Hugging Face

The open-model hub: 1M+ models, datasets and hosted inference

huggingface.co · Free tier; PRO $9/mo; usage-based inference

Hugging Face hosts the open AI ecosystem — models, datasets, Spaces demos — plus serverless Inference Providers to run them without GPUs.

Capabilities

Capabilities

  • 1M+ open models (text, vision, audio), datasets, Spaces app hosting
  • Inference Providers API, free tier; PRO $9/mo

Best for

  • Finding THE specialized open model for a niche task (OCR, audio tagging, embeddings)

Not for

  • Production frontier chat (first-party APIs) or big-scale serving (Together/Replicate)