Failure Intelligence — our biggest data expansion since launch: 4.4 million new records across three new per-vehicle endpoints. GET /v1/vehicles/{id}/complaints surfaces 1.7M federal owner-complaint filings with symptoms, components, and crash/fire/injury flags (Pro plan and up). /tsbs indexes 2.5M manufacturer technical service bulletins — the fix the dealer already knows about (Business plan and up). /investigations covers 20,651 federal defect-investigation records, active and closed, with status and disposition (Business plan and up). Recall objects gain an optional completion_rate field — the share of recalled vehicles actually repaired — drawn from 73,731 quarterly records across 14,359 campaigns. Existing responses stay fully backward compatible: vehicle objects gain optional complaint_count, tsb_count, and investigation_count as free counts. Complaints, recalls, and investigations refresh daily; completion rates quarterly.
One call. A complete vehicle profile.
This card is populated live from a single CarVector request — image, specs, and federal recall count, with no scraping and no stitching five sources together. Ship a vehicle profile this afternoon.
Most car APIs give you a spec sheet. That's where they stop.
You get year/make/model and a horsepower number — no image, no recall history, no diagnostic reference. CarVector bundles the data developers actually reach for, in one call and one key.
Specs + images
A growing catalog of vehicles by year, make, model, and trim — with representative illustrations, because a spec sheet with no picture isn’t much of a product.
Learn moreRecalls + failure data
Federal recalls, owner complaints, technical service bulletins, and defect investigations — the full safety and failure history, mapped to vehicles and refreshed automatically. The history most vehicle APIs make you go find yourself.
Learn moreDTC reference
A growing library of diagnostic trouble codes with titles, categories, severity ratings, and safety flags. Look up any check-engine code by its identifier.
Learn moreThe vehicle data API that doesn't stop at specs.
Specs and representative images, complete federal recall data, and a growing DTC reference — bundled in one API at a flat monthly, not per-seat. Start free.
Explore the API$ ▍
{ "id": "1laqdklflb3hfav", "year": 2018, "make": "Toyota", "model": "Tacoma Access Cab", "horsepower": 278, "displacement_l": 3.5, "transmission": "Automatic 6-spd", "drive_type": "4x2", "image_type": "illustration", "recall_count": 0 }
We log every correction. Here is one.
Tens of thousands of corrections and counting — each one a data point a single-source database gets wrong.
Your AI agent can't call legacy desktop software. It can call us.
Drop CarVector into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client and your agent queries real vehicle data — specs, recalls, and DTC reference — instead of hallucinating it. One config block, your key, four tools.
{
"mcpServers": {
"carvector": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"carvector-mcp"
],
"env": {
"CARVECTOR_API_KEY": "cv_your_key"
}
}
}
}By the numbers
- vehicles spanning 1925–2029
- 12,000+vehicles spanning1925–2029
- federal recall campaigns mapped to year/make/model
- 25,000+federal recall campaignsmapped to year/make/model
- DTC codes with severity and safety flags
- 1,200+DTC codes with severityand safety flags
- verified corrections shipped
- 70,000+verified correctionsshipped
Last data refresh: 11 hours ago
We ship every week
See the full changelogCleaned up the DTC reference — every code now returns a real title, not just the raw code — and added the most-looked-up generic OBD-II codes (P0420, P0171, P0455, P0128, and more). 1,200+ codes, each with category, severity, and safety/emissions flags.
New endpoint: GET /v1/vehicles/{id}/images returns image URLs for a vehicle. Vehicle images are representative illustrations. Thousands of vehicles now have images.
Stop overpaying for data that's missing half the picture.
The sweet spot for production apps.
Five tiers in all, including Enterprise. Full pricing
Picks and shovels for the auto repair gold rush.
Shop management SaaS
Building the next shop platform? Get specs, recalls, and DTC reference via API for a flat monthly instead of licensing legacy databases at hundreds per seat.
Learn moreInsurance & claims
Pull recall exposure and decode trouble codes at intake from the year/make/model. Structured data, not phone calls.
Learn moreFleet maintenance
Map open recall exposure across your fleet from each vehicle’s year/make/model. Know what’s outstanding before it’s a roadside breakdown.
Learn moreAI agents & copilots
Give your agent structured automotive knowledge through MCP. No hallucinated specs or recalls — real data, real sources.
Learn moreOn the roadmap
What we're building next.
Maintenance procedures
β · pilot in flightReset sequences, TPMS relearns, service light walkthroughs — derived from real shop content, not from manuals nobody publishes.
69 of 70 pilot vehicles cached
VIN decode + enrichment
Q3 2026Paste a 17-character VIN, get back the decoded year, make, model, body class, and engine — joined to the matching catalog row's image and recall history. One call, complete picture.
Expanded procedure library
Q4 2026Scaling from 3 procedure types (oil reset, TPMS, service reminder) to 10+ — covering key fob programming, throttle relearn, steering angle reset, and more. Coverage grows weekly.