Shipwell

Shipwell is an AI-powered transportation management system (TMS) and freight execution platform for shippers, brokers, and carriers. The Shipwell v2 Core API lets developers plan, rate, tender, book, track, and settle multimodal freight - parcel, LTL, truckload, intermodal, rail, and ocean - programmatically. It covers shipments, quoting and rating, carrier management, purchase orders and orders, documents, tenders, freight pay and audit, and a real-time events and webhooks surface. The production base URL is https://api.shipwell.com/v2 (the newer Orders API is served under https://api.shipwell.com without the /v2 prefix), with a fully separate sandbox at https://sandbox-api.shipwell.com/v2. Requests are authenticated with company-scoped API keys passed in the Authorization header. Access to the full platform and API is enterprise and contract-gated.

Shipwell publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Carriers API, Orders API, Quoting API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Transportation Management, TMS, Freight, Logistics, and Shipping.

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

Shipwell’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, signup flow, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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19.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent Heartbeat 85/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

Transportation Management TMS Freight Logistics Shipping Supply Chain

What this lets a business do 2

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

Supply Chain Management

BC-520

CarriersShipments

POST /shipments/ PUT /shipments/tenders/{tenderId}/ POST /shipments/{shipmentId}/carrier-assignments/ GET /carriers/

Developer Platform & API Ecosystem Management

BC-4270

Events & Webhooks

GET /events/ GET /events/event-names-by-version/ GET /webhooks/ POST /webhooks/

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 19.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 3.8 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.5 / 15

Access Clarity 1.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 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 Ask about this →
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) Ask about this →
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Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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Contract Quality scores 20.2 — up to +20.0 composite points Ask about this →
Access Clarity scores 6.4 — up to +18.7 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 29.8 — up to +14.0 composite points Ask about this →

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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.

Shipwell Carriers API

Carriers, carrier relationships, and carrier assignments. (partly confirmed)

Shipwell Orders API

Orders and purchase orders consolidated onto shipments. (modeled)

Shipwell Quoting API

Rates, quotes, RFQs, spot negotiations, and carrier bids. (modeled)

Shipwell Shipments API

Multimodal freight shipments - the central platform resource. (confirmed)

Shipwell Events & Webhooks API

Real-time supply-chain events and webhook subscriptions. (partly confirmed)

Open Collections 6

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

Shipwell v2 Core Carriers API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shipwell v2 Core Carriers Events and Webhooks API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shipwell v2 Core Carriers Orders API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shipwell v2 Core Carriers Quoting API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shipwell v2 Core Carriers Shipments API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shipwell v2 Core API

OPEN COLLECTION

Shipwell API pricing

Not yet checked against Shipwell's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-07-05 from www.shipwell.com/; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Request a Demo free	—
Shipwell TMS Platform enterprise	—
Enterprise / Custom enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Core API Requests: not published requests
Events and Webhooks: not published deliveries
Sandbox Usage: not published requests

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

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Shipwell Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Shipwell Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Shipwell Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs. Counts are the severity each rule declares, not results of running them.

Shipwell API Rules

65 rules · 62 error-severity 2 warn-severity 1 info-severity

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

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

Shipwell Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Shipwell Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

