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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.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Car API (carapi.app) the way a machine reads it — 37 machine-readable artifacts across 18 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 — Car API (carapi.app) scores 58.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (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.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 58.9/100 · developing
Contract Quality 14.5 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 16.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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 18

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.

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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.

Car Api Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

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

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 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.

Spectral 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

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON 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

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Make

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MakeModel

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MakeModelTrim

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MakeModelTrimBody

18 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MakeModelTrimEngine

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MakeModelTrimExteriorColor

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MakeModelTrimInteriorColor

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MakeModelTrimMileage

15 properties

JSON SCHEMA

VehicleAttribute

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Year

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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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

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Security 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.

Car Api Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Car Api Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

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.

Car Api Agentic Access

17 operations · 1 acting

17 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

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 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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