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HuggingFace

Open ML model hub and inference platform

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The central hub for open-source ML models, datasets, and spaces. Offers Inference API, Inference Endpoints, and the Transformers library for running models.

Choose HuggingFace when…

  • You want access to thousands of open models
  • Fine-tuning or training custom models is on your roadmap
  • You want to host your own model on a managed endpoint

Builder Slot

Where do your models actually run?Required for most stacks

LLM providers and inference servers — where the actual model computation happens

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App Infra
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Hybrid
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Stack Genome Detection

AIchitect's Genome scanner detects HuggingFace in your project via these signals:

pip packages
transformershuggingface-hubdatasets
env vars
HF_TOKENHUGGINGFACE_API_KEYHF_API_TOKEN

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smolagentsAgent Frameworks

SmolAgents is built by HuggingFace and runs models from the HuggingFace Hub locally or via Inference API natively.

Open-model SmolAgents with no API costs — run fully local or serverless on HuggingFace's hosted inference.

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Pricing

✦ Free tier available
Pro$9/mo

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