Fulfillment centers with “no hidden fees”: who actually publishes their rates

Read this before you use the list. Publishing rates is not the same as being cheap, and this page does not rank vendors by price. A company that prints forty-seven figures may be the most expensive option you have; one that prints nothing may quote you the best deal in the market. What publication buys you is the ability to check the quote against something before you sign, and to notice when a rate moves afterwards. That is all it buys, and it is worth having.

Publishes across three or more fee categories

These 8 print real numbers in public across most of what they sell. Sorted by how many distinct fee categories carry a published figure, because breadth is harder to fake than a single headline rate on a landing page.

Publishes something, in one or two categories only

This is the tier that gets miscounted, and it is why “they publish pricing” is not a useful sentence. A single published figure and a gated rate card is a different proposition from the group above, but both would pass a check that only asks whether a company publishes anything.

ShipBob is the clearest case: 1 published figure against 10 rows where we checked a page and found the number withheld. That is not the same as publishing nothing — the pages exist and name the fees — and it is not the same as publishing either. And the single figure it does print is WMS/software platform fee at $0, stated as completely free — the only price it publishes is the one that costs nothing.

Publishes no dollar figure of its own, anywhere we could find

For these 10 we could not locate a single published rate of the company's own on any page we read. Every row behind this tier was read on 2026-08-04, so this is a statement about what was on those pages on that date and not an accusation. It is also the tier most likely to be out of date, because publishing a rate card is a thing a company does suddenly and we only find out when we look again. Several run a lead form where a rate card would go, which is a legitimate commercial choice and a common one. If any of them has published rates since we last looked, tell us at data@ratecardlab.com and the row changes — every correction we make is published at /corrections/.

• a2b Fulfillment
• Atomix Logistics
• Cahoot
• eFulfillment Service
• Falcon Fulfillment
• Red Stag Fulfillment
• Ryder E-commerce by Whiplash
• ShipHero
• ShipMonk
• ShipNetwork

What to do with this

1. Ask every vendor for the same fee list in writing, whether or not they publish it. A published rate card tells you what to ask the silent ones for — the categories in the table above are the list.
2. Do not read publication as cheapness. Use the published figures as a yardstick for the quotes you receive, not as a ranking.
3. Ask what happens when the published rate changes. A rate card in public can be edited in public — one operation we track raised its monthly minimum tenfold, and the contractual question is whether a “then-current” clause lets that pass without a signature. That mechanism is covered in the contract red-flag checklist.
4. Read the ways a published page still falls short. Publication is necessary and not sufficient — four distinct failure modes, including pages that disagree with themselves.
5. Then check which way the penalties point. Of everything published, six fees fire when you miss a requirement and none is a credit a vendor pays when it misses one — the fees an SLA actually prices.