Hugging Face

Reviewed by Shawn H. — Founder, AITrustList

Last verified Aug 5, 2026MethodologyAI tools are ranked by traffic signals, not paid placement.

Pros & cons

Independently written by the AITrustList editorial team.

Pros

Free CPU Spaces tier available for basic app deployment
Hosts over 1 million open-source models on the Hub
PRO plan at $9/month per user unlocks higher rate limits and zero GPU queues
Inference API offers pay-per-use pricing on hosted models
AutoTrain enables no-code fine-tuning of models on custom datasets

Cons

GPU Spaces start at $0.60/hour and costs scale quickly for always-on workloads
Free tier rate limits throttle production inference traffic
Enterprise Hub pricing is not publicly listed, requires sales contact
No SLA or priority support on the free tier
Private model hosting and gated repo features require a paid plan

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Hugging Face Pricing

Pricing and commercial details available on the current listing.

Pricing model

Freemium

Starting price

$0.60/hour for GPU

Pricing URLhuggingface.co

Team & Enterprise

Enterprise-grade security, access controls, dedicated support, starting at $20/user/month.

$20/user/month

Inference Endpoints

Deploy optimized inference endpoints starting at $0.60/hour for GPU.

$0.60/hour for GPU

Spaces GPU

Update Spaces applications to a GPU. Pricing available on the pricing page.

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About Hugging Face

What it is, how to use it, and the full listing description.

What is Hugging Face?

Hugging Face is a collaboration platform and hub for the machine learning community, hosting millions of models, datasets, and applications.

How to use Hugging Face?

Browse or search for models, datasets, and Spaces. Use the open-source libraries (e.g., Transformers) to integrate models into your projects. Deploy models via Inference Endpoints or update Spaces to GPU. For teams, sign up for Enterprise features.

Core features of Hugging Face

Host and collaborate on public models, datasets, and applications
Open-source libraries: Transformers, Diffusers, Datasets, Tokenizers, TRL
Unified API to access 45,000+ models from leading AI providers
Compute: Inference Endpoints and GPU-backed Spaces
Enterprise-grade security: SSO, audit logs, resource groups
Community features: daily papers, collections, organizations

Target audience of Hugging Face

Data Scientists

Use cases of Hugging Face

#1Training and fine-tuning machine learning models
#2Deploying AI applications at scale with managed endpoints
#3Sharing and discovering datasets for research or production
#4Building collaborative AI demos and apps (Spaces)
#5Implementing text, image, video, audio, or 3D models via libraries

Hugging Face is the central hub for the machine learning community. It hosts over 2 million models, 500k datasets, and 1 million applications (Spaces). The platform enables collaboration on public AI assets, providing tools for hosting, versioning, and deployment. It also offers a suite of open-source libraries (Transformers, Diffusers, Datasets, etc.) for text, image, video, audio, and 3D modalities. Enterprise solutions include SSO, audit logs, resource groups, and dedicated support. Paid compute options like Inference Endpoints and GPU-backed Spaces are available.

Hugging Face Website Traffic Analysis

Traffic and engagement metrics for huggingface.co.

Visit Over Time

Hugging Face traffic grew by 36.3% over the last 12 months, reaching 31.2M monthly visits. It is currently tracked in the API Integration category on AITrustList.

Monthly Visits31.2M

Avg. Visit Duration05:13

Page per Visit6.43

Bounce Rate40.68%

Sep 2025 - Aug 2026 All Traffic

Geography

Top 5 Regions

📍United States

18.95%

📍China

11.60%

📍India

8.80%

📍Germany

5.01%

📍Russia

4.24%

Sep 2025 - Aug 2026 Desktop Only

Traffic Sources

Direct

42.80%

Organic Search

32.30%

Organic Social

10.74%

Referrals

9.42%

GenAI

3.74%

Mail

0.69%

Display Ads

0.18%

Paid Social

0.12%

Paid Search

0.01%

Affiliate

0.00%

Sep 2025 - Aug 2026 Worldwide Desktop Only

AI Referral Traffic

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79.2%

Google Gemini

16.1%

Claude

2.2%

Sep 2025 - Aug 2026 AI Engine Share Trends

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FAQ from Hugging Face

Questions and answers included with this listing.

Is Hugging Face free to use?

Yes, you can host and collaborate on unlimited public models, datasets, and applications for free. Paid compute and Enterprise features are available.

What open-source libraries does Hugging Face provide?

Offers Transformers, Diffusers, Datasets, Tokenizers, TRL, smolagents, PEFT, Accelerate, and more.

How can I deploy a model?

Use Inference Endpoints (starting at $0.60/hour for GPU) or deploy Spaces applications to a GPU.

Hugging Face Company and Links

Official and listing-specific external resources.

GitHubgithub.com Abouthuggingface.co Contactpress@huggingface.co