Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Hugging Face
The 20 closest machine learning model hub alternatives to Hugging Face, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 12 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Hugging Face? The closest matches are You.com, Habr and Ollama. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Hugging Face
Hugging Face huggingface.co
Hugging Face – The AI community building the future.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Wikidata: American company
Summary by Claude
An online hub where users host, share and discover machine learning models, datasets and demo applications (Spaces), plus open-source ML libraries such as Transformers, paid compute, inference APIs and enterprise team features.
- Who it’s for
- Machine learning engineers, researchers and AI companies
- Business model
- Freemium subscriptions, paid compute and enterprise plans
02 · Embedding space
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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Hugging Face
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Hugging Face, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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You.com | Search and inference for AI
The core AI infrastructure you need to maximize accuracy while reducing latency and costs.
Very close cos 0.907 - 02
Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
Very close cos 0.907 - 03
Ollama · Run AI models locally and in the cloud
Ollama is the easiest way to run and build with open AI models locally or in the cloud on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Very close cos 0.904 - 04
SurveyMonkey: The World’s Most Popular Survey Platform
Easily create surveys and forms with AI and templates for employee and customer feedback, market research, event registrations and more. Get started free.
Very close cos 0.904 - 05
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 cos 0.904 - 06
Kaggle: The World’s AI Proving Ground
Discover what actually works in AI. Join millions of builders, researchers, and labs evaluating agents, models, and frontier technology through crowdsourced benchmarks, competitions, and hackathons.
Very close cos 0.898 - 07
AI App and Website Builder | Replit
Describe what you want. Replit builds it. Get a working app or website in minutes. No coding required.
Very close cos 0.899 - 08
Blender - The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
The Freedom to Create
Very close cos 0.897 - 09
MySQL
Open-source relational database management system
Very close cos 0.898 - 10
LinkedIn: Log In or Sign Up
1 billion members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
Very close cos 0.899 - 11
product discovery website
Very close cos 0.898 - 12
DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Very close cos 0.898 - 13
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
Very close cos 0.898 - 14
Learn to Code - for Free | Codecademy
Learn the technical skills to get the job you want. Join over 50 million people choosing Codecademy to start a new career (or advance in their current one).
Very close cos 0.898 - 15
American artificial intelligence research organization
Very close cos 0.895 - 16
Black November Alura: matricule-se com até 50% de desconto!
A Black November da Alura chegou! Aproveite o maior desconto do ano para se matricular e avançar na sua carreira tech!
Very close cos 0.895 - 17
about.me | your personal homepage
Create a free, one-page website in minutes with about.me. Showcase your work, links, and story on a personal homepage that's all about you.
Close cos 0.893 - 18
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stock photography site
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Canva
online graphic design platform
Very close cos 0.895 - 20
Moodle challenge
e-learning platform
Very close cos 0.894
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to huggingface.co’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Hugging Face uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Hugging Face is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
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
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Hugging Face adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Apple Business 11/20
- Cloudflare · not on huggingface.co 11/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on huggingface.co 10/20
- OpenAI 10/20
- Stripe 7/20
- Atlassian · not on huggingface.co 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on huggingface.co 7/20
- Next.js · not on huggingface.co 5/20
- React · not on huggingface.co 5/20
- SendGrid · not on huggingface.co 5/20
- Zendesk 5/20
- HubSpot · not on huggingface.co 4/20
- Salesforce · not on huggingface.co 4/20