# Cardog, free, GET /v2/vin/{vin}: VIN decoder API

> The system of record for the Canadian vehicle. A typed graph of automotive entities (every make, model, model year, recall and safety rating) under a permanent `{domain}:{key}` ref, served as a REST API with an error contract built for agents

Cardog's VIN decoder API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 VINs. It returns 5 of the 8 key fields we check: Type, Fuel, Drivetrain, Size and weight, Plant.
We rank 47 plans by price. [API Ninjas's $299 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/api-ninjas/299-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 VINs: $0.03.
[VINquery's $180 pack](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/vinquery/180-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of VINs. VINquery's $180 pack costs less to start than API Ninjas's $299 monthly plan.
[NHTSA](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/nhtsa/free-get-api-vehicles-decodevinvalues-vin/llms.txt), [CarsXE](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/carsxe/49-monthly-starter-get-specs/llms.txt) and [Auto.dev](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/auto-dev/299-monthly-growth-get-vin-vin/llms.txt) are the best VIN decoder API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/cardog/free-get-v2-vin-vin
- [Best VIN decoder API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-vin-decoder-api.txt)
- Get it: https://cardog.app/pricing
- Request: `GET /v2/vin/{vin}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://cardog.app/pricing
- Its API docs: https://cardog.app/docs/reference/vin#getVinIdentity
- Sold by: Cardog (https://cardog.app)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

- Completeness: 63%
- Type: ✓
- Fuel: ✓
- Drivetrain: ✓
- Size and weight: ✓
- Plant: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 VINs: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 41 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The system of record for the Canadian vehicle. A typed graph of automotive entities (every make, model, model year, recall and safety rating) under a permanent `{domain}:{key}` ref, served as a REST API with an error contract built for agents

## Data

- Keep data: Customer may "retain API Content to the extent permitted by the Documentation, an Enterprise Agreement, and applicable law", "store stable Cardog entity references for the duration of its use of the API Platform and may retain them after termination as identifiers within Customer's historical records", "Other caching, retention, refresh, and attribution rules are set out by data family in the Documentation or an Enterprise Agreement", "Customer must not present cached API Content as current after the stated freshness period or asOf time"
- Use data: "use API Content in Authorized Applications for Customer's internal business purposes and to provide Customer's own products or services to its end users, reproduce and display API Content as a subordinate part of an Authorized Application, preserving any attribution and Response Metadata the Documentation requires for the data family", "No right is granted to resell API access, distribute API Content as a standalone product or bulk dataset, operate a data brokerage, or sublicense Cardog's database except where an Enterprise Agreement expressly permits it." "Customer must not, and must not allow another person to: [...] remove or obscure Response Metadata, source attribution, legal notices, or technical safeguards, misrepresent API Content as more current, precise, authoritative, or vehicle-specific than its Response Metadata indicates, use the API Platform or API Content to create a substitute for, or materially replicate, Cardog's API, reference graph, or automotive data product, including by using API Content to train a model intended to replicate or substitute for the API Platform or Cardog's dataset, except as an Enterprise Agreement expressly permits, sell, license, publish, scrape, or distribute API Content in bulk or as a standalone dataset except as an Enterprise Agreement expressly permits, use source links or URIs returned by the API to scrape a source or violate the source's access controls or terms [...]"

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 credits a month
- Enough for: 25 calls a month
- Expires: end of the calendar month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: vin. Optional: profile
- Method: GET
- Path: /v2/vin/{vin}

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: business use: a company, or an individual using it for their own business, professional or development purposes

## The 36 fields the plan's answer can hold

VIN, valid, year, make, model, trim, doors, number of wheels, number of axles, shipping weight, gross weight, make ref, model ref, model year ref, body style ref, fuel type ref, drive type ref, transmission ref, electrification level ref, vehicle type ref, gross vehicle weight rating ref, country ref, cab type ref, bed type ref, series ref, secondary fuel type ref, trailer body type ref, trailer type ref, nano grain, squish grain, authority tier, trim authority tier, reasons, corgi build, attributes, links

