Hugging Face is listed under Model Hosting & Inference APIs, in the AI Models & Local Execution category on Flocci AI Tools. The hub for open models and datasets. It is freemium — a usable free tier with paid plans above it, and it lives at huggingface.co.
Hugging Face is freemium: there is a free tier you can work in and paid plans above it. It is one of 426 freemium tools in the catalog, all labelled the same way so you are never surprised by a paywall.
Hugging Face works in a normal browser tab with no install. It is available on the web and an API.
Hugging Face does 4 things the catalog singles out: The hub for open models and datasets; spaces to host and demo apps; inference endpoints and providers; free accounts and hosting.
Baseten is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same Model Hosting & Inference APIs sub-category and is free tier + paid plans. Cloudflare Workers AI, Cohere Trial API and Fireworks AI also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.
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