AutoVue AIvAuto shows you the data. AutoVue AI makes the move.
vAuto has been the default for over a decade and it earned that. But it is a reporting and workflow system: it surfaces insight, then waits for your team to act. AutoVue is built the other way around. The AI reprices your entire lot daily, builds your buy list overnight, and explains every decision in plain English — whether or not anyone logs in that day.
20 minutes · your own inventory · no obligation
Autonomous vs. advisory
Every claim about vAuto below is quoted or drawn from vAuto’s and Cox Automotive’s own public pages and published subscription terms. Sources are listed at the bottom.
| AutoVue AI | vAuto | |
|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | The AI. Reprices every vehicle daily and rebuilds the run list overnight, unprompted. | Your team. vAuto provides data-driven insights and strategy for staff to act on.5 |
| Repricing cadence | Automatic, every day, every VIN, against live market movement. | Pricing tooling and strategy your used car manager works through. |
| Acquisition | AI Run List built overnight, down to the trim level, from live market supply and demand. | Stockwave — a separate product, which requires your own Auction Access and Manheim/ADESA/SmartAuction credentials, an active Carfax or AutoCheck subscription, and an active valuations-data subscription.2 |
| Explaining decisions | AI copilot answers “why did this car move?” on demand, in plain English. | Dashboards and reporting; interpretation sits with your team and performance manager. |
| What you buy | One AI platform. Pricing, stocking, run lists and market intelligence included. | Separate products — ProfitTime GPS, Provision, Conquest, Stockwave, iRecon, SnapLot 360. iRecon “is dependent on other vAuto core products”; SnapLot 360 requires a core product plus Syndication.1 |
| Your data | Yours. | Terms state you “may use the vAuto Products and Product Data only from the interface that is provided by vAuto”.2 |
| Contract | No multi-year lock-in. | Cox’s master terms state subscriptions “automatically and indefinitely renew”, cancellable only on 30 days’ notice at term end, with fees increasable annually on 45 days’ notice.3 |
What AI-native actually means here
Not an AI feature bolted onto a 2010 workflow tool. The autonomy is the product.
It reprices. You don’t.
Every vehicle on your lot repriced every single day against live market data. Not a task list someone has to work through — the AI makes the move and logs why.
A buy list built by AI, every morning.
AutoVue scans your market overnight and builds a specific acquisition list down to the trim level. Most dealers buy what shows up at the auction. The AI tells you what to go find.
Executive-level intelligence, in plain English.
Ask why a car moved $450 and get a straight answer. Millions of data points run in the background; the copilot explains every decision. No black box.
What vAuto’s own numbers actually compare
vAuto’s headline results — +17.3% front-end gross, +4.5% sales volume — are footnoted on their own site as comparing ProfitTime GPS dealers against Provision dealers, over Q3 2019 to Q3 2022. That is one vAuto product measured against another vAuto product. It is a fair measure of an upgrade path. It is not a measure of what happens when the pricing and stocking decisions stop being manual.5
“AutoVue recommended a car I’d never have bought, priced it for me, and it turned in a week. That’s when I saw the magic.” Jose Marrufo — Auto One Finance, Greer, SC
Watch the AI run against your inventory
Twenty minutes. Your VINs, your market. We’ll show you the cars the AI would reprice today, and why.
Our team connects your DMS in one to three days · you keep running your current tool throughout
- vAuto FAQ — product dependency answers for iRecon and SnapLot 360 — https://www.vauto.com/faq/
- Cox Automotive — vAuto Provision, Conquest and Stockwave Additional Terms (rev. 04-01-25) — https://www.coxautoinc.com/terms/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/vAuto-Provision-Conquest-and-Stockwave-Additional-Terms.pdf
- Cox Automotive — Master Subscription Terms (renewal, cancellation and fee-increase provisions) — https://www.coxautoinc.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/cox-master-subscription-terms.pdf
- Cox Automotive press release, 17 Jan 2025 — centralized multi-rooftop inventory management — https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vauto-enhances-its-profittime-gps-and-provision-solutions-with-centralized-inventory-management-and-a-new-appraisal-experience-to-streamline-dealer-operations-302352953.html
- vAuto homepage — performance statistics and their published footnotes — https://www.vauto.com/