Residual

Salvage vehicle values,
measured against reality.

Residual estimates what salvage vehicles actually sell for — trained on hundreds of thousands of realized auction outcomes, delivered with the comparable sales behind every number, and checked weekly against real sales the model has never seen.

illustrative — from a live model response

284,526
realized sales measured, current index window
5
weekly index points published
Aug 9, 2026
latest vintage — regenerated every Sunday
n + window
carried by every public number, by rule

Why it's different

Trained on realized prices

Not asking prices, not book values, not adjuster opinions — the model learns from what comparable vehicles actually hammered for at auction, with new sales flowing in continuously.

Comparables built in

Every estimate is produced from real comparable sold lots — the same comps an appraiser's report is built on — retrieved as part of the valuation itself, not bolted on afterward.

Every estimate is a range, and 9 out of 10 sales land inside it.

Measured on 74,824 sales the model never trained on, Aug 31–Sep 5, 2026. That's a rate across many estimates, not a guarantee for any one vehicle. How we measure

Who it's for

Independent appraisers

Realized-comp data and valuations by API — the evidence backbone for total-loss and diminished-value work, at a fraction of the time it takes to assemble comps by hand.

Insurers & TPAs

Salvage recovery estimates with a calibrated range — the number a reserve-setting actuary can actually evaluate.

Attorneys

Data-backed market value evidence for total-loss underpayment, diminished value, and bad-faith matters. Flat-fee, methodology in the open.

Free tools

The 17c diminished value calculator computes the insurance-industry formula exactly as published — and explains what it systematically leaves out. No signup, no backend, nothing stored.