What is VinAudit’s Car Listing API & Car Listing Dataset?
The VinAudit Car Listing API is a REST JSON API that provides a structured car listing dataset containing real-time vehicle listings for marketplaces, dealer platforms, lenders, and analytics teams. It delivers consistent data across millions of listings, making it easy to power search tools, inventory systems, and pricing models. Each API response includes key identifiers such as VIN and specification IDs, listing title and description, pricing and mileage, status, location, and seller information. When available, it also returns basic vehicle-history indicators— helping you assess risk and market context using a single unified dataset.
Car Listing API Data Features
| Real-Time Listings | Retrieve live car listing data from dealerships, marketplaces, and online automotive sources. |
| Vehicle Specifications | Get detailed information including make, model, year, trim, body style, fuel type, transmission, and drivetrain. |
| Pricing Trends | Track vehicle price changes and historical pricing insights to optimize listings and sales strategies. |
| Mileage Insights | Access odometer readings to analyze vehicle usage and resale value potential. |
| Regional Availability | Filter listings based on geographical location, dealership network, and proximity-based searches. |
| Inventory Monitoring | Keep track of vehicle stock levels and availability in real-time to ensure accurate market listings. |
| Market Trend Analysis | Evaluate sales patterns and demand fluctuations to enhance market positioning. |
| Seller & Dealer Insights | Identify key seller details including dealership information, contact details, and listing sources. |
| Bulk Data Access | Retrieve car listing data in bulk for large-scale data analysis and inventory synchronization. |
How Businesses Use the Car Listing Dataset
VinAudit’s car listing dataset is designed for B2B teams that need scalable, structured car listing data – from powering consumer-facing search to feeding internal analytics pipelines.
- Vehicle marketplaces: Populate search and detail pages with live car listing data, filter by specs and location, and keep inventory synchronized across multiple sellers.
- Dealer inventory platforms: Automate stock updates, normalize vehicle specs, and track aging inventory, days-on-market, and pricing changes at the rooftop level.
- Pricing and valuation tools: Build pricing models using historical listing data, regional price comparisons, and mileage-adjusted valuations.
- Automotive analytics & market intelligence: Analyze market days supply, demand by body type/segment, and competitor pricing across regions or brands.
- Fleet and remarketing teams: Monitor resale markets for specific VINs, trims, or segments to optimize timing and channels for disposal.
Behind these use cases is VinAudit’s structured car listing dataset, delivered through a real-time API designed for seamless integration. It provides clean JSON output and a single powerful search endpoint that plugs easily into marketplaces, pricing tools, and analytics platforms.
Car Listing API Structure & Sample Data
Structured car listing data, ready for your platform
Sample Car Listing API Response (JSON)
{
"total": 100,
"query_total": 26641276,
"page": 1,
"page_size": 100,
"listings": [
{
"id": "100156230567254855",
"vin": "1GCUDEE8XRZ272968",
"listing_title": "2024 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 RST 4WD",
"listing_subtitle": "Silverado 1500 Truck",
"listing_description": "GREAT MILES 40,638! ...",
"listing_mileage": 19428,
"listing_price": 54700,
"listing_status": "active"
}
]
}
Car Listing API Endpoint & Key Parameters
Car Listing API Endpoint Overview
- Base URL
- https://api.vinaudit.com/v1/listings/search
- Auth
keyquery parameter (API key)- Core filters
vin,spec_vin,spec_id,listing_status- Location filters
postal,latitude,longitude,radius,country- Use cases
- VIN search, similar-vehicle matching, geo-based inventory search, active vs. dropped listing tracking.
Smarter Automotive Data for Strategic Growth

Comprehensive Car Listings

Dynamic Price Comparisons

Historical & Real-Time Data

Seamless API Integration
Maximize Your Automotive Business with Real-Time Car Listings
Smart Pricing & Competitive Valuation
Consumer Demand & Market Trends
to refine inventory selection and marketing efforts. Quick Overview: US Market
Optimized Sales & Targeted Marketing
Competitive Insights & Market Positioning
Real-Time Inventory Optimization
Smarter Leads & Buyer Insights
Frequently Asked Questions
What does the Car Listing API allow me to do?
The Car Listing API lets you retrieve real-time vehicle listings—complete with specs, pricing, mileage, seller details, and availability—so you can power search tools, automate inventory updates, run pricing models, and feed your analytics workflows.
Are vehicle history details included in the car listing dataset?
Yes. The VinAudit Car Listing API can include basic vehicle-history indicators in the car listing dataset—such as counts of critical, accident, theft, or salvage events—when available. These fields are summaries only; for full NMVTIS-backed vehicle history reports, VinAudit recommends using the dedicated Vehicle History API.
How accurate and how fresh is the data?
VinAudit sources listings from trusted partners and updates the car listing dataset daily. This ensures current pricing, mileage, availability, and seller details for applications built on the Car Listing API.
What are the API response times and usage limits?
Typical Car Listing API queries return within seconds, depending on filters and result size. Usage and rate limits vary by plan, with higher-volume enterprise and bulk-integration options available upon request.
Can the car listing dataset be customized based on business needs?
Yes. The car listing dataset can be tailored by dealer location, listing type, seller type, vehicle attributes, and the depth of listing details required for your marketplace, dealer platform, or analytics pipeline.

