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Hugging Face
The GitHub of AI — browse, download, and deploy 500,000+ open-source models and datasets.
Add Hugging Face to your hut →Hugging Face is the central hub for open-source AI — it hosts 500,000+ model weights, 100,000+ datasets, and 150,000+ demo apps (called Spaces). It's where researchers publish new models, where companies like Meta, Mistral, and Stability AI release open weights, and where developers find pre-trained models for any task. The Transformers library (`pip install transformers`) is the standard Python library for working with language and vision models, and it's maintained by Hugging Face.
Hosting and the Inference API are free for public models. The Pro plan ($9/mo) adds private repos and more compute for Spaces. Enterprise Hub (custom pricing) covers team access controls and SLAs. Most often compared to GitHub for developers — Hugging Face is the equivalent registry, but for model weights, datasets, and ML experiments rather than code.
| Made by | Hugging Face |
|---|---|
| Pricing | Free (public models) · Pro $9/mo · Enterprise Hub (custom) |
| Best for | Browsing and downloading open-source models, running model demos, ML research and deployment |
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