Hugging Face Inference Providers

by Hugging Face, Inc. Model router in Model APIs & inference

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Hugging Face's serverless router that sends model calls to partner inference providers such as Groq, Cerebras, Together and Fireworks through one Hugging Face token, with an OpenAI-compatible API at router.huggingface.co/v1 and Python and JavaScript clients.

Best for Agents and developers who want open-weight models from several hosts on one token and one bill, with a public price and capability list per provider.

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Assessment. One Hugging Face token reaches open models on 18 partner providers at the providers' own prices, with a public model list that shows each provider's price, context and tool support. Router rate limits, error responses and its own status component were not found in the reviewed documentation, and free accounts have had no included credits since 7 October 2026.

Facts

Access how an agent reaches and pays for it

Transport: HTTP
Endpoint: https://router.huggingface.co/v1
Auth: API key
Pricing: Pay per use · $2 / mo
x402: No
Licence: Proprietary service under the Hugging Face Terms of Service, which name Inference Providers. The `huggingface_hub` Python client is Apache-2.0 and `@huggingface/inference` is MIT
Capabilities: inference.router inference.open-weights inference.llm

Where it lives packages, source, docs and releases

Packages: pypi huggingface_hub
npm @huggingface/inference
Source: github.com/huggingface/huggingface_hub
Docs: huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/index
llms.txt: published
Last release: 2026-10-29
npm / week: 483k
PyPI / week: 71.5M

From our research 8 facts checked against the vendor's pages

Surface listed: The serverless router at router.huggingface.co/v1 (chat completions, a beta Responses API and task endpoints), the Hub API's inference_provider model filter and the Python and JavaScript clients, read from the docs, the router's model list and the clients' repositories on 6 November 2026. No account was made and no inference call was sent
Not the same as Inference Endpoints: Inference Endpoints (listed as hugging-face-inference-endpoints in gpu-compute) deploys a model on dedicated instances billed by the hour. Inference Providers routes per-token calls to partner providers' shared infrastructure. They share a Hugging Face account and compute credits
Providers: Baseten, Cerebras, Cohere, DeepInfra, fal, Featherless AI, Fireworks, Groq, HF Inference, Novita, Nscale, OVHcloud AI Endpoints, Public AI, Replicate, Scaleway, Together, WaveSpeedAI and Z.ai
Provider selection: :fastest by throughput (default), :cheapest by output price, :preferred by the account's order, or a provider name. Team and Enterprise admins can disable providers and set a spending limit
Custom provider keys: A provider key stored in Hugging Face settings is swapped in when routing, so the provider bills the call and included credits don't apply
Data handling: Request body and response not stored when routed. Debug logs kept up to 30 days without user data or tokens. Each provider's own data policy applies
Usage reporting: Usage by model and provider in account settings. An organisation usage API with daily requests, cost and token counts is Enterprise only
Rate limits: None documented for the router. The Hub's own limits (1,000 API requests per 5 minutes for a free user, 2,500 for PRO) cover Hub APIs, resolvers and pages

Facts verified 6 November 2026 from vendor docs, repositories and package registries. JSON · Markdown

Strengths

router.huggingface.co/v1/models lists every routed model with each provider's price, context, tool support, latency and throughput, without a token
Provider choice by suffix (:fastest, :cheapest, :preferred or a provider name) on an OpenAI-compatible endpoint
Fine-grained tokens can be limited to the Make calls to Inference Providers permission and revoked at once
No markup on provider rates, and request bodies and responses are not stored when routed
Official clients in Python (huggingface_hub 2.4.0, 29 October 2026) and JavaScript (@huggingface/inference 4.13.32)

Weaknesses

No rate limits, 429 behaviour or error responses documented for the router
status.huggingface.co has no component for Inference Providers or the router
Free users have had no included credits since 7 October 2026, and buying credits needs a person in the account settings
No OpenAPI document for the router, no batch API, and the Responses API is beta
Data handling past the router depends on each provider's own policy

