Getting Started

VIN Doc is an API-first vehicle history platform. You send a VIN or license plate to our endpoint and receive a structured JSON report cross-referencing 8,000+ sources across 25+ countries, covering mileage verification, damage history, theft records, inspections, CO2 emissions and natural-disaster exposure. Reports resolve in ~55 seconds on average and are built to drop straight into your own product.

Create an account, generate an API key from the dashboard, and send a request with the VIN (or license plate) to the lookup endpoint, passing your key in the authorization header. You get back a JSON report you can store, render or forward. Full reference docs and a sandbox key are available as soon as you sign up.

Two things: an API key and a vehicle identifier. The identifier is either the VIN (a unique 17-character code on the dashboard, door frame or registration document) or a license plate together with the country of registration. No other data is required to resolve a report.

The API resolves vehicles registered across 25+ countries, with especially deep coverage in the European Union and the United Kingdom. Each response indicates which fields are available for the queried country, so you can branch on coverage in your integration. You can call the API from anywhere in the world.

Lookups resolve in ~55 seconds on average. For batches, submit requests in bulk and register a webhook so we notify your endpoint the moment each report is ready, instead of holding the connection open or polling.

Yes. Every account includes sandbox access with sample VINs that return representative payloads at no cost, so you can build and test your integration before going live. Switching to production is a matter of swapping the API key.