The com.cars-data/car-specs-api MCP server provides search, comparison, and filtering over 102,191 European car variants. It exposes 180 specifications with support for 19 languages and includes EV data, enabling developers to query car and electric-vehicle related details.

🛠️ Key Features

Search
Compare
Filter
Covers 102,191 European car variants
Includes 180 specifications
19 language support
EV data included

🚀 Use Cases

Finding specific European car variants by criteria
Comparing specifications across multiple variants
Filtering results across different languages and EV-relevant attributes

⚡ Developer Benefits

Structured access to car specs (180 specifications)
Multilingual querying (19 languages)
EV dataset coverage for electric-vehicle information

⚠️ Limitations

Scope described is limited to European car variants and the listed specification set, languages, and included EV data.

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:

json

{
  "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.

bash

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

bash

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