Before you call it notes for agents

Read https://router.huggingface.co/v1/models before choosing a provider; it shows price, context and supports_tools per provider
Pin a provider with model:<provider> when tool calling or structured output matters, since support varies by provider
Use a fine-grained token with only the Inference Providers permission, and send X-HF-Bill-To to bill an organisation
Back off on 429 without assuming a Retry-After header, since none is documented for the router

Who's behind it provenance 84/100

Legal entity namedHugging Face, Inc.20/20
Domain agehuggingface.co, no registry record we could read0/15
Endpoint on the vendor's domainrouter.huggingface.co15/15
Terms of serviceread, states 6 of the 7 things a reader expects, and has 1 clause that costs points7.1/10
Privacy policyread, states 8 of the 8 things a reader expects10/10
Status pagestatus.huggingface.co10/10
Changelogpublished10/10
security.txtvalid10/10
People named3 named with their role, 3 with a public profile10/10
Support routehelp pages, a community5/5

Terms and privacy, as read

Terms of service dated 2022-09-15, states 6 of 7, 3 to know

TL;DR Dated 2022-09-15. States 6 of the 7 things a reader expects, and we didn't find a service level. To know before relying on it, changes without notice, cut-off without notice or for any reason and no update in three years.

Says the terms or the service can change without noticecosts points

We may at any time modify, suspend, or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Services (or any part thereof) with or without notice.

A customer may not hear about a change before it applies.

Says access can be ended without notice or for any reason

We may do the same, and we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your access to the Services anytime with or without cause, and at our own discretion, with or without notice.

The vendor can suspend or close an account without warning, which would stop an agent mid-task.

Has not been updated for three years or more

🗓 Effective Date: September 15, 2022

The date the document gives for itself is more than three years ago.

Gives the date it was last updated Last updated 2022-09-15

🗓 Effective Date: September 15, 2022

Without a date nobody can tell which version they agreed to.

Names the governing law or courts The law of the State of New York

These Terms and all matters regarding their interpretation and/or enforcement are governed by the Law of the State of New York, excluding its choice of law rules.

Says where a dispute would be heard and under whose law.

States a limit on its liability Capped at the fees paid in the 12 months before the claim or $50

Either Party’s (and each Related Party’s) aggregate liability to the other Party or any third party in any circumstance will not exceed the amount that you paid us during the 12-month period immediately preceding the last claim (or $50 if relating to a free service).

Says the most the vendor would owe if the service causes a loss.

Says how the agreement or account can be ended

We may at any time modify, suspend, or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Services (or any part thereof) with or without notice.

Says when the vendor can cut off access and what notice it gives.

Says how changes to the terms are announced Changes are posted, with no other notice named

We may also post and update supplemental terms for specific Services ("Supplemental Terms"), and such Supplemental Terms will also apply to you.

Says whether a customer hears about a change before it binds them.

Lists what users may not do

You may not disclose your password to any third party, and you are solely responsible for any action taken with your Account.

The acceptable-use rules an agent acting for a user has to stay inside.

Refers to a service level or uptime commitment

Not found in the text.

Says whether availability is promised and where the promise is written.

Each party's total liability is capped at the amount paid in the 12 months before the last claim, or 50 US dollars where the claim relates to a free service.

Noted by a second reader on 2026-10-08.

Setting a repository public grants every user a perpetual, irrevocable licence to use, reproduce, distribute and make derivative works of its content through the services.

If you decide to set your Repository public, you grant each User a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, display, publish, reproduce, distribute, and make derivative works of your Content through our Services and functionalities;

Noted by a second reader on 2026-10-08.

After an account is cancelled, the vendor says it will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete the account's information and repository content within 90 days.

Upon cancellation of your Account, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete your information and Content of your own Repositories, whether public or private, within 90 days.

Noted by a second reader on 2026-10-08.

The document · read 2026-10-08 · 4,712 words

Privacy policy dated 2023-03-28, states 8 of 8, 1 to know

TL;DR Dated 2023-03-28. States all 8 things a reader expects. To know before relying on it, no update in three years.

