Hugging Face free tier includes ML model hub… Verified October 2026. Compare with 28 alternatives in AI / ML.
Subtypes in AI / ML: model_gateway — one endpoint that reaches models run by several independent providers; what is sold is the routing, key management and fallback, not the weights; model_hosting — you supply or select a model and the platform serves it behind an endpoint on hardware you choose. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricing, where it says: “Inference Endpoints (dedicated)” How we use this.
Hugging Face's free tier offers ML model hub… It's stable — the change we last considered recording was refused on 2026-09-13, and we read the page again on 2026-10-05 and confirmed the terms above. Best for ai / ml workloads — 28 alternatives available.
ML model hub. Free users get $0.10 a month of Inference Providers credits (subject to change); Inference Providers serves 200+ models, and extra usage requires a credits purchase. PRO ($9/month) gets $2.00 a month. Free accounts get 100GB of private storage and best-effort public storage; substantial storage needs PRO, Team or Enterprise.
We read that on 2026-10-05 from https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Hugging Face as "hugging face" and states "$0.10" and "$2.00".
Free Users $0.10, subject to change Inference Providers yes (credits purchase required)
No recorded pricing changes for Hugging Face. This is a good sign — stable pricing.
How Hugging Face compares against every one of the 28 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.
| Service | Free Tier | Stability |
|---|---|---|
| Hugging Face | Free | stable |
| paperspace | Free | stable |
| Maxim AI | Free | stable |
| Mistral AI | Free | caution |
| Keywords AI | Free | stable |
| Lumenfall.ai | Free | stable |
| LLM7.io | Free | caution |
| OpenRouter | Free | stable |
| Ollama Cloud | Free | caution |
| Cohere | Free | stable |
| Roboflow | Free | caution |
| Groq | Free | caution |
| SiliconFlow | Free | unrated |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | Free | caution |
| Portkey | Free | unrated |
| Google Gemini API | Free (Reduced) | stable |
| Zhipu AI | Free | source unconfirmed |
| NVIDIA NIM | Free | source unconfirmed |
| Baseten | Basic (Free Credits) | unrated |
| Replicate | Trial | stable |
| Fireworks AI | Free Credits | unrated |
| Cerebras | Trial | risky |
| OpenAI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| Anthropic API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| Together AI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| DeepSeek API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated — change unconfirmed |
| GitHub Models | Retired | source unconfirmed |
| xAI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| MiniMax | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
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