How much does Hugging Face Inference Providers cost?
- Free plan
- Yes
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
In your favor
- Free plan. Free Hub account with unlimited public models, datasets and apps; CPU Basic and ZeroGPU Spaces hardware listed as FREE
- Notice before price changes. Prices fixed during the term of the initial subscription; adjusted fees apply after the term
Watch out for
- Extra usage is billed. Usage based fees over allotted usage are billed as they go
How you buy and get started
- Sign up
- Self-serve sign up "Sign Up"
- Setup
- Instant setup for Team "Instant setup for growing teams"
- When sales steps in
- Enterprise requires talking to sales "Talk to sales"
- Support
- Dedicated support on Enterprise "Dedicated support"
What Hugging Face Inference Providers does
Hugging Face hosts over 2M models, 500k+ datasets and 1M+ apps, and sells paid Team, Enterprise, PRO, storage, Spaces hardware and Inference Endpoints. Its Inference Providers service gives access to 45,000+ models through a single API.
- Good for
- ML teams and individuals who want to host, share and deploy models, datasets and apps, and organizations needing SSO, audit logs and access controls.
- Channels
- web, API
- Main product
- Hugging Face Hub with Inference Providers and Inference Endpoints
- Also includes
- Hub hosting for models, datasets and Spaces, Inference Providers unified API, Inference Endpoints dedicated deployment, Spaces hardware including ZeroGPU, Storage Buckets, Open source libraries
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Not stated
- Pay-per-token pricingNot stated
- Multiple models available
Access 45,000+ models from leading AI providers through a single, unified API with no service fees.
- Fine-tuning supportNot stated
- Streaming responsesNot stated
- Tool and function callingNot stated
- SOC 2 complianceNot stated
- No training on your dataNot stated
- Discounted batch processingNot stated
The same 8 checks appear on every tool in AI API platforms. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.
Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | Not stated | |
| GDPR | GDPR referenced in privacy policy | "Pursuant to applicable data protection laws, and especially the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the “GDPR”)"privacy |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Team and Enterprise (SAML & OIDC) | "SSO support (SAML & OIDC)"pricing |
| Trust center | Not stated |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PRO/month | $9 | – | 2 USD inference credits | – | "$9 /month" |
| Team/month per user | $20 | – | – | – | "$20 /month per user" |
| Enterprise/month per user | $50 | – | – | – | "$50 /month per user" |
Free plan: Free Hub account with unlimited public models, datasets and apps; CPU Basic and ZeroGPU Spaces hardware listed as FREE
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Usage based fees over allotted usage are billed as they go "usage based fees, which apply if you go over your allotted usage, will be billed **as they go**."
- Contract
- Not stated
- Refunds
- Non-refundable "All fees are non-refundable and exclusive of any applicable taxes"
- Auto renew
- Not stated
- Price change notice
- Prices fixed during the term of the initial subscription; adjusted fees apply after the term "prices will remain fixed during the term of your initial subscription, and adjusted fees will be applicable only after the term of your new subscription."
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Address
- 9 rue des Colonnes, 75002 Paris, France (EU main establishment, Hugging Face SAS
- Customers
- "More than 400,000 organizations" their claim
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Questions
Is Hugging Face Inference Providers free?
Yes. Free Hub account with unlimited public models, datasets and apps; CPU Basic and ZeroGPU Spaces hardware listed as FREE Paid plans start at $9/month.
How much does Hugging Face Inference Providers cost?
Paid plans start at $9 per month.
