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Features
40 features across 17 categories
APIs(1)
REST API for running inference on any model hosted on Hugging Face without managing infrastructure.
Analytics(4)
Compare model performance across tasks and benchmarks in real-time rankings.
Built-in tools to evaluate and benchmark model performance across various metrics.
Track inference statistics, performance metrics, and model behavior in production.
Dashboard showing API calls, costs, and performance metrics for Inference Endpoints.
Audio(3)
Classify audio files and recordings into categories for sound event detection.
Convert audio to text with multilingual support and speaker diarization.
Generate natural-sounding speech from text in multiple languages and voices.
Collaboration(2)
Team workspaces for collaborative model development with role-based access control.
Git-based version control for models, datasets, and code with full commit history.
Community(2)
Organized workshops, competitions, and collaborative projects with prizes.
Built-in discussion board for each model or dataset for feedback and community engagement.
Computer Vision(3)
Classify images into predefined categories using vision transformers and CNNs.
Perform semantic and instance segmentation to identify pixel-level regions.
Detect and localize objects in images with bounding boxes and confidence scores.
Core Features(1)
Access to 500,000+ pre-trained models for NLP, vision, audio, and multimodal tasks.
Data(1)
Collection of 50,000+ public datasets for training and fine-tuning models.
Deployment(2)
Production-ready endpoints with dedicated infrastructure, auto-scaling, and SLA support.
Deploy interactive ML demos and applications with automatic scaling and GPU support.
Developer Tools(4)
Minimal ML framework written in Rust for efficient inference on CPU and GPU.
Open-source library for state-of-the-art diffusion model inference and training.
Optimized framework for fast and efficient text generation with quantization and tensor parallelism.
Open-source Python library with 80,000+ pre-trained models for PyTorch, TensorFlow, and JAX.
Documentation(1)
Standardized documentation for models including intended use, limitations, and training data.
Integrations(1)
Automated notifications for repository changes, model updates, and inference completions.
NLP(7)
Create dense vector embeddings for semantic search and similarity matching.
Translate text between 100+ language pairs with pre-trained models.
Extract and classify named entities from text using pre-trained NER models.
Extract answers from context passages using extractive and generative QA models.
Classify text sentiment with multi-language support and custom-trained models.
Automatically generate concise summaries of documents and articles.
Classify text without training on labeled examples using label descriptions.
Organization(1)
Curated lists of models and datasets organized by use case and research area.
Performance(1)
Optimize inference speed by managing model caching strategies on endpoints.
Security(3)
Control access to models and datasets by requiring user approval before download.
Create private models and datasets with restricted access and custom permissions.
Configurable request throttling and quota management for API endpoints.
Training(3)
No-code platform for training custom models without coding or GPU management.
Simplified API for fine-tuning pre-trained models with your own data in the cloud.
Train and share reinforcement learning models with benchmark environments.
Pricing
Free
- ✓Public repos
- ✓Inference API with rate limits
- ✓30GB storage per repo
- ✓community access
Pro
Popular- ✓Private repos
- ✓faster Inference API
- ✓1TB storage
- ✓AutoTrain credits
Business
- ✓Team features
- ✓custom domain
- ✓priority support
- ✓10TB storage
Inference API (Pay-as-you-go)
- ✓API calls at $0.0001-$0.001 per request depending on model
Inference Endpoints (Starter)
- ✓1 CPU endpoint
- ✓auto-scaling
- ✓1 million free monthly tokens
Inference Endpoints (Pro)
- ✓Multiple GPU endpoints
- ✓auto-scaling
- ✓100 million monthly tokens
- ✓SLA support
AutoTrain (Pay-per-model)
- ✓GPU compute billed hourly starting at $0.50/hour
- ✓no monthly fee
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Integrations
30 known integrations