# uShip

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/uship/  
**Website:** https://www.uship.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 8

uShip is an online shipping marketplace, founded in 2004 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, that connects individuals and businesses with a network of professional transport service providers to move large, heavy, and oversized freight — cars and light trucks, motorcycles and powersports, boats, furniture and household goods, heavy equipment, livestock, and LTL freight. Shippers list a shipment for free and carriers compete with bids or bookable published rates, giving shippers pricing transparency and choice. uShip exposes the marketplace to partners, affiliates, brokers, carriers, and eCommerce platforms through the uShip API (v2), a RESTful, hypermedia-driven JSON API secured with OAuth 2.0 covering shipment search, listing creation by commodity category, bidding, published/LTL rate requests and rate acceptance, booking, tracking and transit statuses, lookups, and integrator user management. API access is partner-gated — the developer portal at developer.uship.com is invitation-only and access is granted by the uShip API team.

## Kin Score — 37.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 42.7 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 26.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |
| Access Clarity | 44.7 |

## Agent readiness — 22.7 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## APIs (8)

- **uShip API v2** — The core uShip marketplace API — a RESTful, hypermedia-driven JSON API over the shipment lifecycle: searching active listings, creating and retrieving listings by commodity cate...
- **uShip Published Rates API** — Bookable, algorithmically priced rates published by service providers in response to shipping-customer rate requests, as an alternative to the auction/bidding flow. Covers the s...
- **uShip LTL Connect API** — LTL Connect is uShip's marketplace-connected less-than-truckload product, quoting and booking LTL freight against uShip's carrier network. Documented on the uShip developer port...
- **uShip LTL Direct API** — LTL Direct exposes uShip's directly contracted LTL carrier rates for shipper integrations, as the counterpart to LTL Connect. Documented on the uShip developer portal with its o...
- **uShip Cars and Light Trucks API** — The vehicle-transport slice of the uShip API — listing creation, published rates, and booking for cars and light trucks, including year/make/model and body-type lookups used by ...
- **uShip Furniture and Home Delivery API** — The furniture and household-goods slice of the uShip API, used by furniture retailers and eCommerce sellers to quote, book, and track first-to-final-mile big-and-bulky home deli...
- **uShip Integrator Users API** — User-management endpoints for integration partners — provisioning and managing the uShip user accounts an integrator creates and acts on behalf of within the marketplace.
- **uShip Tracking API** — Shipment tracking and transit-status history for booked listings — retrieve the recorded location history and most recent reported location, with punctuality measured against th...

## Security (2)

- **Uship Authentication** — oauth2/apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Uship Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Shipping, Logistics, Freight, Marketplace, Transportation, auto-transport, ltl-freight, Last Mile Delivery, Shipment Tracking, E-Commerce, Supply Chain, rate-quotes

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/uship/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.