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All-in DDP quotes for China to USA shipments, 100 g to 2,000 kg, from a live rate card

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Plain Freight tools (5)

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  • check_goodsFree

    Checks whether Plain Freight can ship a product from China to the US, and which documents it needs. Records nothing. Input: the product description. Returns a verdict: instant_offer or branded_rate (priced at once, each on its applicable rate) or person_checks_first (for example batteries, chemicals, food, cosmetics, seeds, vapes or weapons: a person reviews the goods before any price), with a plain explanation and the documents or details to have ready. It applies the same goods screen as Plain Freight's offers; it is not legal or customs advice.

  • check_offer_statusFree

    Reads the result of the second check on a Plain Freight offer, by the offer's quote_id. Read-only. Returns settled (true once the check finished), possibly updated options and summary, follow-up questions whose answers change the price or customs channel, the offer email status, and needs_review. When needs_review is true, prices are withheld until a person at Plain Freight reviews the goods (for example batteries, food or chemicals), and Plain Freight follows up by email.

  • estimate_priceFree

    Rough price estimate for shipping goods from China to a US address, 100 g to 2,000 kg. Records nothing, contacts no one and needs no email. Inputs: total weight, and optionally the product and carton sizes or total volume. Returns estimated door to door prices in USD for air (and sea from 100 kg chargeable weight), the chargeable weight used (the greater of actual weight and carton volume in cm3 / 6,000), transit estimates, and whether US import duty is included. Figures come from Plain Freight's pricing engine for densely packed goods, priced on the applicable rate; goods that need a review get no figure. The exact ZIP code, pickup city and cartons can move the price, so the result is an estimate, not an offer.

  • generate_offerFree

    Prices a real shipment from China to a US address, 100 g to 2,000 kg, on Plain Freight's live pricing engine. Returns door to door prices in USD: each option covers freight, US customs clearance and delivery, and says whether US import duty is included (DDP) or paid at import. Carton dimensions affect the price: for light, bulky cargo the volumetric weight sets it. Side effects: each call records a separate quote request with Plain Freight, and if an email is given the written offer is emailed to that address once a second check settles (at most one offer email per address per day). Nothing is booked or charged. The result carries a quote_id, by which the second check's verdict can be read.

  • track_shipmentFree

    Reads a booked Plain Freight shipment from its tracking link. Input: the tracking link from the booking email (https://plainfreight.com/track/<token>) or the bare token; the token is the credential, so only someone the customer shared the link with can read the record. Returns the shipment reference, the current stage on the 10-stage lifecycle (Booking through Delivered), shipment details and the dated event log. Read-only; changes to a booking go by email to hello@plainfreight.com with the shipment reference.

Public scan report

scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-10-03 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it

no findings
  • –Code scanremote-only server, no package to scann/a
  • Live reliabilityremote reachable in 409ms20/20
  • Tool poisoning5 tool descriptions checked15/15
  • Auth qualityopen endpoint, read-only tools10/15
  • Maintenancelast push 6 days ago15/15
  • Maintainer identityendpoint served from the registry-verified namespace domain8/10
Overall 91/100. Components that don't apply are left out of the denominator. Any critical finding is an F.RubricAppeal a findingJSON

How Plain Freight compares

Against every graded MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.

Safety score
91/100
higher than 85% of 48,255 servers
Tools
5
the typical server has 7
Tools that change things
0%
typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
Uptime
100%
of our recent checks; the typical remote server answers 100%
Response time
132 ms
faster than 77% of 30,031 servers

What its tools let an agent do: 4 read · 1 create

Install Plain Freight in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code

claude mcp add --transport http quotes https://plainfreight.com/api/mcp
Add to Cursor

What the publisher says

From the Plain Freight repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub

Plain Freight MCP server

A hosted Model Context Protocol server that quotes real freight. Ask it what it costs to ship something from China to the United States and it returns an all-in delivered-duty-paid price from the same rate card a human customer is quoted from: freight, US customs clearance, import duty and delivery to a US door, in one number.

No API key. No signup. Nothing to install.

https://plainfreight.com/api/mcp

Transport is Streamable HTTP, stateless, protocol version 2025-06-18 (also accepts 2025-03-26 and 2024-11-05).

Add it to a client

Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http plain-freight https://plainfreight.com/api/mcp

Claude Desktop, Cursor, or anything reading a JSON config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "plain-freight": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://plainfreight.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Check it by hand:

curl -s -X POST https://plainfreight.com/api/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Tools

Two behaviours worth knowing before you build on it:

(batteries, food, chemicals) and a person has to clear them first. Do not present a number to the user in that case; Plain Freight follows up by email. Branded goods are never held, they are priced on a different channel.

  • needsreview means the prices are withheld on purpose.** The goods look restricted

the record deliberately excludes cost and margin fields.

  • The tracking token is the credential. Anyone holding the link can read that shipment, and

Rate limits: 20 offers per hour per IP, 4 per email address, 30 across all agents per hour. For bulk or programmatic access, email hello@plainfreight.com.

There is also a plain REST version of the same pricing call at POST https://plainfreight.com/api/v1/offer, described in openapi.json, and human documentation at plainfreight.com/for-agents.

Published reference data

The same engine feeds three pages that are free to cite, with CSV and JSON where it makes sense:

dated door-to-door prices at twelve weights from 0.5 kg to 1,000 kg, with duty status and transit time on every row.

  • China to USA shipping price index:

fifteen real cartons bill, and the same cartons at three divisors.

  • Chargeable weight reference: what

minimis and entry change since May 2025 with its Federal Register citation.

  • US import rules timeline: every de

The price-index data is also published as a dataset at plainfreight-com/china-usa-freight-price-index.

What Plain Freight is

A China to USA freight agency for small importers: one all-in DDP price on shipments from 100 g to 2,000 kg, quoted before pickup. Plain Freight is a trading name of Fisto LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company. The price does not include cargo insurance, which the customer arranges separately.

Questions, or a shipment that needs a human: hello@plainfreight.com

Licence

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.

Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.

Plain Freight: common questions

Is Plain Freight MCP server safe?
Yes, by our scan: it is graded A (91/100). Read the Plain Freight safety report
How do I install Plain Freight?
It runs remotely at plainfreight.com. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
Does Plain Freight need an API key?
Not as far as the registry entry and our scan can tell: no credentials are declared or required.
Is Plain Freight maintained?
The last commit was 38 days ago (2026-09-27). The latest release is v1.0.0.
Is Plain Freight up?
100% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
How does Plain Freight compare with other MCP servers?
safety score 91/100 (higher than 85% of 48,255 servers); tools 5 (the typical server has 7); tools that change things 0% (typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break). Full comparison.