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VinAudit pricing and alternatives: VIN decoder API

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88% complete: 7 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.NHTSA, CarsXE and Auto.dev are the best VIN decoder API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Trial one of VinAudit's 3 plans
Call: GET /v3/specifications VinAudit's only call
API: VIN decoder API VinAudit's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 7 of the 8 key fields we check. Type, Engine, Fuel, Drivetrain, Size and weight, Driver assists, Plant.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests once. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send vin to GET /v3/specifications. You can also send include and format. The call returns the vehicle's make, model, year and specs.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: 30 days. Use data: with conditions.

VinAudit: VIN decoder API alternatives

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

VinAudit, $100 monthlyMarketCheck, $749 monthly, Standard, GET /v2/decode/car/neovin/{vin}/specsCardog, $10 pack, 250 credits, GET /v2/vin/{vin}Auto.dev, $299 monthly, Growth, GET /build/{vin}VINquery, $1,000 pack, Basic 10,000 decodes (BAS-VLP-10K)
$ per 1,000 VINs$100.00$80.00$80.00$100.00$100.00
Completeness88%75%63%25%88%
Billingmonthlymonthlypay firstmonthlypay first
Pay$100$749$10$299$1,000
Enough foras many as you pay foras many as you pay for125 callsas many as you pay for10,000 calls
Freshnessunknown1 dayunknownunknownunknown
Who can get itindividual developers, early-stage startups and small businesses with annual business revenue below USD $10 million, fewer than ten employees and fewer than ten years in operationanyonebusiness use: a company, or an individual using it for their own business, professional or development purposesanyone at least 18 years old with the legal capacity to enter contractsanyone with a VINquery.com account, buying for themselves or on behalf of an entity

Every VIN decoder API provider we score, ranked

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. data.vinaudit.com/docs/api/vin/decoder
  2. data.vinaudit.com/pricing
  3. data.vinaudit.com/terms
  4. data.vinaudit.com/vin-decoder-api

Product details

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

  • Type
  • Engine
  • Fuel
  • Drivetrain
  • Size and weight
  • Airbags and belts, not in the answer
  • Driver assists
  • Plant
Price
$ per 1,000 VINs$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchDecode any VIN into 40+ structured attributes, including year, make, model, trim, engine, drivetrain, fuel type, and MSRP, returned in a single structured response
Data
Keep data30 days
Use dataSubject to these Terms and payment of all applicable fees, VinAudit grants Customer a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable license during the applicable access period to access and use the Services and the data made available through them solely for Customer's own internal business purposes, and not for resale, redistribution, sublicensing, or providing the Services or data to any third party except as expressly authorized in writing by VinAudit. [...] Unless VinAudit has expressly authorized otherwise in a separate written agreement signed by an authorized VinAudit representative, Customer shall not, and shall not permit any third party to: sell, resell, license, sublicense, assign, transfer, distribute, redistribute, publish, republish, disclose, or otherwise make any Service or VinAudit data available to any third party, use the Services or VinAudit data for the benefit of any third party except as expressly authorized by VinAudit in writing, use the Services or VinAudit data for any service bureau, hosted pass-through, white-label, proxy, marketplace, public search tool, or other third-party access model, scrape, crawl, harvest, bulk extract, or otherwise collect data from the Services except through VinAudit's expressly authorized APIs, feeds, or tools and only within purchased or permitted usage limits, permit mass downloads, bulk exports, or bulk feeds of any VinAudit data except as expressly authorized by VinAudit in writing, create, compile, maintain, or distribute any dataset, database, benchmark, or product that is substantially similar to, competitive with, or a substitute for VinAudit's data or Services, use the Services or VinAudit data in any manner that competes with VinAudit or serves as a substitute for VinAudit's products, services, or data offerings, or assist any third party in doing so, use the Services or VinAudit data to train, fine-tune, validate, improve, or otherwise support any artificial intelligence, machine learning, large language model, foundation model, or similar system, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, decode, adapt, or otherwise attempt to derive source code, methods, or underlying structure of the Services, except to the limited extent prohibited by law, remove, obscure, or alter any copyright, trademark, proprietary, attribution, disclaimer, or other notices associated with the Services or VinAudit data, or use the Services or VinAudit data for any unlawful, fraudulent, deceptive, abusive, or unauthorized purpose.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 requests
Enough for100 calls, once
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendvin. Optional: include, format
MethodGET
Path/v3/specifications
About the plan
PlanTrial
Who can get itanyone evaluating the Services for business use, an individual developer included
The 43 fields the plan's answer can hold

VIN, year, make, model, trim, trim selections, style, style selections, vehicle type, vehicle size, category, assembly country, assembly city, doors, fuel type, fuel capacity, city mileage, highway mileage, engine, engine size, engine cylinders, transmission, transmission type, transmission speeds, drivetrain, anti-lock brake system, steering type, curb weight, gross weight, gross vehicle weight rating, overall height, overall length, overall width, wheelbase length, standard seating, invoice price, delivery charges, manufacturer suggested retail price, equipment, colors, recalls, warranties, photos

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