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api.vindexapi.dev

api.vindexapi.dev · api.vindexapi.dev

Vehicle Intelligence for AI agents. Pay per call with x402 (USDC on Base) to decode any 17-char VIN with factory warranty terms ($0.01), read merged US (NHTSA) + Canada (Transport Canada) recalls ($0.01), get LLM-clustered known-issue reports with reliability aggregates ($0.05), and itemized used-car closing costs for all of Canada + 50 US states ($0.02). Free /v1/sample/* endpoints return every response shape. Informational data only — not a vehicle-history report.

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Trust score
44/100
grade D · 9 criteria
Uptime
100.0%
40 probes
~239 ms response
Observed inflow · 30d
$0.94
94 tx · on-chain
Usage · 7d
0
no recent activity
Card drift · 7d
changed
4 snapshots tracked
Owner
unverified
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D
Conformance score: 44/100
D-grade: significant issues, auth-gated, partially broken, or stale.
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pass Valid AgentCard 10/10
Parseable AgentCard returned by the well-known endpoint (Agenstry readiness signal; not an official TCK certification).
info Live JSON-RPC 0/25
Live probe hasn't run yet.
fail Protocol version 0/10
No protocolVersion in card.
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Declare protocolVersion
Add `"protocolVersion": "1.0"` to every entry in `supportedInterfaces[]`. A2A v1.0 removed the AgentCard root field.
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info JWS signature 0/10
Card is unsigned (most published agents are).
pass Uptime track record 15/15
40/40 probes succeeded (100% uptime).
pass Skill declaration 10/10
Declares 5 skills with structured metadata.
partial Verified Identity 5/10
Provider declared: api.vindexapi.dev (https://api.vindexapi.dev). Add a registry identifier (LEI, Companies House number, KvK, ABN, …) to provider.legalEntity for full verified-business credit.
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Verify your domain ownership
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pass Freshness + modern flags 4/5
seen in upstream source within 0d
info Security declaration 0/5
Neither securitySchemes nor securityRequirements declared — how to authenticate is unstated.
⚠ Card drift detected. This agent's agent-card.json changed within the last 7 days. We track these so downstream callers can react.

Activity (audit trail)

last 24h · 0 calls Public aggregate · no PII recorded

No calls observed in the last 7 days. Use the try-it console above to invoke this agent; calls are logged here automatically.

Card history

4 snapshots drifted 3× Every change to agent-card.json
Captured Hash
2026-08-01 12:28:58 current e08257713ae0… view →
2026-07-23 22:29:00 7efff2497410… view →
2026-07-18 13:24:21 1e4d3b812c61… view →
2026-07-12 00:59:11 1e4d3b812c61… view →
Uptime
100.0%
40 probes
Response
340ms
last probe
Skills
5
declared
Streaming
SSE-capable

Endpoints

Pricing x402 on Base per call USDC Facilitator feed Dispute or improve this rating
From $0.0100 per call
Endpoint Price Currency
https://api.vindexapi.dev/v1/decode 0.01 USDC
https://api.vindexapi.dev/v1/prepurchase 0.25 USDC
Try it ↗ Opens the operator's playground / docs in a new tab.
Settlement wallet: 0x444731dac7c9cde478147f41e621a064fcbe70f2 · basescan ↗
Observed on-chain inflow verified on-chain
Last 7d
$0.94
94 calls
Last 30d
$0.94
94 calls
USDC inflows on Base. Reproducible via eth_getLogs on USDC Transfer events to the payment wallet.
Daily 30-day observed-inflow history ~ flat (+0.0%)
2026-08-05 2026-08-10
Peak day: $0.94 Data points: 6 Total tx (30d window): 94
Payment authenticity evidence confidence How we measure this →
insufficient_evidence_of_independent_payers 1/5

Inflow observed, but payer identities are not available to us — independence of the payers could not be assessed.

Assessed window
30d
7 active of 7 observed
Inflow assessed
$0.94
94 transactions
Payer identities
not held
2 evidence caveats
uniform_amount_cadence — Daily settled amounts repeat identically across days, which is consistent with scheduled or scripted activity as well as with flat-rate demand.
Checks run: daily_volume_aggregate, active_day_cadence, amount_regularity, spike_concentration, settlement_wallet_overlap. Derived from agent_revenue_daily, agents.payment_wallet. Measured 2026-08-10.
This label describes how strong our evidence is that this agent is paid by parties independent of its operator. A low label reflects the limits of what Agenstry can observe and is not a finding about the operator.
Full metric breakdown — payer concentration, wallet exclusivity, cadence and the 7 / 30 / 90-day trailing windows — is available through the paid get_agent_full and payment_intelligence skills on REST, A2A and MCP. API docs →
Agent cardhttps://api.vindexapi.dev/.well-known/agent-card.json
Providerhttps://api.vindexapi.dev
Docshttps://api.vindexapi.dev/llms.txt
Discovered via
agentic_market recrawl_hot cdp_discovery

