---
title: "NHTSA vehicle VIN decoder"
method: POST
path: "/v1/data/vin-decode"
tags: ["data"]
---

# NHTSA vehicle VIN decoder

`POST /v1/data/vin-decode`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://apiacre.com`
- URL: `https://apiacre.com/v1/data/vin-decode`
- Auth: none required

Decode a full 17-character VIN into normalized NHTSA vPIC make, model, year, body, engine, transmission, plant, fuel, and occupancy fields with official source evidence and explicit missing-data semantics.

Price: **$0.003 USDC** via x402 exact payment on Base and Solana.

## Request body

- VinDecodeInput
  - `vin` string, required: Full 17-character vehicle identification number; letters I, O, and Q are invalid
  - `model_year` integer, nullable: Optional model-year hint used by NHTSA when VIN encoding is ambiguous

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- ServiceResponse
  - `request_id` string, required
  - `service` string, required
  - `version` string
  - `data` object, required
  - `meta` ServiceMeta, required
    - `duration_ms` integer, required
    - `cached` boolean
    - `sources` string[]
    - `warnings` string[]
    - `next_actions` ServiceNextAction[]
      - `service` string, required
      - `title` string, required
      - `reason` string, required
      - `method` 'POST'
      - `path` string, required
      - `price` string, required
      - `input_template` object, required
      - `use_output` string, required
      - `handoff_path` string, required
      - `checkout_path` string, required
      - `sample_path` string, nullable, required
      - `maximum_atomic_usdc` string, required
      - `handoff_payment_required` false
      - `executes_automatically` false
      - `authorization_required` boolean

## Other responses

- `402`: Payment Required. Decode PAYMENT-REQUIRED, satisfy the x402 requirement, and retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE.
- `422`: Validation Error

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