CIS Automotive API

Name: CIS Automotive API API
Brand: CIS Automotive API
Availability: InStock

✓ Official Vendor SpecData EnrichmentCompany DataapiKey35 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Authenticate with API credentials to mint a JWT, then query US automotive market data — vehicle prices, days-to-sell, dealer inventories, regional sales, and market share — for a given brand, model, region, or zip code.

Quickstart

Get started with CIS Automotive API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"get the average sale price of a vehicle in a region"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with CIS Automotive API API.

Mint a JWT from API credentials via GET or POST /getToken

List regions, brands, and models served by the API via /getRegions, /getBrands, /getModels

Pull pricing analytics — list price, sale price, sale price histograms — for new vehicles

Calculate days-to-sell and days-of-supply for a model in a region

GET STARTED

Start building with CIS Automotive API API

Explore with Jentic

View OpenAPI Document

CIS Automotive (autodealerdata.com) is a market data API for the US automotive retail industry, covering new and used vehicle pricing, days-to-sell, dealer inventories, market share, and historical sales by region. The API uses a JWT workflow — clients authenticate at /getToken with API credentials, then pass the JWT as an argument on every other call. Endpoints are organised by data category (sales data, pricing, premium dealer lookups) and many are gated by plan tier. The data set is sized for analytics teams in dealer groups, lenders, and automotive marketing platforms.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use CIS Automotive API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Pricing analytics for a dealer group

Power a dealer-group dashboard that compares the group's asking and selling prices against regional market averages. After minting a JWT at /getToken, the dashboard calls /listPrice and /salePrice for the brand and region of each rooftop, /salePriceHistogram to see how the group's deals fall on the regional curve, and /daysToSell to flag slow-moving inventory. Refreshing once per night keeps the dashboard close to live without exhausting plan quotas.

Mint a JWT, then call /salePrice with brand, model, region for each rooftop and store the result keyed by (rooftop, week)

Lender risk model inputs

An auto lender uses CIS Automotive to feed days-to-sell and market-share signals into its loan-to-value risk model. /daysToSell, /daysSupply, and /modelYearDist provide collateral-velocity inputs, while /regionSales and /salePriceHistogram supply the price distribution the lender uses to value collateral if a loan defaults. The JWT workflow keeps the long-lived API key off lender batch jobs by minting fresh tokens per nightly run.

For each loan, call /daysToSell and /salePrice with the vehicle's brand, model, and region to populate the LTV model

Dealer locator on a marketplace

An automotive marketplace surfaces dealers near the user's zip code by calling the premium /getDealers endpoint with the user's zip and a radius. /getDealersByID then fetches enriched detail (address, phone, brand mix) for each result. Because the data set is plan-gated, the integration must be ready to handle 403 responses from premium endpoints if the account downgrades.

Mint a JWT, then GET /getDealers with the user's zip and a radius to return a list of nearby dealerships

Agent-driven vehicle research

An AI shopping assistant helps a buyer compare a make and model across regions. The agent searches Jentic for the right CIS Automotive operation, calls /salePrice and /daysToSell across two or three regions, and summarises which region offers better value. Through Jentic the JWT lifecycle is managed inside the credential vault — the agent never juggles /getToken calls itself.

Compare /salePrice across the user's home region and one neighbouring region for a target brand and model, then explain the price gap

Key Endpoints

35 endpoints — cis automotive (autodealerdata.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

POST

/getToken

Mint a JWT from API credentials

GET

/salePrice

Stats on sale price of new vehicles

GET

/daysToSell

Days a vehicle takes to sell

GET

/daysSupply

Days of supply on dealer lots

GET

/regionSales

Brand sales by region and month

GET

/getDealers

Premium dealer lookup by zip code

GET

/topModels

Top models in a given region

GET

/vehicleHistory

Simple vehicle history report

POST

/getToken

Mint a JWT from API credentials

GET

/salePrice

Stats on sale price of new vehicles

GET

/daysToSell

Days a vehicle takes to sell

GET

/daysSupply

Days of supply on dealer lots

GET

/regionSales

Brand sales by region and month

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

CIS Automotive API credentials are stored encrypted in the Jentic credential vault. Jentic mints the JWT at /getToken on the agent's behalf and rotates it before expiry, so the agent works only with short-lived tokens scoped to the request.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic for 'get vehicle sale price' or 'find dealers near a zip code' and Jentic returns the matching CIS Automotive operation with its input schema and tier requirements, avoiding manual navigation of 35 endpoints.

Time to first call

Direct CIS Automotive integration: 1-2 days to wrap the JWT lifecycle, plan-tier handling, and per-endpoint argument shaping. Through Jentic: under an hour — search, load the schema, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Complementary

Smartcar API

Smartcar reads live telemetry from a specific connected vehicle

Use Smartcar for real-time odometer or location of a specific VIN; use CIS Automotive for market-level pricing and inventory analytics

Complementary

Autodata API

Autodata supplies repair and fitment data while CIS Automotive covers market data

Use Autodata for technical service intervals or wiring diagrams; use CIS Automotive for the price, supply, and dealer landscape

Alternative

Regrid API

A different vertical-data API — Regrid covers parcel and property records rather than vehicles

Choose Regrid when the workload needs property data; this comparison highlights that CIS Automotive is purpose-built for automotive market analytics

FAQs

Specific to using CIS Automotive API API through Jentic.

What authentication does the CIS Automotive API use?

CIS Automotive issues a JWT from /getToken when called with valid API credentials. Every subsequent endpoint accepts the JWT as a request argument. Through Jentic the API credentials are held in the credential vault, /getToken is called server-side, and only the short-lived JWT flows to the agent.

How do I get the average sale price of a vehicle from the CIS Automotive API?

Mint a JWT at /getToken, then GET /salePrice with the brand, model, and region you care about. The response includes mean, median, and distribution statistics for new-vehicle sale prices in that region.

Which CIS Automotive endpoints are premium?

Endpoints tagged 'Premium' in the spec — /getDealers, /getDealersByRegion, /getDealersByID, /regionSales, /vehicleHistory, /similarSalePrice — require a paid plan. Calls from a free or basic account return a 403; check your plan before relying on these in production.

How do I find dealers in a zip code through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'find dealers in a zip code' and load the GET /getDealers operation. Execute it with the zip code and a radius — Jentic mints the JWT for you and returns the dealer list. Get started at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

What are the rate limits for the CIS Automotive API?

CIS Automotive enforces per-plan request quotas managed in the customer dashboard rather than the OpenAPI spec. JWTs are short-lived; the spec recommends caching them rather than calling /getToken on every request to stay within plan limits.

Can I use my RapidAPI keys directly against api.autodealerdata.com?

No. RapidAPI customers must call the API through RapidAPI's gateway, while customers signed up directly authenticate at api.autodealerdata.com using /getToken with their CIS-issued credentials. The two key types are not interchangeable.