Machinery Sold Prices — Heavy Equipment Auction Price Database

Machinery Sold Prices gives you the final hammer prices of 750,000+ heavy equipment and truck auctions sold on Ritchie Bros, IronPlanet, GovPlanet, TruckPlanet and Marketplace-E between 2024 and 2026. Every record is cleaned and ready for used equipment valuation: make, model, year of manufacture, hours/km, sale date, country and sold price.

No scraping wait and no blocked requests: Machinery Sold Prices serves a curated, monthly-updated database, so most runs finish in seconds.

🏗️ What is Machinery Sold Prices?

Pricing used machinery is hard: asking prices are inflated, dealer quotes are opaque, and auction results are scattered across thousands of event pages. Machinery Sold Prices collects the actual sold prices of completed Ritchie Bros auctions, removes duplicates and noise, and lets you pull exactly the comparables you need — by category, brand, model, sale date, year of manufacture and country.

It is built for appraisers, equipment dealers, lenders, lessors, insurers, fleet managers and market analysts who need heavy equipment auction results without building a scraper.

📊 What data does Machinery Sold Prices include?

Field	Description
💰 price, currency	Final hammer price in the auction's original currency (USD, CAD, EUR, AUD, GBP…)
📅 sold_at	Date and time the lot was sold
🏭 make, model	Brand and model (e.g. Caterpillar 320, Komatsu D65EX-17)
🔎 model_key, model_family	Normalized model (M2 106 = M2106) and model family (D6T, D6N → d6) for grouping comparables
📆 year	Year of manufacture
⏱️ usage	Hours or kilometers/miles at sale (12684 h, 627387 km)
🗂️ industry, category, asset_type	Construction › Excavators › Crawler Excavator
📏 spec_main	Main size/capacity from the listing (53 ft, 4500 lb, 20 kW)
🌍 country, platform, sale_event	Where and on which marketplace it sold
🔨 bid_count, buying_format	Auction competitiveness and format
📦 lot_qty, price_per_unit	Multi-unit lots ("Quantity of (12)…") with unit price
✅ unused, inoperable	Condition flags
🔗 url, asset_description	Original lot link and title

Data quality applied to every record

• One record per auction lot (duplicates removed).
• Only lots with a usable make and model are kept.
• Loose parts, attachments, low-value unused imports and non-equipment lots are excluded.
• Make, model and year recovered from the lot title when the source field was empty — make_source, model_source and year_source tell you which values were inferred.
• 75% of lots have 10+ comparable sales of the same make and model.

🚀 How to use Machinery Sold Prices to get equipment auction results

1. Open Machinery Sold Prices and pick at least one category, industry or make.
2. Optionally narrow by model, sale month, year of manufacture, country or exclude unused equipment.
3. Choose the output: Dataset rows (up to 200,000, most recent sales first) or Single file (all matches in one Parquet or CSV file — best for bulk analysis).
4. Click Start. Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel or via API, or connect them to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier or your BI tool.

⚙️ Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
category	list	Equipment category, e.g. Excavators, Truck Tractors, Wheel Loaders
industry	list	Construction, Trucks & Trailers, Agriculture, Forklifts, Cranes…
make	list	Brands, case-insensitive (Cat = Caterpillar)
model	text	Model or family (320, D6, Cascadia 125)
soldFrom / soldTo	YYYY-MM	Auction month range
yearMin / yearMax	number	Year of manufacture range
country	list	ISO-2 country of the auction site (US, CA, AU, NL…)
excludeUnused	boolean	Keep only used equipment
outputMode	dataset / file	Rows in the dataset, or one bulk file
maxItems	number	Max rows in dataset mode (default 5,000)

Example input

{
  "category": ["Excavators"],
  "make": ["Caterpillar", "Komatsu"],
  "soldFrom": "2025-01",
  "yearMin": 2015,
  "maxItems": 5000
}

📤 Output example

{
  "item_id": "757658CA-E6D3-47EA-8663-AAB06FE89C9A",
  "sold_at": "2026-07-15T16:10:50",
  "make": "Komatsu",
  "model": "D65EX-17",
  "model_family": "d65",
  "year": 2014,
  "usage": "12684 h",
  "price": 30000,
  "currency": "USD",
  "lot_qty": 1,
  "price_per_unit": 30000,
  "category": "Dozers",
  "asset_type": "Crawler Dozer",
  "country": "US",
  "platform": "Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers",
  "bid_count": 87,
  "_data_version": "2026-10"
}

💰 How much does it cost to get heavy equipment sold prices?

Machinery Sold Prices uses pay-per-event pricing — you only pay for the data you get:

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.005
Database query (once per run that returns data)	$0.03
Result row (dataset mode)	$0.0025
Exported row (file mode)	$0.001

Examples:

• 1,000 recent sales of one model (dataset mode): ≈ $2.54
• All 57,000+ excavator sales as one Parquet file: ≈ $57.80
• With Apify's $5 free credit you can pull roughly 1,900 sold prices to test the data.

💡 Use file mode for bulk downloads: it is 60% cheaper per row than dataset rows.

🔗 Related Actors

• Ritchie Bros Scraper — live Ritchie Bros, IronPlanet and GovPlanet listings plus the latest month of sold auctions.
• RitchieSpecs Catalog Scraper — technical specifications for thousands of equipment models, to enrich your valuations.

❓ FAQ

Where does the data come from? From publicly visible completed auctions on Ritchie Bros Auctioneers and its marketplaces (IronPlanet, GovPlanet, TruckPlanet, Marketplace-E). Machinery Sold Prices does not access any login-protected data.

How fresh is Machinery Sold Prices? The database is rebuilt every month; _data_version shows the snapshot month. For auctions that closed in the last weeks or for live listings, use Ritchie Bros Scraper.

Are prices converted to one currency? No. Prices stay in the auction's original currency, so you can apply your own FX rates.

Why can't I search without filters? To keep runs fast and focused, choose at least a category, industry or make — or use file mode to export the full database.

Can I use this data for valuations or credit models? Yes, that is its main use. Always combine auction results with condition, hours and inspection data for individual appraisals.

Something missing or wrong? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab — we usually answer within one business day.