Best Shipping Software (2026): Top 10 Compared

ShipStation is a web-based shipping platform for ecommerce sellers. It imports orders from stores and marketplaces, compares rates across carriers, applies automation rules and prints labels. The site states coverage of more than 200 parcel carriers and 50 LTL freight carriers, and the pricing page includes LTL rate comparison and quote-and-book from the entry plan.

Three plans are priced by monthly shipments. Starter runs from $14.99 for 50 shipments to $174.99 for 5,000 and includes three users and basic automations. Standard runs from $29.99 to $3,599.99 at 100,000 shipments and adds ten users, unlimited automations, order splitting, own carrier accounts, returns and exchanges and basic warehouse management. Premium starts at $349.99 and adds 15 users, advanced inventory, pick-to-tote and custom analytics.

The plan structure means a seller pays more as volume grows on every tier. Annual billing is advertised at 20% savings, and the 30-day trial needs no credit card. Fulfillment, 3PL and dropship managers are listed as paid add-ons.

Shippo sells a shipping app for merchants and a separate shipping API. The app compares rates across more than 40 carriers, imports orders from connected stores, buys and prints labels, tracks shipments and produces return labels. The pricing page states that more than 4.6 million businesses use Shippo.

Starter is free for up to 30 labels a month, with one user, unlimited store connections and email support. Own carrier accounts cost 5 cents per label on Starter. Pro starts at $17 per month for up to 200 labels, or $205 a year, and is banded up to 10,000 labels with $0.08 per label above that. Pro adds pick lists, scan-to-print, AI-estimated delivery dates, branded tracking pages and emails, chat and phone support and up to five users. Premier adds a dedicated account manager, 15 or more users and unlimited shipments by quote.

Non-US address validation is charged per call on every tier, and API calls not associated with Shippo labels are billed separately.

Easyship is a cloud shipping platform and API with an emphasis on international shipments. The plans page lists more than 550 courier services, discounted rates of up to 91% off retail, tax and duty calculation, rates at checkout, branded tracking pages and emails, batch label printing and pre-paid returns. It also offers a global 3PL fulfillment network and crowdfunding integrations.

For the United States, the Free plan includes 50 shipments a month and one team member. Plus costs $29 per month for 500 shipments and three users, Premier $69 for 2,500 and five users, and three Scale tiers cost $99, $149 and $199 for 5,000, 7,500 and 10,000 shipments. Annual billing lowers each tier by about 20%. Paid plans can link one to three own courier accounts with a labelling fee of 3 to 5 cents.

Paid plans include quotas of rates, address validation and tax and duty API calls; usage beyond the quotas is billed per call. Easyship notes that plan inclusions and prices vary by country.

Pirate Ship is free browser-based shipping software for USPS and UPS in the United States. It gives users pre-negotiated discounts, which the rates page puts at up to 89% off standard rates, and earns its revenue from the carriers rather than from subscriptions. The site states that it has saved shippers more than $700 million since 2014.

The features page lists carrier rate comparison, Commercial shipping services, order imports from ecommerce platforms, spreadsheet uploads, saved package presets, address correction, discounted shipping insurance, pay-on-use return labels, customizable tracking emails and tracking and accounting reports. Users are unlimited. Pirate Ship is a licensed USPS Connect eCommerce platform.

The limit is carrier scope. FedEx and DHL are not part of the offer, and UPS discounts apply only to US-origin shipments. For international parcels, the rates page lists Simple Export Rate as an exclusive service. Support runs by live chat and email every day.

ShippingEasy is a web shipping app for small sellers. It imports orders from stores and marketplaces, applies automation rules, compares USPS and UPS rates and prints labels. The pricing page advertises discounted USPS rates, cubic pricing through its Flat Rate Green program and up to 82% off UPS Daily Rates.

Starter is free for up to 25 shipments a month and three connected stores. Paid plans are priced by shipments: Growth at $19.99 for up to 200, Basic at $29.99 for up to 500, Plus at $49.99 for up to 1,500, Select at $69.99 for up to 3,000, Premium at $119.99 for up to 6,000 and Enterprise at $189.99 for up to 10,000. Paid plans add unlimited stores, CSV uploads, branded tracking tools, label logos and reporting.

Support is the point of difference. The site states that phone and chat support is answered by staff in Austin, Texas. Buyers using their own carrier contracts should price the monthly connection fee.

