NHTSA Vehicle Complaints & Auto Defect Reports API

Search official NHTSA ODI consumer vehicle complaints by make, model, model year, and component. Returns source-linked complaint narratives, crash/fire/injury indicators, ODI identifiers, and evidence limits for automotive safety research, defect monitoring, and lemon-law workflows. Consumer-submitted reports are not NHTSA verification of a defect, causation, frequency, recall status, manufacturer liability, or current vehicle condition.

1 of 2 routes settlement-verified · $0.01 USDC/request · 2 endpoints / 1 tools · Data · base network · x402 protocol

Verified routes

• /x402/v1/nhtsa-vehicle-complaints · $0.01 · Verified with a $0.01 test payment on 8 Aug 2026 · receipt

Other routes are unverified.

Networks: Base (settlement-verified)

Discovery is free. Agents search the catalogue here. Payment happens on the listing 402, not on PayAPI.

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Listing facts

Provider

AutoScrape

Hosted at

autoscrape-api-seven.vercel.app

Category

Data

Price

$0.01 USDC per request

Endpoints

2

MCP tools

1

Payment networks

Base

Settlement-verified

1 route, last checked 2026-08-08

Listed on PayAPI Market

2026-08-07

Try NHTSA Vehicle Complaints & Auto Defect Reports API

Call a verified route without paying first. The server should answer HTTP 402 Payment Required with the price, the USDC asset, the network and the wallet to pay. An x402 client pays that amount on Base and retries with the payment header.

curl -i "https://autoscrape-api-seven.vercel.app/x402/v1/nhtsa-vehicle-complaints"

About this API

NHTSA Vehicle Complaints & Auto Defect Reports API is listed in the Data category with pricing at $0.01 USDC/request. One route has been settlement-verified by PayAPI Market on 2026-08-08. View receipt on Basescan.

Payments settle on base in USDC via the x402 protocol. AI agents discover this API through the PayAPI Market MCP server and pay per request without API keys or accounts.

This API exposes 2 endpoints. Only the verified route has been tested by PayAPI Market. Other routes are unverified.

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What does NHTSA Vehicle Complaints & Auto Defect Reports API do?

Search official NHTSA ODI consumer vehicle complaints by make, model, model year, and component. Returns source-linked complaint narratives, crash/fire/injury indicators, ODI identifiers, and evidence limits for automotive safety research, defect monitoring, and lemon-law workflows. Consumer-submitted reports are not NHTSA verification of a defect, causation, frequency, recall status, manufacturer liability, or current vehicle condition. It is provided by AutoScrape.

How much does NHTSA Vehicle Complaints & Auto Defect Reports API cost?

NHTSA Vehicle Complaints & Auto Defect Reports API is priced at $0.01 USDC per request, paid per call with no subscription. Verified with a $0.01 test payment on 8 Aug 2026. The exact amount for each call is in the HTTP 402 response before any money moves.

Do I need an API key or account to use NHTSA Vehicle Complaints & Auto Defect Reports API?

No. NHTSA Vehicle Complaints & Auto Defect Reports API uses the x402 protocol, so an agent pays per request in USDC on Base and gets the response, with no API key, account or signup.

Has NHTSA Vehicle Complaints & Auto Defect Reports API been verified?

Yes, 1 route of its 2 endpoints. PayAPI Market paid for a real call from its own wallet, received real data back and recorded the USDC settlement on-chain, most recently on 2026-08-08. Routes that were not paid for are unverified.

How does an AI agent find NHTSA Vehicle Complaints & Auto Defect Reports API?

Through the free PayAPI Market MCP server at https://payapi.market/mcp, using search_apis or get_api, or over plain HTTP at https://payapi.market/agent/search. Discovery is free; the agent pays the provider directly on the listing's own 402.

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