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The AI community's collaborative platform for machine learning models and datasets
Hugging Face is a hub for sharing machine learning models, datasets and demo apps; its homepage lists 2M+ models, 500k+ datasets and 1M+ apps. It maintains open-source libraries such as Transformers, and offers Inference Endpoints for deploying models to production, with PRO, Team and Enterprise paid plans.
Full Hugging Face listingRun and scale AI models in the cloud with simple API calls
Replicate runs machine learning models in the cloud behind an API. You can call open-source models others have published, or package your own with Cog and deploy it. Some models are billed by hardware time and others by input and output. Replicate has been owned by Cloudflare since December 2025 and runs as a separate brand.
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