Trend

Trend (branded "Trend by soona") is a user-generated content (UGC) platform that connects brands with a network of vetted independent creators to produce custom photo and video content — product and lifestyle photography, testimonial, unboxing, and product-in-action videos — optimized for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Amazon. Brands post a creative brief, hire creators from a network of 3,700+, and receive full licensing and distribution rights to the delivered content. Pricing is credit-based with no subscriptions or contracts. Trend is part of soona.co. It was surfaced as a 500 Global portfolio company and added to the API Evangelist network. Trend publishes no developer program or developer portal, but the platform's own NestJS backend at api.trend.io serves a public, machine-readable OpenAPI 3.0 document at /docs-json covering 124 operations across brands, campaigns, creators, partnerships, content submission, messaging, shipments, AI image generation, and Stripe credit purchases. The Swagger UI at /docs is password-protected; the specification behind it is not.

Trend publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, User-Generated Content, Creator Economy, Content Marketing, and Video Production.

Trend’s developer surface includes pricing, signup flow, support, engineering blog, API reference, authentication, and 18 more developer resources.

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43.7/100 developing ▲ 28.5 Agent 47/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
AccessPaidSelf serve
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyUser-Generated ContentCreator EconomyContent MarketingVideo ProductionPhotographyMarketingeCommerceCreator MarketplaceInfluencer MarketingAI Image GenerationPayments

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scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 43.7/100 · developing
Contract Quality 9.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 6.6 / 17
Commercial Clarity 13.0 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11
Governance 2.1 / 10
Discoverability 6.5 / 9
Regulatory Posture 5.9 / 15
Agent readiness — 47/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Trend API

The Trend platform API — the NestJS backend behind app.trend.io and the Trend creator app. It exposes 124 operations across brand accounts and approvals, campaign creation/submi...

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Trend API - 1.28.31

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

trend-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Trend Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Trend Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Trend Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Trend Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp
SignUp
 Login
Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

OpenAPI
OpenAPI
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer
MCPServer
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 DataModel
DataModel
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Conformance
Conformance
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 Plans
Plans

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay
Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: trend
name: Trend
description: Trend (branded "Trend by soona") is a user-generated content (UGC) platform that connects brands with a network
  of vetted independent creators to produce custom photo and video content — product and lifestyle photography, testimonial,
  unboxing, and product-in-action videos — optimized for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Amazon. Brands post a creative
  brief, hire creators from a network of 3,700+, and receive full licensing and distribution rights to the delivered content.
  Pricing is credit-based with no subscriptions or contracts. Trend is part of soona.co. It was surfaced as a 500 Global portfolio
  company and added to the API Evangelist network. Trend publishes no developer program or developer portal, but the platform's
  own NestJS backend at api.trend.io serves a public, machine-readable OpenAPI 3.0 document at /docs-json covering 124 operations
  across brands, campaigns, creators, partnerships, content submission, messaging, shipments, AI image generation, and Stripe
  credit purchases. The Swagger UI at /docs is password-protected; the specification behind it is not.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/trend/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: openapi-discovered
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-08-13'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/62c13e3f6b73683c91c0df7c/649ae4e9626c096bdb7ca6ca_trend-by-soona-black.svg
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-13'
tags:
- Company
- User-Generated Content
- Creator Economy
- Content Marketing
- Video Production
- Photography
- Marketing
- eCommerce
- Creator Marketplace
- Influencer Marketing
- AI Image Generation
- Payments
apis:
- name: Trend API
  description: The Trend platform API — the NestJS backend behind app.trend.io and the Trend creator app. It exposes 124 operations
    across brand accounts and approvals, campaign creation/submission/relisting, creator profiles, portfolios and levels,
    partnership applications and rehire invites, content submission/approval/revision, brand↔creator messaging, product shipments,
    AI photo generation and super-resolution, S3 pre-signed uploads, and Stripe credit-package checkout. Authentication is
    a JWT bearer ("access-token"); 39 admin operations additionally require a "trend-api-key" header. There is no published
    developer program, no onboarding for third-party developers, and no rate-limit documentation — but the OpenAPI is served
    publicly and unauthenticated at https://api.trend.io/docs-json.
  humanURL: https://api.trend.io/docs
  baseURL: https://api.trend.io
  tags:
  - User-Generated Content
  - Creator Economy
  - Content Marketing
  - Video Production
  - Photography
  - eCommerce
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/trend-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.trend.io/docs-json
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/trend-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/trend-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/trend-data-model.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/trend-problem-types.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/trend-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/trend-rate-limits.yml
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/trend-mcp.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://trend.io
- type: Pricing
  url: https://trend.io/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.trend.io/sign-up
- type: Login
  url: https://app.trend.io/
- type: Support
  url: https://support.soona.co
- type: Blog
  url: https://trend.io/blog
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://soona.co/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://soona.co/terms
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Trend-io
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/trend-api-openapi.yml
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.trend.io/docs-json
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/trend-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/trend-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/trend-data-model.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/trend-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/trend-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/trend-lifecycle.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/trend-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/trend-rate-limits.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/trend-mcp.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/trend-api-overlay.yaml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/trend-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/trend-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 19
  pass: local-v1