# HookTrend

> HookTrend finds the TikTok and YouTube videos breaking out in any niche: the ones getting many times their creator's usual views.

HookTrend is a short-form trend research tool for TikTok and YouTube. It watches a library of videos refreshed every day and scores each one by "× usual": its views divided by the creator's usual views per video, so a 40,000-view video from a 2,000-view account stands out as a 20× outlier. Ask it what is breaking out in a niche or a topic, which creators and sounds are rising, or start a research agent that searches a brief's keywords live and keeps watching.

HookTrend is part of the Hooked suite (hooked.so). It covers TikTok and YouTube, not Instagram.

## For AI assistants

- [MCP server](https://staging.hooktrend.com/api/mcp): remote Streamable HTTP, OAuth 2.1 (dynamic client registration, PKCE) or API key. Add it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Claude Code with the URL alone.
- [Agent guide](https://staging.hooktrend.com/agents/guide.md): which tool answers which question, what to show, costs, approvals and errors. Live; follow it over any copy.
- [Setup for every client](https://staging.hooktrend.com/mcp): Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, n8n and others.
- [Skill for Claude](https://staging.hooktrend.com/agents/SKILL.md): a thin SKILL.md that routes trend questions to HookTrend.
- [MCP server card](https://staging.hooktrend.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json)
- [Full text for LLMs](https://staging.hooktrend.com/llms-full.txt)

## Tools

- `whats_breaking_out`: What's breaking out. Free (counts toward the daily read cap).
- `niche_outliers`: Outliers in a niche. Free (counts toward the daily read cap).
- `find_videos`: Find videos. Free (counts toward the daily read cap).
- `find_creators`: Find creators. Free (counts toward the daily read cap).
- `list_niches`: List niches. Free (counts toward the daily read cap).
- `niche_report`: Niche report. Free (counts toward the daily read cap).
- `trending_sounds`: Trending sounds. Free (counts toward the daily read cap).
- `trending_hashtags`: Trending hashtags. Free (counts toward the daily read cap).
- `lookup_creator`: Look up a creator. Free when HookTrend already analyzed the account; 8 credits for a fresh analysis (needs user_approved).
- `create_research_agent`: Create a research agent. Proposal free; 15 credits per run (needs user_approved).
- `list_agents`: List research agents. Free.
- `get_agent_report`: Agent report. Free.
- `get_agent_data`: Agent data. Free.
- `show_outliers`: Show outlier cards. Free.
- `get_balance`: Balance and plan. Free.
- `estimate_cost`: Estimate cost. Free.

## Pricing

- Free: $0, no card, 50 credits a month, 1 research agent (weekly at most), every library tool, 25 reads a day.
- Starter: $29/month, 1000 credits a month, agents on any cadence, 500 reads a day.
- Pro: $99/month, 4000 credits a month, 3 seats.
- A research agent run costs 15 credits ($0.45); a fresh creator lookup 8 credits ($0.24). 1 credit = $0.03.

## Links

- [Home](https://staging.hooktrend.com/): what HookTrend is, real outlier examples, setup, pricing and FAQ
- [Pricing](https://staging.hooktrend.com/#pricing)
- [FAQ](https://staging.hooktrend.com/#faq)
- [Developer docs: MCP tools](https://staging.hooktrend.com/docs/mcp)
- [Hooked, the AI video suite HookTrend belongs to](https://hooked.so)