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Decode US VINs and look up every registered make

🚆 TransportHEALTHYchecked 11h ago
AUTH NONECORS ✓AGENT ✓HTTPS ✓COMMERCIAL ✓

NHTSA's vPIC service is the US government's catalog of vehicle makes, models, and VIN decoding. Fetch all manufacturers or decode a VIN into make, model, and body class straight from federal data. No key, and as a US Government work the data sits in the public domain.

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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 87 · healthy
Uptime history
99.02%90 days
100%30 days
760P50 · ms
4902P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 372 ms, slowest 2917 ms, most recent 424 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/api/vehicles/GetAllMakes?format=json

{
  "Count": 12283,
  "Message": "Response returned successfully",
  "SearchCriteria": null,
  "Results": [
    {
      "Make_ID": 12858,
      "Make_Name": "#1 ALPINE CUSTOMS"
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/api/vehicles/GetAllMakes?format=json"
const res = await fetch("https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/api/vehicles/GetAllMakes?format=json");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov/api/vehicles/GetAllMakes?format=json")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 6HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /vehicles/GetAllMakes?format=json760 mschecked 11h ago
GET/vehicles/GetAllMakes?format=jsonPROBED

Decode US VINs and look up every registered make

GET/vehicles

Vehicles — documented GET route.

GET/vehicles/1

Vehicles details by ID (example: 1).

GET/vehicles?limit=10

Vehicles — documented GET route.

GET/vehicles/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

GET/vehicles/GetAllMakes?limit=5

GetAllMakes — documented GET route.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

NHTSA: common questions

Is NHTSA free to use?

Yes — NHTSA is a free transport API. Free tier: Free, no key. Commercial use is allowed on the free tier.

Does NHTSA need an API key?

No — NHTSA needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call NHTSA from the browser?

Yes — NHTSA returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is NHTSA up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, NHTSA is healthy with 99.02% uptime over 90 days and a 760 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.