About
About CarVS
A comparison board for rental cars — independent, small on purpose, and honest about what it is.
Is / is-not
CarVS is an independent comparison front-end built by one of the Online portfolio’s side projects. It shows structured facts about how rental companies behave — fees, deposits, fuel and mileage policies, pickup geography — and then a live board of real offers for your dates.
It is not a rental company: no fleet, no counters, no cars. It runs no booking engine of its own either — when you choose an offer, you leave CarVS and book on a partner site (principally Kayak). We earn a commission on some of those exits; the arrangement is spelled out on Disclosure.
Method
Structure first. Before anything is priced, we establish how each company behaves as a matter of policy: what deposits are held, which fuel and mileage rules bite, where airport surcharges stack up, how cancellation actually treats you. These are facts drawn from the agencies’ own public pages, date-stamped month-precision.
Price second — live, never baked. Per-offer quotes appear only when a visitor searches, fetched through our proxy from Kayak’s rental-car feed and badged with how fresh they are. No price on this site is stored into a page or presented from memory; static pages carry labeled typical ranges at most.
Exit third, on your terms. The board helps you decide; booking happens wherever you take your business.
Key hygiene
Our search runs entirely through our own servers. The credentials that power it live only there — never in your browser, never in any page you can view, never in a public repository. When you run a search, our infrastructure talks to our data provider on your behalf and shows you the result.
Facts
- Comparison front-end over Kayak’s rental-car data via RapidAPI.
- Launch market: United States, English.
- Funded by affiliate commission on partner-site bookings; nothing else.
- Short factual answers around the decisions live in the Questions hub.
Corrections, ideas, partnership questions: ops@carvs.online.