CarGurus
CarGurus is an automotive marketplace providing REST APIs for dealer inventory management, vehicle pricing and market valuation, dealer performance analytics, consumer vehicle research, and dealer communications including SMS messaging.
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 CarGurus the way a machine reads it — 12 machine-readable artifacts across 8 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 — CarGurus 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 CarGurus
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for CarGurus. 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 8
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.
CarGurus Dealer Stats API
Retrieves daily performance statistics for dealer inventory including search result page views, vehicle detail page clicks, and lead generation metrics across email, phone, chat...
CarGurus Instant Market Value API
Returns vehicle market valuations and deal ratings (Great Price, Good Price, Fair Price, etc.) based on VIN, make, model, trim, mileage, and location data, enabling real-time pr...
CarGurus Dealer Reviews API
Provides access to consumer dealer reviews including ratings, review text, author information, timestamps, and dealer management responses, supporting reputation management and ...
CarGurus Dealer SMS API
Enables dealers to send SMS and MMS messages to consumers, supporting text and media content up to 1600 characters and 10 media attachments for direct dealer-to-consumer communi...
CarGurus Car Selector API
Provides vehicle make and model lookup capabilities and generates search result URLs for new and used vehicle listings, supporting affiliate and partner integration for vehicle ...
CarGurus SEM Ad Landing Page URL Generator API
Generates targeted landing page URLs for Search Engine Marketing ad campaigns, enabling partners to create deep-linked pages pointing to relevant vehicle search results on CarGu...
CarGurus SEM Filter Values API
Supplies filter values used for constructing SEM campaigns and search configurations on the CarGurus platform, supporting dynamic ad targeting and search filter integration.
CarGurus Body Type Groups API
Provides vehicle body type classification and translation data, mapping CarGurus body type identifiers to human-readable labels for use in vehicle search and filtering interfaces.
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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.
Cargurus 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.
Cargurus 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 CarGurus — 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 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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