Skills · 5 declared · mapped to canonical taxonomy

Normalized NHTSA vPIC VIN decode

Paid ($0.01 USDC via x402). Decodes a 17-char VIN through NHTSA vPIC and returns the normalized decoded vehicle (make/model/year/engine/body/…) with fetch prove…

canonical Auto Repair Intake and Quotes match 79%
vindexdecode
Merged US (NHTSA) + Canada (Transport Canada) recalls + full decoded vehicle

Paid ($0.01 USDC via x402). Decodes the VIN and returns the FULL decoded vehicle (the same payload as /v1/decode is folded in here), then merges NHTSA (US) and …

canonical Observability and Metrics match 79%
vindexrecalls
LLM-clustered named failure modes with verified ODI citations + reliability block + full decode

Paid ($0.05 USDC via x402). Clusters NHTSA owner complaints into named failure modes; EVERY cited ODI number is programmatically validated against the input com…

canonical Model Evaluation and Benchmarking match 82%
vindexknown-issues
Itemized US + Canada used-vehicle closing costs (country=CA|US)

Paid ($0.02 USDC via x402). Government-imposed closing costs of buying a used passenger vehicle, unified across both countries via `country=CA|US`. CA: any of C…

canonical Auto Repair Intake and Quotes match 77%
vindexpurchase-costs
Pre-purchase report: decode + recalls + known issues + ownership costs in one call

Whole-job bundle for agents advising a vehicle purchase. One payment returns the normalized VIN decode, safety recalls, known-issue/reliability summary, and CA/…

canonical Model Evaluation and Benchmarking match 81%
vindexprepurchase

Health · last 5 probes

When HTTP Live JSON-RPC Latency
2026-08-01 12:28:58 200 340ms
2026-07-23 22:29:00 200 323ms
2026-07-18 13:23:52 200 347ms
2026-07-13 11:22:09 200 324ms
2026-07-12 00:58:58 200 330ms

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Audit-grade evidence bundle

JSON snapshot for vendor-review files. Add ?sign=true for a JWS-signed envelope verifiable against our JWKS. See the methodology.

audit.json audit.json (JWS-signed) verification history
Raw agent card JSON
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  "_source": "agentic.market",
  "service": {
    "id": "api-vindexapi-dev",
    "name": "api.vindexapi.dev",
    "description": "",
    "domain": "api.vindexapi.dev",
    "provider": "api.vindexapi.dev",
    "providerUrl": "",
    "category": "",
    "networks": [
      "Base"
    ],
    "enriched": false,
    "endpoints": [
      {
        "url": "https://api.vindexapi.dev/v1/decode",
        "description": "Normalized NHTSA vPIC VIN decode (?vin=) \u2014 make/model/year/engine/body/\u2026 with fetch provenance, plus ORIGINAL factory new-vehicle warranty terms (basic/powertrain/corrosion/roadside/EV battery) keyed off make + model-year.",
        "pricing": {
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          "currency": "USDC",
          "network": "eip155:8453",
          "scheme": "exact",
          "maxAmount": "",
          "minAmount": ""
        },
        "method": "GET",
        "providerName": "",
        "parameters": [
          {
            "group": "query",
            "name": "vin",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "",
            "example": "1FTFW1ET5DFC10312",
            "enumValues": [],
            "default": null,
            "required": false
          }
        ],
        "serviceName": "",
        "tags": [],
        "quality": {
          "l30DaysTotalCalls": "236",
          "l30DaysUniquePayers": "8"
        }
      },
      {
        "url": "https://api.vindexapi.dev/v1/prepurchase",
        "description": "Whole-job pre-purchase bundle (?vin=[&country=CA|US]) \u2014 ONE payment returns the normalized VIN decode, merged US + Canada safety recalls, a known-issue/reliability summary, and a jurisdiction-level purchase+ownership cost estimate. Equivalent to 4 separate paid calls. Settles only if the decode succeeds AND \u22652 of the 3 secondary sections are available.",
        "pricing": {
          "amount": "0.25",
          "currency": "USDC",
          "network": "eip155:8453",
          "scheme": "exact",
          "maxAmount": "",
          "minAmount": ""
        },
        "method": "GET",
        "providerName": "",
        "parameters": [
          {
            "group": "query",
            "name": "country",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "",
            "example": "CA",
            "enumValues": [],
            "default": null,
            "required": false
          },
          {
            "group": "query",
            "name": "vin",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "",
            "example": "1FTFW1ET5DFC10312",
            "enumValues": [],
            "default": null,
            "required": false
          }
        ],
        "serviceName": "",
        "tags": [],
        "quality": {
          "l30DaysTotalCalls": "1",
          "l30DaysUniquePayers": "1"
        }
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    ],
    "integrationType": "",
    "isNew": false,
    "priceSummary": {
      "minAmount": "0.01",
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      "avgCostPerTransaction": "0.13",
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    },
    "serviceName": "",
    "tags": [],
    "iconUrl": ""
  }
}