cars-data.com — Car Specs API

Name: cars-data.com — Car Specs API
Author: mariusmmmmm

by mariusmmmmmversion 1.0.4i★ –iRuns in the cloud

Registry namecom.cars-data/car-specs-api

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Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Search, compare & filter 103,372 car variants — 224 specs, 20 languages. Free demo, no key; x402.

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What you can do with it

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Connection: Runs in the cloud
Transport: Streamable HTTP
Category: Search & AI memory
You need to fill in: Authorization

Install

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Before you install

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You need

Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet

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This address needs a key in a request header, which the add-connector menu cannot set. Use Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code instead.

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http car-specs-api https://api.cars-data.com/mcp --header 'Authorization: your-value'

Fill in the empty values before running it.

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "car-specs-api": {
      "url": "https://api.cars-data.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

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Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "car-specs-api": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.cars-data.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

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Values you fill in

Authorization secret HTTP header
Bearer — OPTIONAL. Without it this server answers a fixed 40-car demo (every spec, every photo, 20 languages); a demo key, issued in one click, covers the same 40 cars over REST. Two tools reach the…

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What it can do

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Basic checksi

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Compared with others in Search & AI memoryi

More stars than 0% of the other 7283 servers in this category
Published to the registry more recently than 59% of the other 7283 servers in this category
Basic checks equal to or better than 29% of the other 7283 servers in this category

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Common questions

Is cars-data.com — Car Specs API safe?

It passed 0 of 1 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

You need to fill in: Authorization

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs in the maker’s cloud. Connect over the internet with nothing to install, but what you send passes through the maker’s servers.

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (1.0.4) reached the registry 26 days ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT in developer mode.

What can I use instead?

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README from the maker

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cars-data.com — Car Specs API + MCP server

REST API and remote MCP server over cars-data.com's multilingual vehicle-specs database: 102,191 vehicle variants, 1,300+ models, 5,299 generations, 180 spec types across 19 categories, in 19 languages (including Arabic, RTL).

REST API: https://api.cars-data.com/v1
MCP server (streamable HTTP): https://api.cars-data.com/mcp
OpenAPI spec: openapi.yaml
Also distributed as an Apify Actor (pay-per-event, no API key needed)

MCP server

Connect directly from Claude, ChatGPT connectors, Cursor, or Windsurf:

"mcpServers": { "cars-data": { "type": "http", "url": "https://api.cars-data.com/mcp" } } }

Tools exposed:

Tool	What it does
`search_cars`	Free-text search across 102,191 variants, 116 brands, 19 languages
`get_specs`	Full localized specs for one variant — 180 spec types across 19 categories (safety, comfort/interior, engine & fuel, performance, EV/hybrid, chassis, exterior, dimensions & weights, WLTP/NEDC consumption, and more), with a confidence score and `last_synced_at` freshness timestamp
`compare_variants`	Side-by-side localized specs for 2-4 variants
`list_generations`	Generations/facelifts of a model, with production years
`filter_cars`	Structured filter: fuel, body, drive, power/price range, year, EV-only
`get_images`	Image URLs (own CDN) for a vehicle variant

The MCP server is unauthenticated for discovery (rate-limited per IP). No signup required to try it.

REST API

Base URL: https://api.cars-data.com/v1. Full reference in openapi.yaml.

curl https://api.cars-data.com/v1/variants/42164/specs?locale=de \

-H "X-Api-Key: cd_free_..."

Endpoint	Description
`GET /brands`, `/brands/{slug}`, `/brands/{slug}/models`	Catalog: brands and models
`GET /models/{id}/generations`	Generations for a model
`GET /generations/{id}/variants`	Variants for a generation
`GET /variants`, `/variants/{id}`	Filterable variant listing / single variant
`GET /variants/{id}/specs?locale=`	Full localized specs (180 types, 19 languages)
`GET /variants/{id}/images`	Image URLs
`GET /variants/{id}/prices`	Price snapshot (single point-in-time, not a history)
`GET /search?q=`	Free-text search
`GET /compare?ids=`	Side-by-side specs for 2-4 variants
`GET /specs/catalog`	The full spec-type catalog (categories + counts)
`GET /usage`	Self-check current quota usage for your key

Get a free API key

curl -X POST https://api.cars-data.com/v1/keys \

-H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"email": "you@example.com", "accept_tos": true}'

Free tier: 1,000 requests/month, 20 req/min.

Pricing

Free — 1,000 req/month, instant self-serve key, no payment.
Apify — pay-per-event, billed through the Apify Store listing, no API key needed.
x402 — per-call USDC payment on Base for agents that want to pay without an account (not yet live — see the project roadmap).

There is no subscription/Stripe tier — Free and Apify (and, later, x402) are the only paid paths.

Data & attribution

Data comes from cars-data.com's multilingual vehicle-specs database. See cars-data.com/api/terms for the API Terms of Service (attribution required on Free tier; no bulk extraction / resale).

License

The API and its documentation in this repository are provided as-is. Access to the underlying dataset is governed by the API Terms of Service, not an open-source license — this repo documents and hosts the server implementation, not a redistributable dataset.

cars-data.com — Car Specs API

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

Values you fill in

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Search & AI memoryi

Common questions

Alternatives

Context7

Codebase Memory

Exa

README from the maker

cars-data.com — Car Specs API + MCP server

MCP server

REST API

Get a free API key

Pricing

Data & attribution

License