Per-seat data licensing breaks your unit economics. An API doesn’t.
Legacy repair-data providers charge per seat per month for desktop software your users minimize immediately. CarVector delivers vehicle specs, recall data, and DTC reference through one API at a flat monthly — your fifteenth advisor seat costs the same as your first.
What a service advisor needs in the next ten seconds.
A customer calls about their truck. Your advisor needs the exact vehicle — trim, engine, transmission — because the model name alone won’t order a part. Whether there are open recalls, so they raise it before the customer does. And what the check-engine code means: its severity, and whether it’s a safety concern. Three questions, three API calls, one key.
A complete vehicle — recalls included.
One call returns the vehicle and its open recall count, straight from the catalog. No second vendor, no scraping a government site.
{
"id": "1fwbzr8gk8u4kv4",
"year": 2021,
"make": "Ford",
"model": "F-150",
"horsepower": 290,
"cylinders": 6,
"displacement_l": 3.5,
"transmission": "Automatic 10-spd",
"drive_type": "RWD",
"recall_count": 27
}Classified, not just described.
Severity and a safety flag your advisor can act on — structured fields, not a one-line string to interpret.
{
"code": "P0300",
"title": "Random/Multiple Cylinder Misfire Detected",
"category": "Powertrain",
"severity": "High",
"safety_risk": true,
"emissions_related": true
}Your first seat and your fiftieth use the same key.
CarVector Pro is a flat $79/mo: vehicle specs, recall data, and DTC reference. Start on Free — 500 lookups a month, no card — to build the integration and demo to your first shops before you pay anything.
Repair economics is on our roadmap for Pro.
See pricingYour shops pay for data by the seat. You don’t have to — so you can charge them less.
Free tier. No credit card.