VanityPlate checks personalized (vanity) license plate availability on official state DMV websites, so you can see where a plate is open without typing it into every state's site - and get told when a taken one frees up.
VanityPlate is run by Dems, its owner and founder, who also writes the guides on this site. Fees and rules in the guides link to the state's own DMV page they came from.
We check 28 states live (including Washington DC) using each state's own public lookup, the same one you'd use on the DMV site. Each check is paced slowly so it never strains a state's website. Every result shows when it was last checked.
In 3 of those states (Connecticut, Massachusetts and Wisconsin) the only public lookup is a registration search, which knows a plate is on the road but not whether the state would issue it - so those results say likely available, never a confirmed open. States whose lookup sits behind a CAPTCHA or a login aren't checked live, and their pages say so. See every state and how it's checked.
A free account gets 5 live plate checks a day, 3 previews a week of open plates and up to 5 watched plates. Premium is $4.99/month for unlimited checks, every open plate and instant alerts. See pricing.
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