Six sources. All of them named.

Every figure in an Orto report traces back to one of the six below. This page exists so you can check that claim rather than take it.

NMVTIS
US Department of Justice, via VINData

Title brands, salvage, junk and total-loss records, odometer readings and rollback checks, ownership and title history, and lien and theft records.

NHTSA
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Open safety recalls matched to the exact vehicle, plus government NCAP crash-test ratings for the model.

NHTSA vPIC
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

The official public VIN decoder. Year, make, model, trim and build specifications.

LicensePlateData
Commercial provider

Resolves a US license plate and state to a VIN, so a lookup can start from a plate rather than a hand-typed VIN.

Market data
Commercial providers

Owner reviews, how a model ranks in its class, comparable for-sale listings, and Black Book retail and trade-in values.

Google Gemini
Google

Reads a plate or VIN from a photo so you can scan a car with your phone camera. Images are used only to extract the plate or VIN, on a no-training basis.

How to read the data.

Orto currently covers vehicles in the United States and uses US conventions throughout: inspection and emissions records, NHTSA recalls, and values in USD and miles.

A report reflects what these sources have on record. An absence of records is not a guarantee of a clean history, and Orto is a research tool, not a substitute for a professional inspection. Where a source is unavailable, Orto tells you rather than guessing.

See how a lookup works