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VIN listing history

Every listing of a VIN over the years: prices, dealer hops, days on market.

$0.02 per call

What it returns

Raw data for your assistant to read.

Every online listing record for a VIN, newest first: the advertised asking price and the miles at that point, the seller website and name, the city and state, whether it was listed as new or used, and the dates the record was first and last seen. A price or mileage change opens a new record, so a car that was re-priced seven times shows seven rows at the same dealer. Fifty records a page; a long fleet history runs to a second page.

Use it when

  • You are vetting a car: how many times has it been re-priced, how many dealers has it been through, was it a rental.
  • You need the lowest advertised price of record for a VIN and where it was listed, for a claim or an appraisal file.
  • You want the sticker it sold new at, from the original dealer listing, next to what it is asking now.
  • You suspect wholesale churn: the same VIN listed in three states in three years.

Not when a report already answers it

  • You want the lowest price of record as a document with a timeline, for one VIN or a batch: the VIN Price Check.
  • You want the history read for red flags alongside the spec and the price: the Used Car Health Check.
  • You want a value, not a history: the Vehicle Valuation Report.

Pay per call

Charged to your prepaid balance, only when it runs.

$0.02 per call

The Starter rate from the MarketCheck API rate card, debited from the prepaid balance you share with the reports. No subscription: only a successful call is billed, and each answer states what it cost and the balance left.

Real results by desk

The prompt, what the assistant sent, what came back.

Every excerpt is a real result, trimmed to the fields that matter, with its date. Every price in it is an advertised asking price.

Dealer

What a Tacoma Trailhunter stickered at new, next to its asking now

"Pull the history on 3TYLC5LN8ST026438. What did it list at new, and where?"

What the assistant sends

{
  "vin": "3TYLC5LN8ST026438"
}

What came back (Sep 30, 2026), trimmed

17 records, newest first
Sep 29 to Sep 30, 2026   $49,629   26,844 mi   used   Right Toyota, Scottsdale AZ (and wilsonautomotive.com)
May 2 to May 3, 2025     $65,514   22 mi       new    Right Toyota specials site, Scottsdale AZ
Apr 25 to May 1, 2025    $64,789   0 mi        new    Right Toyota, Scottsdale AZ
Apr 18 to May 1, 2025    $62,894   0 mi        new    David Wilson, Orange CA
Apr 14 to Apr 19, 2025   $64,489   0 mi        new    Right Toyota, Scottsdale AZ
Mar 29 to Apr 1, 2025    $61,894   0 mi        new    Right Toyota, Scottsdale AZ

What to do with it: Listed new at $61,894 to $65,514 through spring 2025 and back on the same lot 17 months and 26,844 miles later at $49,629: the trade appraisal cites the new-car sticker the dealer itself advertised.

Dealer Group

Tracing a RAV4 XLE across four dealers and three states

"Trace VIN 2T3W1RFV0NW208767 across dealers. Where has it been retailed before?"

What the assistant sends

{
  "vin": "2T3W1RFV0NW208767"
}

What came back (Sep 30, 2026), trimmed

30 records, newest first
Sep 28 to Sep 30, 2026   $26,104   59,192 mi   used   Napleton Honda of Morton Grove, IL (also stevenapleton.com, Palatine IL)
Aug 13 to Aug 21, 2026   $28,394   59,190 mi   used   Napleton Honda of Morton Grove, IL
Sep 7 to Sep 11, 2025    $26,991   51,027 mi   used   Toyota of Greenville, Greenville SC (also Crown Nissan Greenville and asburyauto.com)
Aug 28, 2025             $27,000   51,027 mi   used   Greenville Automotive, Greenville SC
Jun 16 to Jul 2, 2022    $33,654   0 mi        new    Hudson Auto Group, Madison TN
Jun 15 to Jun 25, 2022   $33,654   new         Spartanburg Toyota, Spartanburg SC

What to do with it: Sold new in Tennessee in 2022, listed in Greenville a year ago at $26,991 and now in Chicago at $26,104 with 8,165 more miles: the current asking is the second retail attempt, and the Napleton walk-down from $28,394 says the first weeks did not take.

Appraiser

Reaching the rental years on page 2

"Get page 2 of the history for 2T3H1RFVXMW152067. I want the earliest records."

What the assistant sends

{
  "vin": "2T3H1RFVXMW152067",
  "page": 2
}

What came back (Sep 30, 2026), trimmed

12 records on page 2, all Hertz Car Sales
Jul 15 to Jul 18, 2023   $25,600   50,496 mi   St. Louis MO
Jul 13, 2023             $24,100   50,343 mi   St. Louis MO
Jul 8 to Jul 10, 2023    $24,100   49,141 mi   Smithtown NY
Jul 1 to Jul 5, 2023     $24,500   49,141 mi   St. Louis MO
Jun 17 to Jun 26, 2023   $25,600   47,662 mi   St. Louis MO
Jun 14, 2023             $25,900   47,470 mi   Seattle WA

What to do with it: The first page stops at 50 records; the second one shows the car entering the retail market as a 47,000-mile rental in June 2023, which is the ownership fact an appraisal file should carry.

