Car Image API

car-3d

Get a textured 3D model (GLB, USDZ, FBX and a thumbnail) of any real vehicle in any paint color from the Car Image API, for AR views, configurators, game assets, product pages and 3D scenes, and put it on a web page with a two-line embed that Car Image hosts. Covers the order of work (look the vehicle up, confirm the price, create by vehicle id), what a model costs (100 credits, charged at creation, free once the account owns that vehicle in that color), how long it takes and how to wait in a conversation, polling versus webhooks, verifying the webhook signature, downloading the files, publishing a model and the <car-3d> element. Use when the user wants a 3D model, a GLB, a USDZ, an FBX, an AR-ready asset of a car, or a 3D car on a page; do not use for 2D renders (car-image), signed image URLs (car-image-urls) or finding which vehicle to model (vehicle-catalog).

car-image

Show or fetch a studio-quality, transparent-background image of a real vehicle (any make, model and year from 1990-2027), in a conversation or for a product page, a listing, a comparison, an email or a deck, and fetch catalog make logos with get_make_logo. Every image takes two steps - look the vehicle up first (resolve_vehicle, search_vehicles or decode_vin, free, the vehicle-catalog skill), then show it by its vehicle id (create_car_image_urls, 1 credit; clickable links and browser viewing in ChatGPT/Codex, inline Markdown in Claude). Covers the Car Image API by Meter - the chat workflow, angles, paint, sizing, the per-image credit cost, and how to handle 402, 404 and 429. Works before sign-in: lookups and a free preview of the picture a vehicle's page already shows (preview_car_image), then the account for the exact image. Use for any request involving a picture of a car, truck, motorcycle or other vehicle, including "show me a car" or "a random car"; do not use for embedding URLs in a browser or document (car-image-urls), SDK and CLI code (car-image-sdk), 3D models (car-3d), or connection setup (car-image-mcp).

car-image-mcp

Connect an agent, IDE or chat app to the Car Image API over MCP, and fix it when the tools do not appear. Covers the hosted HTTP server, the catalog server that needs no sign-in (lookups and free previews), the local stdio alternative, browser OAuth sign-in for plugin installs and chat-app connectors, the optional API key saved in the plugin's options in Claude Code, API-key setup for manual connections in Codex, Cursor, Claude Desktop and generic MCP hosts, what each of the seven core tools costs (catalog lookups, VIN decoding, images, signed URLs, the account) and which ten more ?toolset=all adds (make logos, 3D models, image options, the API reference, pricing, help and billing links), and how to diagnose a 401, a missing server or an empty tool list. Use for setup, configuration and connection troubleshooting; do not use for calling the API from code (car-image-sdk) or for image workflows once the tools already work (car-image).

car-image-sdk

Implement or review server-side code that calls the Car Image API using plain HTTP or an existing TypeScript SDK dependency. Covers resolving vehicle ids before rendering, typed errors, retries, batching, signed URLs, VINs and 3D models. Use for application integration code; do not use to install or run packages, manage a CLI, connect MCP (car-image-mcp), or show images in chat (car-image).

car-image-support

Answer questions about Car Image API pricing, credits, subscriptions, commercial licenses, terms, privacy, vehicle coverage and Enterprise agreements using source-linked help. Prepare checkout and billing links on the human's request, or draft customer support replies. Do not use for generating images (car-image), embedding images (car-image-urls), or changing a customer's account on their behalf.

car-image-urls

Share a vehicle image in chat (clickable links and browser viewing in ChatGPT/Codex, inline images in Claude) or put it into a web page, React component, email, Markdown file, PDF or slide deck using signed delivery URLs, so the browser loads the image without ever holding an API key. Use whenever the output is HTML, JSX, Markdown, CSS, an email template, a document or a spreadsheet rather than bytes on disk; covers looking each vehicle up once and minting by its id, TTL and use caps, batching up to 50, inventory grids from a list of VINs, caching, alt text and expiry. Do not use for downloading bytes in a script (car-image), or for finding which vehicle to render (vehicle-catalog).

vehicle-catalog

Look a vehicle up before it is rendered - turn what someone asked for ("a 2018 Miata", "the new 911 GT3", a VIN) into the exact catalog make, model and year the Car Image API can render and the stable vehicle id (veh_…) that names it, or check what a make offers and which years exist, or which of a whole list of vehicles the catalog carries. Covers resolve_vehicle, search_vehicles, check_vehicles for lists and free VIN decoding (full or partial VINs), reading confidence and year mismatches, trims and body styles, picking a car when none was named, missing vehicles, and the open @meterapp/vehicle-db package for offline lookups, dropdowns and validation. Use first, before any image, signed URL or 3D model of a vehicle, and when building a vehicle picker or validating user input; do not use for fetching the image itself (car-image), embedding it in a page (car-image-urls) or making a 3D model (car-3d).