Has not been updated for three years or more

🗓 Effective Date: March 28, 2023

The date the document gives for itself is more than three years ago.

Gives the date it was last updated Last updated 2023-03-28

🗓 Effective Date: March 28, 2023

Without a date nobody can tell which version applied when data was collected.

Says what personal data is collected

We may collect Information from third parties that help us deliver the Services or process information.

The basic statement a privacy policy exists to make.

Says how long data is kept For as long as needed, with no period named

We retain your Information for as long as necessary to deliver the Services, to comply with any applicable legal requirements, to maintain security and prevent incidents and, in general, to pursue our legitimate interests.

Says when data sent to the service is deleted.

Says who else receives the data

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 also permits customers who are California residents to request certain information regarding Our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for direct marketing purposes.

Names the sub-processors or service providers the data is passed to, or where they are listed.

Says whether personal data is sold or shared for advertising Says it does not sell personal data

The Company will not sell, rent or lease your Personal Information except as provided for by this Policy.

A plain statement either way.

Says what rights people have over their data

The Company also reserves the right to access this information with your consent, or without your consent only for the purposes of pursuing legitimate interests such as maintaining security on its Services or complying with any legal or regulatory obligations.

Access, correction, deletion and objection, and how to use them.

Gives a privacy contact privacy@huggingface.co

To make such a request, please send an email to privacy@huggingface.co.

An address or officer to send a request to.

Says where data is transferred or stored

By using the Services, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.

The countries data goes to and the safeguard used.

Aggregated information that does not identify a user may be disclosed to advertisers and partners, with or without payment, for purposes that include targeting advertisements.

The Company may disclose Anonymous Information (with or without compensation) to third parties, including advertisers and partners, for purposes including, but not limited to, targeting advertisements.

Noted by a second reader on 2026-10-08.

The company may access information a user keeps private without consent, for legitimate interests such as maintaining security or meeting legal and regulatory obligations.

Noted by a second reader on 2026-10-08.

The document · read 2026-10-08 · 2,581 words

A reading by a fixed set of rules, each answered with the vendor's own sentence. It isn't legal advice, a rule can miss a clause or misread one, and the document itself is what binds. How it's read and scored.

The Terms of Service (effective 15 September 2022) name Hugging Face, Inc. and define Inference Providers as a hosted service for running inference through an API on Hub models.

huggingface.co/robots.txt and router.huggingface.co/robots.txt allow all. status.huggingface.co serves an empty robots.txt.

status.huggingface.co is a Better Stack page with components for the Hub, git hosting, Inference Endpoints, Spaces, the CDNs and Jobs, and none for Inference Providers or the router.

huggingface.co/changelog covers the whole Hub and had no Inference Providers entry on its first page on 6 November 2026. Dated changes to the docs are in the hub-docs repository's history.

security.txt, privacy policy and subprocessor list as recorded on the Inference Endpoints listing (checked 8 October and 2 November 2026); not re-read for this listing.

Checked 2026-11-06 against the vendor's own pages and the domain registry. Provenance is half of Transparency & trust.

Humans behind the project who makes it and where to get help

Key people

Clément DelangueCo-founder and CEO, Hugging Face
Julien ChaumondCo-founder and CTO, Hugging Face
Thomas WolfCo-founder and CSO, Hugging Face

Hugging Face, Inc. on LinkedIn @huggingface GitHub

Valuation $4.5B as announced (the source doesn't say pre- or post-money), Series D, August 2023 source

Backed byBetaworks,A.Capital Ventures,Lux Capital,Addition,Sequoia Capital,Coatue,SV Angel,AIX Ventures,Salesforce,Google,Amazon,NVIDIA,Intel,AMD,Qualcomm,IBM,Sound Ventures,Kevin Durant,Rich Kleiman,Olivier Pomel

