In this article, you will learn all about the Enterprise features of Hugging Face, and how to get them.
Hugging Face is the leading open platform for AI Builders - researchers, data scientists, machine learning engineers and software developers. 8 million AI Builders use Hugging Face, and created over 200,000 organizations to collaborate privately on models, datasets and applications.
Free organizations are designed for small teams who need to collaborate and share transparently, but do not scale to medium sized companies: in free organizations, members join with their personal accounts, and everyone has access to everything.
For companies whose teams need privacy, security, compliance and governance when building AI, Hugging Face offers Enterprise Hub and Enterprise Plus.
Enterprise Hub provides advanced collaboration, compute, security and compliance features for organizations.
Enterprise Plus adds exclusive security and governance features, and direct expert support from the Hugging Face team.
| Free Orgs | Enterprise Hub | Enterprise Plus | |
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| Collaboration | DIY Admin | Resource Groups Private Datasets Viewer Download Analytics Extended Private Storage |
Resource Groups Private Datasets Viewer Download Analytics Extended Private Storage |
| Compute | Inference Providers Inference Endpoints GPU Quotas Spaces ZeroGPU Spaces Dev Mode |
Inference Providers Inference Endpoints GPU Quotas Spaces ZeroGPU Spaces Dev Mode |
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| Security | Standard SSO 2 Factor Authentification Access Token Management |
Advanced SSO 2 Factor Authentification Access Token Management |
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| Governance | Audit Logs | Audit Logs HF Model Gateway (preview) |
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| Compliance | Storage Regions | Storage Regions Network Security | |
| Support | Forum | Slack |
Enterprise Hub can be purchased with a credit card at hf.co/enterprise, or via a standard 1-year contract.
Enterprise Plus can be purchased via a custom 1-year contract.
How do all these features benefit your organization? Let's dive in.
Enterprise Hub and Enterprise Plus organizations allow their members to privately host and share unlimited models, datasets and Spaces repositories. Members of Enterprise organizations benefit from higher rate limits accessing all Hugging Face services from the Hub and the Hugging Face open source libraries.
In addition, Enterprise organizations offer high storage limits for private repositories, including 1TB of private storage per member ; for instance an Enterprise organization with 1,000 members can store up to 1 Petabyte of private files at no additional cost!
In free organizations, everyone has access to everything. To organize resources across teams and projects, Enterprise organizations have access to Resource Groups. Enterprise organization admins can create new Resource Groups to assign specific repositories, add members and assign them specific permissions. This is great for teams who want to work on a specific project privately from the rest of the organization, or for different business units to segregate the models, datasets and Spaces they are working on.
A favourite feature of Hugging Face for data scientists is the Datasets Viewer and the Data Studio. With Datasets Viewer makes it easy to preview the content of public datasets, and with Data Studio you can apply SQL queries to the dataset, or even ask AI to create and run them for you! Enterprise organizations make Dataset Viewer and Data Studio available to private datasets hosted on the organization.
Hugging Face is the home of over 2 million public models, datasets contributed by the community. A great way for organizations to have impact and gain followers is by publicly sharing useful models and datasets. Enterprise organizations have access to power features for model and dataset contributors. Enterprise Analytics provides detailed download analytics for public repositories, easily exported via CSV. Enterprise organizations can also set up advanced model gating processes for Hugging Face users to provide information while requesting access to their public models.
When upgrading their organization to Enterprise, companies provide their employees with powerful compute options to build and host AI applications.
Enterprise organization members can use Inference Providers to use and integrate some of the most popular open models into their AI applications, with serverless inference powered by Hugging Face and Inference Providers, including Together AI, fal, Novita AI, Cerebras. Enterprise organizations get $2 free credit each month toward Inference Providers, for instance a 1,000 member organization can use for up to $2,000 of Inference Providers for free. Enterprise organization admins can set a monthly spend limit to control their costs.
To show what an AI model can do, AI Builders use Hugging Face Spaces. Spaces are hosted, interactive AI applications - over 1M public and private Spaces were created on Hugging Face. For companies, private Spaces is an ideal way to demo a model or application to colleagues. Enterprise organizations have access to advanced compute options for their Spaces:
Free organizations are designed for minimum friction adding collaborators, students, professionals to foster transparent collaboration. For companies that require security processes, Enterprise organizations offer many features to enforce security rules and make sure appropriate access controls and rules are in place.
To secure accounts with access to the organization's private resources, Enterprise organization admins can require 2-Factor Authentication for all members of the organization, and require admin approval for new members.
To reduce the risk of members inadvertently publishing confidential information as public repositories, Enterprise organization admins can make new repositories private by default, or disable public repositories altogether.
User Access Tokens are keys users can create to give applications the permission to access private models, datasets and applications on Hugging Face. It’s very important to create and manage User Access Tokens with best security practices in mind - only give the minimum required scope of access, regularly rotate tokens and invalidate unnecessary tokens. For organization admins, User Access Tokens can be a source of concern as each token is a potential attack vector. Enterprise organizations can reduce risk and enforce best practices with Access Token Management.
With Access Token Management, organization admins have a centralized view of every User Access Token created by members of the organization. Each token can be inspected, and revoked. Admins can set up organization policies, for instance to disallow the creation of broad access tokens and require fine-grained tokens, and/or to require admin approval for any new token created by users of the organization.
