Vehicle verification

What does this plate carry?

The RUNT record with its liens, SIMIT tickets, the current SOAT and five years of claims, national infractions and each municipality's papeletas. Colombia and Peru, by plate, with the source behind every field.

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Colombian vehicle by plate

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Six characters, no spaces or dashes: three letters, two digits and a final character, a digit for cars or a letter for motorcycles.

The registered owner's document number, no dots or spaces. 3 to 30 characters.

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The plate is the identifier, but each registry tells one part

In Colombia the RUNT keeps the vehicle record: make, line, model year, VIN, engine, the SOAT and roadworthiness inspection history and, at the end, what matters to a creditor: the registered liens with the name of whoever holds them and the restrictions on ownership. SIMIT keeps something else: traffic tickets and fines, how much they add up to and what is left to pay. In Peru the information is more spread out: APESEG records the current SOAT certificate, the SBS the claims history of the last five years, SUTRAN the national infractions with their severity, and each province collects its own papeletas (traffic tickets), the SAT in Lima and the Municipalidad in Callao, with the capture orders the SAT de Lima issues on a plate with outstanding debt.

Croma queries each one at the official source at the moment of your request and returns the structured answer by plate: the record, the insurance status, the debts and the measures. A lien in favor of another bank, an expired SOAT, a plate with three cancelled policies or an active capture order change the decision to lend, insure, buy or add to the fleet, and every field arrives with the entity that published it.

How it works

From the question to the JSON in three steps

  1. 01

    Send the plate

    At the RUNT, the plate with the owner's document; at SIMIT, the plate or the cédula; at the SAT de Lima, DNI, RUC or plate. APESEG, SBS, SUTRAN, Callao and the capture orders answer with the plate alone.

  2. 02

    Receive record, insurance and debts

    Specifications and liens from the RUNT; tickets with the original amount and the amount payable today; SOAT certificate with insurer, validity period and status; claims by policy; infractions with severity; papeletas with amount and installment; capture order in force or not.

  3. 03

    Decide on the crossed signal

    A restriction on ownership stops the disbursement; a plate without a current SOAT cannot be on the road; a very serious SUTRAN infraction or a SAT capture order takes a unit out of the fleet. Every data point carries its source.

Sources

What you send and what you get

Each row is an API endpoint. The input is what your system already holds; the output, the fields the official registry returns.

Colombia· 3 endpoints

Colombia: RUNT and SIMIT

Everything about Colombia

The RUNT returns the vehicle record by plate and owner's document: class, make, line, model year, VIN, engine and chassis, transit authority, the SOAT and roadworthiness inspection history required by the Código Nacional de Tránsito (Ley 769 de 2002), the liens with the creditor's name and the restrictions on ownership. SIMIT returns the account statement of tickets and fines by plate or by cédula, with amount payable, discounts, payment agreements and courses, or the paz y salvo clearance.

  • Colombian vehicle by plate

    RUNT

    You send
    Vehicle plateRegistered owner's document
    You get

    Plate · Registration status · Service type · Vehicle class and 34 more

    LiveTry

  • Look up vehicle history in RUNT by plate

    RUNT

    You send
    Plate
    You get

    Plate · Brand · Line · Model year and 4 more

    LiveDocs

  • SIMIT traffic fines lookup

    SIMIT

    You send
    Plate or ID number
    You get

    Total · Tickets total · Payment agreements total · Total payable and 1 more

    LiveTry
Peru· 6 endpoints

Peru: APESEG, SBS, SUTRAN, SAT de Lima and Callao

Everything about Peru

The SOAT required by Ley 27181 is read from two sources: APESEG returns the certificate with insurer, validity period and status (VIGENTE, VENCIDO or ANULADO); the SBS, the plate's claims history over the last five years and every registered policy. SUTRAN delivers the national infraction record with code, severity and amount in soles. The SAT de Lima answers the debt by DNI, RUC or plate (papeletas, vehicle tax, property tax) and whether a capture order is in force; the Municipalidad Provincial del Callao, its pending papeletas.