Researched 6 November 2026 from public pages. Hugging Face's own pages read (its blog and the founders' profiles on huggingface.co) don't call anyone a founder. Salesforce Ventures' page on its Series D investment (an investor's own page) names Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond and Thomas Wolf as founders, and SiliconANGLE (24 August 2023) calls Delangue "Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer". The CTO and CSO titles rest on Wikipedia. Each founder's own Hugging Face profile links the LinkedIn, X and GitHub accounts on file. NVIDIA agreed in September 2026 to buy Hugging Face for about $12.9B; tech.eu (3 September 2026) says "The deal is expected to be completed in the first half of 2027." A search on 6 November 2026 found no report that it has closed, so the status stays private and the valuation stays the Series D figure. On 6 November 2026 TechCrunch and FrenchWeb sources were removed because their robots.txt disallows Claude's crawlers. Rounds now rest on Hugging Face's Series C post (May 2022, $100M led by Lux Capital), Salesforce Ventures' Series D post and SiliconANGLE's Series D report ($235M, valued at $4.5B). Seed, Series A and Series B participation and seven angels named only by TechCrunch (Richard Socher, Greg Brockman, Dev Ittycheria, Alex Wang, Aghi Marietti, Florian Douetteau, Paul St. John) were dropped, and the total raised was dropped because no allowed source states it. Shown for information, not part of the grade yet. People's accounts link to their own profiles; check them before you rely on one.

Sources (8)

Live watched around the clock · updated 2026-11-07 17:37 UTC

Right nowUpHTTP 404 · 175 ms · 2 minutes ago

Uptime 24h100.0%193 probes

Uptime 30 days100.0%193 probes

p50 24h108 msget

p95 24h196 msopen endpoint

Probed every five minutes at https://router.huggingface.co/v1. A probe counts as up when the endpoint answers without a server error, including a 401 that asks for credentials.

Vendor status page unknown, no machine-readable status found · 12 hours ago
github huggingface/huggingface_hub v2.4.0, released 2026-10-29
npm @huggingface/inference 4.13.32
pypi huggingface_hub 2.4.0, released 2026-10-29
GitHub stars 4k
npm downloads a week 483k
PyPI downloads a week 71.5M
security.txt valid, expires 2030-07-01T08:42:00.000Z · 1 hour ago
llms.txt answers · 2 hours ago

Pages we watch

Page	Kind	Last checked	Last changed
huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricing	pricing	3 hours ago · 200	no change seen

Live data comes from our pollers, trackers and scrapers and doesn't change the score until a benchmark run. What we watch · /api/v1/live/hugging-face-inference-providers.json

Notable

router.huggingface.co/v1/models answers without a token and listed 125 chat models from 11 providers on 6 November 2026, each with per-provider status, context length, input and output price per million tokens, tool and structured-output support, first-token latency and throughput source
Appending :fastest, :cheapest or :preferred to a model id picks the provider by throughput, output price or the account's order, and :<provider> pins one; :fastest is the default source
The partner table lists 18 providers across chat, vision, embeddings, text to image, text to video and speech to text, among them Baseten, Cerebras, Cohere, DeepInfra, fal, Groq, Novita, Nscale, Replicate, Together and Z.ai source
Free users lost their included monthly credits on 7 October 2026, per a docs change of that day; PRO and Team or Enterprise seats keep $2.00 a month source
The security page says request bodies and responses are not stored when routed through Hugging Face, debug logs are kept up to 30 days without user data or tokens, and providers' own data policies apply source
A Responses API is documented as beta beside the GA chat completions endpoint source

Reviews by the Anchor panel

Every review here is a desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. The outcome says whether the reviewer's questions could be answered from public material. How reviews work.

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Score breakdown methodology v0.7 · October 2026 research run

Assessed on 6 November 2026 from public evidence, against the published checklist. Confidence medium. Performance and Task success are pending until our probes and task suites run, so the total is over the 7 assessed categories, each weight divided by 80.

