Do you return keeper details?

No. We do not supply registered keeper names or addresses. For enforcement purposes that data comes from the DVLA under their own release process, not from us.

How do we get the volume rate?

The per-lookup price is set by the tier you buy, and it applies to every API. Buying a larger top-up or subscription moves you down the ladder: the full matrix is published on our pricing page, with no sign-up needed to see it.

Can we batch reads rather than calling one at a time?

Yes. The bulk endpoint takes up to 50 registrations per call, which suits overnight processing.

What about volumes above 250,000 a month?

Talk to us. Above that level we will price it directly, including fixed 12, 24 or 36-month terms with invoicing if that suits your procurement better.

For ANPR, parking & local authorities

Turn a plate read into a vehicle identity, fast.

Resolve a captured registration to the DVLA record: make, colour, tax and MOT status, with the low latency an ANPR pipeline needs, and at a per-read cost that works at enforcement volume.

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From 4p: per read at Tier 5
50 per call: batch a night's reads
Colour match: verify the read against the record

What gets in the way

Plate reads that can't be matched to a vehicle record
Tax and MOT status checked manually, after the fact
Per-read costs that don't work at enforcement volume
Misreads that only surface once a notice has been issued

What you can do instead

Resolve identity, colour and status from the registration
Screen for untaxed or MOT-expired vehicles automatically
Catch a misread by comparing the recorded colour against the capture
Volume pricing that scales with read counts

How it works

Three steps

Capture the plate

Your camera and OCR produce a registration, as they already do.

Resolve it

One call returns make, model, colour, tax status and MOT status for that registration.

Act on the result

Screen, whitelist or refer. Batch overnight reads through the bulk endpoint if real-time is not required.

A plate on its own is not an identification

ANPR gives you a string of characters. What an operator, a parking manager or an enforcement officer needs is a vehicle: make, model, colour, and whether it is taxed and in MOT. Resolving the read against the DVLA record turns the capture into something you can act on, and it does one more useful thing: it gives you a way to sanity-check the read itself.

Colour is your misread check

OCR confuses a handful of character pairs with some regularity, and a misread that produces a valid-looking registration is worse than one that produces nonsense, because it points at a real and entirely innocent vehicle. Comparing the colour on the DVLA record against the colour in the capture is a cheap, effective filter: a read that resolves to a red saloon when the camera saw a white van is a read to discard before anything is issued in someone's name.

Cost per read is the whole commercial question

Enforcement and parking operate at volumes where a penny either way on a lookup decides whether the model works. Our per-lookup price falls with the tier you buy, from 15p at the entry tier to 4p at the top, and applies to every API, so a site running hundreds of thousands of reads a month lands at the bottom of the ladder. Above 250,000 lookups a month it is worth talking to us directly.

Recommended APIs

Where to start

Vehicle Details

DVLA registration data by VRM — make, colour, fuel, CO₂, tax and MOT status.

From 4p / lookup

MOT History

Every DVSA MOT test, mileage reading and advisory for a vehicle.

From 2p / lookup

Full Vehicle Check

Everything in one call: details, MOT history, valuation and provenance.

From £2.45 / lookup

Where it gets used

Common jobs

Car park enforcement

Resolve entry and exit reads to a vehicle record, and verify against the recorded colour before a notice is generated.

Tax and MOT screening

Screen reads automatically for untaxed or MOT-expired vehicles, rather than checking after a report is raised.

Access control and whitelisting

Confirm that a plate presented at a barrier matches the vehicle the permit was issued for.

Overnight batch processing

Where real-time is not required, batch a day's reads through the bulk endpoint 50 at a time.

FAQ

ANPR, parking & enforcement questions

Do you return keeper details?: No. We do not supply registered keeper names or addresses. For enforcement purposes that data comes from the DVLA under their own release process, not from us.
How do we get the volume rate?: The per-lookup price is set by the tier you buy, and it applies to every API. Buying a larger top-up or subscription moves you down the ladder: the full matrix is published on our pricing page, with no sign-up needed to see it.
Can we batch reads rather than calling one at a time?: Yes. The bulk endpoint takes up to 50 registrations per call, which suits overnight processing.
What about volumes above 250,000 a month?: Talk to us. Above that level we will price it directly, including fixed 12, 24 or 36-month terms with invoicing if that suits your procurement better.

Official registers

Vehicle records from the DVLA Vehicle Enquiry Service, MOT records from the DVSA MOT History API.

Charged on delivery

You are charged on a successful lookup. A lookup that returns nothing costs nothing.

No lock-in

No contract and no minimum. Credits last 12 months; monthly plans are rolling.

UK data protection

You act as controller and we act as processor for delivery, under the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.

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