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Hugging Face sells the Hub as Free, PRO, Team, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus plans, prices Team and Enterprise per user per month, bills Spaces, Jobs, Inference Endpoints and extra storage on usage with credits, and lets repository authors declare their own licences in card metadata.

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Overview articleHugging Face licensingHugging Face sells the Hub as Free, PRO, Team, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus plans, prices Team and Enterprise per user per month, bills Spaces, Jobs, Inference Endpoints and extra storage on usage with credits, and lets repository authors declare their own licences in card metadata.Cited · Edited 2026-10-13 · 11 references

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Hugging Face Hub plans, seats and storageCited · Edited 2026-10-13Hugging Face compute billing for Spaces, Jobs and InferenceCited · Edited 2026-10-13Hugging Face model and dataset licences and gatingCited · Edited 2026-10-13Hugging Face Terms of Service and Content PolicyCited · Edited 2026-10-13Hugging Face enterprise security and access controlsCited · Edited 2026-10-13

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From the Hugging Face catalog: how usage is counted, the rules that apply, the programs licences are bought through and the SKUs. Backed by 67 verbatim excerpts from 29 Hugging Face documents.

Products

All 14 Products

Machine Learning Software 12

Academia Hub, Hugging Face Hub, Hugging Face Hub Enterprise, Hugging Face Hub Enterprise Plus, Hugging Face Hub private repositories, Hugging Face Hub public repositories, Hugging Face Hub Team, Hugging Face PRO, and 4 more

API Platforms 2

Inference Endpoints, Inference Providers

Product History

All acquisitions
  1. Hugging Face acquired Pollen RoboticsAnnounced 2025-04-14 · Closed 2025-04-14

    Hugging Face announced it was welcoming Pollen Robotics, a team that had spent nine years building open-source robots, and would sell the Reachy 2 humanoid robot. Hugging Face described it as its fifth acquisition.

    Legacy productBecame
    Reachy 2Kept Reachy 2 (Hugging Face) · Open-source, VR-compatible humanoid robot for research and education
    Licensing impact
    • Hugging Face said the first robot it would offer was Reachy 2, orderable for USD 70,000 by emailing Pollen Robotics' sales address.[1]
    • Hugging Face said Pollen Robotics was built with open source at its core and tied the deal to its LeRobot robotics library.[1]
    Sources and full product history
  2. Hugging Face acquired XetHubAnnounced 2024-08-08 · Closed 2024-08-08

    Hugging Face announced that it had acquired XetHub, a Seattle-based company whose technology lets Git scale to terabyte-sized repositories of datasets and models.

    Legacy productBecame
    XetHub storage and versioning technologyMerged into Hugging Face Hub storage backend · Intended to replace Git LFS as the storage backend for Hub repositories
    Licensing impact
    • Hugging Face said the XetHub team would help it switch the Hub's repositories from Git LFS to its own storage backend with chunked files and deduplication, so a small change to a large file needs only the changed chunks re-uploaded.[1]
    Sources and full product history
  3. Hugging Face acquired ArgillaAnnounced 2024-06-13 · Closed 2024-06-13

    Argilla, maker of an open-source tool for building and curating datasets, announced it was joining Hugging Face.

    Legacy productBecame
    Argilla open-source toolKept Argilla (Hugging Face) · Argilla said it would double down on community dataset building
    Licensing impact
    • Argilla said Hugging Face's Enterprise Hub would unlock requested features for its enterprise customers, including single sign-on, audits and integration with Inference Endpoints.[1]
    Sources and full product history
  4. Hugging Face acquired GradioAnnounced 2021-12-21 · Closed 2021-12-21

    Gradio, a library for building and sharing demos of machine learning models, announced that it was being acquired by Hugging Face.

    Legacy productBecame
    GradioKept Gradio (Hugging Face) · Founders said they would keep growing Gradio within Hugging Face
    Licensing impact
    • Gradio's co-founder said the team would keep growing Gradio as a way to share machine learning models, now as part of Hugging Face.[1]
    Sources and full product history
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