Zipcar

Zipcar is a Boston, Massachusetts-based car sharing service operating in more than 500 cities across North America and Europe, including major US metros (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC) and Canadian cities (Toronto, Hamilton, the Golden Horseshoe). Members reserve vehicles by the hour or day through the Zipcar mobile app, unlock cars with their phone, and pay per usage with gas, EV charging, standard damage protection insurance, and professional maintenance included. Zipcar serves consumer members, universities (Zipcar for Universities), and businesses (Zipcar for Business) with weekday fleet programs. Zipcar is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Avis Budget Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CAR), which acquired the company in March 2013 for approximately $500 million. Zipcar exposes a REST-based Partner API at api.zipcar.com/partner-api, documented at owa.zipcar.com/documentation, that returns JSON for Location List and Location Detail resources (vehicles available at a lat/long); access is gated and granted on request via developerportal@zipcar.com — there is no public OpenAPI spec, SDK, or self-service developer signup. Zipcar also operates a public GitHub organization (github.com/Zipcar) hosting internal DevOps tooling (Concourse resources, Ansible helpers, BOSH helpers, monitoring agents) rather than client-facing API artifacts.

Zipcar is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Car Sharing, Mobility, Transportation, Vehicle Rental, and Fleet.

Zipcar’s developer surface includes pricing, support, documentation, GitHub presence, engineering blog, YouTube channel, and 20 more developer resources.

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14.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 4/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Car SharingMobilityTransportationVehicle RentalFleetUrban MobilityShared MobilityPartner APILocationsAvis Budget Group

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Composite quality — 14.3/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20

Commercial Clarity 2.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 4/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

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 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

MemberPortal

MemberPortal

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

DeveloperContact

DeveloperContact

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 10

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

PartnerAPIBaseURL

Blog

Press

Careers

ParentInvestorRelations

ParentInvestorRelations

Twitter

Twitter

Facebook

Facebook

Instagram

Instagram

LinkedIn

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Other 7

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

HowItWorks

Cities

Business

Universities

APICatalog

ParentCompany

Wikipedia

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: zipcar-com
name: Zipcar
description: 'Zipcar is a Boston, Massachusetts-based car sharing service operating in more than 500 cities across North America
  and Europe, including major US metros (Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle,
  Washington DC) and Canadian cities (Toronto, Hamilton, the Golden Horseshoe). Members reserve vehicles by the hour or day
  through the Zipcar mobile app, unlock cars with their phone, and pay per usage with gas, EV charging, standard damage protection
  insurance, and professional maintenance included. Zipcar serves consumer members, universities (Zipcar for Universities),
  and businesses (Zipcar for Business) with weekday fleet programs. Zipcar is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Avis Budget Group,
  Inc. (NASDAQ: CAR), which acquired the company in March 2013 for approximately $500 million. Zipcar exposes a REST-based
  Partner API at api.zipcar.com/partner-api, documented at owa.zipcar.com/documentation, that returns JSON for Location List
  and Location Detail resources (vehicles available at a lat/long); access is gated and granted on request via developerportal@zipcar.com
  — there is no public OpenAPI spec, SDK, or self-service developer signup. Zipcar also operates a public GitHub organization
  (github.com/Zipcar) hosting internal DevOps tooling (Concourse resources, Ansible helpers, BOSH helpers, monitoring agents)
  rather than client-facing API artifacts.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Provider
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/zipcar-com.png
tags:
- Car Sharing
- Mobility
- Transportation
- Vehicle Rental
- Fleet
- Urban Mobility
- Shared Mobility
- Partner API
- Locations
- Avis Budget Group
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zipcar-com/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-25'
modified: '2026-05-25'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/zipcar-com-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.zipcar.com
- type: HowItWorks
  url: https://www.zipcar.com/how
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.zipcar.com/pricing
- type: Cities
  url: https://www.zipcar.com/cities
- type: Business
  url: https://www.zipcar.com/business
- type: Universities
  url: https://www.zipcar.com/universities
- type: MemberPortal
  url: https://my.zipcar.com
- type: Support
  url: https://support.zipcar.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://owa.zipcar.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://owa.zipcar.com/documentation
- type: APICatalog
  url: https://owa.zipcar.com/api-catalog
- type: PartnerAPIBaseURL
  url: https://api.zipcar.com/partner-api
- type: DeveloperContact
  url: mailto:developerportal@zipcar.com
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/Zipcar
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.zipcar.com/ziptopia
- type: Press
  url: https://www.zipcar.com/press
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.zipcar.com/careers
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://www.avisbudgetgroup.com
- type: ParentInvestorRelations
  url: https://ir.avisbudgetgroup.com
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/Zipcar
- type: Facebook
  url: https://www.facebook.com/zipcar
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/zipcar
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zipcar
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/user/Zipcar
- type: Wikipedia
  url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipcar
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com