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AWS vs Hugging Face

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What's good about...

Amazon Web Services logo AWS

  • Extensive range of managed services, from serverless to databases to queues to video streaming
  • Generous free tier and savings plan available to lock-in discounts
  • 30+ datacenter locations around the world

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 AWS's prices compare against Hugging Face?

VM Small

Amazon Web Services AWS
$7.49 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (t3.micro)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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VM Medium

Amazon Web Services AWS
$119.80 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (t3.xlarge)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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VM Large

Amazon Web Services AWS
$248.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (c5.2xlarge)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Block Storage

Amazon Web Services AWS
$8.00 / mo 100 GB
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Object Storage

Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.63 / mo 1 TB
Hugging Face Hugging Face
$18.00 / mo 1 TB (private)

Load Balancer

Amazon Web Services AWS
$22.57 / mo Network Load Balancer
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Managed PostgreSQL

Amazon Web Services AWS
$57.59 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (db.t3.medium)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Managed Redis®*

Amazon Web Services AWS
$24.82 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (cache.t2.small)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Serverless 25M Executions

Amazon Web Services AWS
$36.26 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Free egress allowance

Amazon Web Services AWS
100 GB / mo
Hugging Face Hugging Face
8x the amount of data stored

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Amazon Web Services AWS
$90.00 $0.09 / GB (North America)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
Included within the allowance

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Amazon Web Services AWS
Hugging Face Hugging Face
H200 $7.91 $5.00 RTX PRO 6000 $3.36 $2.75 A100 $2.74 $2.50 L40S $1.86 $1.80

Billing Options

Amazon Web Services AWS
On-DemandReserved (12mo)Reserved (36mo)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
On-Demand

Available Models

AWS offers 18 GPU models, while Hugging Face offers 7.

Amazon Web Services AWS
H100(6) A100(6) RTX PRO 6000(6) H200(1) L40S(24) B200(1) B300(1) V100(6) L4(30) T4(21)
View all 18 GPUs →
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 AWS and Hugging Face offer:

Service AWS Hugging Face
Analytics
App Testing
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
Crash Reporting
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Performance Monitoring
Push Notifications
Realtime Databases
Remote Config
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
User Authentication
Vector Databases
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Amazon Web Services AWS
aws.amazon.com
Hugging Face Hugging Face
huggingface.co
Headquarters
Amazon Web Services AWS
United States of America US flag
Hugging Face Hugging Face
United States of America US flag
Founded
Amazon Web Services AWS
2006
Hugging Face Hugging Face
2016
Data Center Locations
Amazon Web Services AWS
31
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Example Customers
Amazon Web Services AWS
Vanguard, Disney, Samsung, Zocdoc, GoPro
Hugging Face Hugging Face
Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Grammarly, Ai2

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