Autochek's African used-car inventory, as JSON
Autochek is the largest online used-car marketplace in West and East Africa.
6 active endpoints, on 1 and 2 credit tiers.
- POST/autochek/v1/search
- POST/autochek/v1/listing_detail
- POST/autochek/v1/makes
- POST/autochek/v1/models
- POST/autochek/v1/body_types
- POST/autochek/v1/locations
What Autochek endpoints does ReefAPI ship?
6 live read endpoints. Read-only data API: no writes, no account actions, no dashboard access on the target site.
How the Autochek API works
Autochek is a normal ReefAPI surface — the same four rules that hold for every other engine on the key.
No OAuth app, no request signing, no per-site account. One key covers all 438 engines.
Every route is a POST with a JSON body. Parameters are validated against the published schema before anything is charged.
Credits, not seats. Failed and blocked calls are never charged, and cache hits cost nothing.
One envelope everywhere. meta carries latency_ms, record_count and the endpoint that answered.
From a market to a priced, linkable shortlist
Three calls. The reference lists give you the numeric ids the filters need, search narrows the market, and detail fills in everything a valuation needs.
The 257 makes with their ids — Toyota is 106, Honda 45, Mercedes-Benz 70.
The 21 body types with their ids — SUV is 3, Sedan 8, Hatchback 5.
country=ng, make_id=106, body_type_id=3, state=Lagos. Every row already has price, currency, mileage, year, gearbox, fuel, dealer id and an openable url.
Pass a listing_id from the results for the VIN, both colours, the dealer's name and tenure, the feature list, every photo and the market's financing terms.
A shortlist of live cars with an integer price in the market's own currency, a link a buyer can open, and enough detail to value each one.
curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/autochek/v1/search \
-H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"country":"ng","limit":10}'{
"ok": true,
"data": { … },
"meta": {
"api": "autochek",
"endpoint": "search",
"mode": "live",
"latency_ms": …,
"record_count": …
},
"error": null
}Markets, inventory and currency
Every market below was called live on 2026-10-06 and returned real rows. The currency was confirmed twice: against Autochek's own country configuration and against the priceCurrency printed on ten live car pages (10/10 agree).
| Market | Listings | Currency | Example city |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nigeria (ng) | 9,253 | NGN | Lagos |
| Ghana (gh) | 1,435 | GHS | Accra |
| Uganda (ug) | 1,397 | UGX | Kampala |
| Kenya (ke) | 1,200 | KES | Nairobi |
| Côte d'Ivoire (ci) | 58 | XOF | Abidjan |
Autochek's country menu also links Senegal, Morocco and Egypt. Those are partner marketplaces run by other companies, with no Autochek inventory and no Autochek currency, so this API rejects them with a plain explanation instead of returning an empty result that looks like 'no cars today'.
What was measured, 2026-10-06
Every number here came off a live call. The lines that go against us are here too.
5 of 8 country paths — ng, ke, gh, ug, ci
sn, ma, eg — partner sites, not Autochek
NG 9,253 · GH 1,435 · UG 1,397 · KE 1,200 · CI 58
NGN, GHS, UGX, KES, XOF — confirmed on 10 live car pages, 10/10
10/10 on price, mileage, year, make and model
30/30 HTTP 200 across all five markets
10 of 10, measured in two markets against an unfiltered control
Not published by the source — 34 spellings probed, none filtered
Not published by the source — 9 spellings probed, none reordered
Broken upstream — a model id that exists in the inventory returns 0, so it is not offered; use the free-text query instead
NG 43/50 · GH 8/50 · KE 6/50 · UG 0/50 · CI 0/50
Partial outside Côte d'Ivoire — NG 22 and 23 of 50
1-100; the end of the list is an empty window, not a repeat of the last page
What people build with Autochek
The jobs this data is most often used for.
endpoints
credits per call
Price a car against the live West and East African market, per country, without mixing currencies.
Track how long a model keeps its value across Lagos, Nairobi, Accra, Kampala and Abidjan using the published year, mileage and asking price.
Build an alert for a specific make and body type in one city — Toyota SUVs in Lekki — and get the listing link the moment it appears.
Feed a dealer or fleet valuation model with mileage, gearbox, fuel, import condition and inspection grade on thousands of live cars.
What Autochek data costs
The cheapest call here is 1 credit, so $15/mo (Pro) buys 10,000 of them — $1.50 per 1,000 credits. Credits roll over and never expire, and failed or blocked calls are not charged.
