Car Image API catalog is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 7 tools.
Free vehicle lookups, image options, pricing and stored car image previews. No account needed.
Uptime history
5 days of history · worst day 0%
5 days agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 91 checks
7
Tools
read from the server
93 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http
Car Image API catalog does not always answer
Over the last week it answered 16.7% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.
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 catalog --transport http https://carimage.dev/api/mcp/catalogSettings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://carimage.dev/api/mcp/catalog~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.catalog]
url = "https://carimage.dev/api/mcp/catalog".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"catalog": {
"url": "https://carimage.dev/api/mcp/catalog"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"servers": {
"catalog": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://carimage.dev/api/mcp/catalog"
}
}
}Available tools 7
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
describe
describe_api
Free. Return a compact reference of the Car Image REST API (methods, paths, parameters, credit costs, response headers, error codes, agent notes) for writing code that calls the API directly, with SDK (`@meterapp/car-image-sdk`) and CLI (`npx @meterapp/car-image`) equivalents. Optional endpoint filter.
help
search_help
Free. Find source-linked answers about pricing, terms, licensing, manufacturer rights, policies, Enterprise, delivery and account support. Suitable for drafting replies to customer questions. Submit one question at a time without personal information or full emails; queries are recorded privately to improve articles. Cite sources, do not invent missing answers or contract exceptions, and escalate unanswered parts to support.
image
list_image_options
Free. List the supported camera views (with yaw angles and aliases), the fifteen preset colors with hex swatches (any other paint is a hex color), size presets, output formats, current pricing and catalog coverage. Use it when you need to validate or explain what can be requested.
preview
preview_car_image
Free, no account needed. The picture of a catalog vehicle that its public page on carimage.dev already shows, when one is stored: a 600 px WebP with ready-to-paste markdown, the view and paint it is in, and every stored view and paint. Never renders: another view, paint or size, or a vehicle with nothing stored, is an image from the account server (create_car_image_urls, 1 credit). Pass the vehicle id from resolve_vehicle or search_vehicles, plus the view and color the human asked for. Say it is a preview, and name its view and color when they differ from the request.
pricing
get_pricing
Free, no account needed. The pricing document: every plan's monthly and yearly price, its vehicle images a month (a vehicle image is one vehicle in one color from one angle, delivered as often as needed), included credits (for 3D models, make logos and upgrades; credits are not sold), limits per tier and features, the one-time Image Packs (add_ons), the free tier and live 3D model cost. There is no overage. Every plan and pack has a checkout_url that works before signup (sign-in, then Stripe Checkout; nothing is charged until the human pays): hand it to the human with the price. Use before explaining costs or choosing a plan.
resolve
resolve_vehicle
Free. The first call for any picture of a car, including one you chose yourself: turn a request such as "red 2018 Mazda MX-5 Miata side view" into the catalog vehicle and exact get_car_image parameters (vehicle_id, make, model, year, view, color), plus alternative candidates and a confidence of high, medium or low. A make and model are read by the rules the image tools read them with, so this names the vehicle they would render. Pass params.vehicle_id as vehicle to get_car_image, create_car_image_urls or create_3d_model. Ask the human to choose when confidence is low or several candidates fit, and tell them when params.year is not the year they asked for (extracted.year).
vehicles
search_vehicles
Free. Browse the open vehicle catalog (1,608 makes, 42,333 models, 1990-2027) by make and/or model with typo tolerance. Returns canonical make/model names, the years each model exists and match kind; a model hit carries a stable vehicle id per year (ids, and id when the query names one year) to pass as `vehicle` to the image and 3D tools. Use it to list a make's models, to see which years exist or to let the human choose between similar models; when you already know which car is wanted, resolve_vehicle is the one call that names it.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://carimage.dev/api/mcp/catalog | streamable-http | answering | 93 ms | 10 min ago |
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Car Image API catalog — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Car Image API catalog do?
It exposes 7 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: describe_api, get_pricing, list_image_options, preview_car_image, resolve_vehicle, search_help and 1 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Car Image API catalog 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 93 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Car Image API catalog 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 catalog?
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 catalog need an API key?
No. Car Image API catalog completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 7 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.