Data cluster

Thailand Vehicle Rental APIs and Data.

DBD legality, DLT macro context, OCPB contract rules, BOT leasing boundaries, AOT airport counters, live booking APIs, marketplaces, POI layers, and insurance/risk context.

22 sources Updated 2026-05-11 Download JSON

Best use for travel intelligence

For travel decisions, vehicle-rental data is strongest when it separates legal company identity, airport counters, city branches, live offer APIs, contract rules, insurance, and license eligibility.

What this changes for travelers

  • Open DBD: Whether a rental or leasing company legally exists, what it appears to do, and what company identity anchors the rest of the graph.
  • DLT / OCPB / BOT: Vehicle, license, contract, and leasing context that decides whether a rental is legally or financially what it claims to be.
  • AOT: Airport counter truth for pickup friction at Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang, Phuket, and Chiang Mai.
  • Booking / Expedia / Sabre / Amadeus / CarTrawler / Skyscanner: Live rates, vehicle classes, extras, deposits, and booking flow only where authorized.
  • Drivehub / Drivemate / POI layers: Thailand marketplace discovery, city branches, peer-rental context, and local pickup alternatives.

Best sources to start with

  • Best legal identity backbone: Open DBD for juristic-person identity, business-objective discovery, active status, capital, and head-office context for rental and leasing companies.
  • Best public legal and macro context: DLT vehicle-registration and driver-license statistics, plus OCPB contract rules and BOT leasing supervision for legality and market boundaries.
  • Best airport branch truth: AOT airport car-rental pages for terminal, floor, gate, counter, and airport-presence validation.
  • Best live inventory layer: Booking.com Demand API Cars, Expedia Rapid Car, Sabre Cars, Amadeus Cars, CarTrawler, and Skyscanner only where supplier or partner authorization exists.
  • Best Thailand marketplace layer: Drivehub and Drivemate for self-drive, with-driver, airport, peer-rental, and public discovery context.
  • Best map and branch enrichment: OpenStreetMap/Overpass, Google Places, Longdo, and NOSTRA for rental-office coordinates, hours, and local search enrichment.
Official / agency sources

11 of 22 sources look official or agency-backed.

API/feed candidates

16 sources expose API, feed, CKAN/DataStore, JSON, XML, or similar machine-readable access.

Near-real-time signals

1 sources have live, hourly, event-driven, warning, or frequent update language.

Developer note

Use DBD, DLT, OCPB, BOT, and AOT for legal and static truth; keep live rates, availability, deposit, excess, and booking state inside authorized supplier or OTA APIs.

Last checked and source confidence

Last checked: 2026-05-11.

Source confidence: This cluster is strongest when several sources describe the same traveler problem from different angles: official context, machine-readable feeds, and slower fallback documentation.

Law, politics, and civic

OCPB car and motorcycle rental contract rules

Controlled-contract guidance for car and motorcycle rental businesses, including standard-contract expectations, fee disclosure, deposit handling, replacement-vehicle obligations, and unfair-term limits. Use for compliance scoring and contract modeling, not live supplier inventory.

Official public regulatory news page, contract-rule guidance, and linked legal notices
Law, politics, and civic

OIC motor insurance services and complaints

Office of Insurance Commission services for motor-insurance complaints, policy lookup, motor-insurance reference tools, and consumer-service channels. Useful for insurance and complaint context around vehicle rental, not live rental inventory.

Official public insurance-service portal, complaint channels, policy search, and motor-insurance reference tools
Statistics, economy, and finance

BOT auto leasing and hire-purchase supervision

Bank of Thailand supervision context for hire purchase and leasing of cars and motorcycles, especially the boundary between short-term rental and regulated financial leasing or hire-purchase businesses. Use to keep daily rental separate from long-term finance products.

Official public supervision page, press releases, public-hearing documents, and regulatory guidance
Transport

Amadeus Cars and Transfers APIs

Amadeus Cars and Transfers API family for car or transfer search and related ordering flows. Use for authorized booking or transfer integrations, not as an open public inventory feed.

Developer documentation for cars and transfers search, booking, and management flows
Transport

AOT Chiang Mai car rental services

Official Chiang Mai Airport car-rental services page and linked provider counters. Useful for airport pickup and supplier presence, not quote or availability data.

Official airport transport guide page and linked provider pages
Transport

AOT Don Mueang car rental services

Official Don Mueang airport page for car-rental services and linked supplier counters. Useful for terminal and pickup guidance, not a live booking or stock API.

Official airport transport guide page and linked provider pages
Transport

AOT Phuket car rental services

Official Phuket Airport car-rental services page with airport-level rental presence and linked provider counters. Useful for airport-counter and pickup context, not live inventory.

