Carvana Scraper API

A Carvana scraper API that reads Carvana’s used-car inventory, optionally narrowed to a make and model, and returns one row per vehicle: year, make, model and trim (Carvana’s and the KBB long form), price and MSRP with the previous price on repriced cars, mileage, body style, fuel type, colours, MPG, seating, VIN, stock number, photo and listing URL.

By Aldo Morese, founder of QuanticData · Published Aug 21, 2026 · Updated Sep 3, 2026

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$0.001 per delivered listing · $2 free every month · Failed runs never billed

POST /v1/scraper/collectors/carvana_cars/run

$ curl $QD/carvana_cars/run \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $QD_API_KEY" \
    -d '{"max_results": 24}'
{ "status": "done", "count": 24,
  "results": [
    {
      "vehicle_id": "…",
      "stock_number": "…",
      "vin": "…",
      "year": … } ],
  "cost": 0.024 }
# 24 listings × $0.001 · nothing delivered, nothing charged

Carvana Scraper API: make and model in, a residential exit in the middle, delivered rows with rank, vehicle_id and stock_number on the right, $0.001 per listing. — You send make and model; the run goes out through a residential exit and comes back as listings with rank, vehicle_id and stock_number — 23 fields on every row — and you are billed $0.001 for each listing actually delivered, nothing for a run that delivers none.

$0.001 / listing2,000 listings on the free $2 every month

Semantic inputmake, model, max_results — no URL lists

Up to 96listings per run, pagination handled for you

No browserread over HTTP/TLS — cheaper and faster than rendering

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Carvana used cars, running now

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What a Carvana scraper API does

Carvana ships its search response inside the page as a React Server Components stream, and every vehicle in it arrives fully typed — make, parent model, trim, mileage, VIN, price and MSRP as fields, not as text to be parsed out of a card. This collector concatenates the stream and reads that response. It has to be concatenated: the inventory blob is about 110 KB and chunk boundaries fall wherever the server flushed, so parsing chunks one by one works until the day the payload straddles two.

The vehicles array contains no advertisements. Carvana injects promo tiles into the results grid through a sibling array that states only a key and a slot — which is why a “page of 24” yields 21 cars: 21 vehicles plus 3 tiles fill 24 grid slots, measured on five captures. A DOM scraper has to recognise and drop those tiles; this source never sees them. The per-card schema.org Vehicle blocks are kept as an independent fallback — poorer, with no body style or MSRP, but a change to the stream shape degrades the collector rather than killing it.

Limits, in plain numbers

Everything that bounds one run of this collector. No hidden throttles.

Max per run

96 listings

Price

$0.001 / listing

Per 1,000

$1.00

Failed runs

Free zero rows, zero charge

Free every month

$2 no card

Rate limit

60 req/min on the free tier

What one listing looks like

Every delivered listing carries these fields. Nullable means the source did not publish it — the field stays empty instead of being guessed.

Field	Type	What it holds
`rank`	integer	1-based position.
`vehicle_id`	string · nullable	Carvana vehicle id — the key in the listing URL.
`stock_number`	string · nullable	Carvana stock number.
`vin`	string · nullable	VIN.
`year`	integer · nullable	Model year.
`make`	string · nullable	Make.
`model`	string · nullable	Model, including the variant ("Camry Hybrid").
`parent_model`	string · nullable	Model family ("Camry" for a Camry Hybrid).
`trim`	string · nullable	Trim, e.g. "SEL".
`kbb_trim`	string · nullable	Kelley Blue Book long trim, e.g. "SEL Sport Utility 4D".
`condition`	string · nullable	Offering — Carvana lists used vehicles.
`price`	number · nullable	Carvana price in USD.
`msrp`	number · nullable	Original MSRP in USD.
`previous_price`	number · nullable	Price before the last change; null when never repriced.
`mileage`	integer · nullable	Odometer miles.
`body_style`	string · nullable	Body style, e.g. "Suv".
`fuel_type`	string · nullable	Fuel type, e.g. "Gas".
`exterior_color`	string · nullable	Exterior colour.
`interior_color`	string · nullable	Interior colour.
`mpg`	integer · nullable	Miles per gallon.
`seating_capacity`	integer · nullable	Seats.
`image`	string · nullable	Primary photo.
`url`	string · nullable	Listing URL.

Inputs

The whole request. Anything you leave out falls back to the default shown in the catalog.

Input	Type	Required	What it does
`make`	string	no	Vehicle make, e.g. "Toyota" or "Mercedes-Benz". Omit to browse all inventory.
`model`	string	no	Vehicle model (requires make), e.g. "Camry".
`max_results`	integer	no	How many listings to deliver at most (1–96). You pay only for delivered listings.

