vAuto

vAuto is a Cox Automotive brand providing new and used vehicle inventory management, appraisal, pricing, and merchandising software for automotive dealers (ProfitTime GPS, Provision, Conquest, Stockwave). vAuto exposes partner-gated APIs through the Cox Automotive Integration Platform (developer.coxautoinc.com) - notably the vAuto Inventory API and the vAuto Appraisal API - that let authorized integrators programmatically read vehicle inventory, update list price, and create and access appraisals in the vAuto ecosystem. Access is not open self-service; integrators must be approved partners, authenticate via Cox Automotive Bridge ID / OAuth with an issued API key, and endpoint-level reference documentation is behind the partner developer portal login. Per-path endpoints below are modeled from the published product summaries, not copied from public reference docs.

vAuto publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Automotive, Dealership, Inventory, Appraisal, and Vehicle Pricing.

vAuto’s developer surface includes documentation and 8 more developer resources.

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11.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-04 · rubric v0.23.0

AccessPaidApproval

2 APIs

Automotive Dealership Inventory Appraisal Vehicle Pricing Cox Automotive Partner API

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-04 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 11.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 3.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.7 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

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

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes. MODELED: a real API behind a partner or contract gate; there is no public reference, so API Evangelist drew its shape. NOT AN API: a product area with no API behind it, not counted.

vAuto Inventory API

Partner-gated API that lets authorized integrators programmatically read vehicle information and update list price for inventory in the vAuto ecosystem. Listed as vAuto Inventor...

MODELED, NO PUBLIC REFERENCE

vAuto Appraisal API

Partner-gated API that lets authorized integrators programmatically create and access vehicle appraisals in the vAuto ecosystem, powering trade-in and used-vehicle valuation wor...

MODELED, NO PUBLIC REFERENCE

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Vauto Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Security Posture 2

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

Vauto Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Vauto Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

ParentCompany

ParentCompany

Source (apis.yml)

aid: vauto
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vauto/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: vAuto
kind: company
description: vAuto is a Cox Automotive brand providing new and used vehicle inventory management, appraisal, pricing, and
  merchandising software for automotive dealers (ProfitTime GPS, Provision, Conquest, Stockwave). vAuto exposes partner-gated
  APIs through the Cox Automotive Integration Platform (developer.coxautoinc.com) - notably the vAuto Inventory API and the
  vAuto Appraisal API - that let authorized integrators programmatically read vehicle inventory, update list price, and create
  and access appraisals in the vAuto ecosystem. Access is not open self-service; integrators must be approved partners, authenticate
  via Cox Automotive Bridge ID / OAuth with an issued API key, and endpoint-level reference documentation is behind the partner
  developer portal login. Per-path endpoints below are modeled from the published product summaries, not copied from public
  reference docs.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · Requires approval
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/vauto.png
tags:
- Automotive
- Dealership
- Inventory
- Appraisal
- Vehicle Pricing
- Cox Automotive
- Partner API
tags_raw:
- Automotive
- Dealership
- Inventory Management
- Appraisals
- Vehicle Pricing
- Cox Automotive
- Partner API
created: '2026-07-10'
modified: '2026-07-10'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: vauto:vauto-inventory-api
  name: vAuto Inventory API
  tags:
  - Inventory
  - Vehicles
  - Pricing
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developer.coxautoinc.com/marketingcontent/exploreproducts
  baseURL: https://api.coxautoinc.com
  endpointsModeled: true
  properties:
  - url: https://developer.coxautoinc.com/marketingcontent/exploreproducts
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developer.coxautoinc.com/
    type: DeveloperPortal
  - url: https://coxautoapi.statuspage.io/
    type: StatusPage
  description: Partner-gated API that lets authorized integrators programmatically read vehicle information and update list
    price for inventory in the vAuto ecosystem. Listed as vAuto Inventory API 1.x on the Cox Automotive API status page. Access
    requires an approved Cox Automotive Integration Platform partnership, Bridge ID / OAuth authentication, and an issued
    API key; per-endpoint reference docs are behind the partner developer portal. Endpoints are modeled, not sourced from
    public reference documentation.
- aid: vauto:vauto-appraisal-api
  name: vAuto Appraisal API
  tags:
  - Appraisal
  - Trade-In
  - Valuation
  tags_raw:
  - Appraisals
  - Trade-In
  - Valuation
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developer.coxautoinc.com/marketingcontent/exploreproducts
  baseURL: https://api.coxautoinc.com
  endpointsModeled: true
  properties:
  - url: https://developer.coxautoinc.com/marketingcontent/exploreproducts
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://developer.coxautoinc.com/
    type: DeveloperPortal
  - url: https://coxautoapi.statuspage.io/
    type: StatusPage
  description: Partner-gated API that lets authorized integrators programmatically create and access vehicle appraisals in
    the vAuto ecosystem, powering trade-in and used-vehicle valuation workflows. Listed as vAuto Appraisal API 1.x on the
    Cox Automotive API status page. Access requires an approved Cox Automotive Integration Platform partnership, Bridge ID
    / OAuth authentication, and an issued API key; per-endpoint reference docs are behind the partner developer portal. Endpoints
    are modeled, not sourced from public reference documentation.
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/vauto-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/vauto-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vauto
- type: Website
  url: https://www.vauto.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.coxautoinc.com/marketingcontent/exploreproducts
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.coxautoinc.com/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://coxautoapi.statuspage.io/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/vauto-plans-pricing.yml
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://www.coxautoinc.com/brands/vauto/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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