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Hugging Face Pricing: Plans & Features 2026

PRO at $9/mo is the most popular choice, while advanced teams can scale with dedicated Inference Endpoints starting at $0.033/hour.

Hugging Face plans and pricing

High· Verified July 2, 2026

Free

Free

Best for: You get Public models and datasets, Community spaces, Basic inference

  • Access to 2M+ public models and datasets
  • 100 GB of private repository storage
  • Community Spaces
  • ZeroGPU access on a standard quota
  • $0.10/month in Inference Provider credits
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MOST POPULAR

PRO

$9/mo

Best for: Boost your personal HF experience

  • 8x ZeroGPU quota with top queue priority (40 min/day)
  • 1 TB of private storage
  • $2/month in Inference Provider credits
  • Spaces Dev Mode (SSH and VS Code access)
  • Private Dataset Viewer
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Team

$20/user/mo

Best for: Instant setup for growing teams

  • All PRO features for every team member
  • 12 TB base public storage + 1 TB/seat public + 1 TB/seat private
  • $2/month Inference Provider credits per seat (pooled across the org)
  • Org-level billing controls for Inference Providers
  • Priority Support
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Enterprise

Contact Sales

Best for: Custom onboarding + enterprise features

  • All Team plan benefits plus elevated resource limits
  • 45 minutes daily ZeroGPU quota
  • Highest storage, bandwidth, and API rate limits
  • SCIM provisioning for automated user management
  • Managed billing with annual commitments and flexible payment terms
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Hugging Face pricing: the quick answer

Quick answerLast verified: July 2, 2026High

Hugging Face starts free and charges $9 to $20 a month for its paid plans as of July 3, 2026, with a custom Enterprise tier above them. The free plan covers 2M-plus public models and datasets, 100GB of private storage, and a small ZeroGPU quota. PRO is $9/mo for eight times the ZeroGPU quota, 1TB of storage, and Dev Mode, and Team is $20 per user a month with SSO, audit logs, and pooled inference credits. The subscription is only half the story: Spaces compute is billed by the hour on top, from $0.40/hr for a T4 up to $20/hr for an 8x A100 rig.

  • FreeFree
  • PRO$9/mo
  • Team$20/user/mo
  • EnterpriseCustom
Use the interactive Hugging Face pricing calculator to estimate your exact monthly cost at your team size, with annual-billing savings and the hidden costs counted in.
Free tier
Yes
Billing model
Freemium
Cheapest paid
$9/mo
Annual discount
Not offered

At $9/mo to start, Hugging Face sits 13% above the $7.99/mo median across 10 large language models tools we track.


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What Hugging Face really costs

What sits on top of the plan fee

The monthly plan buys quota and features, not compute. Real bills on Hugging Face come from GPU-hours and storage, both metered separately from the $9 or $20 you pay for the seat.

Spaces GPU compute is billed by the hour
CPU Basic and ZeroGPU are free, but real GPUs meter continuously while a Space runs. A T4 small is $0.40/hr and an A100 large is $2.50/hr, so a demo left running on an A100 for a week costs about $420 whether or not anyone visits it. The multi-GPU rigs climb fast, with an 8x A100 at $20/hr. Set Spaces to sleep, because idle GPU time bills the same as active inference.
$0.40 to $20 per hour
Storage past your quota is a per-TB monthly charge
The base rate is $12 per TB a month for public repos and $18 per TB for private, charged monthly for as long as the data sits there. A team hosting 5TB of private model checkpoints pays $90 a month in storage alone, separate from any seats. Volume tiers cut the rate at 50TB and above, but for most teams storage is a steady line that grows quietly as checkpoints accumulate.
$12/TB public, $18/TB private
Inference Providers and Endpoints bill outside the plan
PRO includes only $2 a month in Inference Provider credits, and production Inference Endpoints have their own pay-as-you-go compute pricing not covered by the subscription at all. Once you move past experimentation into hosted production inference, that compute is the dominant cost, and the $9 or $20 plan fee becomes a rounding error against it. Scope the endpoint pricing separately before you plan a production deployment.
$2/mo credits, then PAYG

Pricing Expert Take

Independent analysis · Hugging Face

Value Analysis

$9/mo13% above median
Category median: $7.99/moBased on 10 products in this category

Hugging Face is genuinely free for browsing and light use, and PRO at $9/mo is a small step up that buys 8x the ZeroGPU quota, 1TB of storage, and SSH-level Dev Mode. Team is $20 per user a month and adds SSO, audit logs, and resource groups. For individuals and small teams building open-source AI, that is strong value. The costs that matter are not the seat prices; they are the compute and storage metered on top.

Hidden Costs

Spaces GPU time is billed by the hour, from $0.40/hr for a T4 up to $20/hr for an 8x A100, and it runs whether the Space is busy or idle. Storage past quota is $12 per TB a month for public repos and $18 for private. PRO includes only $2 a month in inference credits, and production Inference Endpoints carry their own pay-as-you-go compute pricing off this page. The plan fee is the floor, not the bill.

Red Flags

Users have been caught out by sudden changes to API and inference limits that disrupted live workflows.

"They cut the daily inference limit without much warning."

Reddit

"HuggingFace Pro is eating my wallet but I can't quit it."

Reddit

Based on analysis of recent Reddit and G2 discussions.

Green Wins

Why people stay:

  • A hub of 2M-plus open-source models and datasets in one place
  • The Transformers library makes state-of-the-art models easy to run
  • Spaces let you build and share live ML demos without your own hosting

"Access to hundreds of models for basically any NLP use case."

TrustRadius

Verdict

Solo developers do fine on PRO at $9/mo for experimentation, and growing teams that need security controls move to Team at $20/user/mo. Just budget the GPU-hours and storage separately, because they will outrun the seat fee. If you only want polished proprietary models rather than raw open-source hosting, ChatGPT is the simpler path.

ComparEdge EditorialUpdated: July 2, 2026

Hugging Face price history


Expert verified·Updated July 2, 2026
Price & Data Intelligence SyncLast verified: July 2, 2026 · CE-LLM-2026W23-14E30F · ✓ Pricing updated Jun 10, 2026
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  1. 1.Official Pricing Page·Source of verified tiers(Checked: 2026-07-02)
  2. 2.Official Website·Official vendor website
  3. 3.G2·G2 verified user reviews · 4.6/5 · 5 reviews
  4. 4.TrustRadius·TrustRadius verified reviews
  5. 5.PeerSpot·PeerSpot enterprise peer reviews