AceCloud
vs
Hugging Face
What's good about each
- Good range of high-performance NVIDIA GPUs
- On-demand billing with instance hibernation to optimize savings
- Operates 10+ data centers globally including locations in India and USA
- Offers 24/7 support with 99.99% uptime SLA
- Free credits for new users (₹20,000/$200 for 30 days)
- Hub hosts 3M+ public models and 500k+ datasets
- Free hosting for public models, datasets and demos
- AI models and datasets can be mounted directly into a job
- Single GPUs up to 8x H200 or RTX PRO 6000
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | AceCloud | Hugging Face | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $15.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GiB RAM (C3a.medium) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $60.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (C3a.xlarge) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $119.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (C3a.2xlarge) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $9.00 /mo 100 GB | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $10.24 /mo 1 TB | $18.00 /mo 1 TB (private) | 43% cheaper on AceCloud |
| PostgreSQL | $75.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (DB.2.8) | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $75.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (DB.2.8) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $16.00 /mo | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 8x the amount of data stored | |
| Egress | -- Not listed | Included within the allowance |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
AceCloud offers 9 GPU models, while Hugging Face offers 7. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | AceCloud | Hugging Face | Difference |
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$2.74 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.75 /GPU/hr On-demand | Within 5% |
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$5.02 /GPU/hr On-demand | $5.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Within 5% |
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$1.65 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | $2.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Different terms |
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$1.87 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | Within 5% |
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$0.60 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | $0.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | Different terms |
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$3.31 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | -- | AceCloud only |
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$1.04 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | -- | AceCloud only |
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$0.85 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | -- | AceCloud only |
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-- | $0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hugging Face only |
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-- | $1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hugging Face only |
AceCloud bills on-demand and reserved (1, 6 or 12 months); Hugging Face bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | AceCloud | Hugging Face |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Data centers only | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | -- |
| HIPAA | US data centers only | -- |
| GDPR | -- | Enterprise plan only |
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | AceCloud | Hugging Face |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2010 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | India | USA |
| Locations | 3 | -- |
| Example customers | Spherum, IIT Madras, Inflolabs, VjJTechnologies | Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Grammarly, Ai2 |
| Website | acecloud.ai | huggingface.co |
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Our data for AceCloud was last updated on Sept. 24, 2026, and for Hugging Face on Sept. 24, 2026.