About
Hugging Face is an AI collaboration platform where the machine learning community builds, shares, and discovers models, datasets, and applications. It provides a central hub for experimentation, deployment, and collaboration across a wide range of machine learning workflows.
The platform supports public and private repositories, application hosting, dataset exploration, and model access through a unified ecosystem. It also includes enterprise-oriented capabilities for teams that need security, governance, and managed collaboration at scale.
- Model hosting and discovery across a large public catalog
- Dataset sharing and collaboration tools for machine learning teams
- Spaces for building and publishing AI applications and demos
- Enterprise features for access control, auditability, and team management
- Compute and inference offerings for deploying and running ML workloads
Free Tier Value
The pricing page explicitly lists the Hugging Face Hub as free, with no cap or paid upgrade required for the core hub features shown in the free-tier bullets (explore, model eval, Dataset Viewer, git collaboration, community learning, portfolio/profile). Per the rules, an always-free tier with no caps maps to null FTV and always_free_unbounded=true. Paid plans start at PRO ($9/month), Team ($20/user/month), and Enterprise ($50/user/month), but those are add-on upgrades rather than the base free tier.
What's included in the free tier
- Access to the HF Hub for exploring, experimenting, collaborating, and building ML projects.
- Model evaluation tools for creating and testing ML models.
- Dataset Viewer for browsing and inspecting public datasets.
- Git-based collaboration for versioned teamwork on repositories.
- Community learning and sharing through experimentation with the HF community.
- Personal ML profile for showcasing your work and portfolio.
See Hugging Face pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
PRO Account
- private storage capacity
- 10×
- public storage capacity
- 2×
- inference credits
- 20× included
- ZeroGPU quota
- 8×
- 10× private storage capacity
- 2× public storage capacity
- 20× included inference credits
- 8× ZeroGPU quota and highest queue priority
- Spaces Dev Mode & ZeroGPU Spaces hosting
- Personal blog publishing
- Dataset Viewer for private datasets
- PRO badge
Team
- price per user
- $20/month
- SSO support (SAML & OIDC)
- Data location control with Storage Regions
- Detailed action reviews with Audit Logs
- Granular access control via Resource Groups
- Repository usage Analytics
- Advanced auth policies and repository visibility controls
- Centralized token control and approvals
- Advanced compute options for Spaces
Enterprise
- price per user
- starting at $50/month
- All benefits from the Team plan
- Highest storage, bandwidth, and API rate limits
- Automated user management with SCIM provisioning
- Advanced security and access controls
- Managed billing with annual commitments
- Legal and Compliance processes
- Dedicated support
Pricing extracted from Hugging Face's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
