cars-data.com — Car Specs API MCP Server

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cars-data.com — Car Specs API is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 10 tools. Last commit 27 Jul 2026.

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

Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 96%

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

1100 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 27 Jul 2026

What changed 29

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 6 October 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

16 Oct 6 tool descriptions were rewritten compare_variants, filter_cars, get_images and 3 more

16 Oct 2 tools appeared compare_full, filter_catalogue

14 Oct 8 tools changed the parameters they ask for compare_variants, filter_cars, get_images and 5 more

11 Oct 2 tools appeared get_specs_full, search_catalogue

8 Oct a tool description was rewritten search_cars

7 Oct a tool description was rewritten search_cars

6 Oct 6 tools changed the parameters they ask for compare_variants, filter_cars, get_images and 3 more

6 Oct 2 tool descriptions were rewritten3 times that day get_specs, search_cars

and 1 more, back to 6 October 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check cars-data.com — Car Specs API every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add car-specs-api --transport http https://api.cars-data.com/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://api.cars-data.com/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.car-specs-api]
url = "https://api.cars-data.com/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "car-specs-api": {
      "url": "https://api.cars-data.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

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

Available tools 10

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

compare

compare_full

Side-by-side localized specs for 2-4 variants from ANYWHERE in the 103,372-variant catalogue, in 20 languages. Paid per call with x402 (USDC) — $0.1 flat for the call. Not charged when an id is unknown.

compare_variants

Side-by-side localized specs for 2-4 vehicle variants. This answers from a fixed 40-car demo set. For the full 103,372-variant catalogue call compare_full — paid per call with x402 (USDC on Base), $0.1, no key, no account.

filter

filter_cars

Structured catalog filter: fuel type, body type, drive layout, power/price range, model year, EV-only. This answers from a fixed 40-car demo set. For the full 103,372-variant catalogue call filter_catalogue — paid per call with x402 (USDC on Base), $0.005, no key, no account.

filter_catalogue

Structured filter over all 103,372 variants (not only the 40-car demo): fuel, body, drive layout, power/price range, model year, EV-only. Keyset-paginated; returns opaque variant_ids for get_specs_full / compare_full. Paid per call with x402 (USDC) — $0.005.

specs

get_specs

Full localized specs for one vehicle variant, in any of 20 languages — 232 spec types covering engine & fuel, performance, EV/hybrid, safety, comfort & interior, exterior, chassis, dimensions & weights, consumption (WLTP/NEDC). Each spec carries a confidence score; the response carries last_synced_at — surface both so you don't overstate certainty. This answers from a fixed 40-car demo set. For the full 103,372-variant catalogue call get_specs_full — paid per call with x402 (USDC on Base), $0.05, no key, no account.

get_specs_full

Full localized specs for ANY variant in the catalogue, in 20 languages. Paid per call with x402 (USDC) — $0.05. Not charged when the id is unknown.

cars

search_cars

Free-text search across 103,372 vehicle variants, 120 brands, 20 languages. Returns candidate variant_ids to pass to get_specs/get_images/compare_variants. Each result carries generation_id and production years so same-named variants from different generations can be told apart. This answers from a fixed 40-car demo set. For the full 103,372-variant catalogue call search_catalogue — paid per call with x402 (USDC on Base), $0.005, no key, no account.

catalogue

search_catalogue

Search all 103,372 variants (not only the 40-car demo). Returns opaque variant_ids for get_specs_full. Paid per call with x402 (USDC) — $0.005.

generations

list_generations

Generations/facelifts of a model, with production years. This answers from a fixed 40-car demo set. Full catalogue: pay per request with x402, no key (GET /v1/variants/{id}/specs $0.05, /v1/search $0.005, /v1/variants $0.005, /v1/compare $0.1, USDC on Base); the Apify Actor, billed per event by Apify (https://apify.com/carsdatacom/car-specs-api); or the whole database as a licensed export (https://cars-data.com/en/api).

images

get_images

Image URLs (own CDN, no attribution burden) for a vehicle variant. This answers from a fixed 40-car demo set. Full catalogue: pay per request with x402, no key (GET /v1/variants/{id}/specs $0.05, /v1/search $0.005, /v1/variants $0.005, /v1/compare $0.1, USDC on Base); the Apify Actor, billed per event by Apify (https://apify.com/carsdatacom/car-specs-api); or the whole database as a licensed export (https://cars-data.com/en/api).

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://api.cars-data.com/mcp	streamable-http	answering	922 ms	10 min ago

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cars-data.com — Car Specs API — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can cars-data.com — Car Specs API do?

It exposes 10 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_full, compare_variants, filter_cars, filter_catalogue, get_images, get_specs and 4 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 →

What is cars-data.com — Car Specs API mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around specs, compare and filter. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.

Is cars-data.com — Car Specs API working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 1100 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect cars-data.com — Car Specs 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 cars-data.com — Car Specs API need an API key?

No. cars-data.com — Car Specs API completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 10 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is cars-data.com — Car Specs API?

It answers our handshake in 1100 ms on average, which is faster than 6% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is cars-data.com — Car Specs API open source?

We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.