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title: "MarketCheck for Startups"
date: 2026-07-22
url: https://marketcheck.uk/automotive-sectors/marketcheck-for-startups
type: page
description: "Automotive AI startups: data costs burn runway before you ship. Get complete vehicle-data API access free for three months, plus 25,000 free calls a month."
---

# MarketCheck for Startups

# Build. Scale. Accelerate.

Building an automotive AI startup, vehicle data is your foundation, but access fees and data pipelines burn runway before you ship. Get complete API access free for your first three months.

[Request a free trial](https://marketcheck.uk/request-data-trial) [Speak to an expert](https://marketcheck.uk/contact#book-a-call)

## Data costs that burn your runway

Automotive AI startups need comprehensive vehicle data on day one, but the cost and effort of getting it slows you down before you have a product.

### High access fees

Enterprise data pricing is out of reach at the seed stage.

### Building the pipeline

Sourcing and normalising vehicle data is months you do not have.

### Thin coverage

Free or cheap data sources rarely cover the market or the detail you need.

## Why the usual data route stalls startups

Enterprise pricing and DIY pipelines do not fit an early-stage runway.

### The usual route

- ✕ Enterprise access fees from day one
- ✕ Long procurement and contracts
- ✕ Building your own data pipeline
- ✕ Patchy coverage from cheap sources

### The Startup Program

- ✓ No access fee for three months
- ✓ 25,000 free API calls every month
- ✓ Additional calls at heavily discounted rates
- ✓ Complete, normalised vehicle data from one API

- **£0** Access fee for 3 months

- **25,000** Free API calls a month

- **£0.002** Per additional call

## What is included

### Data and tools

- Complete vehicle data API access
- Historical pricing trends
- VIN decoding capabilities
- Real-time market valuations

### More tools and support

- Vehicle specifications database
- Market analysis tools
- Priority technical support
- A dedicated startup account manager

## From marketplaces to fleet management

### Automotive marketplaces

Power your platform with real-time valuations, market trends and vehicle history, for listing platforms, trade-in calculators and market tools.

### AI-powered analytics

Build systems that predict market trends, optimise pricing and automate appraisals, from forecasting to price-prediction models.

### Financial services

Enable precise risk assessment, loan valuations and insurance pricing, for lending, insurance and fleet-management platforms.

## Built for AI-first automotive startups

### AI-first focus

Building AI-powered solutions for the automotive industry.

### Early stage

Incorporated within the last 12 months, or unincorporated with qualifying criteria.

### Geographic focus

Operating in the UK, USA or Canadian automotive markets.

### Automotive industry

A primary focus on automotive technology, services or marketplace solutions.

## What our clients say


MarketCheck's dataset and API let us cut through thousands of listings and present only the most relevant, high-quality options to each user. It lets us focus on designing intelligent, user-first search while relying on a trusted automotive data backbone.

The CarMigos Team

MarketCheck Startup Program

## Related products and sectors

- [Car Data API](https://marketcheck.uk/products/used-car-market-data-api): Live UK listing data, pricing and history via one REST API.
- [AI Training Data](https://marketcheck.uk/automotive-ai-training-data): Clean, real-time automotive data built for LLMs and agents.
- [MarketCheck Price™](https://marketcheck.uk/products/marketcheck-price): VRM-level valuations updated daily across 98% of the market.
- [Pricing](https://marketcheck.uk/pricing): Self-serve API plans and custom-quoted data feeds.


## Test our data.

Try the API for free or receive a test of the feed data.

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