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Elastx vs Hugging Face

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What's good about...

Elastx logo Elastx

  • All infrastructure in Sweden with three availability zones for local disaster recovery
  • ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, and ISO 14001 certified
  • 24/7 support, DDoS protection, and threat intelligence included in base pricing
  • OpenStack-based platform with no vendor lock-in
  • Hourly billing with optional 1-year and 3-year commitment discounts

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 Elastx's prices compare against Hugging Face?

VM Small

Elastx Elastx
$27.43 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB disk
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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VM Medium

Elastx Elastx
$132.76 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 120 GB disk
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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VM Large

Elastx Elastx
$265.51 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 240 GB disk
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Block Storage

Elastx Elastx
$29.73 / mo 100 GB SSD (4000 IOPS)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Object Storage

Elastx Elastx
$57.58 / mo 1 TB stored
Hugging Face Hugging Face
$18.00 / mo 1 TB (private)

Load Balancer

Elastx Elastx
$40.52 / mo v1-lb-1
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Managed PostgreSQL

Elastx Elastx
$191.91 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB disk
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Managed Redis®*

Elastx Elastx
$191.91 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB disk (Valkey)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Free egress allowance

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

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Elastx Elastx
$52.35 1 TB external traffic
Hugging Face Hugging Face
Included within the allowance

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Elastx Elastx
Hugging Face Hugging Face
RTX PRO 6000 $2.95 $2.75 A100 $3.84 $2.50 L40S $2.34 $1.80 L4 $1.04 $0.80

Billing Options

Elastx Elastx
On-Demand
Hugging Face Hugging Face
On-Demand

Available Models

Elastx offers 4 GPU models, while Hugging Face offers 7.

Elastx Elastx
A100(2) RTX PRO 6000(1) L40S(1) L4(1)
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 Elastx and Hugging Face offer:

Service Elastx Hugging Face
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Elastx Elastx
elastx.se
Hugging Face Hugging Face
huggingface.co
Headquarters
Elastx Elastx
Sweden SE flag
Hugging Face Hugging Face
United States of America US flag
Founded
Elastx Elastx
2012
Hugging Face Hugging Face
2016
Data Center Locations
Elastx Elastx
3
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Example Customers
Elastx Elastx
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Hugging Face Hugging Face
Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Grammarly, Ai2

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Our data for Elastx was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Hugging Face on Sept. 4, 2026.