Turo
Turo is a San Francisco-headquartered peer-to-peer car sharing marketplace operating in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, and Australia. The platform lets vehicle owners (hosts) list their cars for rent and lets travelers (guests) book those vehicles directly through the Turo app or website, with Turo handling identity verification, insurance, protection plans, payments, and trust and safety on top of the host's inventory. The marketplace covers economy cars, SUVs, trucks, vans, exotic and classic vehicles, and EVs across more than 14,000 cities, and offers contactless Turo Go vehicles where supported. Turo's revenue model is a marketplace take-rate against each trip plus protection plan and ancillary fees, supported by an integrated host operations stack (calendar, pricing, messaging, and earnings) and a guest mobile and web booking experience. Turo does not currently expose a public developer API, SDK, or partner developer portal. The only third-party-facing surface was a now-deprecated ChatGPT plugin (chatgpt.turo.com) launched in 2023 and sunset alongside OpenAI's plugins program in 2024. Integrations with connected-car platforms such as Smartcar are negotiated directly rather than through self-serve developer onboarding, and Turo's public GitHub presence (github.com/turo, github.com/open-turo) is limited to internal engineering tooling, GitHub Actions, ESLint configs, and language-specific libraries rather than a public marketplace API.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles Turo the way a machine reads it — 2 machine-readable artifacts, 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 — Turo scores 10.8/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (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 Turo
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Turo. 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.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Turo — 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.
Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 8
The organization behind the API
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Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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