Hard facts side by side: free tiers, prices, limits, SDKs and privacy. Every value links to the official page it came from and is re-checked every week.
| Fact |  Hugging Face Inference Providers |
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| Free tier | No monthly credits on free plan Free users buy credits to use it; PRO gets $2.00 a month, Team and Enterprise $2.00 per seat. Source, Nov 8, 2026 |
| Starting price | Pay-as-you-go at provider rates Hugging Face passes provider costs through with no markup. Source, Nov 8, 2026 |
| Storage | Request and response not stored Logs kept up to 30 days for debugging, with no user data or tokens stored. Source, Nov 8, 2026 |
| Official SDKs | Python |
huggingface_hub InferenceClient for Python and @huggingface/inference for JavaScript; OpenAI clients work for chat.
| Open source | Partly The @huggingface/inference client is MIT licensed; the routed inference service is hosted. Source, Nov 8, 2026 |
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| Trains on your data | No Hugging Face does not store any user data for training; each provider has its own data policy. Source, Nov 8, 2026 |
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| Compliance | SOC 2GDPR Hub is SOC2 Type 2 certified and GDPR compliant; external providers handle their own security. Source, Nov 8, 2026 |
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