Carfax and AutoCheck Bundle: Get Both Reports

There's no official bundle — so we built one

Carfax® and AutoCheck® are separate, competing companies. Neither sells the other's report, and neither offers a combined product that pulls from both databases at once. If you want data from both — which matters because their underlying data sources don't fully overlap — the traditional route is buying a subscription or single report from each company separately, at two separate checkouts, at two separate full prices.

VinRecordHub's credit system solves that with one purchase. Buy a credit bundle once, and each credit can be redeemed for either brand's report. To get both reports on the same car, you simply spend two credits on one VIN — one redeemed as Carfax, one redeemed as AutoCheck.

How the credit model works

Getting both reports takes three steps: buy a credit bundle at /bundles, enter the VIN you want to check, then redeem one credit as a Carfax® report and a second credit as an AutoCheck® report against that same VIN. Both reports arrive separately — typically within about 60 seconds of each redemption — so you can read the first while the second is generating.

• 1 credit = 1 report. Every bundle is just a block of credits — there's no brand attached to a credit until you redeem it.
• You choose the brand at redemption. Enter the VIN, pick Carfax or AutoCheck, and the report is generated from that provider's data.
• Redeem 2 credits on the same VIN for both. Nothing stops you from running the same car twice under different providers — that's the "bundle."
• No subscription, either way. You're not signing up for two separate monthly plans to get cross-brand coverage.

What each report is more likely to catch

Coverage depends on what was reported to each provider's network for a given VIN — neither company publishes a guarantee of completeness.

A worked example: two credits, one VIN

Say you buy the 3-credit bundle for $19.99 — that's $6.66 per credit. You've found one car you're seriously considering buying, and its history matters enough that you want both data sources before you commit. You enter the VIN, redeem one credit for a Carfax® report, then redeem a second credit for an AutoCheck® report on the same VIN. Total cost for dual coverage: $13.32 (two credits at the bundle's per-credit rate), with one credit left over for a second car if you're still comparing options. Compare that to buying a single premium Carfax report (~$45) and a single AutoCheck report (~$25) separately at retail — roughly $70 combined.

What if the two reports disagree?

It happens, and it's not a bug in either report — it's the expected result of two companies drawing on different, non-identical data networks. If Carfax® shows a clean title but AutoCheck® flags a salvage brand (or vice versa), treat the more serious finding as the one to investigate, not the one to dismiss. A missing record on one side usually means that provider's network simply never received the report from whichever state DMV, insurer, or auction house generated it — not that the event didn't happen. When the two reports genuinely conflict on something material like title status, that's a reason to walk away from the deal or demand documentation from the seller, not a reason to average the two answers together.

When double-checking is worth it

You don't need both reports on every car. For a routine, low-stakes purchase with a clean-looking listing, one report is usually enough. Spend the second credit when the stakes are higher: a large purchase price, an unclear ownership chain, an out-of-state or auction-sourced vehicle, or — especially — a car you're buying for export, where pre-import inspection is your only real chance to catch US-reported history before the vehicle ships. In those cases, the ~$5–$13 cost of a second credit is negligible next to the risk of missing a salvage brand or flood title that only one provider's network caught.