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Google Cloud vs Hugging Face

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What's good about...

Google Cloud logo Google Cloud

  • Extensive range of managed services with a focus on big data and machine learning
  • BigQuery and Google Kubernetes Engine are widely considered industry-leading solutions
  • 40+ data centers 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 Google Cloud's prices compare against Hugging Face?

VM Small

Google Cloud Google Cloud
$20.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (E2 custom)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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VM Medium

Google Cloud Google Cloud
$90.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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VM Large

Google Cloud Google Cloud
$179.87 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Block Storage

Google Cloud Google Cloud
$4.10 / mo 100 GB
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Object Storage

Google Cloud Google Cloud
$24.93 / mo 1 TB
Hugging Face Hugging Face
$18.00 / mo 1 TB (private)

Load Balancer

Google Cloud Google Cloud
$29.44 / mo
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Managed PostgreSQL

Google Cloud Google Cloud
$93.60 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Managed Redis®*

Google Cloud Google Cloud
$35.28 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (Basic)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Serverless 25M Executions

Google Cloud Google Cloud
$47.62 / mo 25M invocations, 2nd gen, 150 ms duration
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Free egress allowance

Google Cloud Google Cloud
Depends on service
Hugging Face Hugging Face
8x the amount of data stored

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Google Cloud Google Cloud
$120.00 $0.12 / GB (Premium network)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
Included within the allowance

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Google Cloud Google Cloud
Hugging Face Hugging Face
H200 $10.62 $5.00 RTX PRO 6000 $4.50 $2.75 A100 $3.72 $2.50 L4 $0.70 $0.80

Billing Options

Google Cloud Google Cloud
On-DemandSpotReserved (12mo)Reserved (36mo)
Hugging Face Hugging Face
On-Demand

Available Models

Google Cloud offers 10 GPU models, while Hugging Face offers 7.

Google Cloud Google Cloud
H100(24) A100(36) RTX PRO 6000(16) H200(4) B200(4) V100(48) L4(32) T4(48) P100(36) P4(36)
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 Google Cloud and Hugging Face offer:

Service Google Cloud Hugging Face
Analytics
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
Python Notebooks
Realtime Databases
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
User Authentication
Vector Databases
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Google Cloud Google Cloud
cloud.google.com
Hugging Face Hugging Face
huggingface.co
Headquarters
Google Cloud Google Cloud
United States of America US flag
Hugging Face Hugging Face
United States of America US flag
Founded
Google Cloud Google Cloud
2008
Hugging Face Hugging Face
2016
Data Center Locations
Google Cloud Google Cloud
40
Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Example Customers
Google Cloud Google Cloud
PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank
Hugging Face Hugging Face
Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Grammarly, Ai2

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