Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready

HERE HD Live MapHigh-definition map product for automated driving with road geometry, lanes, signs, hazards, and dynamic up...71.2

Developing 31 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close

Mercedes-Benz Electric Vehicle Status APIThe Electric Vehicle Status API (currently at v3) provides charge state, state-of-charge percent, remaining...51.9 Mercedes-Benz Fleet APIThe Mercedes-Benz Fleet API integrates vehicle data into fleet management systems without retrofit hardware...51.9 Mercedes-Benz Fuel Status APIThe Fuel Status API exposes a Mercedes-Benz combustion vehicle's current tank level, remaining fuel range i...51.9 Mercedes-Benz Pay As You Drive 2.0 APIThe Pay As You Drive 2.0 API supplies precise odometer readings and geographical position for a consented M...51.9 Mercedes-Benz Vehicle Lock Status APIThe Vehicle Lock Status API returns the current door-lock, deck-lid, and position-lock state of a Mercedes-...51.9 Mercedes-Benz Vehicle Status APIThe Vehicle Status API delivers real-time vehicle state — doors, windows, deck lid, sunroof, tire pressure,...51.9 Cox Automotive Integration Platform (API Storefront)The company-wide API storefront and integration platform fronting Cox Automotive's partner APIs — Dealertra...50.9 Manheim Event NotificationsPublish/subscribe business-event notification service for the Manheim auction lifecycle. Consumers register...50.9 Manheim Hypermedia API SuiteManheim's third-party integration surface — a suite of hypermedia (href-linked) JSON REST APIs over the who...50.9 ETSI MEC 030 V2X Information Services APIThe V2X Information Service defined in ETSI GS MEC 030, providing predicted quality of service, provisionin...50.2 INRIX Fuel Stations APIFuel station locations, brands, amenities and current fuel prices by grade, searchable by bounding box, rad...50.1 INRIX TPEG ConnectDelivers INRIX traffic, incident, parking, weather and fuel content in TISA TPEG format over HTTP POST sess...50.1 Android for Cars APIsAPIs for building apps for Android Auto and Android Automotive OS in-vehicle experiences.49.9 BNSF AUTOMOTIVE APIThe AUTOMOTIVE API from BNSF — 4 operation(s) for automotive.49.1 NHTSA Safety API (recalls, complaints, safety ratings)The NHTSA public safety API that powers the dynamic search applications on nhtsa.gov. Three families: /reca...49.0 NHTSA vPIC (Vehicle Product Information Catalog) APIThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Vehicle Product Information Catalog and VIN decoder, a...49.0 Hyundai Developers Connected Car APIHyundai Developers exposes connected-car data from Bluelink-enrolled vehicles to third-party services over ...48.4 Moody's AutoCycle APIRetrieves forecasts of vehicle prices from AutoCycle models, integrating Moody's Analytics economic data an...48.3 Fortellis PlatformFortellis is CDK Global's open automotive commerce platform — an API gateway, app marketplace, and develope...47.4 Dealer.com Accounts APIDealership account information for dealers who have a relationship with Dealer.com. GET /accounts/search re...46.7 Dealer.com Equipment APIEquipment and option data for vehicles in Dealer.com inventory, exposed as its own resource alongside the V...46.7 Dealer.com Incentives APIManufacturer and dealer incentive offers. GET /incentives returns a filterable, paginated list; GET /incent...46.7 Dealer.com Price APIVehicle price data for Dealer.com inventory, exposed as its own resource within the Inventory family alongs...46.7 Dealer.com Vehicle APIVehicle inventory available for sale at Dealer.com dealerships in the United States and Canada. GET /vehicl...46.7 Scale Automotive Data EngineScale's Automotive Data Engine covers autonomy-grade data needs including LiDAR labeling, sensor fusion, mu...44.4 TomTom AutoStream APITomTom AutoStream is a map data delivery platform optimized for on-demand and over-the-air cloud-to-device ...42.4 TomTom Fuel Prices APIThe TomTom Fuel Prices API provides current fuel price information at specific fueling stations, including ...42.4 Image CDNToken-authenticated global image CDN delivering car logos in full, badge, and wordmark variants across mult...41.7 JSON APIBearer-authenticated REST/JSON API for listing brands and retrieving full brand detail including color pale...41.7 MCP ServerHosted streamable-HTTP MCP server exposing read-only brand tools, account tools, resources, and prompts. Au...41.7 Spyne Unified APIThe Spyne Unified API accepts vehicle images and video (by SKU / VIN / stock number) and returns AI-transfo...41.0