Pricing

Carvana Scraper API pricing

$0.001 per delivered listing. A run that delivers nothing costs nothing: blocked pages, challenges and retries are on us, and the $2 monthly allowance covers about 2,000 listings before you spend anything.

$0.001per delivered listing$1 per 1,000 delivered listings

2,000 listingson the free allowance$2 every month, no card

Zero rowszero chargeblocks, captchas and retries are on us

−30%on volume tiersthe catalog returns your key's price

Pay as you go

$0/mo

$2 free credit / month
60 requests / min
List unit prices

Starter

$19/mo

$15 free credit / month
300 requests / min
10% off unit prices

Growth

$79/mo

$50 free credit / month
600 requests / min
20% off unit prices

Scale

$299/mo

$250 free credit / month
1,200 requests / min
30% off unit prices

Same wallet, same key and same $2 monthly allowance as every other Data API. Prices are launch pricing read live from the billing config — GET /v1/scraper/collectors returns the price your key actually pays.

Integration

One POST, typed rows

Base URL https://api.quanticdata.io/v1, Bearer auth, the same key as every other Data API. Endpoint: POST /v1/scraper/collectors/carvana_cars/run.

curl -X POST https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/carvana_cars/run \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $QD_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"max_results":24}'

import requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/carvana_cars/run",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {QD_API_KEY}"},
    json={
        "max_results": 24
    },
    timeout=120,
)
for row in r.json()["payload"]["results"]:
    print(row)

const res = await fetch(
  "https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/carvana_cars/run",
  {
    method: "POST",
    headers: {
      Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.QD_API_KEY}`,
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({"max_results":24}),
  },
);
const { payload } = await res.json();
console.table(payload.results);

claude mcp add quanticdata \
  -e QUANTICDATA_API_KEY=qd_live_your_key_here \
  -- npx -y quanticdata-mcp

# then, in the chat:
> run the carvana_cars collector with max_results=24

What people build with the Carvana scraper API

Three shapes of work this endpoint was designed around.

Used-car price tracking

Price, MSRP and previous price on every row: watch repricing across a make and model week over week, keyed by VIN.

Inventory analytics

Mileage, year, trim and body style for a whole model line — the inputs of a depreciation curve, from a retailer with a single national price.

VIN-level enrichment

VIN and stock number per car, ready to join with a history or valuation service.

Carvana Scraper API versus rolling your own

The differences that actually cost time when you build this in-house.

	DIY scraper	This collector
Promo tiles	Parsed as cars, or filtered by guessed selectors	Never in the data: the vehicles array has none
Fields	Text scraped out of a card	Typed fields from the server payload: VIN, MSRP, previous price, MPG
Payload boundaries	Chunk-by-chunk parsing that breaks when the blob straddles two	The stream is joined before parsing
Resilience	One selector set	Server payload first, schema.org Vehicle blocks as a real fallback

What people search for

Live autocomplete demand around Carvana used cars, pulled with our own Keyword ideas collector.

Carvana Scraper API: the POST to /v1/scraper/collectors/carvana_cars/run with make and model on the left, and the JSON envelope on the right with 24 listings and usage.cost_usd $0.024. — The same call you would paste into a terminal: a Bearer key, make and model in the body, and back the envelope every QuanticData endpoint returns — type, message, payload — where count is how many listings arrived and usage.cost_usd is $0.024, which is 24 × $0.001. A run that delivers nothing costs nothing. The key is good for 60 req/min on the free tier.

Sources and standards

The platform documentation and standards this collector is built against — check any claim on this page against the primary source:

FAQ

Questions we get about the Carvana scraper API.

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Can I filter by make and model?

Yes — make and model narrow the inventory; leave both out to read the general listing. Price, year and mileage filters are not exposed on this surface, so filter the rows on your side.

Why 21 cars on a “page of 24”?

Because Carvana fills 3 of the 24 grid slots with promo tiles that live in a separate array. The collector delivers the 21 vehicles and reports the skipped tiles in the run notes.

Is the price the total or the monthly figure?

The vehicle’s total price, as Carvana states it in the payload, plus msrp and — on repriced cars — previous_price.

Does it read Carvana’s API?

It reads the search response Carvana embeds in its own page, on the TLS tier, with no browser. There is no key and no login involved.

Is there a free Carvana scraper API?

Every account gets $2 of credit every month with no card, which is about 2,000 delivered listings on this endpoint at $0.001 each. It renews monthly, and a run that delivers nothing is never billed — so a failed or blocked attempt does not eat the allowance.

How much does one run cost?

Multiply the rows you actually receive by $0.001. A run capped at 96 listings — the maximum for this collector — costs $0.096 if every row comes back, and less when the source has fewer. Volume tiers take up to 30% off, and GET /v1/scraper/collectors returns the price your key actually pays.

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