To make sure that members with access to the organization’s private resources are actually employees of the company, Enterprise organizations can set up Single Sign-On (SSO). With SSO, user authentication to access Enterprise organization resources is managed by the company Identity Provider, such as Okta or Azure Active Directory. Roles and Teams mapping is available to automatically give specific access control permissions to employee groups, and/or assign them to Resource Groups.
Enterprise Plus organizations have access to Advanced SSO features. With Advanced SSO, the Hugging Face user accounts who are members of the organization are fully provisioned by the company Identity Provider.
With Enterprise Plus, the user accounts belonging to the organization are Enterprise Managed Users, fully controlled by the company. With Enterprise Managed Users, SSO authentication manages not only the access to organization resources, but also the access to all Hugging Face Hub public resources. Enterprise Managed Users only need to login once to access all public and private resources on the Hugging Face Hub.
With Enterprise Managed Users, Enterprise Plus customers can drastically reduce the risk of confidential information being published:
Enterprises need traceability and auditability of their confidential information. Enterprise organization admins on Hugging Face have access to Audit Logs to inspect and retrieve all changes made to their organization, such as new users, access tokens or repositories, changes to resource groups, access controls and more. Each log entry includes information about the user, their location, the action, change and time. Lots can be easily downloaded as JSON files for analysis.
Enterprise organizations can choose where their data is hosted with Storage Regions. Models, Datasets, Spaces can be stored in either US-based servers or Europe-based servers, allowing European companies to use Hugging Face in a GDPR compliant way.
Enterprise Plus offers organizations advanced governance and compliance features, with Network Security and Model Gateway.
With Network Security, Enterprise Plus organizations can define their corporate network and precisely define which public models, datasets, organizations and applications should be accessible to their employees. Admins can require authentication to access Hugging Face, so that only authorized employees can access it. In addition, admins can define exactly which resources should be allowed or blocked, which is useful to enforce company model governance rules, for instance to restrict access to certain models or organizations disallowed per company policy. Also with Network Security, admins can enable higher rate limits for their organization, and unlock power users of Hugging Face.
Model Gateway is an on-premise proxy of the Hugging Face Hub for companies with strict security, compliance and governance requirements. The Model Gateway is deployed by the company within their environment, and acts as a caching, governance and security layer between the employees network and the public Hugging Face Hub. With Model Gateway, companies can:
Model Gateway is a new feature currently in preview for select Enterprise Plus organizations.
Enterprise Hub organization members enjoy priority support covering their usage of Hugging Face via email requests.
Enterprise Plus organization members enjoy direct expert support from the Hugging Face team via a dedicated, private Slack channel hosted by Hugging Face.
Enterprise Hub can be purchased directly at hf.co/enterprise with a credit card as a $20/seat monthly subscription, or $216/seat yearly subscription.
Companies requiring a contract can request a standard 1-year contract subject to a minimum contract value.
Enterprise Plus can only be purchased via a custom 1-year contract subject to a minimum contract value.
When purchased through a contract, Enterprise Hub and Enterprise Plus licenses include a number of seats corresponding to the number of members expected to be onboarded in the organization during the first year of the contract. Additional members joining the organization during the yearly term are not charged, and the contract value is updated upon yearly renewal to the number of members of the organization at renewal.
Enterprise organizations can purchase Compute Credits toward usage of premium features by their members, such as Inference Providers, Inference Endpoints and Spaces premium hardware. Compute Credits can be purchased upon request via an Order Form, are applied to the organization upon payment, and are valid for one year. Compute Credits purchases of $200k or higher qualify for volume discounts.
To contact the Hugging Face sales team, please email enterprise-contract@huggingface.co
To keep the process fast and smooth, Enterprise Hub and Enterprise Plus are governed by our standard online Terms of Service, complemented by brief Supplemental Terms. These terms follow industry standards and are regularly updated to ensure they remain clear and fair.
Can I get on a call with a sales representative?
Hugging Face sells and onboards customers via a streamlined process relying on written async communication (email and Slack). We are happy to answer any question you may have via email, but do not offer sales calls.
Can I get a free trial of Enterprise Hub?
Enterprise Hub features can be tested for as little as $20 with a credit card, and we do not offer free trials.
How do I follow my internal new vendor onboarding processes?
Any vendor, security or legal review process requires to purchase Enterprise Hub or Enterprise Plus via a contract. Our team will be happy to follow your new vendor onboarding process requirements at enterprise-contract@huggingface.co
How do I set up a security review of Hugging Face prior to purchase?
Security reviews are only possible when purchasing Enterprise Hub or Enterprise Plus via a contract. Please contact our team at enterprise-contract@huggingface.co, upon signing a unilateral NDA, Hugging Face will share our SOC2 Type2 report detailing all the information required in security reviews. Our security team can accommodate custom security questionnaires for high contract values.
Can the standard contract terms be modified after my legal team reviews them?
We only allow legal review for high contract values, the Hugging Face legal team can review change requests to be added to the Order Form, which includes all contract legal terms.
Upgrade your organization to Enterprise at hf.co/enterprise