Official airport transport guide page and linked provider pages
Transport

AOT Suvarnabhumi car rental services

Official Suvarnabhumi airport transport guidance showing self-drive car-rental availability at Level 2, Gate 7, with linked supplier counter pages for floor, gate, hours, and contact details. Good for airport-counter truth, not live availability.

Official airport transport guide page and linked provider pages
Transport

Booking.com Demand API car rentals

Real-time car-rental inventory, availability, pricing, depot, supplier, and booking functionality through Booking.com Demand API Cars. Use for live quote and booking flows only when authorized.

Partner API documentation for content, search, redirect, booking, depots, suppliers, details, and reporting flows
Transport

CarTrawler Connect Platform API

CarTrawler Connect Platform powers car-rental solutions for travel brands through partner API integrations. Use as a B2B rental and mobility feed where explicit commercial access exists.

Partner API platform and commercial integration documentation
Transport

DLT driver license statistics

Valid driving-license and vehicle-crew-license statistics by license type and related demographic fields. Useful for driver-license supply and foreign-driver context, not individual renter verification.

data.go.th dataset page with API, CSV, and DLT statistics metadata where exposed
Transport

DLT vehicle registration statistics

Official counts of registered vehicles by type and related characteristics. Useful for rental-market sizing, EV/LPG/NGV context, and macro supply trends, not branch-level rental stock or live availability.

data.go.th dataset page with CSV/API-style resources and DLT statistics backlinks
Transport

Drivehub Thailand car rental marketplace

Thailand car-rental marketplace for self-drive, SUVs, vans, and with-driver services with public price and benefit messaging. Use for supplier and product discovery, not open bulk inventory ingestion.

Public marketplace site and app; no documented open bulk API was verified
Transport

Drivemate Thailand car rental and car sharing

Thailand car-rental and car-sharing marketplace with private-owner cars, local rental companies, global brands, airport coverage, and self-drive or with-driver options. Use for marketplace discovery and service-type context, not open bulk inventory ingestion.

Public app listing and consumer marketplace/app surfaces; no documented open bulk API was verified
Transport

Expedia Rapid Car API

End-to-end car-rental booking API powered by Expedia Group inventory with pickup/dropoff locations, vehicle details, pricing, extras, payment, booking, and cancellation. Use only through partner access.

Partner API documentation for availability, details, payments, booking, retrieval, and cancellation
Transport

Google Places Thailand vehicle rental POIs

Commercial POI layer for rental offices, motorcycle-rental shops, airport counters, business status, hours, phone numbers, reviews, and coordinates. It is not a legal company registry or live rental inventory API.

Places API search, nearby search, place details, hours, ratings, photos, and business-status fields with commercial terms
Transport

Longdo Place API Thailand vehicle rental POIs

Thailand-local POI and search layer useful for rental offices, Thai-language branch names, airport vicinity search, and address normalization. Use as licensed enrichment alongside OSM, Google, and airport/operator pages.

Longdo Place API and related map/place search services for Thai-local search, details, reverse geocoding, phone, website, and category data
Transport

NOSTRA Map API Thailand vehicle rental POIs

Commercial Thai location platform for rental branches, airport counters, routing, and nearby place enrichment. Treat as licensed POI enrichment, not a legal company or live inventory feed.

NOSTRA Map developer platform APIs for POI search, geocoding, routing, and Thai location services
Transport

Open DBD vehicle-rental and leasing companies

Juristic-person registration numbers, Thai and English company names, registration dates, registered capital, business-objective fields, head-office address, and business status for vehicle-rental and leasing operators. Good for legal company identity and discovery, not branch locations or live fleet inventory.

DBD DataWarehouse+, public company-search/download surfaces, and API-style resources where exposed
Transport

OpenStreetMap Thailand vehicle rental POIs

Best free geospatial layer for car-rental offices, motorcycle-rental shops, mixed rental stores, names, operator tags, opening_hours, contact data, and address enrichment. Coverage is incomplete and needs validation.

OSM extracts and Overpass API using amenity=car_rental, amenity=motorcycle_rental, bicycle_rental, and shop=rental tags
Transport

Sabre Cars vehicle availability API

Sabre car-rental availability and rate payloads, including vendor, location, opening-times, mileage, charges, extras, and availability-status fields. Use for partner-authorized search and booking flows.

Commercial API documentation for vehicle availability, rates, location details, schedules, extras, and booking-related payloads
Transport

Skyscanner Car Hire Live Prices API

Live car-hire quote search from current day to one year ahead, using pickup and optional dropoff locations, driver age, market, locale, and currency. Use for authorized live price search, not static branch truth.

Developer API documentation for live car-hire search and quote retrieval