Why we exist

Kazakhstan imports over 200,000 used cars every year from the USA, Korea, Russia, and Japan. Up to 40% of them have hidden accidents, rolled-back mileage, or salvage / flood / total loss status — and sellers don't rush to tell you. The cost of a single mistake is 1 to 7 million tenge on top of the car's price.

Before 2026, getting US car history meant buying Carfax directly ($45 per report, only if you had a US legal entity) or dealing with shady "report resellers" on Telegram. We made the lookup work in one click from Kazakhstan, paid via Kaspi and Polar, for 990 tenge.

How we're built

Carvin is an aggregator. We don't have our own vehicle database and we scrape nothing. We connect directly to 15 sources:

🇺🇸 NHTSA vPIC, VinAudit (NMVTIS), Carfax + AutoCheck (via vini.az), Copart + IAAI auction photos
🇰🇷 Encar, KB Chachacha, MOLIT (Korean Ministry of Transport)
🇷🇺 Russian GIBDD via api-cloud.ru, FSSP
🇪🇺 vindecoder.eu for EU and JP VINs
🇨🇳 China Vehicle History

The full list of sources and pipeline architecture is available on the homepage.

Team and contacts

Carvin is built by a small team in Almaty. Transparency is our core principle: every report lists sources, call statuses, and generation date. If you find a bug or want to suggest an improvement — drop a note via contact.

Payments and billing

Kaspi (KZT) payments go directly. Bank cards (Visa/Mastercard) are processed via Polar Software Inc. as merchant-of-record, which handles taxes and compliance across 30+ countries.