Full pricing →- 1,000 free credits on signup, no card
- One key, all 438 APIs, one credit pool
- Failed and blocked calls are never charged
- Credits roll over and never expire
Call it in two lines
Sign up, get 1,000 credits and one key that works on every engine. Then this is the whole protocol.
curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/autochek/v1/search \
-H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"country":"ng","limit":10}'import requests
r = requests.post(
"https://api.reefapi.com/autochek/v1/search",
headers={"x-api-key": REEF_KEY},
json={
"country": "ng",
"limit": 10
},
)
print(r.json()["data"])Have a question? We got answers.
The questions people actually ask before wiring up Autochek.
Get a free key →Which countries actually work?▾
Five: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda and Côte d'Ivoire. Each one was called live and returned rows — 9,253 / 1,200 / 1,435 / 1,397 / 58 listings on 2026-10-06. Senegal, Morocco and Egypt appear in Autochek's own country menu but are partner sites belonging to other companies; asking for them returns a clear error rather than an empty page.
What currency is the price in?▾
The market's own: NGN in Nigeria, KES in Kenya, GHS in Ghana, UGX in Uganda, XOF in Côte d'Ivoire. `price` is an integer and `currency` is a separate field. Nothing is ever converted, so a Nigerian price and a Kenyan price are never silently added together.
Does a search result give me a link I can open?▾
Yes. Every row carries a `url` to the live listing page. We verified 30 of them across all five markets and all 30 returned HTTP 200.
Can I filter by price or year?▾
No, and we would rather say so than ship a filter that does nothing. Autochek's inventory service has no price, year or mileage range filter — we probed 34 different spellings and every one returned the unfiltered total. Filter on what does work (make, body type, gearbox, fuel, condition, city, state, free text) and apply a price or year cut on the rows you get back; both fields are returned on every row.
Which filters are proven to work?▾
Ten, each measured against an unfiltered control in two different markets on the same run. In Nigeria, from 9,253 unfiltered: make 4,210 · body type 3,782 · import condition 6,364 · free text 'corolla' 667 · state Lagos 6,042 · city Lekki 887 · gearbox manual 84 · fuel diesel 15 · auction stock 3,414 · warranty-backed 36 · featured 6. They combine with AND.
How complete are the fields?▾
Over 50 rows per market: listing id, url, title, model, year, price, currency, monthly instalment, mileage, gearbox, fuel, engine type, body type, condition, grade score, dealer id, listing date and photos are 50/50 in all five markets. Make resolves on 49-50 of 50. Engine capacity is published in Nigeria (43/50) but barely in Kenya (6/50) and Ghana (8/50) and not at all in Uganda or Côte d'Ivoire (0/50). City and state are partial everywhere except Côte d'Ivoire (Nigeria 22 and 23 of 50).
Does an id from search resolve in detail?▾
Yes. Ten listings across all five markets were fetched twice, once from search and once from detail: price, mileage, year, make and model matched 10/10, and the currency on the car's own page matched the currency we publish 10/10.
How deep can I page?▾
As deep as the market goes. Pages are 1-100 rows and the end is honest: past the last page the source returns an empty window with `has_more: false` rather than silently repeating the last page. Côte d'Ivoire, 58 cars at 10 per page, ends cleanly at page 6.
What is the Autochek API?▾
Autochek API is a ReefAPI endpoint group for used-car listings across nigeria, kenya, ghana, uganda and côte d'ivoire It returns live JSON through POST requests under /autochek/v1.
Is the Autochek API free to try?▾
Yes. ReefAPI starts with 1,000 free credits, no card required. Autochek calls use the same shared credit balance as every other ReefAPI engine.
Do I need an Autochek login or account?▾
No login to Autochek is needed for the API response. You call ReefAPI with your x-api-key header, and the playground can run live examples before you create a production key.
How fresh is the Autochek data?▾
The page example is captured from a live search call, and production requests fetch live data through ReefAPI rather than a static sample.
How many credits does the Autochek API use?▾
Autochek actions currently cost 1-2 credits per successful call. Failed or blocked calls are free. All APIs draw from one credit pool.
Can I call Autochek from an AI assistant or MCP client?▾
Yes. Connect ReefAPI once through MCP and your assistant can call autochek actions with the same key, credit pool and JSON envelope used by normal REST requests.
99 Classifieds & Second-hand APIs on the same key
One key, one credit pool, one response envelope. If you are pulling Autochek, you are one call away from the rest of the category — no second contract, no second integration.
Need something this API does not do?
Name the endpoint, the field, or a source we do not carry yet. We ship new APIs every week and you would be first to get the key. Real people read every message and reply the same day.
Try it on your own data before you pay anything
The call above is the real endpoint, not a recording. A free key gives you 1,000 credits, the other 437 APIs, and the same envelope everywhere.
Endpoints, parameters and credit costs on this page are read from the live catalog and cannot drift from what the API accepts. Field notes were captured on 2026-10-06.