Learn everything there is to know about CarsXE API and integrate CarsXE into your product.

#### Getting started

To get started, [sign in or create an account](/signin) and grab an API key, then read about how to make requests for the resources you need to access using our HTTP APIs.

## Guides

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### Quickstart

Get a quick start integrating the API into your application.

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### Authentication

Learn how to authenticate your API requests.

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### Organizations

Share API access with your team using roles and organization API keys.

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### Errors

Read about the different types of errors returned by the API.

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### Industry Guides

Discover best practices and step-by-step examples for leveraging the CarsXE API across different industries.

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### Agents & AI

Get an API key, read docs, and make calls — all from inside your AI agent.

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### Latency & Regions

Learn about API regions and how to reduce latency from Europe using the EU endpoint.

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## API Reference

Select a resource to learn more about it.

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### Specifications

Learn about the Vehicle Specifications API and how to retrieve vehicle specifications from VINs.

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### Plate Decoder

Learn about the Vehicle Plate Decoder API and how to retrieve vehicle specifications from license plates and vehicle registrations.

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### Images

Learn about the Vehicle Images API and how to retrieve vehicle images.

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### Market Value

Learn about the Market Value API and how to retrieve vehicle market values from VINs.

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### International VIN Decoder

Learn about the International VIN Decoder API and how to retrieve vehicle specifications from international VINs.

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### Recalls

Learn about the Vehicle Recalls API and how to search for safety recalls based on a vehicle's VIN.

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### History

Learn about the Vehicle History API and how to retrieve vehicle history reports from VINs.

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### VIN OCR

Learn about the VIN Optical Character Recognition API and how to quickly identify a vehicle's VIN from an image.

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### Market Value (v1)

Learn about the v1 Market Value API and how to retrieve vehicle market value estimates from VINs.

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### Lien & Theft

Learn about the Lien & Theft API and how to check for active liens and theft records on a vehicle.

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### Recalls Batch

Learn about the Recalls Batch API and how to search safety recalls for many VINs in a single request.

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### Plate Image Recognition

Learn about the Plate Image Recognition API and how to detect and read license plates from image URLs.

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### Year Make Model

Learn about the Year Make Model API and how to look up vehicle attributes by year, make, model, and trim.

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### OBD Codes Decoder

Learn about the OBD Codes Decoder API and how to decode OBD-II diagnostic trouble codes.

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