## Cardog's plans (12)

- [Cardog, free, GET /v2/vin/{vin}](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/cardog/free-get-v2-vin-vin/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [Cardog, top-up from $5, Custom amount, GET /v2/vin/{vin}](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/cardog/top-up-from-5-custom-amount-get-v2-vin-vin/llms.txt): $80.00 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [Cardog, $10 pack, 250 credits, GET /v2/vin/{vin}](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/cardog/10-pack-250-credits-get-v2-vin-vin/llms.txt): $80.00 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [Cardog, $25 pack, 750 credits, GET /v2/vin/{vin}](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/cardog/25-pack-750-credits-get-v2-vin-vin/llms.txt): $66.667 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [Cardog, $100 pack, 3,500 credits, GET /v2/vin/{vin}](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/cardog/100-pack-3500-credits-get-v2-vin-vin/llms.txt): $57.143 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [Cardog, $30 monthly, Starter, GET /v2/vin/{vin}](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/cardog/30-monthly-starter-get-v2-vin-vin/llms.txt): $60.00 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [Cardog, $100 monthly, Pro, GET /v2/vin/{vin}](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/cardog/100-monthly-pro-get-v2-vin-vin/llms.txt): $40.00 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [Cardog, $500 monthly, Business, GET /v2/vin/{vin}](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/cardog/500-monthly-business-get-v2-vin-vin/llms.txt): $40.00 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [Cardog, $276 yearly, Starter (billed annually), GET /v2/vin/{vin}](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/cardog/276-yearly-starter-billed-annually-get-v2-vin-vin/llms.txt): $46.00 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [Cardog, $900 yearly, Pro (billed annually), GET /v2/vin/{vin}](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/cardog/900-yearly-pro-billed-annually-get-v2-vin-vin/llms.txt): $30.00 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [Cardog, $4,500 yearly, Business (billed annually), GET /v2/vin/{vin}](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/cardog/4500-yearly-business-billed-annually-get-v2-vin-vin/llms.txt): $30.00 per 1,000, 63% complete
- [Cardog, contact us, Enterprise, GET /v2/vin/{vin}](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/cardog/contact-us-enterprise-get-v2-vin-vin/llms.txt): 63% complete

## Cardog's calls (2)

- `POST /v2/vin/batch`: [Cardog, free, POST /v2/vin/batch](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/cardog/free-post-v2-vin-batch/llms.txt)
- `GET /v2/vin/{vin}`: [Cardog, free, GET /v2/vin/{vin}](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/cardog/free-get-v2-vin-vin/llms.txt)

## Cardog's APIs (1)

- [Cardog: VIN decoder API pricing, 12 plans, GET /v2/vin/{vin}](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/cardog/free-get-v2-vin-vin/llms.txt)

## Cardog: VIN decoder API alternatives

- [MarketCheck, $749 monthly, Standard, GET /v2/decode/car/{vin}/specs](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/marketcheck/749-monthly-standard-get-v2-decode-car-vin-specs/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 75% complete
- [Auto.dev, $2,988 yearly, Growth, GET /vin/{vin}](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/auto-dev/2988-yearly-growth-get-vin-vin/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [CarsXE, $49 monthly, Starter, GET /specs](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/carsxe/49-monthly-starter-get-specs/llms.txt): $24.50 per 1,000, 75% complete, 7 days
- [VINquery, $400 pack](https://datacircle.dev/vin-decoder-apis/vinquery/400-pack/llms.txt): $40.00 per 1,000, 38% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-30.

- https://api.cardog.app/v2/pricing
- https://cardog.app/api-terms
- https://cardog.app/docs/authentication.md
- https://cardog.app/docs/credits.md
- https://cardog.app/docs/decode-canadian-vin.md
- https://cardog.app/docs/reference/vin.md
- https://cardog.app/llms.txt
- https://cardog.app/pricing