VIN decoder API pricing: plans compared

Name: VIN decoder API plans
Creator: Datacircle
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

VIN decoder APIs side by side: the fields each returns, what 1,000 VINs cost and how fresh their data is.


API	Score						In their words	Rate limit	The call
API plan	Overall score	Price score	Data score	Cost to get started score	Bundle score	Performance score	Their pitch	Batch	You send	Method	Path
VIN decoder · 1 plan
NHTSA, free, GET /api/vehicles/DecodeVinValues/{vin}	N/A	100	N/A	100	0	N/A	The Decode VIN Flat Format API will decode the VIN and the decoded output will be made available in a flat file format.	1	vin (a VIN, or a part of one with * for each character you don't have). Optional: format, modelyear	GET	/api/vehicles/DecodeVinValues/{vin}

NHTSA, free, POST /api/vehicles/DecodeVINValuesBatch/	N/A

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Checked 2026-10-30

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We add each plan's price, data, cost to get started, bundle and performance scores at their weights and scale the total to 100. Data and performance come from our benchmark, so until we benchmark the provider they are N/A, and so is the plan's overall score. A plan whose data score is 0 has an overall score of 0, whatever its other scores. Click or tap any score to see how we scored it. Move a weight to rank the plans by the new scores.

Price40

Price › $ per 1,000 VINs, the same on every plan here, so off this sheet
Not found › $ per 1,000, the same on every plan here, so off this sheet

Data40

Our benchmark of the provider's call. N/A on a call we haven't benchmarked. Each API's sheet shows what we measured on each benchmarked plan, in the columns after its price.

Cost to get started10

About the plan › Who can get it, the same on every plan here, so off this sheet
Price › Billing, the same on every plan here, so off this sheet
Plan › Pay, the same on every plan here, so off this sheet
Price › $ per 1,000 VINs, the same on every plan here, so off this sheet

On a pay as you go plan, the price of one result. On a tier that starts after a set number of monthly calls, the cost of those first calls.

Bundle10

Also pays for, what else a plan's price gets you, as the pricing pages list it. This sheet shows the column once we've read it for every plan.

Performance10

Our benchmark of the provider's call. N/A on a call we haven't benchmarked. Each API's sheet shows what we measured on each benchmarked plan, in the columns after its price.