# Vehicle Safety Ratings by VIN or Make/Model

> Vehicle Safety Ratings by VIN or Make/Model is a paid API for AI agents from x402.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns official NHTSA 5-star crash-test safety ratings, rollover data, safety feature availability, complaint counts, and recall counts for a vehicle specified by VIN or year/make/model.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/vehicle-safety-ratings
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/vehicle-safety-ratings-by-vin-or-make-model-ccfc24ab
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_HaHpcrm2SEr2No7ZKFs64

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 vehicle-safety-ratings-by-vin-or-make-model-ccfc24ab -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the NHTSA crash-test safety ratings for a 2021 Honda CR-V — I want to see the overall star rating, frontal and side scores, rollover risk, and whether it has lane departure warning?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need official government-issued NHTSA 5-star crash-test data, rollover probability, and safety feature availability for a specific vehicle. It is the authoritative source for car-shopping safety due diligence, fleet procurement decisions, and insurance risk lookups. Prefer it over third-party safety summary services when regulatory credibility and complaint/recall counts matter.

## Known failure modes

- VIN not recognized or too new/old for NHTSA database — no results returned
- Ambiguous make/model/year combination with multiple variants requiring vehicle_id selection
- Model year not yet rated by NHTSA — ratings unavailable
- Invalid or malformed VIN format — request rejected
- Vehicle variant not crash-tested — partial or no star ratings available

## How this service works

Official 5-star crash-test safety ratings by VIN or year/make/model: overall, frontal, side, side-pole, and rollover star ratings plus driver/passenger breakdowns, rollover probability, and standard safety-feature availability (stability control, collision and lane-departure warning). Includes counts of complaints and recalls on file. For car-shopping, insurance, and fleet-selection agents.

## Output

Returns official NHTSA 5-star ratings broken down by overall, frontal crash, side crash, side-pole, and rollover categories, with separate driver and passenger scores, a numeric rollover probability percentage, availability flags for stability control, forward collision warning, and lane departure warning, plus total complaint and recall counts on file for the vehicle.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "vin": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "VIN — decoded automatically (alternative to make/model/model_year)"
  },
  "make": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "e.g. honda"
  },
  "model": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "e.g. accord"
  },
  "model_year": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "4-digit year"
  },
  "vehicle_id": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "rate a specific variant returned in other_variants"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/vehicle-safety-ratings-by-vin-or-make-model-ccfc24ab/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.forgemesh.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.forgemesh.io/llms.txt)