Catalog/ № 024
Hugging Face
shipThe GitHub of AI — models, datasets, Spaces and inference endpoints.
huggingface.coVerified 2026-08-15
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Infrastructure you already depend on whether you know it or not: model weights, datasets, the transformers library, Spaces demos. The default distribution channel for open AI.
Known limitations
- Hub reliability incidents affect the whole ecosystem.
- Inference Endpoints pricing not always competitive.
- Discovering quality models among the noise takes effort.
Facts
- pricing
- freemium1
- price note
- free; PRO $9/mo; inference pay-as-you-go
- free tier
- yes
- open source
- no
- api
- yes
- self-host
- no
- category
- dev-infra
Sources
If we can't show the source, we don't print the number.
Same shelf — dev-infra
Fireworks AI
dev-infra
Fast inference platform for open models — serverless and on-demand GPUs.
APIFREE TIER
freemium$1 starter credits; serverless from $0.10/1M tokens; on-demand GPU from $7/hr
Groq
dev-infra
Ultra-fast inference on custom LPU hardware — open models at 500+ tok/s.
APIFREE TIER
freemiumfree tier; from $0.05/1M tokens (small models)
OpenRouterfeatured
dev-infra
One API for every major model — unified billing, fallbacks and routing.
APIFREE TIER
freemiumpay-per-token pass-through plus a small fee