Why people look for an HPI Group alternative
HPI Group invented the UK vehicle provenance check and the brand name "HPI" became a generic term for any such check. Its consumer pricing — around £19.99 per check at the time of writing — reflects that brand position rather than the actual cost of running the lookup.
For UK motor traders running multiple checks per week, and private buyers running a check on the one specific car they're about to buy, paying twenty pounds per check is hard to justify when the underlying data is publicly available to any licensed provenance provider.
What DealerPricing checks include
Every check returns the same data set as a traditional HPI check, drawn from the same national databases:
- PNC stolen marker
- MIAFTR insurance write-off (Cat A / B / S / N)
- Outstanding finance from all major UK finance houses
- DVLA keeper, colour, plate and registration history
- Mileage discrepancy detection via DVSA MOT records
- Full MOT history from 2005 with every advisory and defect
- Export, import and scrap markers
How DealerPricing compares with HPI Group
The decision is straightforward: DealerPricing is materially cheaper, returns the same information, and produces a downloadable PDF report stored free of charge for six months. The only thing HPI Group offers that DealerPricing does not is the HPI brand name.