Capabilities and tasks
Open-source library for text, image and audio models
Publisher source ↗Transformers
Open-source library for text, image and audio models
Research frameworksCompany overview
Open-source library for text, image and audio models
- Company
- Hugging FaceOfficial source ↗
- Founders
- Clément Delangue (co-founder)Official source ↗
- Founded
- 2016Official source ↗
- Listed?
- Not confirmed listed
- Legal entity
- Hugging Face, Inc.Official source ↗
FundingAugust 2023: US$235M Series D (one round)Publisher source ↗ScaleCurrent official homepage figures: 2M+ models, 1M+ AI apps and 500K+ datasetsPublisher source ↗huggingface.co ↗
Free use
Free on your own device; hardware required
Publisher source ↗Official pricing
Local software free; cloud billed separately
Publisher source ↗Models and capabilities
Text · image · audio model library
Publisher source ↗Countries, regions and access
Self-hosted / local software; cloud and model rules separate
Publisher source ↗Commercial rights
The publisher software license has conditions. Model and cloud-service rights are separate.
Publisher source ↗Payment methods
- No software payment for the self-hosted/open-source editionPublisher source ↗
- Cloud hosting, compute and model API costs are billed separatelyPublisher source ↗
Developer API pricing and web plans
Self-hosted core has no vendor fee per request; GPU, hosting and connected model APIs cost separately.
Web or product subscription (not an API-call fee)
Local software free; cloud billed separately
Publisher source ↗