The open model in the news is almost always hosted here: this is the field’s shared warehouse, not somebody’s product
Price checked 12.10.2026
About the company
Hugging Face was founded in 2016 by Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf, starting from a chatbot for teenagers — a direction nothing survives from. The company became the field’s shared infrastructure: the open model in the news is almost certainly hosted here, along with the datasets and demos. Paid plans serve people keeping private repositories or renting GPUs for training, while public access stays free. Spending here is measured in compute rather than subscription, and the PRO tier includes only two dollars of credits.
Sources: huggingface.co
What it does
- Open models and datasets
- Host your own model and demo
- GPU rental for training
- Free access to public repositories
What it costs
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0per month | public models and datasets |
| PROmost picked | $9per month | $2 of inference credits |
| Team | $20per seat / month | private repositories |
| Enterprise | $50per seat / month | access control and audit |
- Open weights
- GPU rental by the hour
- Host your own model
- Has an API
- Single sign-on