ClearVIN

ClearVIN is a vehicle-history and VIN data provider and an approved NMVTIS data provider. Its REST API decodes North American (U.S. and Canada) VINs into 100+ specification data points and returns full vehicle history reports - title, junk / salvage / total-loss records, odometer events, and market valuation - sourced directly from government and industry data, covering model years 1981 to present.

ClearVIN publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Authentication API and Report API. Tagged areas include VIN, Vehicle History, Automotive, NMVTIS, and Vehicle Data.

The ClearVIN catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

ClearVIN’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, and 7 more developer resources.

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26.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessPaidSelf serve

1 published contract

VIN Vehicle History AutomotiveNMVTISVehicle Data

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 26.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.4 / 15

Access Clarity 1.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.8 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 22.6 — up to +15.5 composite points
Contract Quality scores 48.1 — up to +13.0 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

ClearVIN Authentication API

The Authentication API from ClearVIN — 1 operation(s) for authentication.

ClearVIN Report API

The Report API from ClearVIN — 1 operation(s) for report.

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

ClearVIN Vendor Authentication API

OPEN COLLECTION

ClearVIN Vendor Authentication Report API

OPEN COLLECTION

ClearVIN Vendor API

OPEN COLLECTION

ClearVIN API pricing

Not yet checked against ClearVIN's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-21 from www.clearvin.com/en/api-subscribers/; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Single Report usage	—
Unlimited Monthly Package subscription	—
Dealer / Business Program usage	—
Report Credits usage	—
API Subscriber / Vendor enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Registered IP Allowlist: requests must originate from a registered IP address source ip
Token Lifetime: 120 minutes token
Credit / Package Balance: bounded by prepaid report credits / package balance credits

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against ClearVIN's documentation. All 4 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Clearvin Plans Pricing

5 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Clearvin Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

ClearVIN

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Clearvin Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

ClearVIN API Rules

55 rules · 53 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Clearvin Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Clearvin Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Clearvin Agentic Access

2 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: clearvin
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/clearvin/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: ClearVIN
kind: company
description: ClearVIN is a vehicle-history and VIN data provider and an approved NMVTIS data provider. Its REST API decodes
  North American (U.S. and Canada) VINs into 100+ specification data points and returns full vehicle history reports - title,
  junk / salvage / total-loss records, odometer events, and market valuation - sourced directly from government and industry
  data, covering model years 1981 to present.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/clearvin.png
tags:
- VIN
- Vehicle History
- Automotive
- NMVTIS
- Vehicle Data
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: clearvin:clearvin-authentication-api
  name: ClearVIN Authentication API
  description: The Authentication API from ClearVIN — 1 operation(s) for authentication.
  humanURL: https://www.clearvin.com/en/api-subscribers/vin-decode-api/
  baseURL: https://www.clearvin.com/rest/vendor
  tags:
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/clearvin-authentication-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.clearvin.com/en/api-subscribers/vin-decode-api/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/clearvin.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/clearvin.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.clearvin.com/en/api-subscribers/nmvtis-history-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.clearvin.com/en/api-subscribers/
- aid: clearvin:clearvin-report-api
  name: ClearVIN Report API
  description: The Report API from ClearVIN — 1 operation(s) for report.
  humanURL: https://www.clearvin.com/en/api-subscribers/vin-decode-api/
  baseURL: https://www.clearvin.com/rest/vendor
  tags:
  - Report
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/clearvin-report-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.clearvin.com/en/api-subscribers/vin-decode-api/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/clearvin.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/clearvin.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.clearvin.com/en/api-subscribers/nmvtis-history-api/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.clearvin.com/en/api-subscribers/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/clearvin-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/clearvin-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/clearvin-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clearvin
- type: Website
  url: https://www.clearvin.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.clearvin.com/en/api-subscribers/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/clearvin-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/clearvin-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/clearvin-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

ClearVIN API — frequently asked questions

Does ClearVIN have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from ClearVIN, including ClearVIN Authentication API and ClearVIN Report API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the ClearVIN API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for ClearVIN, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the ClearVIN API?

ClearVIN uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Clearvin Authentication.

How much does the ClearVIN API cost?

APIs.io lists 5 pricing plans for ClearVIN, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the ClearVIN API ready for AI agents?

ClearVIN has a Kin Score of 26.2 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 22.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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