Autotrader
Autotrader is the UK's largest digital automotive marketplace, providing REST APIs through the Autotrader Connect platform for vehicle listings, dealer stock management, VIN and VRM lookups, vehicle valuations, retail metrics, taxonomy, images, deals, and consumer-facing search. The platform enables technology partners and retailers to integrate automotive data and marketplace functionality into their systems in real time.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles Autotrader the way a machine reads it — 17 machine-readable artifacts across 13 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Autotrader scores 25.0/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Autotrader
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Autotrader. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 13
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Autotrader Vehicles API
Provides VRM and VIN lookups, MOT history, vehicle features, valuations, and retail metrics for individual vehicles. Enables dealers and partners to retrieve comprehensive vehic...
Autotrader Taxonomy API
Provides structured data for vehicle makes, models, generations, and derivatives. Used to build consistent vehicle classification and search facets across automotive systems.
Autotrader Stock API
Enables retailers to manage their forecourt inventory programmatically. Supports creating, updating, and deleting vehicle adverts in the Autotrader marketplace from third-party ...
Autotrader Images API
CDN-backed image storage and management API for vehicle adverts. Allows partners to upload, retrieve, and manage vehicle photography via Autotrader's content delivery network.
Autotrader Search API
Provides filtered and sorted access to consumer vehicle adverts on the Autotrader marketplace. Enables partners to build consumer-facing search and browsing applications with Au...
Autotrader Valuations API
Delivers current UK market vehicle valuation data based on real-time Autotrader marketplace signals. Provides dealers and partners with trusted pricing intelligence for retail d...
Autotrader Vehicle Metrics API
Provides supply, demand, and pricing intelligence metrics to help retailers understand market positioning. Includes retail rating, average days to sell, and competitor analysis ...
Autotrader Future Valuations API
Returns predicted vehicle valuations for a specified future date, enabling dealers to forecast vehicle depreciation and make forward-looking pricing and acquisition decisions.
Autotrader Historic Valuations API
Provides access to historical vehicle valuation data, enabling trend analysis and retrospective pricing research across the UK automotive market.
Autotrader Deals API
Manages the full deal lifecycle between buyers and dealers on the Autotrader platform. Supports deal creation, status updates, and notifications including DEAL_CREATE and DEAL_U...
Autotrader Part Exchange API
Manages part-exchange vehicle transactions allowing dealers to appraise and accept trade-in vehicles as part of the deal flow integrated with Autotrader's Deal Builder product.
Autotrader Co-Driver API
AI-powered API that generates vehicle advert descriptions and optimizes image ordering for vehicle listings. Enables dealers to produce high-quality, consistent content at scale...
Autotrader Finance API
Beta API supporting finance application and quote management for vehicle purchases. Enables integration of motor finance products into the Autotrader deal flow and partner platf...
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Autotrader Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Autotrader Finops
FINOPSSecurity Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Autotrader — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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