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Labor Times API

The only public API for automotive flat-rate labor hours. 20 million entries, every US vehicle 1955–present, JSON in one call.

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Every repair-estimate feature dies on the same rock: labor times live inside Mitchell and ALLDATA at enterprise prices with no public API. If you're building shop software, an estimate calculator, or a "is this quote fair?" feature, you need hours-per-job data you're allowed to ship. That's this API.

What you get

  • Flat-rate hours per (vehicle, job) — 20M+ entries across 39,000+ verified vehicle configurations
  • Low/high ranges and confidence labels on every row — we tell you how sure we are
  • Filter by make, model, year or year-range, engine, and job slug
  • Covers 1955–present, including the pre-OBD2 classics no commercial provider offers

One call, real data

curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \ "https://openlaborproject.com/api/v1/labor-times?make=ford&model=f-150&year=2017&job=brake-pads-front"
Response (abridged)
{ "data": [{ "make_name": "Ford", "model_name": "F-150", "engine": "3.5L V6 EcoBoost", "year_start": 2017, "year_end": 2017, "job_name": "Brake Pads - Front", "job_category": "brakes", "labor_hours": 1.2, "low_range": 1.0, "high_range": 1.5, "confidence": "high" }] }

Built with this endpoint

Repair estimate calculatorsShop management estimating screens"Is this quote fair?" consumer toolsInsurance and fleet cost models

Pricing

Free — 7 requests/day, full read access, prototype tonight · Builder $49/mo — 1,000/day, 300/min, production-ready · Business $149/mo — 10,000/day, webhooks, bulk export, white-label · Enterprise — custom volume + SLA. Full comparison →

Common questions

Where does the labor time data come from?

Community-sourced flat-rate data, cleaned by an ongoing accuracy program: fuel/era applicability sweeps, duplicate removal, and owner review of extreme values. Every row carries a confidence label, and the vehicle catalog itself has been verified against automotive history — phantom vehicles removed.

How is this different from Mitchell or ALLDATA?

Those are excellent enterprise products with enterprise contracts and no public API. OLP is an open database with a self-serve API: free tier to prototype today, $49/mo for production. You also get eras they don't cover — our data goes back to 1955.

Can I show these times to my end users?

Yes — Builder tier allows up to 5,000 app users with attribution ("Data by Open Labor Project"), Business tier removes the attribution requirement and adds white-label rights.

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