AutoTrader.com

AutoTrader.com is an American online automotive marketplace headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and owned by Cox Automotive. Launched in 1997, it connects car buyers and sellers by aggregating listings for new, used, and certified pre-owned vehicles from franchise dealers, independent dealers, and private sellers. The site provides vehicle search and comparison, pricing and valuation tools, financing and trade-in estimates, dealer reviews, and lead-generation connections between shoppers and dealerships. It is a consumer-facing marketplace and does not publish a public developer API program; this profile tracks its public web and security posture in the API Evangelist network.

AutoTrader.com is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Automotive, Marketplace, and Vehicles.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

0 APIs

CompanyConsumerAutomotiveMarketplaceVehiclesCarsClassifiedsDealers

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: autotradercom
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/autotradercom.png
name: AutoTrader.com
description: AutoTrader.com is an American online automotive marketplace headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and owned by Cox
  Automotive. Launched in 1997, it connects car buyers and sellers by aggregating listings for new, used, and certified pre-owned
  vehicles from franchise dealers, independent dealers, and private sellers. The site provides vehicle search and comparison,
  pricing and valuation tools, financing and trade-in estimates, dealer reviews, and lead-generation connections between shoppers
  and dealerships. It is a consumer-facing marketplace and does not publish a public developer API program; this profile tracks
  its public web and security posture in the API Evangelist network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/autotradercom/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- kleiner-perkins
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Automotive
- Marketplace
- Vehicles
- Cars
- Classifieds
- Dealers
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/autotradercom-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.autotrader.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

AutoTrader.com

Kin Score

Security Posture 1

Autotradercom Domain Security

Resources

Access & Security 1

Company 1

Source (apis.yml)