Vehicles.dev
Automotive vehicle data platform offering a live REST API for VIN decoding, specifications, recalls, market valuation, depreciation, ownership costs, listings, price history, and photos, backed by federal sources (NHTSA vPIC, NHTSA recalls, EPA) and a continuously crawled US dealer-listings store. Ships an OpenAPI 3.1 contract and a local MCP server exposing all ten endpoints as read-only tools.
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.
API Evangelist profiles Vehicles.dev the way a machine reads it — 15 machine-readable artifacts across 10 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 — Vehicles.dev scores 50.2/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 62/100 (agent native). 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
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How we profile Vehicles.dev
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Vehicles.dev. 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 10
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.
Vehicles.dev Admin API
The Admin API from Vehicles.dev — 4 operation(s) for admin.
Vehicles.dev Billing API
The Billing API from Vehicles.dev — 14 operation(s) for billing.
Vehicles.dev Control API
The Control API from Vehicles.dev — 23 operation(s) for control.
Vehicles.dev Data API
The Data API from Vehicles.dev — 12 operation(s) for data.
Vehicles.dev Employment API
The Employment API from Vehicles.dev — 2 operation(s) for employment.
Vehicles.dev Operations API
The operations API from Vehicles.dev — 3 operation(s) for operations.
Vehicles.dev Operator API
The Operator API from Vehicles.dev — 11 operation(s) for operator.
Vehicles.dev Reports API
The Reports API from Vehicles.dev — 8 operation(s) for reports.
Vehicles.dev Vehicles API
The Vehicles API from Vehicles.dev — 14 operation(s) for vehicles.
Vehicles.dev Webhooks API
The Webhooks API from Vehicles.dev — 1 operation(s) for webhooks.
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
vehicles-dev-api-mcp.yml
MCP SERVERPricing 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.
Vehicles Dev Api Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSecurity 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 Vehicles.dev — 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 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
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
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