5 categories · RankedHugging Face
Hugging Face is a machine learning platform and community for working with open models and deploying them, including a model Hub and Inference Endpoints · huggingface.co ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Google Vertex AI is first at 20%.
Databricks Mosaic AI is first at 24%.
Databricks Mosaic AI is first at 49%.
Why models recommend it
“Focused on NLP/AI Agents | Hugging Face + LangChain | Massive free library of pre-trained models”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Hugging Face is easy to try; paid compute and inference are usage-based, so monitor usage as you scale.”GPT-6 Luna · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“via tools like Ollama, Hugging Face, or enterprise platforms from vendors like NVIDIA, Red Hat, or SUSE”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · alternative
“Local models via LM Studio, Hugging Face, or privacy-focused tools like Sourcegraph Cody”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Recently suffered an autonomous AI agent intrusion... avoid using raw model marketplaces as your primary platform”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · warning
“Budget or open-source agents without enterprise hardening (e.g., some Hugging Face, local Llama-based, or no-name startup tools)”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning
“Real-world incidents on platforms like Hugging Face and GitHub have highlighted this growing risk.”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · warning
“Hugging Face and Model-Sharing Platforms (with caution) ... Remote code execution risks”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Hugging Face, over the 36 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 0 | View → | |
| 22 | 2 | View → | |
| 19 | 5 | View → | |
| 15 | 2 | View → | |
| 15 | 2 | View → | |
| 13 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 3 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of Hugging Face →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Hugging Face's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- The machine learning community
- Price stated
- Starting at $20/user/month; Starting at $0.60/hour for GPU
- Starting price
- 20/user/month
- Hosting
- US
- Customers named
- Ai2, AI at Meta, Amazon, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Grammarly, Writer
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 26 of the 36 answers that named Hugging Face and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Forty-one of the fifty domain citations in answers naming Hugging Face came from a third party's page. Four were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 882 | 3 | 2026-09-29 | ||
| Comparison | 42 | 3 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Conference or event | 27 | 0 | 2022-12-20 | ||
| Template or tool | 27 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 23 | undated | |||
| Case study | 18 | 0 | 2025-06-22 | ||
| News or press | 18 | 2 | 2026-09-23 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 13 | 1 | 2026-09-21 | ||
| Podcast or video | 3 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-29Community blog
- 2026-09-24Jev vs laya hosted api or open weights 2026 guide comparison
- 2026-09-23Nemotron diarization blog
- 2026-09-23Likes news or press
- 2026-09-23All news or press
- 2026-09-23Jev ai vs djev vs laya vs openjev vs semif which d comparison
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page huggingface.co exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.