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Hugging Face

Who runs Hugging Face, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest machine learning model hub alternatives.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Hugging Face

Hugging Face huggingface.co

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Wikidata: American company

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Online since
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Audience

02 · Privacy

What Hugging Face tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 13 have more.

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03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Hugging Face

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  1. 01
    Replicate replicate.com English 1 tracker

    Replicate - Run AI with an API

    Run open-source machine learning models with a cloud API

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  2. 02
    ModelScope 魔搭社区 modelscope.cn Chinese 1 tracker

    首页 - ModelScope 魔搭社区

    ModelScope 魔搭社区——开源模型社区,提供模型、数据集与在线 Demo 的一站式服务。

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  3. 03
    Kaggle kaggle.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Kaggle: The World’s AI Proving Ground

    Discover what actually works in AI. Join millions of builders, researchers, and labs evaluating agents, models, and frontier technology through crowdsourced benchmarks, competitions, and hackathons.

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  4. 04
    GitHub github.com Top 100 English Free plan 2 trackers

    GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub

    Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.

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  5. 05
    Together AI together.ai English 4 trackers

    Together AI | The AI Native Cloud

    Build what's next on the AI Native Cloud. Full-stack AI platform for inference, fine-tuning, and GPU clusters — powered by cutting-edge research.

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  6. 06
    Ollama ollama.com Top 10K No trackers

    Ollama · Run AI models locally and in the cloud

    Ollama is the easiest way to run and build with open AI models locally or in the cloud on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

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  7. 07
    Civitai civitai.com

    platform for AI models, images and videos with marketplace

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  8. 08
    DeepInfra deepinfra.com English No trackers

    Machine Learning Models and Infrastructure | DeepInfra

    DeepInfra offers cost-effective, scalable, easy-to-deploy, and production-ready machine-learning models and infrastructures for deep-learning models.

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  9. 09
    DataRobot datarobot.com English 2 trackers

    DataRobot | Unified Agent Workforce Platform for Enterprise

    DataRobot delivers the industry-leading AI applications and platform that maximize impact and minimize risk for your business

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  10. 10
    gitcode.com English No trackers

    AtomGit - Open source community and code hosting platform for global developers

    AtomGit is an open source community for global developers, featuring blogs, open source code hosting, code collaboration, project management, and more. Interact with developer communities to improve your development efficiency and quality.

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    DrivenData drivendata.org English 2 trackers

    DrivenData Competitions

    DrivenData hosts data science competitions to build a better world, bringing cutting-edge predictive models to organizations tackling the world's toughest problems.

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    Mistral mistral.ai English 2 trackers

    Mistral | #1 in Sovereign AI: Frontier Open Models You Own

    Frontier open-weight models you own and control. Customize with Forge, deploy with Studio, run on-prem, your VPC, or our cloud.

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  13. 13
    You.com you.com English 1 tracker

    You.com | Search and inference for AI

    The core AI infrastructure you need to maximize accuracy while reducing latency and costs.

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  14. 14
    SeaArt seaart.ai English No trackers

    AI Creativity Community for Art, Video, Chat & Tools | SeaArt AI

    SeaArt AI is an all-in-one AI creativity community for art, videos, audio, and AI chats, where creators collaborate, spark inspiration, and grow together.

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  15. 15
    Docebo docebo.com English 1 tracker

    Workforce Readiness Platform and Skills Intelligence LMS | Docebo

    Docebo is the workforce readiness platform that connects skills intelligence, learning, knowledge, and AI agents, so you know who's ready and can build what's next.

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  16. 16
    Ideogram ideogram.ai English No trackers

    Ideogram | AI apps and models in one platform

    Use purpose-built AI apps, access major image and video models through one API, and build on Ideogram 4.0, our open model.

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  17. 17
    DigitalOcean digitalocean.com Top 1K English No trackers

    AI-Native Cloud | DigitalOcean

    Run AI products in production with a unified stack for agents, inference, and cloud—built for control, performance, and economics at scale.

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  18. 18
    ReadMe readme.com English 2 trackers

    ReadMe · Developer-friendly API documentation

    ReadMe helps you create beautiful, interactive API documentation that developers love.

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  19. 19
    Groq groq.com English 3 trackers

    Groq is the premier neocloud for fast inference

    Groq is the premier neocloud for fast inference. One fully integrated platform for infrastructure, inference, and control. Millions of developers run trillions of tokens on Groq every week.

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  20. 20
    Notion notion.com Top 10K English Free plan 1 tracker

    The AI workspace that works for you. | Notion

    Build Custom Agents, search across all your apps, and automate busywork. The AI workspace where teams get more done, faster.

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04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Hugging Face adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 12 technologies
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k = 20
Sites searched
9,192
Vector
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Query
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