Car API (carapi.app)
CarAPI is a developer-friendly vehicle API and database that provides programmatic access to automotive data including makes, models, trims, bodies, engines, mileage, VIN decoding, license plate decoding, OBD-II diagnostic codes, and power sports vehicle information. The platform follows a freemium model - its public vehicle dataset is available without an account, and paid plans unlock higher daily request limits and production use. The API is REST/JSON with JWT authentication and ships with OpenAPI, Swagger, ReDoc, and Postman documentation.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Car API (carapi.app) the way a machine reads it — 57 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — Car API (carapi.app) scores 38.8/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 31/100 (agent ready). 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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
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How we profile Car API (carapi.app)
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Car API (carapi.app). 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 20
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.
CarAPI VIN Decoder API
The CarAPI VIN Decoder API decodes Vehicle Identification Numbers into structured vehicle attributes including year, make, model, trim, body type, engine, transmission, and othe...
CarAPI License Plate API
The CarAPI License Plate API decodes license plates into vehicle records for US, Canada, Australia, and other supported countries, returning year/make/model/trim and related spe...
CarAPI OBD-II Code API
The CarAPI OBD-II Code API provides search and lookup across more than 9,000 OBD-II diagnostic trouble codes (DTCs) with code descriptions, used in vehicle diagnostics and autom...
CarAPI Power Sports API
The CarAPI Power Sports API provides vehicle specifications for power sports categories such as motorcycles, ATVs, UTVs, and similar motor vehicles, following the same REST/JSON...
Car API (carapi.app) Account API
The Account API from Car API (carapi.app) — 2 operation(s) for account.
Car API (carapi.app) Auth API
The Auth API from Car API (carapi.app) — 1 operation(s) for auth.
Car API (carapi.app) Bodies API
The Bodies API from Car API (carapi.app) — 1 operation(s) for bodies.
Car API (carapi.app) Colors (Exterior) API
The Colors (Exterior) API from Car API (carapi.app) — 1 operation(s) for colors (exterior).
Car API (carapi.app) Colors (Interior) API
The Colors (Interior) API from Car API (carapi.app) — 1 operation(s) for colors (interior).
Car API (carapi.app) Data Feeds API
The Data Feeds API from Car API (carapi.app) — 2 operation(s) for data feeds.
Car API (carapi.app) Engines API
The Engines API from Car API (carapi.app) — 1 operation(s) for engines.
Car API (carapi.app) Makes API
The Makes API from Car API (carapi.app) — 1 operation(s) for makes.
Car API (carapi.app) Mileages API
The Mileages API from Car API (carapi.app) — 1 operation(s) for mileages.
Car API (carapi.app) Models API
The Models API from Car API (carapi.app) — 1 operation(s) for models.
Car API (carapi.app) Trims API
The Trims API from Car API (carapi.app) — 2 operation(s) for trims.
Car API (carapi.app) Vehicle Attributes API
The Vehicle Attributes API from Car API (carapi.app) — 1 operation(s) for vehicle attributes.
Car API (carapi.app) Vin Decoder API
The Vin Decoder API from Car API (carapi.app) — 1 operation(s) for vin decoder.
Car API (carapi.app) Years API
The Years API from Car API (carapi.app) — 1 operation(s) for years.
Car API (carapi.app) Authentication API
Endpoints for obtaining a JWT token for API access.
Car API (carapi.app) Vehicles API
Operations for retrieving vehicle models, trims, and attributes.
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Open Collections 18
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONCar Account API
OPEN COLLECTIONCar Account Auth API
OPEN COLLECTIONCar Authentication API
OPEN COLLECTIONCar Account Bodies API
OPEN COLLECTIONCar Account Colors (Exterior) API
OPEN COLLECTIONCar Account Colors (Interior) API
OPEN COLLECTIONCar Account Data Feeds API
OPEN COLLECTIONCar Account Engines API
OPEN COLLECTIONCar Account Makes API
OPEN COLLECTIONCar Account Mileages API
OPEN COLLECTIONCar Account Models API
OPEN COLLECTIONCar Account Trims API
OPEN COLLECTIONCar Account Vehicle Attributes API
OPEN COLLECTIONCar Authentication Vehicles API
OPEN COLLECTIONCar Account Vin Decoder API
OPEN COLLECTIONCar Account Years API
OPEN COLLECTIONCarAPI
OPEN COLLECTIONScroll within the panel for all 18 ·
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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
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.
Car Api 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.
Car Api Finops
FINOPSSpectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Car API (carapi.app) API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 11
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Exception
JSON SCHEMAMake
JSON SCHEMAMakeModel
JSON SCHEMAMakeModelTrim
JSON SCHEMAMakeModelTrimBody
JSON SCHEMAMakeModelTrimEngine
JSON SCHEMAMakeModelTrimExteriorColor
JSON SCHEMAMakeModelTrimInteriorColor
JSON SCHEMAMakeModelTrimMileage
JSON SCHEMAVehicleAttribute
JSON SCHEMAYear
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 11 ·
JSON Structure 1
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Car Api Structure
JSON STRUCTURESecurity Posture 2
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.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Car API (carapi.app) — 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.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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This is an independent, third-party profile of Car API (carapi.app), published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.
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