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Pick the ones you are actually choosing between. The same questions get asked of each, the answers come off the company's own pages, and every figure carries the day we read it.

Places that pay youThings you build on

Eight questions about what it costs and who owns the result, asked of each one.

2 PLATFORMS · 8 QUESTIONS · 4 ANSWERED BY ALL

DigitalOcean
Hugging Face

What it costs you

What it really costs to startAll in, not the first-year promotional price.
DigitalOceanFree: 3 static sites, 1 GiB eachFree tier is capped at 3 static-site apps with a 1 GiB transfer allowance each; paid App Platform starts at $5/month.source · checked 2026-09-07
Hugging FacePricingFree: 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 quotasource · checked 2026-09-12
What it costs to keep alivePer year, once the introductory pricing is over.
DigitalOceanWe have not checked this one yet
Hugging FacePricingPRO $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/hoursource · checked 2026-09-12

The gate before the first cent

The gate before it pays anythingThe traffic, sales or balance you must reach before a single cent moves.
DigitalOceanWe have not checked this one yet
Hugging FaceWe have not checked this one yet
How long before the first paymentThe gap you have to fund out of your own pocket.
DigitalOceanWe have not checked this one yet
Hugging FaceWe have not checked this one yet

Is it yours or theirs

Who owns what you buildYours, or a room you are allowed to sit in until the rules change?
DigitalOceanYou keep ownershipYou keep copyright and ownership of your Services Content. DigitalOcean takes only an operational licence to host, store and display it in order to run the service.source · checked 2026-09-07
Hugging FaceTerms of ServiceYou 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 itsource · checked 2026-09-12
Can you take it with youThe domain, the list, the content. What actually leaves with you.
DigitalOceanSnapshots cannot be downloadedSnapshots and backups cannot be downloaded off the platform. Getting data out means copying it yourself with third-party tools such as rsync or SFTP.source · checked 2026-09-07
Hugging FaceTerms of ServiceYou 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 itsource · checked 2026-09-12
Can it be soldIs there a resale market, and what does it pay?
DigitalOceanWe have not checked this one yet
Hugging FaceWe have not checked this one yet
What takes it all awayThe single rule, ban or dependency that ends it overnight.
DigitalOceanCut off with no notice, content deletedDigitalOcean can terminate access at any time, with or without notice, effective immediately, and owes you nothing back: it deletes Services Content on termination under its standard closure practice.source · checked 2026-09-07
Hugging FaceTerms of ServiceHugging 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 themsource · checked 2026-09-12

There is no winner at the bottom of this table

Nothing here gets added up. A score would have to decide that these questions weigh the same for everyone, and they do not. A lower cash-out bar is better if you need the money this month and worse if it arrives as a gift card you cannot spend on rent. One payout method is fine right up until it is the one that does not work where you live.

The rows worth your attention are usually the ones where the columns disagree about whether to answer at all. A platform that publishes its fee and a platform that does not are not two platforms with different fees. One of them has told you, and you can hold them to it.

Rows marked as not checked are about us, not about them. They mean nobody here has gone looking yet, and they stay visible for that reason. Found a figure that has moved? Tell us, and it gets a new source and a new date rather than a quiet edit.

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