Claims

The lowest advertised price of record for a claim file

"What is the lowest price VIN 1HGCV1F35LA046672 was ever advertised at, and where has it been listed?"

What the assistant sends

{
  "vin": "1HGCV1F35LA046672"
}

What came back (Sep 30, 2026), trimmed

28 records, newest first
Sep 24 to Sep 30, 2026   $24,998   41,270 mi   used   CarMax Merrillville, Merrillville IN
Sep 23 to Sep 24, 2026   $26,798   41,270 mi   used   CarMax Merrillville
Sep 17 to Sep 22, 2026   $28,148   41,270 mi   used   CarMax Merrillville
Sep 11 to Sep 16, 2026   $25,998   41,270 mi   used   CarMax Merrillville
Aug 31 to Sep 2, 2023    $24,848   23,144 mi   used   North City Honda, Chicago IL (six cuts from $27,503 over two months)
Jul 3 to Jul 29, 2020    $27,785   new         Mt. Kisco Honda, Bedford Hills NY
Jun 5 to Jul 1, 2020     $27,785   1 mi  new   Honda of Valley Stream, Valley Stream NY

What to do with it: The lowest advertised price of record is $24,848 (Sep 2023, at 23,144 miles); today's $24,998 at 41,270 miles sits above that floor and both belong in the file.

Shopper

How many hands a 140,000-mile RAV4 has been through

"Show me the listing history for VIN 2T3H1RFVXMW152067. How many dealers, and how has the price moved?"

What the assistant sends

{
  "vin": "2T3H1RFVXMW152067"
}

What came back (Sep 30, 2026), trimmed

62 records on 2 pages, newest first (first seen to last seen, asking price, miles, seller, place)
Sep 29 to Sep 30, 2026   $17,599   140,439 mi   Your Choice Autos, Elgin IL (also on 3 sister sites)
Sep 18 to Sep 29, 2026   $18,176   140,439 mi   Your Choice Autos, Elgin IL
Sep 4 to Sep 17, 2026    $18,376   140,439 mi   Your Choice Autos, Elgin IL
Aug 21 to Sep 2, 2026    $18,599   140,439 mi   Your Choice Autos, Elgin IL
Aug 13 to Aug 20, 2026   $18,799   140,439 mi   Your Choice Autos, Crestwood IL
May 27 to Aug 12, 2026   $18,999   140,439 mi   Your Choice Autos, Crestwood IL
Jan 4 to Apr 30, 2025    $18,900 to $17,900   124,000 mi   Jackson Auto Co, Jackson MI (3 records)
Jun 14 to Oct 11, 2023   $25,900 to $24,000   47,470 to 62,022 mi   Hertz Car Sales, listed from St. Louis, Seattle, Des Plaines and Smithtown (29 records, page 2 holds the oldest)

What to do with it: Ex-rental, three dealers of record and five cuts in four months: the seller has been chasing the market down from $18,999 to $17,599, so the next cut is the number to offer.

Limits and traps

Read before you lean on a number.

  • Records, not owners. A rental fleet re-lists a car every few days across cities; six seller names can be one group's sister websites. Count the distinct sellers, not the rows.
  • Fifty records a page. A VIN with 62 records needs page=2 to reach its first listing, and the oldest rows are the ones that carry the original sticker.
  • A missing price means the dealer page showed none when the record was taken, not a free car; a missing mileage is the same.
  • Every price is what the dealer advertised at the time, never what the car sold for.
  • US and Canadian dealer listings only; private-party listings are not in the history. A UK account looks a vehicle up by its registration in UK listings.

For developers

The names your code needs.

MCP tool

get_car_history

Scope (one permission per tool)

data:get-car-history

Endpoint

POST https://ai.marketcheck.com/mcp

Call it like every other tool, from a connected assistant or with an agent's OAuth client-credentials token; the result arrives as JSON in content[0].text. See the tools reference and server-side access.

Try it in your assistant

Connect once, then paste a prompt from this page.

Claude connects in one click, and ChatGPT (Plus or higher) adds MarketCheck as a custom plugin from the connector URL; Cursor, VS Code, Gemini and other MCP clients use the same URL. The Market Data Tools are selected by default when you approve access.

Reports on the same data

When you want the finished read.

VIN Price Check

Lowest advertised price of record for a VIN (single or batch), with source and timeline.

$0.50 per VIN

Used Car Health Check

Vet a used car in seconds before you buy.

$1.49 per run

Vehicle Valuation Report

One VIN in full depth: valuation with the comparable evidence behind it.

$1.99 per run

The other data tools

Same connector, same balance.

Active listings

$0.01 per call

Recently sold

$0.02 per call

NeoVIN decode

$0.16 per call

Price prediction

$0.18 per call

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