huggingface.co
Hugging Face
Who runs Hugging Face, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest machine learning model hub alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Replicate
Measured from Hugging Face’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Hugging Face01 · 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
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- 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.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Hugging Face’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Hugging Face
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Hugging Face, thumbs down if it isn’t.
4 of the 60 sites closest to Hugging Face match.
- 01
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.
Very close - 02
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.
Very close - 03
Build internal software better, with AI. | Retool
Build, deploy, and manage internal tools with Retool's unified engine. Connect to any database, API, or LLM. Leverage AI throughout your business.
Very close - 04
GitLab - Speed with control for agentic software engineering
Teams and agents ship trusted software faster with GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform with context and governance for the entire software lifecycle.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Hugging Face’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Hugging Face uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy 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
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,212
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 35 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Hugging Face’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:spf.mailjet.com include:_spf.google.com include:amazon…
- Payments
- Stripe page source: js.stripe.com/
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: XBwasg0STtqstcPKFq16D_kUTp28xmDUFGpv_bsaskWvkrCE-5UAxA==
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms73710064
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 include:spf.mailjet.com include:_spf.google.com include:amazon…
- Mailjet TXT v=spf1 include:spf.mailjet.com include:_spf.google.com include:amazon…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1955.awsdns-52.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=ZDO4wVjVjWMGBFP3
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=0xPvU1qdox33LAduAR6WZBcojgN2dTHbmD6V7xH86ao
- Miro TXT miro-verification=ffff67f600b7fa1bc0e2cfeb85506a9854d04b3f
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-e4Lrj3WKW6Ij50099jy0UDHH
Sitemaps
, 1,288 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on huggingface.co 11/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Cloudflare · not on huggingface.co 10/20
- OpenAI 10/20
- Apple Business 9/20
- Notion · not on huggingface.co 7/20
- Stripe 7/20
- Atlassian · not on huggingface.co 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- Salesforce · not on huggingface.co 6/20
- Next.js · not on huggingface.co 6/20
- React · not on huggingface.co 6/20
- Zendesk 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on huggingface.co 5/20