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Start with the car's VIN
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Car prices & market trends
What do cars really cost?
Latest reading
Reports built from live dealer listings.
Monthly market report How asking prices moved this monthFor developers & data teams
Vehicle data — listings, auctions, titles and images
Delivered to your cloud as files, through an API, or straight to your AI assistant.
# one row per listing
vin, year, make, model,
trim, price, mileage,
dealer, zip, photos
Developer API
Market comps for a year, make, model and ZIP.
# market summary + comps
GET /api/v1/market/
comps?make=Toyota
# → 200 OK
{ "summary", "listings", … }
AI assistant (MCP)
Ask Claude or ChatGPT about real listings.
Market Assistant · Beta
Market Assistant is the AI car assistant on VinAssessment. Ask about a car price, a VIN, cars for sale or dealers near you, and it answers with numbers taken from US dealer listings that we update every day.
No account is needed. You can ask up to 20 questions a day.
Figures as of November 8, 2026.
Try it
Pick a sample question or type your own. A model, a budget, a ZIP code or a VIN is enough.
What you can ask
Each example below is a real starter question from the chat. Change the model, the price or the place to fit your search.
You can ask
You get
A list of matching dealer listings with asking price, mileage, distance and how the price compares with similar cars. You can narrow it by price, mileage, year or distance in the next message.
You can ask
You get
The range most dealers ask, the middle price, and a chart that shows where your price sits among cars of the same build nearby.
You can ask
You get
The year, make, model and trim behind the 17 characters, whether the car is listed now, the asking price and how long it has been listed. Ask for the window sticker to see factory options and the original MSRP when we hold them for that VIN.
You can ask
You get
Dealers that have that make listed within up to 100 miles, with the number of cars each has, most cars first.
You can ask
You get
A payment estimate with the price, down payment, rate and term shown in a table. It is an estimate, not a loan offer. You can also ask for fuel economy and recall campaigns for a model year.
You can ask
You get
The listings that have waited longest for a buyer, with days listed and price changes. These are facts you can bring to the seller; the assistant does not tell you what amount to offer.
You can ask
You get
A month-by-month chart of the typical asking price for that model, and one sentence that says which way it moved.
You can ask
You get
A suggested asking price from comparable listings, a trade-in estimate by condition, and how many cars of a model are listed in a state.
How it works
The AI model chooses what to look up. The numbers come from our listing data.
Type or dictate a question. A VIN, a model, a budget or a ZIP code is enough to start.
An AI model reads the question and chooses one of our read-only lookups: listing search, price range, VIN lookup, price history, dealers by make and others.
Prices, counts, dates and distances are calculated from the listing data. The AI model does not write them from memory.
One or two sentences, plus listing cards, a table or a chart. Then you can refine: cheaper, closer, newer, another model.
Good to know
FAQ
It is an AI car assistant on vinassessment.com. You ask about car prices, a VIN, cars for sale or dealers near you, and it answers from VinAssessment's live US dealer listing data with listing cards, tables and charts.
Yes, for the asking price. Give it the price, year, make and model, for example "Is $22,500 a fair price for a 2019 Honda CR-V?". It shows the range that most dealers ask for cars of the same build near you and where that price sits. It cannot inspect the car, so condition and history still need your own check.
From dealer listings that VinAssessment collects every day across the United States: 137M+ vehicles and 383M+ listing records as of November 8, 2026. They are asking prices, not final sale prices.
Yes. Type "Check VIN" and the 17-character VIN. You get the vehicle identity, whether it is listed now, the asking price and the days listed. A full vehicle history report is a separate paid product.
No. Open the page and ask. Each visitor can ask up to 20 questions a day, because the assistant is a demonstration of the data.
Yes. Dealer listings include new and pre-owned vehicles, and you can ask for either.
Yes. Add "near me" or a ZIP code. If the assistant does not know your area yet, it asks for a ZIP code once and remembers it for the rest of the conversation.
In browsers that support speech recognition there is a microphone button in the message box. Your words appear as text and nothing is sent until you press send.
Yes. Questions and answers are stored to improve the service; e-mail addresses and phone numbers are removed from the stored text. Please do not enter personal information.
Yes. The VinAssessment MCP server connects assistants such as Claude or Cursor to the same vehicle data, and the public /api/ai endpoints return market prices and VIN summaries as JSON.
For title and damage records, open a vehicle history report. Dealers can price a whole lot with Pricing Intelligence. See the factory options of a car on its window sticker. Developers can connect their own assistant through the MCP server.
