TheCarApi · Rate Limits
Thecarapi Rate Limits
Thecarapi Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for TheCarApi on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.
It captures 3 rate-limit definitions.
| Limit state is signalled in the {‘header’: ‘X-RateLimit-Remaining’, ‘note’: ‘Reports the window with the least headroom left. 0 on a quota breach.’}, {‘header’: ‘Retry-After’, ‘note’: ‘Sent on 429. The provider tells clients to honour it rather than backing off on a schedule of their own.’}, {‘header’: ‘X-Request-ID’, ‘note’: ‘Correlation id on every response; the only handle support has on a specific call.’}, and {‘header’: ‘X-Cache’, ‘note’: ‘HIT | MISS | STALE on read routes.’} response headers. |
Tagged areas include Automotive, Vehicle Data, Car Auctions, Used Cars, and Vehicle Inventory.
3 Limits
{'header': 'X-RateLimit-Remaining', 'note': 'Reports the window with the least headroom left. 0 on a quota breach.'}{'header': 'Retry-After', 'note': 'Sent on 429. The provider tells clients to honour it rather than backing off on a schedule of their own.'}{'header': 'X-Request-ID', 'note': 'Correlation id on every response; the only handle support has on a specific call.'}{'header': 'X-Cache', 'note': 'HIT | MISS | STALE on read routes.'}
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-09-01 — thecarapi.com/docs/conventions.
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AutomotiveVehicle DataCar AuctionsUsed CarsVehicle InventoryClassifiedsMarket IntelligencePricingVINImage CDNEuropeSouth KoreaJapan Auctions
Limits
per-key
Configurable per key on any of the four periods; the published documentation does not name a default numeric value for any window, so limit is recorded null rather than guessed. All configured windows are checked before any is charged, so a request rejected by the day limit does not also spend a minute of the minute allowance. When a key carries quotas, every response reports the window with the least headroom left.
per-accountUnlimited (EUR 250/mo)
200000/month
The commercial ceiling published on the pricing page — "Up to 200,000 API requests per month". The free evaluation tier is described only as "limited requests for evaluation" with no published number.
per-ip
5/15 minutes
Five failed authentications from one IP lock that address out for 15 minutes; every subsequent request answers 429 even when it carries a valid key. A successful authentication clears the counter. This is an authentication control, not a quota, but it surfaces as 429.
Work with this as data
Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.