  • Peru SOAT lookup by plate

    APESEG

    You send
    Vehicle plate
    You get

    Insurer · Status · Start date · End date and 8 more

    LiveTry

  • Peru SBS SOAT report by plate

    SBS

    You send
    Vehicle plate
    You get

    Insurer · Vehicle class · Vehicle use · Accidents on record and 7 more

    LiveTry

  • SUTRAN infraction record lookup

    SUTRAN

    You send
    Vehicle plate
    You get

    Document number · Document type · Document date · Infraction code and 1 more

    LiveTry

  • Callao traffic ticket lookup

    Municipalidad Provincial del Callao

    You send
    Vehicle plate
    You get

    Plate · Code · Ticket number · Infraction date and 3 more

    LiveTry

  • Lima vehicle capture order lookup

    SAT Lima

    You send
    Vehicle plate
    You get

    Plate · Capture order on record · Message · Report date and 1 more

    LiveTry

  • SAT de Lima debt lookup

    SAT Lima

    You send
    Value to look up
    You get

    Total · Outstanding items

    LiveTry

Three possible answers

  • 01

    Found

    The record exists and arrives structured, with the fields in the table and the source that produced it.

  • 02

    No record

    The source has nothing for that identifier. It is a definitive answer (found: false), not an error.

  • 03

    Pending

    Slow sources return a job with a status_url to poll for the result, or deliver it to your webhook.

Where it runs

Where teams use it

  • Auto loans and collateral

    Before accepting a vehicle as collateral, confirm at the RUNT that it does not back another loan and that the specifications match the invoice; at SIMIT, that it carries no tickets that would complicate the transfer.

  • Insurers: underwriting and claims

    The RUNT record for pricing, APESEG's SOAT history and the SBS's five years of claims to know the plate before issuing, and the current certificate when a claim comes in.

  • Fleets and transport

    Before hiring a carrier or adding a unit: SUTRAN infractions rated minor, serious or very serious, papeletas in Lima and Callao, SIMIT tickets and any capture order in force.

  • Used-vehicle marketplaces

    A listing with a verified plate: specifications that match the RUNT, SOAT and inspection up to date, no liens and no pending tickets. The query runs when the listing goes up and again when the sale closes.

Trust

Official records, with provenance

  • Official sources only

    Every answer names the official registry that produced it. Nothing comes from purchased databases or third-party summaries.

  • Results that are never indexed

    In the free tools the query and the result live in your browser, never in a URL. In the API: encryption in transit, access control and audit logging.

  • Personal data, with rules

    Lookups on individuals require a legitimate purpose under each country's law: Ley 1581 in Colombia, LFPDPPP in Mexico, Ley 29733 in Peru, LGPD in Brazil. Croma delivers the record; the purpose and the legal basis are yours.

  • A stable contract

    Every field is documented in the OpenAPI, with a 90-day deprecation policy and Deprecation and Sunset headers before anything is retired.

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Frequently asked questions

The plate on almost every endpoint. The RUNT also asks for the owner's document to return the record; SIMIT accepts plate or cédula; the SAT de Lima, DNI, RUC or plate, because it also collects taxes from individuals. APESEG, SBS, SUTRAN, Callao and the capture orders answer with the plate alone. Each endpoint declares its fields in the OpenAPI.

Yes. The RUNT record ends with the registered liens, with the creditor's name, and the restrictions on ownership. It is the signal a bank checks before accepting the vehicle as collateral and the one a used-car buyer needs before the transfer. If there are none, the field arrives empty from the source, not inferred.

APESEG records the certificates the insurers issue: it tells you whether the plate is covered today, by which company and until when. The SBS, the insurance regulator, consolidates what the companies report to it: how many accidents the SOAT covered in the last five years and every policy with its status, with a monthly cutoff the answer states. To issue or handle a claim you use APESEG; to price risk, the SBS.

Because each one keeps its own registry. SUTRAN oversees land transport across all of Peru and its record does not depend on the province, but it excludes what has already gone to coercive collection. Municipal papeletas are collected by each province: the SAT in Lima, the Municipalidad Provincial in Callao. A plate can come out clean in one and with debt in the other; a fleet that rotates between the two checks all three.

A definitive answer. SIMIT says it outright: paz y salvo, no pending tickets. SUTRAN and Callao return zero rows with the report date; the SAT de Lima reports that no capture order is in force. When the plate does not exist in the registry, found: false. If the source is down, you receive an explicit source-unavailable error, never a false clean.

Yes. Each plate is an HTTP call with a JSON answer, so checking a fleet is a scheduled sweep on your side with the same key; slow queries return a status_url or call your webhook. The plate identifies the vehicle, but the RUNT record names the owner and the creditor: Ley 1581 de 2012 in Colombia and Ley 29733 in Peru require a legitimate purpose.

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RUNT and SIMIT in Colombia; SOAT, claims, infractions, papeletas and capture orders in Peru. One API key, the plate as input and the official source in every field.

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