Zipcar
Zipcar is a Boston, Massachusetts-based car sharing service operating in more than 500 cities across North America and Europe, including major US metros (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC) and Canadian cities (Toronto, Hamilton, the Golden Horseshoe). Members reserve vehicles by the hour or day through the Zipcar mobile app, unlock cars with their phone, and pay per usage with gas, EV charging, standard damage protection insurance, and professional maintenance included. Zipcar serves consumer members, universities (Zipcar for Universities), and businesses (Zipcar for Business) with weekday fleet programs. Zipcar is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Avis Budget Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAR), which acquired the company in March 2013 for approximately $500 million. Zipcar exposes a REST-based Partner API at api.zipcar.com/partner-api, documented at owa.zipcar.com/documentation, that returns JSON for Location List and Location Detail resources (vehicles available at a lat/long); access is gated and granted on request via [email protected] — there is no public OpenAPI spec, SDK, or self-service developer signup. Zipcar also operates a public GitHub organization (github.com/Zipcar) hosting internal DevOps tooling (Concourse resources, Ansible helpers, BOSH helpers, monitoring agents) rather than client-facing API artifacts.
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 Zipcar the way a machine reads it — 1 machine-readable artifact, 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 — Zipcar scores 14.3/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 4/100 (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 Zipcar
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Zipcar. 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 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 Zipcar — 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
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 10
The organization behind the API
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Other 7
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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