Add real time automotive market data to your apps with the CIS API

Here we use our valuation endpoint to quickly look at the historical pricing mileage relationship and examine how that relationship has drastically changed since mid 2020. With the rapid rise in used vehicle pricing in 2021 we're even able to show conditions where the average buyer could have bought a car, driven it for 45k miles, and then ended up with a higher priced vehicle.

2017 Toyota Camry Average Used Price vs Average Mileage
Texas, Jan 2017 - Oct 2021

Here we use our SubUser API Keys which allow for embedding our automtoive data into front end web applications as simple as a static HTML page. The SubUser Keys remove the requirement of a backend to proxy requests and manage sessions to our API. This lets you use our data by just embedding a little javascript in your website to provide convenient API bindings.

Try out our Dashboard Demo.

Here we examine how long three different Toyota dealers in Southern California take to sell their vehicles. We see how pricing and location can affect how long a vehicle sits on a dealer's lot and eats into their floorplan. Different pricing strategies quickly become appearant when we look deeper at Prius Prime sales rates at the three dealers. This type of analysis is easy to expand to large geographic areas and specific dealers of interest.

Prius, Camry, and Tacoma days to sell in Southern California by dealer

Lower is Better

Prius, Camry, Tacoma days to sell in Southern California by dealer

Here we take a look at the availability of new hybrid and electric vehicles between 2018-2020. Recent announcements from major economies like the UK, Japan, and California significantly moved up their targets for phasing out new gasoline powered vehicles. We'll see how Ford, Toyota, and Chevrolet have chosen to handle the transition to more renewable and sustainable vehicles.

Here we show how easy it is to search all dealership inventories in a region to look for cars that could be great buys. In the end, we're able to find 100 used Camrys in Southern California corresponding to the best 3% of deals with an average savings of $2,871.16.

In this example we explain what a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) is and show how to use our decodeVin endpoint to decode a VIN and retrieve recall information about a vehicle with just one API call.

In this example we show how an insurance company or police department might use our API to help them recover stolen vehicles in a cost effective way. This example takes advantage of our vehicle history endpoint to search over 420M vehicles for ones that have re-entered the market after a specific date.

In this example we show how to use our API data to power Search Result Page (SRP) widgets that reassure the customer a vehicle is a good deal, or to create a sense of urgency in the buying process.

Below are two widgets created for this use case.

In this example one of our users on RapidAPI shows how they used our API to highlight pricing disparities between dealer's ask prices and the prices cars actually sold at. This example has an additional github repository with the ruby code used.