# Nova Data Service - Freelance Market Stats

> Nova Data Service - Freelance Market Stats is a paid API for AI agents from nova-data-service.nova-data.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-15).

Returns real-time order statistics and budget analytics from the Russian freelance marketplace fl.ru, broken down by category

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://nova-data-service.nova-data.workers.dev/data/stats?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/nova-data-service-freelance-market-stats-4f4098c7
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_UsNbz4xrXAADa5JKbh-An

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability nova-data-service-freelance-market-stats-4f4098c7
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest freelance market stats from fl.ru — I want to see how many total orders there are right now, the breakdown by category like AI, bots, and web, and what the average and median project budgets look like in rubles.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time aggregated order and budget statistics specifically from the Russian freelance platform fl.ru, broken down by category. It is ideal for market research, competitive analysis, or monitoring the Russian gig economy. It is not suitable for global freelance market data, individual order lookup, or non-Russian platforms like Upwork or Fiverr.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not received or x402 micropayment on Base Mainnet fails — returns 402 Payment Required
- Service unavailable or fl.ru data source unreachable — returns 5xx error
- Stale data if fl.ru scraping is delayed — generated_at timestamp may lag behind real-time
- Rate limiting or quota exhaustion — possible 429 response
- No input schema validation issues expected as endpoint takes no parameters

## How this service works

Real-time freelance market analytics from fl.ru (Russia). x402-gated API on Base Mainnet.

## Output

A JSON object containing: total order count, order counts broken down by category (ai, bot, web, video, generic), budget statistics in RUB (average, max, min, median), a list of top categories, dataset name, service version, and the timestamp when the data was generated.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema"
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {
   "by_category": {
    "ai": 30,
    "bot": 114,
    "web": 19,
    "video": 14,
    "generic": 91
   },
   "budget_stats": {
    "avg_rub": 34344,
    "max_rub": 500000,
    "min_rub": 500,
    "median_rub": 8000
   },
   "total_orders": 288,
   "top_categories": [
    "generic",
    "bot",
    "integration"
   ]
  },
  "dataset": "orders",
  "service": "nova-data-service",
  "version": "1.3.0",
  "generated_at": "2026-10-09T03:00:00Z"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/nova-data-service-freelance-market-stats-4f4098c7/health.json
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