Brazilian Vehicles and Prices API
Overview
This API provides official vehicle pricing data from FIPE (Fundacao Instituto de Pesquisas Economicas), Brazil's most trusted automotive price guide. You can query prices for cars, motorcycles, and trucks by brand, model, and year. No API key is required, making it easy to start using immediately.
Beginner Tip
The API works in steps: first fetch brands, then models for a brand, then years, and finally the price for a specific year. Start by calling the brands endpoint to understand the data structure before building your queries.
Measurement Record
What actually happened when we called this API from our own infrastructure. Every value below was recorded by the request, not copied from the provider's documentation.
- Request
- GET https://parallelum.com.br/fipe/api/v1/carros/marcas
- Result
- HTTP 200 · application/json · 3,525 bytes · compressed
- Response time
- 1118 ms (median of 3) · fastest 313 ms
- Transport
- TLSv1.3 · TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 · certificate issued by Google Trust Services
- Browser CORS
- Allowed — Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
- Rate limit
- 500 per window (495 remaining at test time)
- Served by
- cloudflare
- Recorded
- 2026-08-10
Fields Returned
Top-level fields present in the response we captured, with the type and value we actually received.
| Field | Type | Value received |
|---|---|---|
| codigo | string | 1 |
| nome | string | Acura |
Captured Response
Captured from a real request to https://parallelum.com.br/fipe/api/v1/carros/marcas on 2026-08-10. Long arrays and nested objects are truncated to keep the shape readable.
[
{
"codigo": "1",
"nome": "Acura"
}
] Field Reference
codigo Unique code for the brand, model, or year — used to build subsequent queries. nome Human-readable name of the brand, model, or fuel type. Implementation Example
Calls a real endpoint of this API. Replace any placeholder credentials with your own key.
const url = "https://parallelum.com.br/fipe/api/v1/carros/marcas";
const response = await fetch(url);
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data); What Can You Build?
Note: These code examples are AI-generated and unverified. Always refer to the official API documentation for accurate usage.
How This API Fails
We deliberately sent this API a broken request and recorded exactly what came back on 2026-08-10. Knowing the shape of an error before you hit it makes error handling much easier to write.
{
"error": "Cannot GET /api/v1/carros/marcas/apisscore-nonexistent-path"
} Common Errors & Troubleshooting
Generated guidance based on this API's documentation, not observed by us. Treat it as a starting point and check against the provider's own error reference.
Measured Score Breakdown
Live HTTP request to the API endpoint
Fully tested on Aug 10, 2026
Technical Specifications
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