LicensePlateData

Developer-first tools that give access to a library of vehicle information, including license plate to VIN lookup, VIN decoding, and OEM-style vehicle imagery for passenger cars, ATVs, and light and heavy trucks and trailers from 1980 to current model years.

LicensePlateData publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Images API, Plate API, and VIN API. Tagged areas include Vehicles, License Plates, VIN, Automotive, and Plate Lookup.

LicensePlateData’s developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, and 2 more developer resources.

📡 Source on GitHub

30.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 APIs

VehiclesLicense PlatesVIN AutomotivePlate LookupVIN Decoding

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 30.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.9 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 6.7 / 20

Access Clarity 3.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 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 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

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APIs 3

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

LicensePlateData Images API

Vehicle imagery

LicensePlateData Plate API

Convert license plates to VINs

LicensePlateData VIN API

Decode VINs into vehicle attributes

Open Collections 5

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

LicensePlateData Images API

OPEN COLLECTION

LicensePlateData Images Plate API

OPEN COLLECTION

LicensePlateData Images VIN API

OPEN COLLECTION

LicensePlateData API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Licenseplatedata Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Licenseplatedata Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Licenseplatedata Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Licenseplatedata Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Licenseplatedata Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Licenseplatedata Agentic Access

3 operations

3 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

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

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: licenseplatedata
name: LicensePlateData
description: Developer-first tools that give access to a library of vehicle information, including license plate to VIN lookup,
  VIN decoding, and OEM-style vehicle imagery for passenger cars, ATVs, and light and heavy trucks and trailers from 1980
  to current model years.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/licenseplatedata.png
tags:
- Vehicles
- License Plates
- VIN
- Automotive
- Plate Lookup
- VIN Decoding
created: '2025-02-24'
modified: '2026-05-19'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/licenseplatedata/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: licenseplatedata:licenseplatedata-images-api
  name: LicensePlateData Images API
  description: Vehicle imagery
  humanURL: https://licenseplatedata.com/
  baseURL: https://api.licenseplatedata.com/v1
  tags:
  - Image
  tags_raw:
  - Images
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/licenseplatedata-images-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://licenseplatedata.com/
  - type: Portal
    url: https://portal.licenseplatedata.com/
- aid: licenseplatedata:licenseplatedata-plate-api
  name: LicensePlateData Plate API
  description: Convert license plates to VINs
  humanURL: https://licenseplatedata.com/
  baseURL: https://api.licenseplatedata.com/v1
  tags:
  - Plate
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/licenseplatedata-plate-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://licenseplatedata.com/
  - type: Portal
    url: https://portal.licenseplatedata.com/
- aid: licenseplatedata:licenseplatedata-vin-api
  name: LicensePlateData VIN API
  description: Decode VINs into vehicle attributes
  humanURL: https://licenseplatedata.com/
  baseURL: https://api.licenseplatedata.com/v1
  tags:
  - VIN
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/licenseplatedata-vin-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://licenseplatedata.com/
  - type: Portal
    url: https://portal.licenseplatedata.com/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/licenseplatedata-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/licenseplatedata-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/licenseplatedata-authentication.yml
- url: https://licenseplatedata.com/blog
  type: Blog

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