Shipwell Agentic Access

19 operations · 8 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

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 4

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: shipwell
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/shipwell/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Shipwell
kind: company
description: Shipwell is an AI-powered transportation management system (TMS) and freight execution platform for shippers,
  brokers, and carriers. The Shipwell v2 Core API lets developers plan, rate, tender, book, track, and settle multimodal freight
  - parcel, LTL, truckload, intermodal, rail, and ocean - programmatically. It covers shipments, quoting and rating, carrier
  management, purchase orders and orders, documents, tenders, freight pay and audit, and a real-time events and webhooks surface.
  The production base URL is https://api.shipwell.com/v2 (the newer Orders API is served under https://api.shipwell.com without
  the /v2 prefix), with a fully separate sandbox at https://sandbox-api.shipwell.com/v2. Requests are authenticated with company-scoped
  API keys passed in the Authorization header. Access to the full platform and API is enterprise and contract-gated.
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: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/shipwell.png
x-docs-platform: redocly
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- Transportation Management
- TMS
- Freight
- Logistics
- Shipping
- Supply Chain
created: '2026-07-05'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: shipwell:shipwell-carriers-api
  name: Shipwell Carriers API
  description: Carriers, carrier relationships, and carrier assignments. (partly confirmed)
  humanURL: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/shipments/create-your-first-shipment/
  baseURL: https://api.shipwell.com/v2
  tags:
  - Carrier
  tags_raw:
  - Carriers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shipwell-carriers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/shipments/create-your-first-shipment/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/tag/shipments/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/shipwell.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/shipwell.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/overview/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/tag/quoting/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/tag/carriers/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/orders/orders-legacy-v2/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/overview/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/webhook/what-are-webhooks/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/events-and-webhooks/overview/
- aid: shipwell:shipwell-orders-api
  name: Shipwell Orders API
  description: Orders and purchase orders consolidated onto shipments. (modeled)
  humanURL: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/shipments/create-your-first-shipment/
  baseURL: https://api.shipwell.com/v2
  tags:
  - Order
  tags_raw:
  - Orders
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shipwell-orders-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/shipments/create-your-first-shipment/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/tag/shipments/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/shipwell.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/shipwell.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/overview/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/tag/quoting/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/tag/carriers/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/orders/orders-legacy-v2/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/overview/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/webhook/what-are-webhooks/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/events-and-webhooks/overview/
- aid: shipwell:shipwell-quoting-api
  name: Shipwell Quoting API
  description: Rates, quotes, RFQs, spot negotiations, and carrier bids. (modeled)
  humanURL: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/shipments/create-your-first-shipment/
  baseURL: https://api.shipwell.com/v2
  tags:
  - Quoting
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shipwell-quoting-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/shipments/create-your-first-shipment/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/tag/shipments/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/shipwell.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/shipwell.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/overview/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/tag/quoting/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/tag/carriers/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/orders/orders-legacy-v2/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/overview/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/webhook/what-are-webhooks/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/events-and-webhooks/overview/
- aid: shipwell:shipwell-shipments-api
  name: Shipwell Shipments API
  description: Multimodal freight shipments - the central platform resource. (confirmed)
  humanURL: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/shipments/create-your-first-shipment/
  baseURL: https://api.shipwell.com/v2
  tags:
  - Shipments
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shipwell-shipments-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/shipments/create-your-first-shipment/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/tag/shipments/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/shipwell.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/shipwell.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/overview/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/tag/quoting/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/tag/carriers/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/orders/orders-legacy-v2/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/overview/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/webhook/what-are-webhooks/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/events-and-webhooks/overview/
- aid: shipwell:shipwell-events-webhooks-api
  name: Shipwell Events & Webhooks API
  description: Real-time supply-chain events and webhook subscriptions. (partly confirmed)
  humanURL: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/shipments/create-your-first-shipment/
  baseURL: https://api.shipwell.com/v2
  tags:
  - Events & Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/shipwell-events-webhooks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/shipments/create-your-first-shipment/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/tag/shipments/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/shipwell.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/shipwell.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/overview/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/tag/quoting/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/tag/carriers/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/orders/orders-legacy-v2/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/backend-core/overview/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/docs/webhook/what-are-webhooks/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.shipwell.com/openapi_pages/events-and-webhooks/overview/
common:
- url: https://www.shipwell.com/blog/rss.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/shipwell-capability-edges.yml
  name: Shipwell Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/shipwell-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/shipwell-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/shipwell-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.shipwell.com/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/shipwell
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.shipwell.com/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.shipwell.com/request-a-demo
- type: Plans
  url: plans/shipwell-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/shipwell-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/shipwell-finops.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.shipwell.com/blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Shipwell API — frequently asked questions

Does Shipwell have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Shipwell, including Shipwell Carriers API, Shipwell Orders API and Shipwell Quoting API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Shipwell API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Shipwell, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Shipwell API?

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

How much does the Shipwell API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Shipwell, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Shipwell API ready for AI agents?

Shipwell has a Kin Score of 19.4 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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