aid: cox-automotive
name: Cox Automotive
description: >-
  Cox Automotive is one of the world's largest providers of products and services spanning the automotive
  ecosystem, operating a portfolio of brands that includes Manheim (wholesale vehicle auctions and
  remarketing), Kelley Blue Book (vehicle valuations and editorial data), Autotrader, Dealertrack (DMS,
  registration and titling, credit applications), vAuto, VinSolutions, Xtime, Dealer.com, HomeNet and
  Esntial. Its public API surface is split across several developer properties: the Kelley Blue Book
  Developer Portal (developer.kbb.com) publishes Swagger 2.0 contracts for the IDWS 4.0 vehicle and
  editorial services, the Advertising Data API, the Instant Cash Offer API and the Batch VIN API; the
  Manheim Developer Portal (developer.manheim.com) documents a hypermedia REST suite covering auctions,
  inventory, marketplace offerings, valuations, condition reports, images, users and a publish/subscribe
  event notification service; and the Cox Automotive Integration Platform / API Storefront
  (developer.coxautoinc.com) fronts the partner-gated catalogue of more than seventy runtime services
  visible on the public Cox Automotive API status page. Access to every environment is granted after a
  review by a Cox Automotive account representative, with keys issued through the Boomi/Mashery gateway.
image: https://www.coxautoinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/CAI-1200x628-1.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cox-automotive/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:absent-parent
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-13'
modified: '2026-09-13'
tags:
- Automotive
- Vehicle Data
- Vehicle Valuations
- Auctions
- Dealer Software
- Automotive Retail
- VIN Decoding
- Inventory Management
- Remarketing
- Events
- Webhooks
tags_raw:
- automotive
- vehicle-data
- vehicle-valuations
- auctions
- dealer-software
- automotive-retail
- vin-decoding
- inventory-management
- remarketing
- events
- webhooks
apis:
- aid: cox-automotive:kbb-idws-vehicle
  name: Kelley Blue Book IDWS 4.0 Vehicle Service
  description: >-
    InfoDriver Web Service (IDWS) 4.0 Vehicle Service — a RESTful Kelley Blue Book API returning vehicle
    configuration, makes, models, model years, trims, body styles, options, specifications, typicals,
    CPO programs, cost-to-own and Blue Book values, plus VIN lookup. API-key authenticated through the
    Cox Automotive Mashery gateway.
  humanURL: https://developer.kbb.com/idws/1-Default
  baseURL: https://idws.datasolutions.coxautoinc.com
  position: Producing
  tags:
  - Vehicle Data
  - Vehicle Valuations
  - VIN Decoding
  - Automotive
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cox-automotive-kbb-idws-vehicle-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.kbb.com/idws/1-Default
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.kbb.com/idws/99-Swagger
  - type: Postman
    url: https://god.gw.postman.com/run-collection/1195870-3ff750f7-69e7-49e2-bbaa-e42fecb49939
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cox-automotive-kbb-idws-vehicle-overlay.yaml
- aid: cox-automotive:kbb-idws-editorial
  name: Kelley Blue Book IDWS 4.0 Editorial Service
  description: >-
    InfoDriver Web Service (IDWS) 4.0 Editorial Service — Kelley Blue Book consumer ratings, consumer
    reviews, expert ratings, expert reviews and Top Ten lists for a vehicle, returned as JSON and
    authenticated with a Mashery api_key query parameter.
  humanURL: https://developer.kbb.com/idws/1-Default
  baseURL: https://idws.datasolutions.coxautoinc.com
  position: Producing
  tags:
  - Vehicle Data
  - Automotive
  - Reviews
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cox-automotive-kbb-idws-editorial-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.kbb.com/idws/1-Default
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.kbb.com/idws/98-Swagger-EDT
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cox-automotive-kbb-idws-editorial-overlay.yaml
- aid: cox-automotive:kbb-advertising-data
  name: Kelley Blue Book Advertising Data API
  description: >-
    Vehicle data for building dynamic automotive advertising — pricing, cost-to-own, expert and consumer
    ratings and reviews, vehicle links, fuel cost, specifications, MPG and awards. Supports CORS, gzip,
    and both URL and Accept-header versioning.
  humanURL: https://developer.kbb.com/data/1-Default
  baseURL: https://sandbox.api.kbb.com/ads
  position: Producing
  tags:
  - Vehicle Data
  - Advertising
  - Automotive
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cox-automotive-kbb-advertising-data-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.kbb.com/data/1-Default
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.kbb.com/data/99-Swagger
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cox-automotive-kbb-advertising-data-overlay.yaml
- aid: cox-automotive:kbb-instant-cash-offer
  name: Kelley Blue Book Instant Cash Offer (ICO) API
  description: >-
    Produces a Kelley Blue Book Instant Cash Offer for a vehicle. Vehicle configuration lookups (year,
    make, model, trim, transmission, engine, drivetrain, colour, options), licence-plate-to-VIN lookup,
    prospect creation with history, condition and contact information, and offer creation and retrieval.
