Drivly API First
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Driv.ly (Auto.dev) provides automotive data APIs for developers and AI agents, including VIN decoding, plate-to-VIN lookup, vehicle specifications, listings, pricing, recalls, and payment calculations. It offers a unified CLI, MCP server, and SDK that integrate with AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot.
Also known as Auto.dev · driv.ly · Vin.Company
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Drivly (driv.ly), presented on its site as Vin.Company, operates an automotive commerce platform keyed to the vehicle identification number (VIN). A single 17-character VIN is used as the identifier through which a vehicle can be checked, bought, sold, financed, insured and moved, with each function exposed at its own dedicated address.
The platform is organized into four layers. The data layer covers vehicle records: five market values (retail, private party, trade-in, wholesale, auction) at values.vin, VIN-based listings search at listings.vin, factory specifications at specs.vin, open recalls with remedy and repair status at recalls.vin, original window stickers at sticker.vin, the OEM as-built record at build.vin, and a paid consolidated vehicle history document at vhr.vin, alongside vindex.vin and enrich.vin. The services layer handles physical work ordered by VIN, including transport quoting, tracking and delivery from two ZIP codes at transport.vin, plus inspection, title, registration, detailing, repair and maintenance addresses. The commerce layer settles the vehicle, taxes, financing, insurance and delivery as a single order, spanning buy.vin, offers.vin (cash offers with payoff handled), financing.vin (soft-pull prequalification through funded loan), fi.vin (VSC, GAP and protection products), insure.vin, taxes.vin (state-level taxes, title and DMV fees), and further lease, trade-in, wholesale, auction, floorplan, escrow and dropship addresses.
A fourth layer targets AI agents as direct customers. Agents can hold a wallet, read posted prices and settle transactions, with defined motions for an agent buying on its own account (b2a.vin), buying with a single human approval step (b2h2a.vin), buying on behalf of a consumer (b2a2c.vin), brokering business-to-business trade with disclosed fees (b2a2b.vin), and embedded capability (b2a2d.vin). A single MCP server at apis.vin/mcp covers the whole platform; paid actions return typed, machine-readable offers and agent payments settle programmatically via x402."]
Business model
The company sells automotive data, services and transaction capabilities addressed by VIN. Certain data products are offered free at their addresses — market values, listings search, specifications, window stickers and tax/fee calculations — while the consolidated vehicle history report is a paid document. Transactional lines include vehicle purchase and sale, financing, F&I products such as vehicle service contracts and GAP, insurance, and transport, with a whole deal capable of settling as one order with every line posted. Paid actions exposed to machines return typed offers priced in USD cents and settle programmatically.
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Market position
The stated design principle is that the record a consumer reads is the record a dealer prices from — the same numbers on both sides — and that a consumer delivery and a dealer transfer ride the same rail keyed to the same VIN. Several data products normally sold in reports, including five market values, listings, factory specifications and the original window sticker, are offered free. The platform is also built for AI agents as first-class customers, with agent-native access at every address.
Technology
The platform uses the VIN as the primary key across all products, with each capability hosted at a distinct domain address under The Vin.Company. Developer access is provided through a single API key, SDK and MCP server (apis.vin/mcp). Machine-readable outputs are typed offers containing the VIN, vehicle attributes, price in USD cents, settlement method and an RFC 3339 expiry timestamp; agent payments settle using the x402 protocol.
Go-to-market
Distribution is structured as separate addresses per job, each openly linked, so users enter at the product matching their task rather than through a single portal. Dedicated entrances exist for consumers, dealers (dealers.vin), developers (apis.vin) and AI agents (apis.vin/mcp and the b2a family of addresses).
Four entry points are defined: consumers (buying, selling, pricing and reading the record of a car), dealers (appraisal, record pulls and vehicle movement via dealers.vin, plus wholesale, auction, floorplan and enterprise addresses), developers (one key, one SDK and one MCP server for VIN capabilities via apis.vin), and AI agents transacting on their own account or on behalf of others.
Compiled by commissioned research from 5 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
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- Drivly API Firstdriv.ly · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Drivly API First do?
- Automotive commerce platform organized around the VIN, offering vehicle data, services and transactions across per-purpose web addresses.
- Who are Drivly API First's investors?
- Drivly API First's investors include Behind Genius Ventures, Expansion Venture Capital, Fontinalis Partners.