Open Labor Project — Free Labor Times, Torque Specs & APIAbout Open Labor Project<br>Open Labor Project (OLP) is a free automotive data platform providing labor times, torque specifications, fluid specs, OBD-II diagnostic trouble codes (DTC), battery specs, and NHTSA recall data for thousands of vehicles spanning 1955 to the present. The platform contains over 700,000 labor time entries and serves more than 25,000 monthly active users including independent repair shops, parts retailers, fleet managers, and DIY mechanics. All vehicle data pages on openlaborproject.com are free to view forever — no paywall, no signup, no ads. OLP is funded by paid developer API subscriptions; the website remains free for all end users.<br>Pricing<br>Web access is free for all end users. The OLP API offers a free Hobbyist tier (20 requests per day, attribution required) and three paid tiers: Builder at $49 per month (1,000 requests/day), Business at $149 per month (10,000 requests/day, includes webhooks and bulk export), and Enterprise at $499 per month (50,000+ requests/day, custom integrations, 99.9% SLA). Annual plans receive two months free.
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