For developers & AI agents · v1 live

The open data layer.

Vehicle data, open to humans, scripts, and AI agents. JSON-LD on every surface. FAQ schema for AEO. Free for everyone. Pro for high-volume developers. Enterprise for OEMs and insurers. They make money on ads, so they keep the data closed. We make money on data, so we keep it open.

Quickstart · cURL

Decode any VIN. No key.

curl https://itstotaled.com/api/v1/vehicles/1FT8W3DT5PEC42910

Returns NHTSA decode + Totaled Score + verified entry count + trust distribution. Free tier: 60 req/min/IP.

Quickstart · Claude / MCP

Add the tool registry.

claude mcp add totaled https://api.itstotaled.com/mcp

MCP server with 6 agent flows (lookup_vin, find_shop, verify_shop, pull_report, list_recalls, find_inspection) ships in week 7. The endpoint is reserved.

Endpoints · v1 stable

Read & write the data layer.

GET/api/v1/vehicles/{vin}

NHTSA decode + Totaled Score + trust distribution + agent actions

GET/api/v1/value/{vin}

VIN-specific Totaled Value (depreciation + mileage + score + recalls)

GET/api/v1/services?vin=

All verified service entries on a VIN

POST/api/v1/services

Log a verified entry (authed shops only)

GET/api/v1/recalls/{vin}

Live NHTSA open recalls

GET/api/v1/shops/{id}

Shop profile + verification status

POST/api/v1/vin/scan

Photo OCR → VIN extraction (Claude vision when configured)

Discovery

JSON manifest of every agent-callable endpoint, action, and rate limit. Cached for 1 hour.

Discovery

Discovery doc for LLMs and crawlers, the canonical place to learn what Totaled exposes.

Discovery

Explicitly welcomes GPTBot, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended.

Free

$0

60 req/min/IP

Public read endpoints. Agent-native. JSON-LD. No key required.

Pro

$999/mo

High-volume + webhooks + SLA

Higher rate limits, write access, webhooks for VIN events, 99.9% SLA.

Enterprise

custom

OEM · insurance · warranty · lender

Full dataset licensing, on-prem deployment options, dedicated integration support.