Atlas Cloud
vs
Hugging Face
What's good about each
- Fully sovereign infrastructure hosted in Iceland
- Free ingress and egress traffic
- Tier 3 data center, ISO 27001 certified
- Self-service provisioning via UI, CLI, API, Terraform, and Ansible
- 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 | Atlas Cloud | Hugging Face | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $77.10 /mo 1 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 20 GiB storage (a4) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $148.27 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM, 40 GiB storage (a5) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $296.53 /mo 8 vCPU, 32 GiB RAM, 160 GiB storage (a7) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $11.53 /mo 100 GiB Block Storage | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $101.22 /mo 1 TiB stored, S3-compatible | $18.00 /mo 1 TB (private) | 82% cheaper on Hugging Face |
| Egress allowance | Both ingress and egress are free. Unlimited free egress | 8x the amount of data stored | |
| Egress | Free Egress is always free | 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
Hugging Face offers 7 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Atlas Cloud. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Atlas Cloud | Hugging Face | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX PRO 6000
4 configs
|
-- | $2.75 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hugging Face only |
|
H200
4 configs
|
-- | $5.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hugging Face only |
|
A100
3 configs
|
-- | $2.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hugging Face only |
|
L40S
3 configs
|
-- | $1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hugging Face only |
|
L4
2 configs
|
-- | $0.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hugging Face only |
|
T4
2 configs
|
-- | $0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hugging Face only |
|
A10G
4 configs
|
-- | $1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hugging Face only |
Hugging Face bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
| Service | Atlas Cloud | Hugging Face |
|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | ||
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Managed Containers | ||
| Object Storage | ||
| Virtual Private Server (VPS) |
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
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 | Atlas Cloud | Hugging Face |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2025 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Iceland | USA |
| Locations | 1 | -- |
| Example customers | -- | Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Grammarly, Ai2 |
| Website | www.atlascloud.is | huggingface.co |
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Our data for Atlas Cloud was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Hugging Face on Sept. 24, 2026.