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Hugging Face

Hugging Face · #5 most active of 17 in Infrastructure & Serving

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The model and dataset registry the open ecosystem runs on.

Current version

Hub

Entry cost

Free tier · from $9/mo

Changes / 30d

0

The short answers

What is the latest version of Hugging Face?
The current shipped version of Hugging Face is Hub.
How much does Hugging Face cost?
Hugging Face starts at $9 per month on its cheapest paid tier.
What AI model does Hugging Face use?
Hugging Face runs primarily on hosts most open weights.

Source: Hugging Face (no public source page recorded) · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow

Capabilities

  • Model hub
  • Inference endpoints
  • Spaces

Pricing

Free, $9/mo Pro, enterprise from $20/user

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • hosts most open weights

    Provider undisclosed

    disclosed

Context window

Public API

no

Multi-model routing

no

Stack signals

  • Transformers
  • Safetensors
  • TGI

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

  • hosts most open weightsProvider undisclosed · 1 product

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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How to cite this page

Free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Permalink: https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/hugging-face

APA
Tomorrow. (2026). Hugging Face — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-09-17, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/hugging-face
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-hugging-face,
  author       = {{Tomorrow}},
  title        = {Hugging Face — version, pricing and model stack},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {AlienSquad},
  howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/hugging-face}},
  note         = {Accessed: 2026-09-17}
}