# CarGurus

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cargurus-dealer/  
**Website:** https://www.cargurus.com  
**APIs profiled:** 4

CarGurus is an automotive shopping and dealer marketing platform that connects car shoppers with franchise and independent dealers through data-driven listings, its Instant Market Value (IMV) deal ratings, and dealer reviews. For developers and partners, CarGurus publishes a small set of documented HTTP APIs under /Cars/api/ - an open Car Selector API for building new/used search widgets, and partner/dealer-gated APIs for Instant Market Value, dealer reviews, and dealer performance statistics (leads, VDPs, SRPs, impressions). Dealer inventory itself is ingested through inventory feeds (feed providers / IMT), not a documented public pull API, and leads are delivered to dealer CRMs rather than exposed as a public REST endpoint.

## Kin Score — 33.3 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.13.0. Trend: flat (-0.3 from 33.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 49.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |
| Access Clarity | 44.7 |

## Agent readiness — 14.7 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **CarGurus Car Selector API** — Open API for building new/used listing search widgets.
- **CarGurus Dealer Reviews API** — Retrieve sales reviews for a specific dealer.
- **CarGurus Dealer Stats API** — Retrieve dealer inventory performance statistics.
- **CarGurus Instant Market Value API** — Retrieve CarGurus Instant Market Value and deal rating for cars.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Cargurus Dealer Agentic Access** — 6 operations · 3 acting

## Security (1)

- **Cargurus Dealer Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Cargurus Dealer Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Automotive, Marketplace, Car Listings, Dealer, Vehicle Pricing, Reviews, Inventory

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/cargurus-dealer/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.