Is Hugging Face free?

Hugging Face offers a free tier and paid plans with higher limits or premium features.

What category does Hugging Face belong to?

Hugging Face is in the AI Web Apps category — Web apps with AI baked in — built for everything from journaling to research. Submitter-shipped products live here.

AI Web Apps·Freemium

Hugging Face

Hub for ML models, datasets, and demos — the GitHub of open-source machine learning.

What is Hugging Face, in two sentences

Hugging Face is a hub for ML models, datasets, and demos — the GitHub of open-source machine learning.

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Concepts you should know

LoRA adapter
The small file produced by LoRA fine-tuning. Contains only the rank-decomposed updates to a few attention layers, typically 10-200 MB. Can be loaded onto the base model at inference for a customised checkpoint without storing the whole model.

Frequently asked questions

What is Hugging Face?: Hugging Face is a hub for ML models, datasets, and demos — the GitHub of open-source machine learning.
Is Hugging Face free?: Hugging Face offers a free tier and paid plans with higher limits or premium features.
What platforms does Hugging Face support?: Hugging Face runs on web.
What category does Hugging Face belong to?: Hugging Face is in the AI Web Apps category — Web apps with AI baked in — built for everything from journaling to research. Submitter-shipped products live here.