Shipping Rates
Free tierLive carrier quotes and label generation for 90 couriers.
About this API
Compare rates across national posts and private couriers in one call, then buy and print the label without leaving your checkout. Covers dimensional weight, customs documentation, insurance, and pickup scheduling, with tracking webhooks through to delivery.
Common use cases
Quickstart
Every Zephiel API uses the same base URL, the same key header, and the same error envelope.
curl -X GET "https://zephiel.com/api/v1/shipping-rates/rates" \
-H "X-Zephiel-Key: $ZEPHIEL_API_KEY" \
-H "Accept: application/json"Example response
{
"origin": "NG-LA",
"destination": "GB-LON",
"weight_kg": 2.4,
"rates": [
{ "carrier": "DHL", "service": "Express", "amount": 84.20, "days": 3 },
{ "carrier": "UPS", "service": "Saver", "amount": 71.90, "days": 5 }
]
}/v1/shipping-rates/ratesQuote every carrier for a shipment/v1/shipping-rates/labelsBuy a label and get the PDF/v1/shipping-rates/tracking/{id}Current status of a shipment/v1/shipping-rates/pickupsSchedule a courier collectionAll endpoints return JSON and accept the X-Zephiel-Key header. Rate limits are enforced per plan and reported in X-RateLimit-Remaining.
Plans can be changed or cancelled at any time. Overage is charged per 1,000 requests rather than hard-blocking your traffic.
Free
100 requests/mo
5 req/min
Free
- JSON output format — included
- HTTPS encryption — included
- API key authentication — included
- Standard endpoints — included
- Community support — included
- CSV output format — not included
- Email support — not included
- Usage analytics and alerts — not included
- 99.9% uptime SLA — not included
- Webhooks — not included
- Priority support — not included
- Custom rate limits — not included
- 99.99% uptime SLA — not included
- Dedicated success manager — not included
- SSO / SAML — not included
- Custom SLA, DPA, and BAA — not included
- Private deployment option — not included
- Volume pricing — not included
Starter
10,000 requests/mo
60 req/min
$26/month
- JSON output format — included
- HTTPS encryption — included
- API key authentication — included
- Standard endpoints — included
- Community support — included
- CSV output format — included
- Email support — included
- Usage analytics and alerts — included
- 99.9% uptime SLA — included
- Webhooks — not included
- Priority support — not included
- Custom rate limits — not included
- 99.99% uptime SLA — not included
- Dedicated success manager — not included
- SSO / SAML — not included
- Custom SLA, DPA, and BAA — not included
- Private deployment option — not included
- Volume pricing — not included
Most popular
Pro
250,000 requests/mo
600 req/min
$104/month
- JSON output format — included
- HTTPS encryption — included
- API key authentication — included
- Standard endpoints — included
- Community support — included
- CSV output format — included
- Email support — included
- Usage analytics and alerts — included
- 99.9% uptime SLA — included
- Webhooks — included
- Priority support — included
- Custom rate limits — included
- 99.99% uptime SLA — included
- Dedicated success manager — not included
- SSO / SAML — not included
- Custom SLA, DPA, and BAA — not included
- Private deployment option — not included
- Volume pricing — not included
Enterprise
Unlimited requests
Custom
$364/month
- JSON output format — included
- HTTPS encryption — included
- API key authentication — included
- Standard endpoints — included
- Community support — included
- CSV output format — included
- Email support — included
- Usage analytics and alerts — included
- 99.9% uptime SLA — included
- Webhooks — included
- Priority support — included
- Custom rate limits — included
- 99.99% uptime SLA — included
- Dedicated success manager — included
- SSO / SAML — included
- Custom SLA, DPA, and BAA — included
- Private deployment option — included
- Volume pricing — included
4.7
12 reviews
Daniel Kessler
CTO
Held up under real load
We push Shipping Rates hard during peak and latency has stayed flat. No throttling surprises, no silent degradation — the numbers on the listing matched what we measured.
Elena Rossi
Product Manager
Good coverage for checkout
We checked Shipping Rates against our own checkout reference data before committing. Coverage was better than the incumbent we were paying four times as much for.
Hannah Lindqvist
Platform Lead
Documentation matched reality
Every sample in the Shipping Rates docs ran unmodified. That sounds like a low bar until you have integrated something where it is not.
Sofia Almeida
Developer
Now handles automated label printing too
We adopted Shipping Rates for rate shopping at checkout and ended up using it for automated label printing as well. Same key, no new contract, no second integration.
Samuel Adeniyi
Software Architect
Support answered properly
Asked Northwind Data about an edge case in Shipping Rates and got an explanation from someone who had clearly read the code, not a link to the FAQ.
Zainab Yusuf
Product Engineer
Quietly reliable
Shipping Rates has not surprised us once in eight months of production traffic. That is the highest compliment I can pay a dependency.
Tomas Ferreira
Platform Engineer
One key made the difference
Adding Shipping Rates took ten minutes because the credential already existed. The vendor onboarding we skipped would have taken longer than the integration.
Yuki Tanaka
Backend Engineer
Solved Rate shopping at checkout for us
We brought Shipping Rates in for Rate shopping at checkout and it has not needed revisiting since. The response shape matched the documentation on the first call, which is rarer than it should be.
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