cars-data.com MCP: car specs and comparisons in your AI app

Cars-data.com's MCP server gives your AI app car specs: search 103,372 variants, compare up to four side by side, filter by fuel or body type and pull images, in 20 languages. Some tools are free; four are paid per call in USDC through x402. ContextGate lets you switch the paid ones off and records every call in Activity.

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  • Free
  • 10 example tools

Connect cars-data.com to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

  1. 1Click Connect cars-data.com free. There's no sign-in, so its tools are ready at once.
  2. 2Four tools charge per call in USDC through x402: `search_catalogue`, `get_specs_full`, `filter_catalogue` and `compare_full`. Switch them off if you only want the free tools, several of which answer from a fixed 40-car demo set.
  3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
  4. 4Ask your AI app to compare two electric SUVs on their EV specs, then open Activity to see whether it used `compare_variants` or the paid `compare_full`.

Car data your AI app can pull

  • Search 103,372 variants across 120 brands by free text with `search_cars`.
  • Get full localized specs for one variant, in any of 20 languages, with `get_specs`.
  • Put two to four variants side by side with `compare_variants`, or filter by fuel, body type, drive layout, power or price with `filter_cars`.
  • List a model's generations and facelifts with production years, and fetch image URLs for a variant.

`compare_variants`, `filter_cars`, `list_generations` and `get_images` answer from a 40-car demo set; the full-catalogue tools are paid per call.

Control spend on cars-data.com calls

  • Switch off the four x402 tools so your AI app sticks to the free ones; switched-off tools are hidden and refused if called.
  • Or keep them on and use a policy to warn before a paid call goes through.
  • Activity records every call, so you can count how many paid lookups were made.

What you get with cars-data.com and ContextGate

  • Your AI apps can use cars-data.comClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach cars-data.com through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
  • You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any cars-data.com tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
  • Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

cars-data.com tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in cars-data.com. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.