Hugging Face Inference

Hugging Face's router that sends OpenAI-compatible requests to partner inference providers (Groq, Together, Fireworks, Cerebras, and others) under one HF token and bill.

Fee on tokens

List price

Pricing model

Pass-through at each provider's rate with no Hugging Face markup; pay as you go on your HF account, or bill directly to the provider with your own key

Bring your own key

Yes, fee not stated

Entry plan

Usage based

Hosting

Hosted

Features stated: none found. Not stated: Fallbacks, Load balancing, Caching, Guardrails, Observability, Rate limits, Budgets, Prompts, OpenAI-compatible, Bring your own key, Data residency, Private networking.

The terms, in their words

Markup

Pass-through at each provider's rate with no Hugging Face markup; pay as you go on your HF account, or bill directly to the provider with your own key

Free tier

Monthly credits: $0.10 for free users, $2.00 for PRO, $2.00 per seat for Team/Enterprise

Providers

200+ models from about 17 listed providers (Baseten, Cerebras, Cohere, DeepInfra, Fal AI, Featherless AI, Fireworks, Groq, HF Inference, Novita, Nscale, OVHcloud, Public AI, Replicate, Scaleway, Together, WaveSpeedAI, Z.ai)

• Access 200+ models from leading AI inference providers with centralized, transparent, pay-as-you-go pricing.
• Hugging Face charges you the same rates as the provider, with no additional fees. We just pass through the provider costs directly.
• Custom Provider Key : You can bring your own provider key to use with the Inference Providers.

Source: huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricing

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