# Hugging Face Inference Endpoints vs Koyeb

> Hugging Face Inference Endpoints scores 64.5 (B) on agent readiness against Koyeb's 46.5 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do compute gpu. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Hugging Face Inference Endpoints scores 64.5 (B) on agent readiness against Koyeb's 46.5 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do compute gpu.

- Hugging Face Inference Endpoints: grade B, 64.5/100, rank #314 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/hugging-face-inference-endpoints.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/hugging-face-inference-endpoints.json
- Koyeb: grade D, 46.5/100, rank #755 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/koyeb.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/koyeb.json

## Which one, for what

### Hugging Face Inference Endpoints (B)

Good for: Teams whose models already live on the Hugging Face Hub and who want a dedicated endpoint on a named cloud and region with standard open-source engines.

Ahead on:
- Schema & documentation, 73 against 41
- Agent ergonomics, 62 against 56
- Security & auth, 83 against 50
- Maintenance & community, 80 against 23
- Transparency & trust, 68 against 63

Watch for: No free tier. The docs require a payment method and credits, and replicas are billed while initialising as well as running

### Koyeb (D)

Good for: Teams that want cheap H100 or H200 containers with scale to zero and an SLA, deployed from Git or an image without a vendor SDK.

Watch for: Changelog silent since 27 February 2026 and no CLI release since 12 May 2026


## Score by category

| Category | Weight | Hugging Face Inference Endpoints | Koyeb | Edge |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 63 | 60 | Hugging Face Inference Endpoints +3 |
| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Schema & documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 73 | 41 | Hugging Face Inference Endpoints +32 |
| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 62 | 56 | Hugging Face Inference Endpoints +6 |
| Security & auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 83 | 50 | Hugging Face Inference Endpoints +33 |
| Payments & pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 20 | even |
| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |
| Maintenance & community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 80 | 23 | Hugging Face Inference Endpoints +57 |
| Transparency & trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 63 | Hugging Face Inference Endpoints +5 |
| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |
| **Total** | | **64.5 · B** | **46.5 · D** | |

## Facts side by side

| Fact | Hugging Face Inference Endpoints | Koyeb |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Model platform |
| Vendor | Hugging Face, Inc. | Koyeb |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.endpoints.huggingface.cloud` | `https://app.koyeb.com/v1` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | Token |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| x402 | no | no |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Hugging Face Terms of Service. The `huggingface_hub` Python client and CLI are Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 19 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | no | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-05-12 |
| Terms last updated | 2022-09-15 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2023-03-28 | no date given |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 60M PyPI/wk | 72 stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (2) |

## Verdicts

**Hugging Face Inference Endpoints.** OAuth scopes separate reading endpoints from writing them, both OpenAPI documents are public, and the unauthenticated `/v2/provider` route lists every instance with its hourly price. An account needs a payment method and credits before the first deployment, no rate limits or SLA were found for the management API, and the docs price table disagrees with the live list in places.

**Koyeb.** H100 at $2.50 and H200 at $3.00 an hour, billed per second. Changelog silent since 27 February 2026 and no CLI release since 12 May 2026.

## Before you call either

### Hugging Face Inference Endpoints

1. Call `GET https://api.endpoints.huggingface.cloud/v2/provider` first and pick an instance whose `status` is `available`. The docs table lists types the API marks deprecated or not available
2. Send `X-Scale-Up-Timeout: 600` on requests to an endpoint that scales to zero, or handle 503 while the first replica starts
3. Set `scaleToZeroTimeout` yourself. The docs give a default of 1 hour and the OpenAPI document says 15 minutes
4. Pause or delete an endpoint when the job is done. Billing covers every minute a replica is initialising or running
5. Give the agent a fine-grained token or the `read-endpoints` scope unless it must deploy. Endpoints are private by default and take the same Hugging Face token as a bearer

### Koyeb

1. Pass `dry_run` on service create or update to validate the definition before anything deploys
2. Page service lists with `limit` and `offset` and filter by `statuses` instead of fetching everything
3. Expect the first request after deep sleep to take 1 to 5 seconds and retry once with a timeout
4. Set `--min-scale 0` on GPU services so idle instances stop billing
5. Re-check the Mistral transition before building anything long-lived on it

## Questions

### Which is better for AI agents, Hugging Face Inference Endpoints or Koyeb?

Hugging Face Inference Endpoints scores 64.5 (B) on agent readiness against Koyeb's 46.5 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.

### Can an agent call Hugging Face Inference Endpoints and Koyeb without installing anything?

Yes. Hugging Face Inference Endpoints has a hosted endpoint at https://api.endpoints.huggingface.cloud and Koyeb at https://app.koyeb.com/v1.


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