Pricing
What's free, and what won't be
The VIN check is free and stays free. Two paid products are planned, and neither is purchasable yet.
Free VIN Check
Available now$0
No account. No card. No trial that expires.
Everything VINLytix can produce from official public data. This is a complete report, not a teaser.
- VIN validation and check-digit verification
- Full vehicle decode: year, make, model, trim, engine, drivetrain
- Complete factory specifications
- NHTSA safety recall campaigns
- Mileage analysis against the expected figure for its age
- Red flags from public data
- VINLytix Deal Score
- Data Coverage — how much we could actually verify
- What we checked, and what we did not
- Save vehicles and compare up to three
VINLytix Premium Report
Coming soonPrice coming soon
One-time, per vehicle. No subscription, no account.
Adds real market pricing from a licensed provider, and the buying guidance that depends on it.
- Estimated market value and realistic range
- Trade-in / dealer acquisition value
- Comparable listings near you
- Seller asking price analysis
- Price position against the market
- Recommended negotiation range
- Valuation Confidence, with the reasoning shown
- Advanced Deal Score including market data
- Buyer, seller and dealer interpretation
Not purchasable yet. Nothing will be charged.
Full Vehicle History
Coming soonPrice coming soon
One-time, per vehicle. A separate product from Premium.
Title and brand records from a licensed provider. Bought separately, because it answers a different question.
- Title records across US jurisdictions
- Brand history: salvage, junk, rebuilt, flood
- Recorded odometer readings at title events
- Total-loss records reported by insurers
- Salvage and junk yard records
Not purchasable yet. Nothing will be charged.
2 paid products defined, none currently purchasable.
Why the free report is a real report
Most “free VIN check” sites show you a result and then put the part you came for behind a payment form. VINLytix does not work that way. Everything we can produce from official public data — the decode, full specifications, safety recall campaigns, mileage analysis, red flags, the Deal Score, the Data Coverage percentage and the honest account of what was not checked — is free, permanently, with no account.
That is not generosity. Those sources are free to us: NHTSA publishes them. Charging for a public database lookup would be charging for something we did not pay for.
Why the other two cost money
Market valuation and title history come from licensed commercial providers who charge us per lookup. There is no free, official, licensed source for either — we checked, and the research is published in our data sources documentation.
So those are paid, one-time, per vehicle. No subscription and no account: a future purchase will unlock one report, not sign you up for anything.
Why there are no prices on this page
Because we have not set them, and we are not going to invent a number to fill the space. Pricing depends on what the providers charge us, which depends on volume we do not have yet. When there is a real price it will appear here.
You will not find an invented “original” price struck through here either, or a countdown timer, or quotes from customers who do not exist. A site whose entire argument is that it does not fabricate vehicle data cannot fabricate its own marketing.
Premium and History are separate
They answer different questions. Premium tells you what a car is worth and what to pay. Full Vehicle History tells you what has happened to it — titles, brands, salvage records, recorded odometer readings.
Buying one will not include the other, and we would rather say that plainly now than have someone discover it after paying. For most private purchases, the history report is the more important of the two.
What none of them are
No VINLytix product is a mechanical inspection, a guarantee of condition, or a substitute for verifying the title yourself. Pay an independent mechanic before you buy any used car. Read the full disclaimer, or see where our data comes from.