diff --git a/backend/.gitignore b/backend/.gitignore
index 098a83e4..30c79448 100644
--- a/backend/.gitignore
+++ b/backend/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 __pycache__
 .env
 notes.txt
+venv
diff --git a/backend/main.py b/backend/main.py
index cb682a9f..edbad943 100644
--- a/backend/main.py
+++ b/backend/main.py
@@ -230,8 +230,8 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         help="Dumps the openapi schema to stdout",
         action=argparse.BooleanOptionalAction,
     )
-    parser.add_argument("--host", help="The host to run the server")
-    parser.add_argument("--port", help="The port to run the server")
+    parser.add_argument("--host", help="The host to run the server", default="0.0.0.0")
+    parser.add_argument("--port", help="The port to run the server", default=8080)
 
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
diff --git a/backend/oasst_backend/api/v1/api.py b/backend/oasst_backend/api/v1/api.py
index a9d09457..5bdf1c97 100644
--- a/backend/oasst_backend/api/v1/api.py
+++ b/backend/oasst_backend/api/v1/api.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ from fastapi import APIRouter
 from oasst_backend.api.v1 import (
     frontend_messages,
     frontend_users,
+    hugging_face,
     leaderboards,
     messages,
     stats,
@@ -19,3 +20,4 @@ api_router.include_router(users.router, prefix="/users", tags=["users"])
 api_router.include_router(frontend_users.router, prefix="/frontend_users", tags=["frontend_users"])
 api_router.include_router(stats.router, prefix="/stats", tags=["stats"])
 api_router.include_router(leaderboards.router, prefix="/experimental/leaderboards", tags=["leaderboards"])
+api_router.include_router(hugging_face.router, prefix="/hf", tags=["hugging_face"])
diff --git a/backend/oasst_backend/api/v1/hugging_face.py b/backend/oasst_backend/api/v1/hugging_face.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1e7f1ffe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/oasst_backend/api/v1/hugging_face.py
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+from enum import Enum
+from typing import List
+
+from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends
+from oasst_backend.api import deps
+from oasst_backend.models import ApiClient
+from oasst_backend.schemas.hugging_face import ToxicityClassification
+from oasst_backend.utils.hugging_face import HuggingFaceAPI
+
+router = APIRouter()
+
+
+class HF_url(str, Enum):
+    HUGGINGFACE_TOXIC_ROBERTA = "https://api-inference.huggingface.co/models/unitary/multilingual-toxic-xlm-roberta"
+
+
+@router.get("/text_toxicity")
+async def get_text_toxicity(
+    msg: str,
+    api_client: ApiClient = Depends(deps.get_trusted_api_client),
+) -> List[List[ToxicityClassification]]:
+    """Get the Message Toxicity from HuggingFace Roberta model.
+
+    Args:
+        msg (str): the message that we want to analyze.
+        api_client (ApiClient, optional): authentification of the user of the request.
+            Defaults to Depends(deps.get_trusted_api_client).
+
+    Returns:
+        ToxicityClassification: the score of toxicity of the message.
+    """
+
+    api_url: str = HF_url.HUGGINGFACE_TOXIC_ROBERTA.value
+    hugging_face_api = HuggingFaceAPI(api_url)
+    response = await hugging_face_api.post(msg)
+
+    return response
diff --git a/backend/oasst_backend/config.py b/backend/oasst_backend/config.py
index fef59832..df37dc9f 100644
--- a/backend/oasst_backend/config.py
+++ b/backend/oasst_backend/config.py
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ class Settings(BaseSettings):
     DEBUG_SKIP_API_KEY_CHECK: bool = False
     DEBUG_USE_SEED_DATA: bool = False
 
+    HUGGING_FACE_API_KEY: str = ""
+
     @validator("DATABASE_URI", pre=True)
     def assemble_db_connection(cls, v: Optional[str], values: Dict[str, Any]) -> Any:
         if isinstance(v, str):
diff --git a/backend/oasst_backend/schemas/__init__.py b/backend/oasst_backend/schemas/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/backend/oasst_backend/schemas/hugging_face.py b/backend/oasst_backend/schemas/hugging_face.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f4da3e74
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/oasst_backend/schemas/hugging_face.py
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+from pydantic import BaseModel
+
+
+class ToxicityClassification(BaseModel):
+    label: str
+    score: float
diff --git a/backend/oasst_backend/utils/__init__.py b/backend/oasst_backend/utils/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e69de29b
diff --git a/backend/oasst_backend/utils/hugging_face.py b/backend/oasst_backend/utils/hugging_face.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ff73a1c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/backend/oasst_backend/utils/hugging_face.py
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+from typing import Any, Dict
+
+import aiohttp
+from oasst_backend.config import settings
+from oasst_shared.exceptions import OasstError, OasstErrorCode
+
+
+class HuggingFaceAPI:
+    """Class Object to make post calls to endpoints for inference in models hosted in HuggingFace"""
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        api_url: str,
+    ):
+
+        # The API endpoint we want to access
+        self.api_url: str = api_url
+
+        # Access token for the api
+        self.api_key: str = settings.HUGGING_FACE_API_KEY
+
+        # Headers going to be used
+        self.headers: Dict[str, str] = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {self.api_key}"}
+
+    async def post(self, input: str) -> Any:
+        """Post request to the endpoint to get an inference
+
+        Args:
+            input (str): the input that we will pass to the model
+
+        Raises:
+            OasstError: in the case we get a bad response
+
+        Returns:
+            inference: the inference we obtain from the model in HF
+        """
+
+        session = aiohttp.ClientSession()
+        payload: Dict[str, str] = {"inputs": input}
+        response = await session.post(self.api_url, headers=self.headers, json=payload)
+
+        # If we get a bad response
+        if response.status != 200:
+            raise OasstError("Response Error Detoxify HuggingFace", error_code=OasstErrorCode.HUGGINGFACE_API_ERROR)
+
+        # Get the response from the API call
+        inference = await response.json()
+
+        return inference
diff --git a/oasst-shared/oasst_shared/exceptions/oasst_api_error.py b/oasst-shared/oasst_shared/exceptions/oasst_api_error.py
index 49eeb088..6cc25918 100644
--- a/oasst-shared/oasst_shared/exceptions/oasst_api_error.py
+++ b/oasst-shared/oasst_shared/exceptions/oasst_api_error.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ class OasstErrorCode(IntEnum):
          0-1000: general errors
       1000-2000: tasks endpoint
       2000-3000: prompt_repository
+      3000-4000: external resources
     """
 
     # 0-1000: general errors
@@ -45,6 +46,9 @@ class OasstErrorCode(IntEnum):
     TASK_ALREADY_DONE = 2105
     TASK_NOT_COLLECTIVE = 2106
 
+    # 3000-4000: external resources
+    HUGGINGFACE_API_ERROR = 3001
+
 
 class OasstError(Exception):
     """Base class for Open-Assistant exceptions."""