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Cardog pricing and alternatives: VIN decoder API, POST /v2/vin/batch

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38% complete: 3 of the 8 key fields we checkSee the 8 fields
$0.00per 1,000 VINsWe rank 47 plans by price. API Ninjas's $299 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 VINs: $0.03.VINquery's $180 pack covers any number of VINs. VINquery's $180 pack costs less to start than API Ninjas's $299 monthly plan.
Plan: Free one of Cardog's 12 plans
Call: POST /v2/vin/batch one of Cardog's 2 calls
API: VIN decoder API Cardog's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 3 of the 8 key fields we check. Type, Fuel, Drivetrain.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits a month, enough for 25 results. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at the end of the calendar month.
  • One call. You send vins to POST /v2/vin/batch. You can also send profile. The call returns the make, model, year and specs of each VIN you send.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Cardog: VIN decoder API alternatives

The table starts with Cardog's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 VINs closest to Cardog's.

Cardog, $900 yearly, Pro (billed annually), POST /v2/vin/batchMarketCheck, $749 monthly, Standard, GET /v2/decode/car/{vin}/specsAuto.dev, $2,988 yearly, Growth, GET /vin/{vin}CarsXE, $49 monthly, Starter, GET /specsVINquery, $400 pack
$ per 1,000 VINs$30.00$1.50$2.50$24.50$40.00
Completeness38%50%38%63%13%
Billingyearlymonthlyyearlymonthlypay first
Pay$900$749$2,988$49$400
Enough for2,500 results a monthas many as you pay foras many as you pay for2,000 calls a month10,000 calls
Freshnessunknownunknownunknown7 daysunknown
Who can get itbusiness use: a company, or an individual using it for their own business, professional or development purposesanyoneanyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter contractsanyoneanyone with a VINquery.com account, buying for themselves or on behalf of an entity

VIN decoder API pricing: plans compared

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.

  1. api.cardog.app/v2/pricing
  2. cardog.app/api-terms
  3. cardog.app/docs/authentication.md
  4. cardog.app/docs/credits.md
  5. cardog.app/docs/decode-canadian-vin.md
  6. cardog.app/docs/reference/vin.md
  7. cardog.app/llms.txt
  8. cardog.app/pricing

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Type
  • Engine, not in the answer
  • Fuel
  • Drivetrain
  • Size and weight, not in the answer
  • Airbags and belts, not in the answer
  • Driver assists, not in the answer
  • Plant, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 VINs$0.00
Perresult
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 41 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe 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 dataCustomer 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 get50 credits a month
Enough for25 results a month
Expiresend of the calendar month
Rate limit
Batch1,000
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendvins. Optional: profile
MethodPOST
Path/v2/vin/batch
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itbusiness 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

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