# Vehicles.dev

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vehicles-dev-api/  
**Website:** https://vehicles.dev/  
**APIs profiled:** 10

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.

## Kin Score — 50.2 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 77.8 |
| Contract Quality | 46.7 |
| Governance | 20.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 65.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 55.3 |

## Agent readiness — 62.2 (agent-native)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | yes |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | verified |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | verified |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | yes |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (10)

- **Vehicles.dev Admin API** — The Admin API from Vehicles.dev — 4 operation(s) for admin.
- **Vehicles.dev Billing API** — The Billing API from Vehicles.dev — 14 operation(s) for billing.
- **Vehicles.dev Control API** — The Control API from Vehicles.dev — 23 operation(s) for control.
- **Vehicles.dev Data API** — The Data API from Vehicles.dev — 12 operation(s) for data.
- **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 Reports API** — The Reports API from Vehicles.dev — 8 operation(s) for reports.
- **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)

- **vehicles-dev-api-mcp.yml**

## Security (2)

- **Vehicles Dev Api Authentication** — http · 2 schemes
- **Vehicles Dev Api Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Plans (1)

- **Vehicles Dev Api Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Automotive, Vehicle Data, VIN Decoding, Vehicle Valuation, Market Value, Vehicle Listings, Recalls, NHTSA, vPIC, Vehicle Specifications, Depreciation, Ownership Costs, Jobs, Labor Market Data, REST, OpenAPI, Vehicle Safety, Car Listings, Marketplace, Pricing, Cost of Ownership, Vehicle Images, MCP, Agent Tools, Machine Learning

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