Hugging Face
by Hugging Face, Inc.
At a glance
Platform hosting machine learning models, datasets, and demo apps, centered on open-source AI.
model-hub community
- Licence
- Not recorded
- Category
- Platforms & Infrastructure
- Business model
- Freemium
- Availability
- Global
- Launched
- 2016
Overview
Hugging Face is the central platform of the open-source AI ecosystem, hosting over a million models, datasets, and demo apps. Founded in 2016, it also maintains widely used libraries such as Transformers and offers paid compute and enterprise services. Most hosting and downloads are free.
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Key features
- Hub for models, datasets, and Spaces demo apps
- Maintainer of the Transformers and Diffusers libraries
- Inference endpoints and hosted compute
- Enterprise features for private model hosting
Use cases
- Discovering and downloading open models and datasets
- Sharing research artifacts and demos
- Deploying models via managed inference endpoints
Pricing
Public hosting and downloads are free; paid plans cover compute, inference endpoints, and enterprise features.
Record details
Provenance, dates and links are kept here so the main sections stay about the product itself.
Links, dates and provenance
- Record updated
- 2026-09-10
- Documentation
- huggingface.co ↗
- Founded
- 2016
- Headquarters
- US
Selection profile
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Selection profile11 fields4 unknown
- Tasks it fits
- Running models yourself
Derived from the record: category "platforms".
Suggest a correction - How you use it
- Web app
Hosted product with no desktop/CLI tag in the record; assumed web-delivered.
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- Web
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Suggest a correction - Where it runs
- Vendor cloud
Vendor-hosted product; no self-hosted option is recorded.
Suggest a correction - Works offline
- Not recorded
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Suggest a correction - Official service region
- Global
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Suggest a correction - Public API
- Not recorded
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Suggest a correction - Licence
- proprietary
Commercial product; no source licence is published in the record.
Suggest a correction - Commercial use
- Not recorded
Commercial product; the terms reviewed here do not state a non-commercial restriction, but that was not verified.
Suggest a correction - Interface languages
- Not recorded
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Suggest a correction - Billing
- Subscription Free allowance: Limited Subscription required: No
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Where each value comes from
- Tasks it fits
- Our inference
- How you use it
- Our inference
- Runs on
- Our inference
- Where it runs
- Our inference
- Works offline
- Our inference
- Official service region
- Our inference
- Public API
- Our inference
- Licence
- Our inference
- Commercial use
- Our inference
- Interface languages
- Unknown
Frequently asked questions
What is Hugging Face used for?
Hugging Face hosts open models, datasets, and demo apps, and maintains core open-source AI libraries such as Transformers.
Is Hugging Face free?
Yes. Browsing, downloading, and public hosting are free; compute and enterprise services are paid.
Who runs Hugging Face?
Hugging Face is a US-based company founded in 2016 with a large open-source community.
What does Hugging Face not establish?
Hugging Face's record establishes no platform-wide licence or pricing page, because the vendor pages fetched confirmed neither field.
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This record was last reviewed on 2026-09-10.
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