Hikube
vs
Hugging Face
What's good about each
- Storage replicated across datacenters in Geneva, Gland and Lucerne
- H100, H200 and A100 GPUs on VMs or Kubernetes
- Managed Postgres, Redis, ClickHouse, Kafka and RabbitMQ
- ISO 27001 certified company and datacenters
- 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 | Hikube | Hugging Face | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $28.89 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (s1.small) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $115.55 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (s1.large) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $231.10 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (s1.xlarge) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $21.97 /mo 100 GB | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $24.41 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress | $18.00 /mo 1 TB (private) | 26% cheaper on Hugging Face |
| PostgreSQL | $59.13 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB (large) | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $24.08 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (medium) | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 8x the amount of data stored | |
| Egress | Free and unlimited | 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
Hikube offers 6 GPU models, while Hugging Face offers 7. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Hikube | Hugging Face | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config · 4 configs
|
$3.13 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.75 /GPU/hr On-demand | 12% cheaper on Hugging Face |
|
H200
1 config · 4 configs
|
$4.71 /GPU/hr On-demand | $5.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 6% cheaper on Hikube |
|
A100
1 config · 3 configs
|
$3.03 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 17% cheaper on Hugging Face |
|
L40S
1 config · 3 configs
|
$1.81 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | Within 5% |
|
L4
1 config · 2 configs
|
$0.81 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | Within 5% |
|
H100
1 config
|
$3.88 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Hikube 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 |
Hikube bills on-demand; Hugging Face bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
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 | Hikube | Hugging Face |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2016 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Switzerland | USA |
| Locations | 3 | -- |
| Example customers | -- | Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Grammarly, Ai2 |
| Website | hikube.cloud | huggingface.co |
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Our data for Hikube was last updated on Sept. 22, 2026, and for Hugging Face on Sept. 22, 2026.