Brazilian Vehicles and Prices API

Beginner's Pick Vehicle / No Auth Required Beginner HTTPS
Free to Use 500 per window (495 remaining at test time)
53 D
Measured Score 0 50 100 Speed 2/30 Consistency 1/20 Security 20/20 Browser access 15/15 Transparency 15/15 TESTED 2026-08-10

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.

JSON Response · Captured
[
  {
    "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.

Request
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.

HTTP 404 Requesting a path that does not exist application/json
{
  "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.

404 Not Found The brand code, model code, or year code provided does not exist.
Always fetch valid codes from the previous step in the hierarchy (brands then models then years then price) rather than guessing IDs.
Empty response Querying a vehicle type that has no data for the given parameters.
Make sure you use the correct vehicle type path: "carros" for cars, "motos" for motorcycles, "caminhoes" for trucks.
CORS error in browser The API may block cross-origin requests from browser-based apps.
Use a server-side proxy or a backend function to call the API instead of directly from client-side JavaScript.

Measured Score Breakdown

Live HTTP request to the API endpoint

Speed 2/30
Consistency 1/20
Security 20/20
Browser access 15/15
Transparency 15/15
Endpoint Response Time 1118ms

Fully tested on Aug 10, 2026

Technical Specifications

Auth No Auth
HTTPS REQUIRED
CORS NO
Category Vehicle
Difficulty Beginner
Endpoint last called: 2026-08-10

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