# Vextorium HuggingFace Trending Models

> Vextorium HuggingFace Trending Models is a paid API for AI agents from api.vextorium.com, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-28).

Returns trending, popular, or recently released AI models from Hugging Face Hub, filterable by task, search query, and sort order.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.vextorium.com/v1/huggingface-trending?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-28
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/vextorium-huggingface-trending-models-05ffd371
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_B99TyHCq0AJ4Hpqw9sbsQ

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 vextorium-huggingface-trending-models-05ffd371 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What are the top 10 trending text-to-image models on Hugging Face right now, sorted by trend score?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need programmatic, pay-per-call access to Hugging Face trending/popular model data without managing HuggingFace API credentials. Ideal for agents that need to discover, monitor, or recommend AI models based on real-time popularity signals, task categories, or keyword search.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid task or order enum value causing schema validation error
- Hugging Face Hub API upstream outage or rate limiting returning empty or error response
- Limit value out of expected range returning unexpected number of results
- Empty results if search query matches no models

## How this service works

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## Output

Returns a JSON object containing a list of trending Hugging Face models, each with model ID, author, task category, likes count, trend score, 30-day download count, library, license, creation date, and direct link to the model page. Also echoes back the applied task filter, sort order, and search query.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "task": {
   "type": "string"
  },
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer"
  },
  "order": {
   "enum": [
    "trend",
    "downloads",
    "likes",
    "recent"
   ],
   "type": "string"
  },
  "search": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "task": null,
  "order": "trend",
  "models": [
   {
    "link": "https://huggingface.co/convaiinnovations/laya",
    "task": "text-classification",
    "likes": 5005,
    "model": "convaiinnovations/laya",
    "trend": 1047,
    "author": "convaiinnovations",
    "created": "2026-09-18",
    "library": "transformers",
    "license": "apache-2.0",
    "downloads_30d": 0
   },
   {
    "link": "https://huggingface.co/Cloudflare/clef",
    "task": "image-text-to-text",
    "likes": 782,
    "model": "Cloudflare/clef",
    "trend": 751,
    "author": "Cloudflare",
    "created": "2026-09-30",
    "library": "transformers",
    "license": "apache-2.0",
    "downloads_30d": 824
   }
  ],
  "search": null,
  "source": "Hugging Face Hub API"
 }
}
```

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