CarsXE

# CarsXE Documentation > CarsXE is a B2B vehicle data API platform from PiWaves, LLC. Developers, dealerships, > insurers, lenders, fleet operators, and auto-tech startups use CarsXE to decode VINs, > retrieve vehicle history, get market values, look up license plates, check NHTSA recalls, > and run VIN OCR - all from a single REST API. > > Coverage: 275M+ vehicle records across 50+ countries. > Performance: ~120ms median response time, 99.9% uptime SLA, SOC 2 Type II certified. > Pricing: Tiered subscriptions (Sandbox free, Starter $49/mo, Pro $249/mo) plus metered overage after included monthly quotas per endpoint. > APIs included: vehicle specifications, international vin decoder, plate decoder, vehicle images, history reports, market value, vehicle recall, recalls by ymm, plate image recognition, vin ocr, year make model, ymm options, obd codes decoder, lien & theft check, ownership. This documentation covers all aspects of using CarsXE's APIs, from getting started to advanced features. ## Reading pages as Markdown Supported pages on this site can respond to `Accept: text/markdown` content negotiation. Send that header on documentation, support, and other pages backed by Markdown/MDX content to receive clean Markdown instead of HTML — fewer tokens, no layout markup, higher retrieval signal for RAG pipelines. ```bash # Docs page as Markdown curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" https://carsxe.com/docs/quickstart # Docs page with Markdown backing curl -H "Accept: text/markd […truncated]