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Cerebrium vs Hugging Face

Cerebrium prices vCPU and memory separately from the GPU, while Hugging Face Jobs bundles CPU, RAM and ephemeral storage into one per-minute rate.

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What's good about...

Cerebrium logo Cerebrium

  • Per-second billing, with no charge for idle GPUs
  • Cold starts of 2-4 seconds via memory and GPU snapshots
  • SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR and ISO 27001 certified
  • Ten GPU types, from T4 to B200
  • Region pinning for data residency, on US and EU capacity

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 Cerebrium's prices compare against Hugging Face?

VM Small

Cerebrium Cerebrium
$22.73 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (CPU only)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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VM Medium

Cerebrium Cerebrium
$113.94 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CPU only)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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VM Large

Cerebrium Cerebrium
$227.89 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU only)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Block Storage

Cerebrium Cerebrium
$5.00 / mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB included
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Object Storage

Cerebrium Cerebrium
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Hugging Face Hugging Face
$18.00 / mo 1 TB (private)

Free egress allowance

Cerebrium Cerebrium
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Hugging Face Hugging Face
8x the amount of data stored

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Cerebrium Cerebrium
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Hugging Face Hugging Face
Included within the allowance

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Cerebrium Cerebrium
Hugging Face Hugging Face
H200 $4.20 $5.00 RTX PRO 6000 $2.50 $2.75 A100 $2.00 $2.50 L40S $1.95 $1.80

Billing Options

Cerebrium Cerebrium
On-Demand
Hugging Face Hugging Face
On-Demand

Available Models

Cerebrium offers 9 GPU models, while Hugging Face offers 7.

Cerebrium Cerebrium
H100(4) A100(8) RTX PRO 6000(4) H200(4) L40S(4) B200(4) L4(4) T4(4) A10(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 Cerebrium and Hugging Face offer:

Service Cerebrium Hugging Face
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers
Object Storage
Serverless Functions

Company details

Website
Cerebrium Cerebrium
www.cerebrium.ai
Hugging Face Hugging Face
huggingface.co
Headquarters
Cerebrium Cerebrium
United States of America US flag
Hugging Face Hugging Face
United States of America US flag
Founded
Cerebrium Cerebrium
2021
Hugging Face Hugging Face
2016
Data Center Locations
Cerebrium Cerebrium
3
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Example Customers
Cerebrium Cerebrium
Tavus, Deepgram, Resemble AI
Hugging Face Hugging Face
Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Grammarly, Ai2

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