Vehicles.dev
Automotive vehicle data platform offering a live REST API for VIN decoding, specifications, recalls, market valuation, depreciation, ownership costs, listings, price history, and photos, backed by federal sources (NHTSA vPIC, NHTSA recalls, EPA) and a continuously crawled US dealer-listings store. Ships an OpenAPI 3.1 contract and a local MCP server exposing all ten endpoints as read-only tools.
Vehicles.dev publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Control API, Employment API, Operations API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Automotive, Vehicle Data, VIN Decoding, Vehicle Valuation, and Market Value.
The Vehicles.dev catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Vehicles.dev’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, pricing, signup flow, and 23 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
Standards implemented 3
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.
APIs 6
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Vehicles.dev Control API
The Control API from Vehicles.dev — 23 operation(s) for control.
Vehicles.dev Employment API
The Employment API from Vehicles.dev — 2 operation(s) for employment.
Vehicles.dev Operations API
The operations API from Vehicles.dev — 3 operation(s) for operations.
Vehicles.dev Operator API
The Operator API from Vehicles.dev — 11 operation(s) for operator.
Vehicles.dev Vehicles API
The Vehicles API from Vehicles.dev — 14 operation(s) for vehicles.
Vehicles.dev Webhooks API
The Webhooks API from Vehicles.dev — 1 operation(s) for webhooks.
MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Agent Skills 4
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
Check safety recalls and running costs
AGENT SKILLIdentify and value a VIN
AGENT SKILLOrder a vehicle history report
AGENT SKILLVehicles.dev API pricing
Prices published by Vehicles.dev, read 2026-10-28 from vehicles.dev/#pricing.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Starter | $0/ month Includes: 250 eligible API calls included, one-time; 5 requests per second; eleven included vehicle data APIs |
| Pro | $299/ month Includes: Unlimited request volume, plus data fees; 10 requests per second; all twelve synchronous APIs |
| Scale | $599/ month Includes: Unlimited request volume, plus data fees; 50 requests per second |
Plan details, limits and sources →
Rate limits
- : 5 1 second
- : 10 1 second
- : 50 1 second
Billed by: platform tier · FinOps profile →
Pricing Plans 2
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Vehicles Dev Api Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSService Levels 1
Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.
Vehicles.dev
SLAFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Vehicles Dev Api Finops
FINOPSSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Vehicles.dev API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 10
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 5
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Vehicles.dev API — frequently asked questions
Does Vehicles.dev have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Vehicles.dev, including Vehicles.dev Control API, Vehicles.dev Employment API and Vehicles.dev Operations API, and 3 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Vehicles.dev API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for Vehicles.dev, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Vehicles.dev API?
Vehicles.dev uses bearer-token authentication (http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Vehicles Dev Api Authentication.
How much does the Vehicles.dev API cost?
Vehicles.dev publishes its prices; its Starter plan is $0/ month as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Vehicles.dev, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Does Vehicles.dev have an MCP server?
Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Vehicles.dev: Local (stdio) MCP server requiring an API key; 10 tools listed.
Is the Vehicles.dev API ready for AI agents?
Vehicles.dev has a Kin Score of 45.2 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 38.7 (agent-native), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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