2 APIs
ShippingFreightAPILogisticsRates

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0
Composite quality — 32.6/100 · thin
Contract Quality 7.5 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 3.2 / 17
Access Clarity 3.6 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11
Contract Governance 8.1 / 10
Discoverability 4.9 / 9
Regulatory Posture 2.8 / 15
Agent readiness — 18/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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 5 / 5
Distinct Operations 3 / 3
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):
  • Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
  • Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
  • 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)
  • A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
  • Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
  • Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):
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APIs 2

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

ShippingRates API

Public API for freight rate calculations, shipping intelligence, and rate comparisons.

shippingrates-org API

shippingrates-org API as documented publicly: 7 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API Evangelist (2026-10-31); not the provider's own document.

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

shippingrates-org API Rules

10 rules · 8 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 1

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

Shippingrates Org Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral
Spectral
 Vocabulary
Vocabulary
 Conformance
Conformance

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts
Hosts
 Vendors
Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: shippingrates-org
name: shippingrates-org
image: https://shippingrates.org/assets/showcase-social.svg
description: ShippingRates provides a freight rate API, quote builder, and shipping intelligence platform. It offers tools
  for calculating shipping costs, historical carrier rates, detention, local charges, and demurrage. The service includes
  a public API for freight data, rate comparisons, and landed cost calculations, targeting logistics agents and developers
  seeking shipping rate automation.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/shippingrates-org/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-31 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-31'
modified: '2026-10-31'
tags:
- Shipping
- Freight
- API
- Logistics
- Rates
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/shippingrates-org-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/shippingrates-org-vocabulary.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/shippingrates-org-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/shippingrates-org-llms.txt
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/shippingrates-org-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/shippingrates-org-vendors.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/shippingrates-org-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://shippingrates.org/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://shippingrates.org/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://shippingrates.org/docs/interactive
- type: Blog
  url: https://shippingrates.org/blog
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://shippingrates.org/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://shippingrates.org/privacy
apis:
- name: ShippingRates API
  description: Public API for freight rate calculations, shipping intelligence, and rate comparisons.
  humanURL: https://shippingrates.org/docs
  baseURL: null
  aid: shippingrates-org:shippingrates-api
- aid: shippingrates-org:shippingrates-org-api
  name: shippingrates-org API
  description: 'shippingrates-org API as documented publicly: 7 operations. Contract generated from the documentation by API
    Evangelist (2026-10-31);

    not the provider''s own document.'
  humanURL: https://shippingrates.org/docs
  baseURL: https://api.shippingrates.org
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/_ae-authored/shippingrates-org-openapi-generated.yml
    x-provenance: generated
x-coverage:
  state: unreadable
  reason: no-machine-readable-spec
  detail: Docs are public HTML but no OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, or other machine-readable spec was found.
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.shippingrates.org/openapi.json
    status: 410
  - url: https://shippingrates.org/openapi.json
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-10-31'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-31'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 14
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

shippingrates-org API — frequently asked questions

Does shippingrates-org have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from shippingrates-org, including ShippingRates API and shippingrates-org API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the shippingrates-org API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for shippingrates-org, each linked for download from this page.

Is the shippingrates-org API ready for AI agents?

shippingrates-org has a Kin Score of 32.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 17.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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