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Akamai Cloud vs Hugging Face

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What's good about...

Akamai Cloud logo Akamai Cloud

  • Wide range of VPS configurations including including GPU instances
  • Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kubernetes, and Object Storage
  • Competitive pricing with generous per-instance egress allowances
  • 30+ data center locations across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America

Hugging Face logo Hugging Face

  • 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

How do Akamai Cloud's prices compare against Hugging Face?

VM Small

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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VM Medium

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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VM Large

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$144.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Dedicated 16GB)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Block Storage

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$10.00 / mo 100 GB
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Object Storage

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$20.00 / mo 1 TB
Hugging Face Hugging Face
$18.00 / mo 1 TB (private)

Load Balancer

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$10.00 / mo
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Managed PostgreSQL

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$63.00 / mo 2 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 58 GB storage (Shared, 1 node)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Free egress allowance

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
1-20 TB / mo per instance
Hugging Face Hugging Face
8x the amount of data stored

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$5.00 $0.005 / GB
Hugging Face Hugging Face
Included within the allowance

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
Hugging Face Hugging Face
RTX PRO 6000 $3.00 $2.75

Billing Options

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
On-Demand
Hugging Face Hugging Face
On-Demand

Available Models

Akamai Cloud offers 3 GPU models, while Hugging Face offers 7.

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
RTX PRO 6000(4) RTX 4000 Ada(9) Quadro RTX 6000(4)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
A100(3) RTX PRO 6000(4) H200(4) L40S(3) L4(2) T4(2) A10G(4)

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Akamai Cloud and Hugging Face offer:

Service Akamai Cloud Hugging Face
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Object Storage
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
www.akamai.com
Hugging Face Hugging Face
huggingface.co
Headquarters
Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
United States of America US flag
Hugging Face Hugging Face
United States of America US flag
Founded
Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
2003
Hugging Face Hugging Face
2016
Data Center Locations
Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
31
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Example Customers
Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
Panasonic, Best Buy, Wayfair and Giphy
Hugging Face Hugging Face
Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Grammarly, Ai2

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Our data for Akamai Cloud was last updated on Sept. 4, 2026, and for Hugging Face on Sept. 4, 2026.