Thin 10 Limited public surface area

Crank Storyboard APIsThe public API reference for Crank Storyboard, the embedded graphical-interface development platform AMETEK...34.1 Visteon Phoenix SDKThe Phoenix Software Development Kit provides development tools for building automotive infotainment applic...33.9 ADRO US Store Agent Commerce (UCP / MCP)ADRO's US direct-to-consumer aero-parts storefront at adro.com is a Shopify store that publishes an agent-f...31.5 Amphenol Automotive MCP ServerA live Model Context Protocol resource served by Amphenol's automotive division, discovered through RFC 841...31.4 Toyota Dealers APIToyota Dealers API enables searching and retrieving dealer information including location, hours, services ...31.2 TRAVEO T2G Automotive Microcontroller SDKTRAVEO T2G is the automotive Arm Cortex-M microcontroller family inherited from Cypress, now developed unde...30.7 Volvo Cars Connected Vehicle APIReceive vehicle data and send commands to the vehicle. Vehicle data covers status, diagnostics, statistics,...29.4 Volvo Cars Energy APIAccess the most recent energy state of a BEV or PHEV — battery charge level, target battery charge level, c...29.4 Volvo Cars Energy Device APIAPI for managing wallboxes, charging sessions, and user ID tokens — the device-side counterpart to the vehi...29.4 Volvo Cars Location APIRetrieve detailed information on a vehicle's current location. Designed for interactive applications that n...29.4

Emerging 11 Early or largely undocumented

FuelScoutMachine-payable cheapest-fuel queries over x402. Station-level prices for Spain, France and Italy and offic...24.8 ford-motor Automotive APIAutomotive operations24.7 4.screen Mobility Experience Cloud APIThe production 4.screen API. Automakers and mobility service providers integrate it into infotainment and n...24.1 CarMax Vehicle Inventory APIThe CarMax Vehicle Inventory API exposes details about all used vehicles currently in CarMax's nationwide i...18.4 Arconic ExtrusionsHard-alloy aluminum extrusions for aerospace structural components, automotive and commercial transportatio...16.5 ShopKey Pro Repair Information SystemShopKey Pro is Snap-on's comprehensive automotive repair information system providing access to OEM repair ...15.2 Snap-on Diagnostics SoftwareSnap-on provides professional diagnostic software for automotive technicians covering 50+ domestic, Asian, ...15.2 Snap-on Electronic Parts Catalog (EPC)The Snap-on Electronic Parts Catalog (EPC) provides dealer management system (DMS) integration for parts lo...15.2 SureTrack Expert InformationSureTrack is Snap-on's cloud-based expert knowledge platform for automotive technicians, providing diagnost...15.2 DRiV Parts Catalog APIDRiV, a Tenneco company, provides digital parts catalog and vehicle fitment lookup capabilities for its por...14.6 Asbury Automotive Clicklane PlatformClicklane is Asbury Automotive's proprietary online vehicle purchase platform that enables customers to com...11.3

Minimal 3 Almost no public developer surface

Demand AAM Aftermarket Parts PortalDemand AAM provides access to genuine AAM OE replacement driveline parts for the aftermarket. The portal se...10.4 Modine Manufacturing APIThe Modine Manufacturing API provides access to platform services and data for enterprise integration and a...9.5 PlotAPI REST APISingle REST surface for vehicle specifications, VIN history, MOT records, parts fitment, valuations and pro...8.9

Companies reaching this through an API (10)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Automotive” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

AMETEK BNSF Cypress Semiconductor ETSI Ford Motor Company Moody's Scale AI ScalpStream TomTom Toyota

Score breakdown

Frequency

72.7

log-scaled weighted occurrences

Breadth

10.2

spread across providers

Quality lift

19.9

mean composite of providers using it

Cohesion

0.0

strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

394 providers carry this tag directly, and 582 counting the 8 narrower tags below and the 4 beneath them — 188 more to reach.

Automobiles 17 providers Cars 20 providers Dealership 28 providers Electric Vehicles 162 providers Tier 1 Supplier 16 providers Used Cars 27 providers Vehicle Data 31 providers Vehicles 37 providers

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag394

Api tag57

Openapi tag1

Openapi op tag1

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 367 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Automotive, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers

367

all scored

Mean Kin Score

17.1

-5.8 vs catalog 22.9

Mean Agent Readiness

7.9

-4.0 vs catalog 11.9

Spread

0–73.9

median 11.5 · σ 14.6

How the 367 split by band

Exemplar 2Strong 6Developing 34Thin 45Emerging 115Minimal 165

Facet averages, against the whole catalog

Facet	This cohort	Catalog	Difference	Scored
Contract Governance	4.2	6.3	-2.1	367
Discoverability	55.8	58.1	-2.3	367
Operational Transparency	9.4	13.7	-4.3	367
Access Clarity	20.6	26.5	-5.9	367
Developer Ergonomics	16.2	23.2	-7	367
Contract Quality	10	17.6	-7.6	367

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes

Artifact	This cohort	Catalog	Difference
MCP server (any)	9%	14%	-5
MCP server (first-party)	6%	12%	-6
Agent Skills	0%	0%	0
OAuth scopes	10%	11%	-1
Security	99%	98%	+1
Arazzo workflows	1%	2%	-1
Governance rules	4%	14%	-10

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score

1 CarsXE 73.9
2 HERE 71.2
3 Shop-Ware 59.4
4 TheCarApi 58.2
5 Apibara.tech 58.1
6 iwant.fyi 58
7 UVeye 57
8 Amazon IoT FleetWise 54.4
9 Avito 53
10 PartsTech 52.5

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