EasyPost vs RevAddress: USPS Shipping API Pricing Compared

EasyPost and RevAddress are not the same shape of product, and the pricing comparison only makes sense once that is on the table. EasyPost is a multi-carrier abstraction: one API, over 100 carriers, per-label economics. RevAddress is a USPS-only layer with a flat monthly fee, where the postal relationship stays in your name.

This post has the current published figures for both, the volume where the crossover sits, and the parts of each bill that a side-by-side table hides.

What EasyPost publishes today

Read off the EasyPost pricing page on August 23, 2026:

One thing to notice before the math: the per-label fee is not a published number. The page says a per-label fee applies above the free tier and does not say what it is. You get it from your account or from sales.

That matters because the widely-circulated figure comes from EasyPost’s February 23, 2026 pricing change, which set the per-label rate at $0.08, cut the free tier from 5,000 labels to 3,000, and introduced the $20/month BYOCA fee. Every dollar figure in the next section is computed at that announced $0.08 rate. It was accurate when announced and it is no longer something you can verify on the page, so treat it as an estimate and confirm your own rate before budgeting.

The label math, at the announced rate

At $0.08 per label above 3,000 free:

Add $20/month on top of any of those rows if you are on BYOCA.

The free tier is genuinely good. Three thousand labels a month covers a lot of small operations, and at that volume nothing in this post argues against EasyPost.

What the RevAddress side of that table actually is

Here is where most comparisons, including the earlier version of this one, get it wrong.

Label creation on RevAddress is not a flat-rate included feature. It runs on your own USPS license, at the Pro tier, $199/month, which covers 100,000 API requests a month. Label voids are on the same tier and the same license. RevAddress does not create labels on its own credentials, because postage has to be paid by the entity that owes it: your Enterprise Payment Account pays USPS directly, exactly as it would if you called USPS yourself.

So the honest comparison at label volume is not “$0.08 a label versus $79 a month.” It is:

Postage is not a differentiator. You pay USPS either way, and neither platform marks it up. What differs is the platform fee on top, and the crossover against BYOCA lands a little under 5,000 labels a month: at $0.08, $199 buys about 2,238 billable labels, so roughly 5,240 total including the free 3,000. Below that EasyPost is cheaper. Above it the flat fee stops moving and the per-label line does not.

Where the free tier stops being free

The BYOCA fee is the part worth reading twice, because it inverts the usual incentive.

Bringing your own carrier account normally saves a platform money: they stop fronting the carrier relationship. On EasyPost it costs you $20/month on top of per-label fees. If you already have a USPS account with negotiated terms, you pay for the privilege of using it.

Three reasons teams want their own credentials anyway:

• Rate-limit isolation. Your credentials, your USPS rate-limit pool, not one shared with other tenants. If USPS grants you an increase, it applies to you in full.
• The relationship is yours. Your volume, your reporting, your compliance posture, your line to USPS support. A platform key gives you none of that.
• Portability. Leave the platform and the USPS relationship survives the move. That is the difference between switching vendors and re-onboarding with the Postal Service.

On RevAddress, bringing your own credentials is the model rather than an add-on, and there is no surcharge for it. Credentials are AES-GCM encrypted at rest with per-merchant keys.

What each platform is actually for

Read that table as two different jobs rather than a scoreboard. EasyPost sells breadth and takes a cut per shipment for it. RevAddress sells a flat, USPS-native layer and takes nothing per shipment, and it cannot ship your UPS packages.

Choose EasyPost if

1. You ship on more than one carrier. Over 100 carriers behind one API is the product, and there is no USPS-only answer to it at any price.
2. You are under 3,000 labels a month. Free is free, and the pricing argument does not start until you cross it.
3. You want insurance and claims handled. EasyPost’s insurance at 1% of shipment value with automated claims is a mature feature that a USPS-only layer does not replicate.
4. Pre-negotiated carrier rates matter more than the platform fee. If EasyPost’s rates beat what you can get directly, the per-label fee can pay for itself.

Choose RevAddress if

1. USPS is the whole shipping stack. No reason to pay a multi-carrier abstraction for one carrier.
2. You want the bill to stop moving. Above roughly 5,200 labels a month the flat fee is lower, and it stays lower as you grow rather than tracking volume.
3. You want your own USPS credentials without a surcharge. Your rate limits, your reporting, your relationship, no $20/month to use the account you already have.
4. You are hitting the 60-requests-per-hour wall. Calling USPS yourself caps there, shared across every endpoint your app touches. The managed layer handles caching, token refresh, retries and rate-limit smoothing, which the rate-limit guide covers in full.

Switching the USPS half

If you are moving USPS off EasyPost while keeping it for other carriers, the surface is small. EasyPost wraps USPS in its own schema; RevAddress sits closer to the raw USPS v3 shapes, so you are mostly renaming fields.

curl -X POST "https://api.revaddress.com/api/address/validate" \
-H "X-API-Key: rv_live_your_key" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
  "streetAddress": "1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW",
  "city": "Washington",
  "state": "DC",
  "ZIPCode": "20500"
}'

Field aliases are normalized, so street_address, address1, line1, zip and zip_code all resolve rather than returning a 400. Three notes on the rest:

• Labels. POST shipper, recipient and package details; you get a tracking number and a label URL back. This runs on your USPS license and needs CRID, MID and EPA enrollment first, which the CRID and MID guide walks through.
• Tracking. GET with the tracking number, structured JSON with scan events.
• The SDKs handle OAuth. pip install usps-v3 or npm install usps-v3, both MIT licensed. Tokens are fetched, cached and refreshed before expiry without you touching one.

One currency note that applies to both platforms: since August 1, 2026 the USPS Addresses API requires a signed license agreement and bills address lookups on a consumption curve. That is a USPS change, not a vendor change, and it lands on whoever holds the license. The USPS pricing guide covers the fee curve and the licensing sequence.

Sources

• EasyPost plan structure, tracking, and insurance pricing: easypost.com/pricing, read August 23, 2026 (page last modified August 13, 2026). The per-label fee above the free tier is referenced there but not quantified.
• The $0.08 per-label rate, the 5,000-to-3,000 free-tier cut, and the $20/month BYOCA fee come from EasyPost’s February 23, 2026 pricing change. Confirm your own rate in your account before budgeting against any figure derived from it here.
• USPS fee tiers and the license requirement: the USPS Addresses API Tech Sheet on PostalPro, updated 2026-08-13.
• RevAddress plan prices, request caps, and which features run on your own USPS license come from the pricing page, which renders from the catalog the API meters against.

Start here

• Get a free API key — 1,000 requests a month, no card
• Full pricing · Rate-limit strategies
• Shipping API comparison — EasyPost, Shippo, ShipEngine and RevAddress side by side
• USPS API pricing in 2026 — the fee curve and the license, in full