Category	Weight this run	Score	Points
Reliabilitychecked 6 November 2026	16%20	25	5.0
Hosted lines. status.huggingface.co is a Better Stack page with 90-day component history for the Hub, Inference Endpoints, Spaces, the CDNs and Jobs, but no component for Inference Providers or the router (10 of 20). With no component, there is no readable incident history for the surface agents call, and the feed's 23 items from 10 June to 7 October 2026 don't name it (5). No rate limits for the router were found; the Hub rate-limits page gives numbers for Hub APIs, resolvers and pages only (0). No 429 or overload guidance for the router was found (0). No SLA found (0). Chat completions on the router is generally available; the Responses API is labelled beta (10). Routing between providers with `:fastest` or `:cheapest` softens a single provider's outage, which this checklist doesn't score.
Performancenot scored in this run	10%pending	pending	n/a
Schema & documentationchecked 6 November 2026	13%16.2	62	10.1
No OpenAPI document for the router (openapi.json paths answer 404). The task reference pages are generated from typed JSON Schema specs in huggingface.js, and the router's /v1/models gives a machine-readable catalogue, so 12 of 25. llms.txt for the Inference Providers docs and a Markdown twin of every page via `.md` (10). Guides say what each task and policy is for, with a quick setup page for coding agents (14 of 20). Parameter tables with types for chat completion, though `response_format` and `tool_choice` show as unknown types (9 of 15). Examples in Python, JavaScript and curl on every task page, but no documented error responses for the router (9 of 15). No changelog of its own; the Hub changelog doesn't cover it and dated changes are only in the hub-docs history (8 of 15).
Agent ergonomicschecked 6 November 2026	13%16.2	58	9.4
Router reading of the model checklist (tool use, structured output, caching, context, batch, SDKs, errors), as for openrouter. Tool calling through the OpenAI-compatible API with `tool_choice`, support flagged per provider in /v1/models (15 of 20). Structured output documented, support flagged per provider and false on some (10 of 15). No prompt caching guidance found, though the Enterprise usage API counts cached input tokens (3 of 15). Routes to models with up to 1,048,576 tokens of context per the model list, a judgement call since a router has no default model (15). No batch API (0 of 10). Official clients in Python and JavaScript, plus any OpenAI SDK (10). Errors not documented (5 of 15).
Security & authchecked 6 November 2026	14%17.5	79	13.8
Model reading. Fine-grained user access tokens that can be limited to the `Make calls to Inference Providers` permission, rotated and revoked, plus a public revocation endpoint for leaked tokens, and organisation approval of fine-grained tokens on paid plans (30). Hugging Face says it doesn't store user data for training, but data handling past the router follows each provider's policy, with no per-request filter to exclude providers that train or retain (12 of 20). Request bodies and responses aren't stored when routed and debug logs are kept up to 30 days without user data or tokens, with provider retention outside that statement (10 of 15). Usage by model and provider in account settings, an Enterprise usage API, and Team and Enterprise admins can disable providers and set a spending limit (13 of 15). SOC 2 Type 2 for the Hub, of which the docs say Inference Providers is a feature, and security.txt valid to 2030 per the Inference Endpoints check; no bug bounty found (14 of 20).
Payments & pricingchecked 6 November 2026	10%12.5	20	2.5
No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-token prices for every model and provider published without a login in the router's /v1/models and on model pages (20). No free tier since 7 October 2026, when free users lost their included monthly credits; PRO's $2.00 of credits needs a subscription (0). Sign-up, token creation and credit purchase are browser steps (0).
Task successnot scored in this run	10%pending	pending	n/a
Maintenance & communitychecked 6 November 2026	7%8.8	80	7.0
Model reading. huggingface_hub 2.4.0 tagged on 29 October 2026 and the Inference Providers docs updated daily by an automated job, last on 6 November (30). huggingface_hub 2.2.0, 2.3.0 and 2.4.0 and @huggingface/inference 4.13.28 to 4.13.32 in the 90 days (20). No dedicated changelog; the Hub has a forum and Discord, and GitHub issue replies were not read (8 of 15). Current official SDKs in Python and JavaScript (15). The Python client supports Python 3.10 and later, per the Inference Endpoints check; CI not read (7 of 10).
Transparency & trusteditorial 58, provenance 84checked 6 November 2026	7%8.8	71	6.2
Closed service under Terms of Service that name Inference Providers, with an Apache-2.0 Python client and an MIT JavaScript client (20). The security page and the docs agree on no training, no stored bodies and 30-day logs, but the privacy policy dates from 28 March 2023 and each provider's own data policy governs the rest (18 of 30). No deprecation policy found. Provider support changes and the 7 October removal of free credits are dated only in the docs repository history (5 of 20). The privacy policy lists 11 subprocessors with countries per the Inference Endpoints check, and the docs name every provider a request can reach, though not where each runs (15 of 20).
Negative events	≤15	None recorded	0
Total			54 · C

