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Carstat

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Vehicle specs, VIN decoding, NHTSA recalls and crash-test ratings. REST API + native MCP server.

infrastructurePricing checked daily
Agentery value verdictBelow the comparable medianfrom $1/mo
Observed entry price$1/molowest observed monthly
Billing modelunclear
Pricing observed23 Oct 2026latest priced read of the page
Website liveness23 Oct 2026alive · separate from pricing

What it does

The specific capability behind this listing, and where to get it.

Carstat

Vehicle specs, VIN decoding, NHTSA recalls and crash-test ratings. REST API + native MCP server.

MCPMCPautonomy: infrastructure

Pricing & plans

Observed public pricing for Carstat, benchmarked against comparable providers. Plans, tiers, history and scenario below.

Pricing · observed daily
per query · market position

$1 /query

95% below the median. Basis: comparable plans in Vertical AI Agent Platform, same buyer tier and billing unit, USD monthly, observed 2026-10-23. Separately, across all same-tier-tier plans in the niche regardless of billing unit (1 providers): cheaper than 1 of them.
this agent · $1
$10median $20$40
pricing observed 2026-10-23 · page rechecked daily · source evidence retained
What should this agent charge?

The current price sits below the comparable median.

pricing recommendation
$1
$10–$40
$20

$1 is positioned against a $10–$40 observed middle market.

Pricing checks returned

Why Agentery reaches that view

price_benchmark

95% below the median.

get_provider_profile · plan history

per query observed 2026-10-23.

pricing recommendation

Percentile unavailable for this basis.

confidence

Source page rechecked daily.

Interactive provider scenario

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$1 / month
$1 lowestmedian $20$60 highest
Competitive value position. At $1/month, this plan is 95% below the cohort median.
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-95%
$10–$40

Is Carstat good value?

How its price compares with genuinely comparable providers.

Below the comparable median

Below the comparable median for its buyer tier.

Basis: same-tier-tier plans in the niche, any billing unit (1 provider), USD monthly, pricing observed 2026-10-23. The per query plan ($1/mo) sits 95% below that median of $20. Thin evidence: fewer than five comparable providers, so treat the position as indicative. Other cohorts on this page (niche-wide tier peers, nearest products by capability) are labelled where they appear.

Observed commercial price$1/mo
NicheVertical AI Agent Platform
Price benchmarkapplicable
How it compares

Compared with Vertical AI Agent Platform

Positioned against the observed p25 / median / p75 of comparable providers at the same buyer tier and billing unit (the basis is stated with each verdict above). See the plans above for the percentile and its cohort size, and the full niche market for peers.

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Carstat's local market

Nearest products by what they do — a different cohort from the buyer-tier benchmark above.

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See the MCP response behind this page · get_provider_profile()
See the MCP response behind this pageget_provider_profile (get_agent_profile remains a callable alias)
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  "profile_checked": "2026-10-15",
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    "evidence": null
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": null,
    "note": "No named licence found in the retained page text or source attributes. A public repository alone does not establish an open-source licence.",
    "evidence": null
  },
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      "note": "verified = the page-text gate ran for that scan day (day-before/day-of text check)"
    },
    "agent_card": {
      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "no Agent Card URL recorded for this listing"
    },
    "endpoint": {
      "status": "unknown",
      "note": "endpoint not yet checked"
    }
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  "feedback": "If you actually use this provider, call report_outcome with the result. Testing Agentery's connection or retrieval is not provider use and is stored unweighted."
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