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Hugging Face

Hub for open models, datasets and hosted demo apps; free to use, $9 a month for PRO, GPU hardware billed by the hour.

5published0not published3not checked yet2026-09-12last checked

Counts, not a score. 5 of 8 things we look for are published by Hugging Face, and 3 we have not checked yet. A ratio would need a denominator from outside this site. A count does not.

What it costs you

What it really costs to startAll in, not the first-year promotional price.Free: a free account, a CPU Basic Space with 2 vCPU and 16 GB is FREE, and Spaces hardware starts at $0; PRO is $9 /month if you want more storage, inference credits and ZeroGPU quotaPricing · source · checked 2026-09-12 · different for you?

What it costs to keep alivePer year, once the introductory pricing is over.PRO $9 /month, Team $20 /month per user; on-demand hardware by the hour, from $0.03 for a CPU Upgrade and $0.40 for a small Nvidia T4 up to $20.00 for 8x A100; dedicated Inference Endpoints from $0.033/hourPricing · source · checked 2026-09-12 · different for you?

The gate before the first cent

The gate before it pays anythingThe traffic, sales or balance you must reach before a single cent moves.We have not checked this one yet. That is our gap, not theirs.

How long before the first paymentThe gap you have to fund out of your own pocket.We have not checked this one yet. That is our gap, not theirs.

Is it yours or theirs

Who owns what you buildYours, or a room you are allowed to sit in until the rules change?You own the Content you create; Hugging Face will not sell it, though posting it grants the license the Terms describe, and it may remove your Content at any time at its sole discretion if it has a concern about itTerms of Service · source · checked 2026-09-12 · different for you?

Can you take it with youThe domain, the list, the content. What actually leaves with you.You may cancel your Account whenever you want, at your sole discretion; open models and datasets you host are files you can pull down, and a paid plan is a limited right to access a Service, not ownership of itTerms of Service · source · checked 2026-09-12 · different for you?

Can it be soldIs there a resale market, and what does it pay?We have not checked this one yet. That is our gap, not theirs.

What takes it all awayThe single rule, ban or dependency that ends it overnight.Hugging Face reserves the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Services anytime with or without cause, at its own discretion, with or without notice, and may modify, suspend or discontinue the Services or any part of themTerms of Service · source · checked 2026-09-12 · different for you?

Put Hugging Face next to something else

No article here covers Hugging Face alongside another platform yet, so there is nothing to suggest. Pick your own pairing and the same questions get asked of each.

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How to read this page

The ten things above are not our idea of what matters. They are what the checklists in twenty hand-written articles on this site already asked, counted up: country and eligibility came first in nineteen of them, waiting time and what you are paid in came next. The payout minimum, the number most people search for, barely appeared. It is one row here, not the headline.

A row marked not publishedmeans we opened the company's own pages looking for it and it was not there. That is a finding, and it is dated. A row marked not checked yet means we have not done the work. Those two are kept apart on purpose: an empty box because we were slow should never look like an empty box because they were quiet.

Found something that has moved? Tell us. It gets checked against the source and the change is dated on the corrections page.

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