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Hugging Face

Hugging Face

59/100

Open platform for AI models, datasets, Spaces, and pay-as-you-go inference APIs.

huggingface.co

// scorecard · 59/100

verified 1mo ago
methodology →
Agent-readiness20/35
Agent registration (api_key)6/9
Public API5/5
OpenAPI spec0/9
MCP server9/9
llms.txt0/3
Reliability & performance8/15
Actively maintained8/8
Production-ready0/4
Updated recently
Pricing11/13
Itemized public pricing6/6
Free tier / trial4/4
Free-tier generosity1/3
Docs & DX8/12
Docs quality6/8
Public API2/2
Quickstart / examples0/2
Security & compliance8/12
SOC 26/6
ISO 270010/2
GDPR0/2
Security / trust page2/2
Openness4/10
Open source0/6
Open / un-gated API4/4
Company maturity0/3
Company size
Years operating

// rankings · cost per standard workload

#8 in Embeddings$2/ 100M tokens

Serverless Inference Providers pass through provider rates with no markup: Together serves multilingual-e5-large-instruct at $0.02/1M tokens. 100M x $0.02/1M = $2/mo. Dedicated endpoints (hourly GPU) excluded

huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricing

// overview

Hugging Face is the platform where the machine learning community collaborates on models, datasets, and applications. It lets users host and collaborate on unlimited public models, datasets and Spaces, explore 2M+ models and 500k+ datasets, and use the open source stack including Transformers, Diffusers, Tokenizers and other libraries. Paid options include Team & Enterprise plans plus Inference Endpoints and GPU compute.

Best for: machine learning community and organizations building or deploying AI models

// pricing

Free tier · generosity 2/5
Includes: $0.10/month Inference Providers credit for free accounts (renews monthly) · Covers routed requests to hf-inference backend, which focuses on CPU inference including embeddings, text-ranking and text-classification
Limits: Monthly free credit is very small ($0.10) and 'subject to change' per HF docs · Rate-limited with no published fixed numbers; varies by model and load · Once credits are exhausted, further usage requires purchased pay-as-you-go credits
Team & EnterpriseStarting at $20/user/month
  • Single Sign-On
  • Priority Support
  • Audit Logs
  • Resource Groups
  • Private Datasets

// security & compliance

SOC 2 ISO 27001 GDPR HIPAA

// features

  • Host and collaborate on public models, datasets and Spaces
  • Browse 2M+ models, 500k+ datasets and 1M+ Spaces
  • Inference Providers and dedicated Inference Endpoints
  • Open source libraries (Transformers, Diffusers, Tokenizers, TRL, PEFT, etc.)
  • Enterprise security, SSO, audit logs and private datasets
  • GPU compute starting at $0.60/hour

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