Car Pricing
Tool to estimate the price of a vehicle in real time according to many criteria.
- Allows you to offer a sale price depending on the condition of the vehicle.
- Offers multiple price repositories depending on the DMS you use.
- Provides the ability to customize your margins to suit your needs.
Attribute-driven: photos are optional and only refine the condition grade. All amounts are
integers in the minor unit of currency (cents for EUR), and adjustments are signed.
Authorizations
Organisation API key, sent as Authorization: Bearer chk_live_….
chk_live_…— real inference, real credits,livemode: true.chk_test_…— identical pipeline against the fixture backend, test credits,livemode: false.
Keys are stored hashed; only the prefix (chk_live_a1b2…) is ever displayed again. A key
may be scoped to a subset of endpoint families — calling outside its scopes is a 403.
Headers
Client-generated key (a UUID is ideal) making this POST safe to retry. The first request
is executed and its response stored for 24 h; any replay with the same key returns that
stored response with Idempotent-Replayed: true and bills nothing. Reusing a key with a
different payload is a 409 idempotency_key_reuse.
8 - 255Steers the fixture backend. Ignored by live keys, 400 test_scenario_not_supported if the
scenario is unknown to the endpoint. Common catalogue:
Some endpoints add their own scenarios; unsupported common scenarios (for example
empty_result on a generation endpoint) are rejected rather than silently ignored.
"empty_result"
"low_confidence"
"model_error"
"slow"
"insufficient_credits"
Query Parameters
Hold the connection until the job settles and answer 200 with the completed job instead
of 202 with a queued one. Available on fast endpoints only; the ceiling is 30 s, after
which the job keeps running and the call answers 202 as usual.
Body
Photos are optional on this endpoint — they only refine an attribute-driven answer.
What is being priced. make, model, year and mileage_km are what actually move the number; a vin supersedes them all when it resolves.
30Your own grading, A to E. Omitted, it is inferred from the submitted photos and from repair_estimate_total when given.
A, B, C, D, E Known reconditioning cost in minor units, typically the total of a repair estimate. Deducted as a damage adjustment.
x >= 0Repository to price against. Defaults to the book of your billing country.
"argus_fr"
Reporting currency. Defaults to the currency of the selected price book.
^[A-Z]{3}$Market to value in. Defaults to your organisation's billing country.
^[A-Z]{2}$Your margin, applied to the retail figure.
Response
Job completed synchronously (wait=true).
The unit of work of the API. Every inference call creates one, and every result is read
back from one — synchronously through wait=true, or later through GET /v1/jobs/{id}
or a webhook.
result is populated only in succeeded, error only in failed / expired.
stages is present on inspection jobs only.
Job identifier — job_ followed by a base58 string.
^job_[1-9A-HJ-NP-Za-km-z]{8,32}$"job_3ZxK9pQr7TnW"
"job"Dotted slug of a CarHub endpoint, the identifier used for jobs and usage.
vehicle.analyse, vehicle.segment, vehicle.identify, vin.read, plate.read, document.read, dashboard.read, engine.detect, video.onboard, damage.detect, damage.severity, tire.read, tire.detect, parts.recognize, parts.segment, parts.decompose, pricing.vehicle, pricing.repair, render.background, render.enhance, render.plate, render.360, render.video, viewer.hotspots, inspections Lifecycle of a job. queued → processing → one of succeeded | failed; expired
when it was never picked up in time, canceled when it was cancelled before starting.
The three settled states are terminal.
queued, processing, succeeded, failed, expired, canceled false when the job was created with a chk_test_ key: fixture result, test credits.
Epoch seconds, UTC.
1755300000
When the job left the queue. Null while queued.
1755300000
When the job settled. Null until then.
1755300000
Exact model build that produced the result, as <model>@<release date>. Null until the job starts. Pin your regression tests to it.
"plate-reader@2026-08-01"
Credit accounting for the job. One credit equals one USD cent. reserved is held at
admission and charged is the real cost after settlement; unused credits are released.
A valuation in three channels, the adjustments that produced it, and the market observations behind it. Every amount is an integer in the minor unit of currency.
Populated when status is failed or expired, null otherwise.
Per-stage progress. Present on inspections jobs only, absent everywhere else.
The X-Carhub-Test-Scenario that produced this job. Present on test-mode jobs that were steered by one, absent otherwise — a live job never carries it.
"low_confidence"