    Responses use a meta/data envelope with numeric Cox Automotive result codes.
  humanURL: https://developer.kbb.com/ico/1-Default
  baseURL: https://api.kbb.com/ico/v1
  position: Producing
  tags:
  - Vehicle Valuations
  - Automotive Retail
  - Trade-In
  - Automotive
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cox-automotive-kbb-instant-cash-offer-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.kbb.com/ico/1-Default
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.kbb.com/ico/99-Swagger
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/cox-automotive-error-codes.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cox-automotive-kbb-instant-cash-offer-overlay.yaml
- aid: cox-automotive:kbb-batch-vin
  name: Kelley Blue Book Batch VIN API
  description: >-
    Asynchronous batch VIN decoding and valuation. Submit a batch job, poll its status, and retrieve the
    input and output files, or cancel a running job. Requires both a Mashery api_key and an OAuth-style
    bearer token obtained from the API's own /Token endpoint.
  humanURL: https://developer.kbb.com/batchvin/1-Default
  baseURL: https://sandbox.api.kbb.com/idbv
  position: Producing
  tags:
  - VIN Decoding
  - Vehicle Data
  - Batch Processing
  - Automotive
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cox-automotive-kbb-batch-vin-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.kbb.com/batchvin/1-Default
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.kbb.com/batchvin/99-Swagger
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cox-automotive-kbb-batch-vin-overlay.yaml
- aid: cox-automotive:manheim
  name: Manheim Hypermedia API Suite
  description: >-
    Manheim's third-party integration surface — a suite of hypermedia (href-linked) JSON REST APIs over
    the wholesale vehicle remarketing lifecycle: auction locations, inventory units and consignments,
    marketplace offerings, searches, purchases, transactions and titles, Manheim Market Report
    valuations and forecasts, vehicle condition reports, images, and user profiles, contexts and
    preferences. OAuth 2.0 client-credentials and resource-owner-password grants through the Mashery
    gateway. Documented publicly; access granted per environment after review.
  humanURL: https://developer.manheim.com/
  baseURL: https://api.manheim.com
  position: Producing
  tags:
  - Auctions
  - Remarketing
  - Vehicle Valuations
  - Inventory Management
  - Automotive
  properties:
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://developer.manheim.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.manheim.com/pages/hypermedia.html
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.manheim.com/apis/marketplace/valuations.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.manheim.com/pages/authentication.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developer.manheim.com/pages/accessAndEnvironments.html
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://developer.manheim.com/pages/apiUsage.html
  - type: Support
    url: https://developer.manheim.com/support/help.html
- aid: cox-automotive:manheim-events
  name: Manheim Event Notifications
  description: >-
    Publish/subscribe business-event notification service for the Manheim auction lifecycle. Consumers
    register a subscriber, create subscriptions with resource, type, text (VIN) or richFilter criteria,
    and receive NOUN.VERB events (for example UNIT.CREATED, CONSIGNMENT.CREATED) delivered to their own
    callback, optionally expanded with the referenced API response. Superseded for new onboarding by
    Eventer on the Cox Automotive API Storefront.
  humanURL: https://developer.manheim.com/apis/events/index.html
  baseURL: https://api.manheim.com
  position: Producing
  tags:
  - Events
  - Webhooks
  - Auctions
  - Automotive
  properties:
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/cox-automotive-manheim-events-webhooks.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.manheim.com/apis/events/index.html
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.manheim.com/apis/events/subscriptions.html
- aid: cox-automotive:integration-platform
  name: Cox Automotive Integration Platform (API Storefront)
  description: >-
    The company-wide API storefront and integration platform fronting Cox Automotive's partner APIs —
    Dealertrack credit application, registration and titling, DealXG and Deal Push, Eventer publishing,
    MMR and MMR batch, listings search, recon inventory, quotes, orders, purchases, condition reports,
    taxonomy, expander, service scheduling and digital retailing among more than seventy runtime
    services listed on the public status page. Product catalogue and reference are behind an Okta /
    Entra ID sign-in; access is requested through the storefront.
  humanURL: https://developer.coxautoinc.com/
  baseURL: https://api.coxautoinc.com
  position: Producing
  tags:
  - Dealer Software
  - Automotive Retail
  - Automotive
  properties:
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://developer.coxautoinc.com/
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://developer.coxautoinc.com/signup
  - type: Login
    url: https://developer.coxautoinc.com/login
  - type: StatusPage
    url: https://coxautoapi.statuspage.io/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.coxautoinc.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.coxautoinc.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.manheim.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer.kbb.com/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.manheim.com/pages/accessAndEnvironments.html
- type: Support
  url: https://developer.manheim.com/support/help.html
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.coxautoinc.com/insights/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Cox-Automotive
- type: SignUp
  url: https://developer.coxautoinc.com/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://developer.coxautoinc.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.coxautoinc.com/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.coxautoinc.com/privacy-statement/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://coxautoapi.statuspage.io/
- type: Postman
  url: https://god.gw.postman.com/run-collection/1195870-3ff750f7-69e7-49e2-bbaa-e42fecb49939
- type: Security
  url: https://www.coxautoinc.com/responsible-disclosure
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/cox-automotive-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/cox-automotive-well-known.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/cox-automotive-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cox-automotive-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cox-automotive-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/cox-automotive-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/cox-automotive-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/cox-automotive-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/cox-automotive-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/cox-automotive-lifecycle.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/cox-automotive-data-model.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cox-automotive-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cox-automotive-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/cox-automotive-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cox-automotive-llms.txt
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/cox-automotive-manheim-events-webhooks.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/cox-automotive-mcp.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/cox-automotive-agentic-access.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/cox-automotive-sandbox.yml
- type: ErrorCodes
  url: errors/cox-automotive-error-codes.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/cox-automotive-kbb-idws-vehicle-overlay.yaml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-13'
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