Civitai Model & Prompt Trend Tracker

Track trending AI models, LoRAs, and prompts on Civitai — the actual prompts, trigger words, and generation parameters behind what's rising this week in AI art. This is prompt-engineering intelligence, not a catalog dump: instead of "list every model," it answers "what's working in AI image generation right now." Built on Civitai's official REST API, no browser, SFW-only by default.

Perfect for prompt engineers, AI art creators, and AI tool builders who want trending Stable Diffusion / SDXL / Flux / Pony models and the prompt patterns driving the most popular images.

What you get

Two result types in one dataset, each row tagged with resultType ("model" or "prompt") so you can split them downstream.

Trending model fields

Field	Description
id, name, type	Civitai model ID, name, and type (Checkpoint, LORA, TextualInversion, …)
baseModel	Base model of the latest version (e.g. SDXL 1.0, Flux.1 D, Pony)
creator	Uploader username
tags	Model tags
triggerWords	Trigger / trained words — the key tokens to activate the model
stats	downloads, thumbsUp, thumbsDown, comments
trendPeriod, trendRank	Trend window and rank (1 = top)
publishedAt, latestVersionName, latestVersionId	Version metadata
sampleImageUrls	Up to 3 SFW sample image URLs
modelUrl	Direct Civitai link
isNew	true if new to trending since the last monitor run (null in snapshot mode)
scrapedAt	ISO 8601 timestamp

Trending prompt fields

Field	Description
imageId, imageUrl	Civitai image ID and direct URL
prompt, negativePrompt	The actual generation prompt and negative prompt
generationParams	steps, sampler, cfgScale, seed, size
model	Checkpoint used: { name, type, versionId }
loras	LoRAs used: [{ name, weight, versionId }]
baseModel	Base model where available
reactions	Total reactions (like + heart + laugh + cry)
creator, tags	Uploader and tags
trendPeriod, trendRank, isNew, scrapedAt	Trend + monitor metadata

Two data types — which to use

• Trending models (dataType: "models") — what models and LoRAs are rising. Use it to track model adoption, discover emerging LoRAs, and grab trigger words for your prompts.
• Trending prompts (dataType: "prompts") — the prompts and generation settings behind the most popular images. Use it to see what prompt structures, style modifiers, samplers, and CFG values are actually working right now.
• Both (dataType: "both", the default) — run both in one pass.

Monitor mode — track new trends over time

Set mode: "monitor" and schedule the actor (daily or weekly):

• First run stores the current trending IDs and returns everything.
• Later runs return only entries new to the trending list since the previous run, each flagged isNew: true.
• If nothing new is trending, the run finishes cleanly with an empty dataset (not an error).

State is keyed per data type and trend period (state-models-Week, state-prompts-Day, …) and persisted in a named Key-Value Store, so it survives across scheduled runs. This is the "alert me when something new starts trending" workflow.

SFW filtering (default)

Civitai hosts a large amount of NSFW content. This actor returns SFW content only by default. It applies Civitai's server-side SFW request filter and a client-side safety check on every result and sample image.

To include NSFW-tagged content, set includeNsfw: true — but the default output is always SFW.

Input examples

Zero-config — this week's trending SFW models and prompts:

{}

Trending LoRAs for Flux, daily window:

{
  "dataType": "models",
  "modelTypes": ["LORA"],
  "baseModels": ["Flux.1 D"],
  "trendPeriod": "Day",
  "sortModels": "Most Downloaded",
  "limit": 50
}

Monitor new trending prompts every day:

{
  "dataType": "prompts",
  "mode": "monitor",
  "trendPeriod": "Day",
  "sortPrompts": "Most Reactions",
  "limit": 100
}

Output examples

Trending model:

{
  "resultType": "model",
  "id": 257749,
  "name": "Photorealistic Portrait XL",
  "type": "Checkpoint",
  "baseModel": "SDXL 1.0",
  "creator": "studio_example",
  "tags": ["photorealistic", "portrait", "base model"],
  "triggerWords": ["ppxl style"],
  "stats": { "downloads": 184320, "thumbsUp": 9421, "thumbsDown": 53, "comments": 412 },
  "trendPeriod": "Week",
  "trendRank": 1,
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-30T09:12:00.000Z",
  "latestVersionName": "v3.0",
  "latestVersionId": 318204,
  "sampleImageUrls": ["https://image.civitai.com/.../a1.jpeg"],
  "modelUrl": "https://civitai.com/models/257749",
  "isNew": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-19T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Trending prompt:

{
  "resultType": "prompt",
  "imageId": 49281756,
  "imageUrl": "https://image.civitai.com/.../p1.jpeg",
  "prompt": "a serene mountain lake at dawn, soft volumetric light, ultra detailed, 8k",
  "negativePrompt": "blurry, lowres, watermark",
  "generationParams": { "steps": 30, "sampler": "DPM++ 2M Karras", "cfgScale": 7, "seed": 1234567890, "size": "832x1216" },
  "model": { "name": "Photorealistic Portrait XL", "type": "checkpoint", "versionId": 318204 },
  "loras": [{ "name": "Film Grain XL", "weight": 0.8, "versionId": 305112 }],
  "baseModel": "SDXL 1.0",
  "reactions": 1542,
  "creator": "creator_example",
  "tags": ["landscape", "photorealistic"],
  "trendPeriod": "Week",
  "trendRank": 1,
  "isNew": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-19T10:00:00.000Z"
}

Use cases

• Prompt engineers staying on top of what's working in AI image generation — trending prompts, samplers, CFG values, and trigger words.
• Content creators finding trending styles and techniques to ride the wave.
• AI tool builders tracking model adoption and emerging LoRAs.
• Researchers monitoring the AI art ecosystem and how prompt patterns shift week to week.
• Marketing & creative teams tracking visual trends for creative direction.

Pairs well with prompt-engineering tools like Suvio for turning trending prompts into production-ready workflows.

Limitations

• Civitai API rate limits. The actor throttles requests and retries on HTTP 429 with backoff. Increase requestDelayMs if you hit limits.
• Image metadata isn't always present. Many Civitai images have no generation metadata; those are skipped for prompt extraction (no prompt = no value), so a large limit may page through several requests.
• SFW filter coverage. SFW filtering relies on Civitai's content flags plus a client-side check. It is reliable for mainstream use but not a guarantee against mislabeled content.
• Trend windows. trendPeriod is bounded to Day / Week / Month, matching Civitai's API.

Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)

You pay only for what you pull:

Event	When
run-start	Once per run
models-tracked	Per trending model returned
prompts-extracted	Per trending prompt returned

In monitor mode, only new trending entries are charged — checking state is free. Exact prices are shown on the actor's pricing tab.

FAQ

Do I need a Civitai API key? No — public trending data works without one. An optional civitaiApiToken field is available if you have one or if an endpoint requires it.

Can I schedule it? Yes. Use monitor mode with an Apify Schedule (daily/weekly) to get only newly trending entries each run.

Can I filter by base model or type? Yes — baseModels (e.g. SDXL 1.0, Flux.1 D, Pony) and modelTypes (e.g. LORA, Checkpoint) for the models data type, plus an optional tag.

Is NSFW content included? No, not by default. Output is SFW-only unless you explicitly set includeNsfw: true.

Roadmap. A Lexica-based prompt-trend source is documented as a future fallback/addition for even cleaner, search-curated prompt data.