Brazilian Vehicles and Prices vs CarVector

Brazilian Vehicles and Prices (the FIPE API) wraps Brazil's official Fundação Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas price table for cars, motorcycles, and trucks, returning brand, model, year, and the government reference resale price as JSON. A live GET and OPTIONS preflight against its real API host, parallelum.com.br/fipe/api/v1/carros/marcas, both returned access-control-allow-origin: *, resolving the stored "no" cors to "yes"; no key was required, reconfirming auth "None" over HTTPS. The service is capped at 500 free unauthenticated requests/day, 1,000/day with a free registered token, or unlimited via a paid plan at fipe.online — freemium.

CarVector decodes VINs and license plates into specs, images, recall notices, and OBD-II DTC codes for vehicles spanning model years 1925 to 2029. A live unauthenticated GET against its real API host, api.carvector.io/v1/vehicles/{id}, returned a 401 "missing_api_key" JSON error over HTTPS — reconfirming auth "API Key" and https true — with no Access-Control-Allow-Origin header on either that request or a follow-up OPTIONS preflight, resolving the stored "yes" cors to "no". Its pricing page lists a $0 Free tier alongside paid $39/mo and $79/mo plans plus a custom Enterprise tier — freemium.