Car Pricing Intelligence Data API
Carapis powers dynamic pricing and residual-value models with one REST API that returns price-history fields and live comparable listings from Encar, CarGurus, Mobile.de and 200+ portals. Pricing teams feed a single normalized stream of asking prices, price changes and vehicle attributes into their models instead of maintaining a scraper per marketplace.
Price the car to the live market, not last month’s list
A used car depreciates continuously, and a price that was right two weeks ago is often wrong today — Cox Automotive’s Manheim Used Vehicle Value Index routinely swings several percent month to month, which is enough to erase a typical retail margin. Dynamic pricing closes that gap by re-pricing against live comparable listings. Carapis supplies the inputs: live asking prices and price-history fields from Encar, CarGurus and Mobile.de, plus reference values from guide books like KBB — all in one schema your model can consume.
What pricing teams use the data for
- Dynamic pricing — re-price inventory automatically against current comparable listings, by make, model, trim, year, mileage and region.
- Residual-value models — use price-history and age/mileage curves to forecast future values for leasing and remarketing. See financial services.
- Price-position monitoring — track where your asking price sits in the live distribution and flag over- or under-priced stock.
- Markdown timing — watch price-history movement on comparable cars to decide when and how much to mark down.
Data fields available
Each record exposes the fields a pricing model needs: make, model, trim, year, mileage, price and price history, fuel type, transmission, options, location, dealer/seller and a source tag. The price-history field — the sequence of listed-price changes over time — is the standout input for residual-value and markdown models, and it arrives in the same shape from every source.
API quick start
Python
import requests
resp = requests.get(
"https://api.carapis.com/v2/listings",
params={"make": "Kia", "model": "Sportage", "limit": 50},
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"},
)
for car in resp.json()["results"]:
print(car["price"], car.get("priceHistory"))Get an API key at my.carapis.com and see the API reference. Pricing is on the pricing page.