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Car Image API MCP Server

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Car Image API is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. 1 100 installs a week from npm.

Studio-quality images and 3D models of any real car, 1990-2027, by make, model, year or VIN.

Installs per day peak 818 · avg 148 · -18% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 5 days of history · worst day 0%
5 days agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 91 checks
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Tools
hidden behind auth
89 ms
Response time
average over 24h
1 100
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

Car Image API does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 35.7% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add car-image --transport http https://carimage.dev/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://carimage.dev/api/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.car-image]
url = "https://carimage.dev/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "car-image": {
      "url": "https://carimage.dev/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "car-image": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://carimage.dev/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://carimage.dev/api/mcp streamable-http answering 89 ms 10 min ago

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Car Image API — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Is Car Image API working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 91 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 89 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Car Image API as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect Car Image API?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Car Image API need an API key?
No. Car Image API completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How many people use Car Image API?
The npm package @meterapp/car-image was installed 1 100 times in the last week. Week over week that is -18%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.