Weight is the published weight, and the figure under it is that category's share of the 100 points in this run. A pending category has no score and adds nothing. What changes when it's scored.

Score history no moves since it was graded

Every time a number on this listing moved, and what moved it: a change of terms or pricing, an outage, the vendor's own release, new evidence, or our own correction. A score can't change without an entry here. Every listing's changes · JSON · RSS

6 November 2026

Graded 54 C methodology v0.7

Fix list 14 items, the biggest gain first

Everything this grade says the listing lacks, from the reasons above, the checklist, the provenance checks, the deductions, what we couldn't check and what the review panel asked for, with the steps, ready to paste into a coding agent working on Hugging Face Inference Providers. A fix counts at the next check, once it's public.

What we couldn't check

No rate limits, 429 behaviour or error format for router.huggingface.co were found in the docs read; the Hub rate-limits page doesn't name the router
unchecked: issue and pull-request reply times on huggingface_hub and huggingface.js; the GitHub API was rate-limited for our reader on 6 November
unchecked: the privacy policy, subprocessor list and security.txt were not re-read for this listing and rest on the Inference Endpoints checks of 8 October and 2 November 2026
firstReleased left empty; the launch date of Inference Providers wasn't found on a page read today
PRO's subscription price is not on the Inference Providers pricing page and wasn't read

Sources 19

Inference Providers overview huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-06
pricing and billing huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-06
security and compliance huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-06
Hub API for providers huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-06
llms.txt huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-06
chat completion reference huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-06
function calling guide huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-06
Responses API (beta) huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-06
router model list router.huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-06
Hub rate limits huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-06
user access tokens huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-06
status page status.huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-06
status feed status.huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-06
terms of service huggingface.co · seen 2026-11-06
hub-docs history (free credits change) github.com · seen 2026-11-06
huggingface_hub tags github.com · seen 2026-11-06
huggingface.js tags github.com · seen 2026-11-06
huggingface_hub downloads pypistats.org · seen 2026-11-06
@huggingface/inference downloads api.npmjs.org · seen 2026-11-06

Probe metrics

Not measured yet. Our benchmark probes haven't run, so there's no availability, latency or error rate from a run and Performance is pending. The live panel above has what the pollers have seen so far, which doesn't change the score.

Pricing & changes

Pay per use $2 / mo Pay as you go at each provider's own per-token rates with no Hugging Face markup, drawn from prepaid credits on the Hugging Face account. Free users get no included credits since 7 October 2026 and must buy credits. PRO users and Team or Enterprise seats get $2.00 a month of compute credits. Requests with a custom provider key are billed by the provider (https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricing, checked 2026-11-06).

Prices

Item	Price	Unit	Note
openai/gpt-oss-120b input, cheapest provider listed (DeepInfra)	$0.037	per 1M tokens	Output $0.17. Groq lists $0.15/$0.75 and Cerebras $0.35/$0.75, per the router's model list of 6 November 2026
PRO monthly compute credits	$2	per month (plan)	Also $2.00 per seat for Team and Enterprise organisations

Compared across listings on the price index.

Recent changes

2026-10-29Latest release

Follow them as a feed at /feeds/tools/hugging-face-inference-providers.xml, or this listing's score history at history.json.

Connect

Install

pip install huggingface_hub   # or: pip install openai, with base_url https://router.huggingface.co/v1

First request

curl https://router.huggingface.co/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $HF_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"openai/gpt-oss-120b:fastest","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"How many Gs in huggingface?"}]}'

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