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Carapi Vin Decode

Decode a 17-character VIN to vehicle make, model, year, engine, body type, drive type, transmission, fuel type, and country. Costs 1 quota unit. Suggested follow-ups: carapi_stolen_check, carapi_mileage_history, carapi_inspection.

Carapi Plate To Vin

Look up the VIN for a license plate. Country coverage: PL, NO, SK, SE, CZ, US. US lookups require a 2-letter `state` code. Costs 1 quota unit. Suggested follow-up: carapi_vin_decode.

Carapi Stolen Check

Check if a vehicle is reported stolen. Country coverage: SK, CZ, SI, HU, RO. Costs 1 quota unit. Use before purchase to avoid buying a stolen car.

Carapi Inspection

Look up technical/emissions inspection history (STK/EK) for a VIN in Slovakia (SK) or Czechia (CZ). Costs 1 quota unit.

Carapi Listing Search

Search vehicle listings by make, model, and year. Use for market research, comparable pricing, or finding inventory. Costs 1 quota unit.

Carapi Photos

Retrieve known photos for a vehicle by VIN (auction listings, dealer galleries, manufacturer images). Costs 1 quota unit.

Carapi Payments

Compute monthly payment estimates for a VIN given price, down payment, loan term (months), and APR. Costs 1 quota unit.

Carapi Valuation

Estimate the market value of a vehicle by make/model/year/country (all required). Country coverage: 24 markets across EU/UK/US. Optional fuel and kw (engine power in kW) filters narrow the valuation to a specific drivetrain variant. Optional mileage (current vehicle mileage in km) refines the valuation. Applied filters are echoed back on the response. Returns 404 when no valuation is available for the supplied configuration. Costs 1 quota unit.

Carapi Mileage History

Retrieve historical odometer readings for a VIN. Useful for spotting odometer rollback or mileage anomalies before purchase. Costs 1 quota unit.

Carapi Extract Vin

Extract a 17-character VIN from a base64-encoded image of a windshield etching, dashboard plate, door jamb sticker, or registration document. A 200 response with vin: null is not an error - it means OCR ran successfully but no VIN was found, do not retry. Costs 1 quota unit.

Carapi Extract Plate

Extract a license plate string from a base64-encoded vehicle photo. Optional 2-letter country code enforces region-specific format validation (27 supported regions across EU, UK, US, CA). A 200 response with plateNumber: null is not an error and should not be retried. Costs 1 quota unit.

Carapi Recalls

Look up U.S. recall records for a given make, model, and model year. Returns recall summary, consequence, remedy, and severity flags (parkIt, parkOutside, overTheAirUpdate). Coverage is best for vehicles sold in the U.S. market. Costs 1 quota unit.

Carapi Charging Stations

Find the nearest EV charging locations around a coordinate. Returns each location with its name, owners, address, straight-line distanceKm, stationCount, maxPowerKw and a per-connector-type summary (max power, price per kWh, parking price, plug count). lat and lon are required; radius, connectorType, owner and minPowerKw narrow the search. IMPORTANT: distanceKm is straight-line (as the crow flies), not driving distance, so the nearest result is not always the fastest to reach — say so rather tha

Carapi Time To Sell

Estimate how long a vehicle takes to sell: median days on market for comparable listings, with the 25th and 75th percentiles around it. Returns make/model/country (the canonical cohort resolved to), medianDaysToSell, p25Days and p75Days — nothing else. make, model and country are required; optional year, kw, mileage and fuel narrow the cohort. Send the values of ONE concrete car — year/kw/mileage are widened server-side (±2 years, ±20%, ±25%). READING THE NUMBERS: the distribution is right-skewe

Carapi Buyer Report

COMPOSITE: fans out in parallel to vin_decode + stolen_check + mileage_history + inspection and returns a unified pre-purchase due-diligence report. Costs 4 quota units (one per sub-call). Partial failures are surfaced in `warnings[]` rather than failing the whole report — agents get whatever data is available.

Carapi Docs

Search the CarAPI documentation. Use this to discover endpoints, parameter shapes, country coverage, and pricing before calling the data tools. No API key required — anyone can call this. Rate-limited to 60 requests/min/IP.