# RecallsAPI Vehicle Recall Lookup

> RecallsAPI Vehicle Recall Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from api.recallsapi.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Look up NHTSA and other US agency vehicle recalls by VIN, make, model, and/or year

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.recallsapi.com/v1/vehicles?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/recallsapi-vehicle-recall-lookup-061123f7
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ResD8OwtB4oln_uNPhHYJ

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability recallsapi-vehicle-recall-lookup-061123f7
```

Example prompt: Can you check if my 2016 Honda Civic with VIN 1HGFC2F52GA123456 has any open safety recalls from NHTSA or other US agencies?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to check US vehicle recalls by VIN, make, model, or year against NHTSA and other federal agency databases. It is especially useful for pre-purchase due diligence, fleet safety compliance checks, or consumer safety verification. Prefer this over building direct NHTSA API integrations when you want a consolidated, payable REST endpoint with structured confidence-scored results.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or malformed VIN returns no matches or validation error
- Unrecognized make/model/year combination returns empty matches array
- Recall database may not reflect the most recent government updates in real time
- Ambiguous queries without VIN may return lower-confidence matches
- Payment failure via x402 protocol returns 402 status before any data is returned

## How this service works

Check your Amazon, Walmart, eBay and Shopify SKUs against recall records from 9 US agencies (CPSC, FDA, NHTSA, US Coast Guard, FAA and more). Alerts by email and signed webhook, a REST API and an MCP server. Sold by PrimeZen LLC.

## Output

Returns a list of matched recall records with confidence levels (e.g. 'possible'), each containing the recall ID, a link to the official recall page, and the recall title, along with the normalized vehicle details (make, model, year) that were matched against.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "vin": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "17-character VIN"
      },
      "make": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "year": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "model": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "matches": [
   {
    "recall": {
     "id": "nhtsa-16V526000",
     "url": "https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=16V526000",
     "title": "Honda: EXTERIOR LIGHTING"
    },
    "confidence": "possible"
   }
  ],
  "vehicle": {
   "make": "HONDA",
   "year": "2016",
   "model": "Civic"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/recallsapi-vehicle-recall-lookup-061123f7/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.recallsapi.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.recallsapi.com/llms.txt)