Veeqo is a multichannel shipping and inventory product that Amazon acquired in 2021. Its shipping features are free; the FAQ explains that Veeqo earns a commission on labels purchased through it. Pre-negotiated rates are listed for Amazon Shipping, UPS, USPS, FedEx, DHL and OnTrac, and labels earn up to 5% back in Veeqo Credits.

The free Shipping plan includes unlimited shipments, users, SKUs and warehouses, customisable print templates, bulk shipping of up to 100 orders at once, a rate shopping API and shipping and sales reports. Channels listed include Amazon, Shopify, eBay, Walmart, WooCommerce, TikTok Shop and Rithum. The Inventory plan starts at $19 per month and adds inventory sync, demand forecasting, digital picking and unlimited listings. High Volume starts at $350 per month and adds ERP integrations such as NetSuite and an account manager.

Paid plans are priced by imported order volume, and orders fulfilled by Amazon FBA do not count toward it. Veeqo states the product is not limited to Amazon sellers.

AfterShip is best known for shipment tracking, and AfterShip Shipping is its label product. It supports more than 100 carriers, imports orders from ecommerce platforms, calculates rates, creates and cancels labels, produces end-of-day forms and offers discounted USPS rates. The FAQ states USPS savings of up to 90% with no minimum volume.

Plans are priced by labels per year. Essentials starts at $9 per month for 1,200 labels a year and covers the order dashboard, bulk label creation and bulk order updates, with one own carrier account. Pro starts at $69 per month for 24,000 labels a year and adds automated shipping rules, the labels, rates, carrier accounts and end-of-day form APIs, US address validation, webhooks and five own carrier accounts. Enterprise adds unlimited carrier accounts, custom carrier integrations and SSO.

Teams using several AfterShip products can buy a Team plan from $10 per member per month billed annually. The FAQ refers to both a free plan with 10 labels and a 7-day trial.

ShipRush is a multi-carrier shipping product sold under the Descartes name. It connects to more than 90 sales channels, rate shops across carriers such as USPS, UPS and FedEx, and supports domestic and cross-border shipments. Its pricing model differs from most products on this page: every plan allows unlimited shipments.

Express costs $9.95 per month with discounted rates, rate shopping and three users. Speedy costs $29.95 and adds own negotiated carrier rates, Amazon Seller Central and QuickBooks Online and Desktop. Warehouse costs $99.95 and adds LTL freight, pallet labels with bills of lading, NetSuite rating at order entry, ODBC and MySQL connectivity and assisted automation setup. Enterprise and OEM plans add rating, shipping and tracking APIs and high-speed automated printing by quote.

Extra users are sold in bundles of three at the plan's monthly price. The FAQ notes that some discounted label programs carry a card service fee that other payment methods avoid.

ShipWorks is Windows-installed shipping software with a local database and web components for online visibility. It targets warehouses and high-volume merchants and lists intelligent order routing, batch processing, scan-to-ship, custom automations and a Best Rate Tool. The site cites more than 70 built-in integrations, plus file import, a native API and ODBC.

The Ecommerce Professional plan costs $189 per month for 5,000 shipments from one ship-from location. Warehouse plans cover two or more locations and add order routing and pick-pack verification: Essential at $389 for 12,000 shipments, Professional at $639 for 25,000 and Elite at $799 for 50,000. Above 50,000 shipments a month, custom enterprise plans are available. All plans include unlimited users and computers, guided onboarding and phone and email support.

The pricing page states that ShipWorks and ShipStation are both part of Auctane, and presents web-based ShipStation plans as the option for merchants under 5,000 shipments a month.

ShipHero is a warehouse management system for ecommerce brands and third-party logistics providers. Shipping is one module within it: real-time carrier rate shopping compares live rates across carriers and selects the cheapest on-time option automatically. Its Rate Shop Plus feature applies custom automation rules, allows carrier preferences per client and works with the buyer's own carrier accounts without label fees or with ShipHero's negotiated rates.

Around shipping, the WMS covers receiving and putaway, lot and expiration tracking, mobile cycle counts, picking and packing, returns, a 3PL client portal and labour dashboards, with optional pack-to-light hardware. ShipHero states it supports more than 70 integrations, a public API and webhooks, and gives an average go-live of six to eight weeks; these are the vendor's own figures.

Pricing is custom by order volume and requires a quote. The fit is narrower than a label app: ShipHero suits operations that want shipping decisions made inside warehouse workflows.