Hugging Face
vs
Nebius
What's good about each
- 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
- Nvidia GPUs from L40S up to GB300 NVL72 racks
- Preemptible GPU instances at a lower hourly rate
- Managed Kubernetes and Slurm clusters at no extra charge
- Free outbound traffic from virtual machines
- Per-token inference API for open-weight models
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Hugging Face | Nebius | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $35.71 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (cpu-d3) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $71.42 /mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (cpu-d3) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $142.85 /mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (cpu-d3) | |
| Block storage | -- Not listed | $7.10 /mo 100 GB (Network SSD) | |
| Object storage | $18.00 /mo 1 TB (private) | $19.42 /mo 1 TB (Standard) | 7% cheaper on Hugging Face |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $104.35 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (2vcpu-8gb) | |
| Egress allowance | 8x the amount of data stored | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | Included within the allowance | Free from VMs, billed from Object Storage |
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
Hugging Face offers 7 GPU models, while Nebius offers 8. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Hugging Face | Nebius | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX PRO 6000
4 configs · 1 config
|
$2.75 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | 35% cheaper on Nebius |
|
H200
4 configs · 1 config
|
$5.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | $4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 10% cheaper on Nebius |
|
L40S
3 configs · 4 configs
|
$1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | 14% cheaper on Nebius |
|
A100
3 configs
|
$2.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Hugging Face only |
|
L4
2 configs
|
$0.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Hugging Face 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 |
|
H100
1 config
|
-- | $3.85 /GPU/hr On-demand | Nebius only |
|
B300
1 config
|
-- | $7.85 /GPU/hr On-demand | Nebius only |
|
B200
1 config
|
-- | $7.15 /GPU/hr On-demand | Nebius only |
Hugging Face bills on-demand; Nebius bills on-demand and spot. 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.
| Framework | Hugging Face | Nebius |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | -- | Yes |
| HIPAA | -- | Yes |
| GDPR | Enterprise plan only | Yes |
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 | Hugging Face | Nebius |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2016 | 2022 |
| Headquarters | USA | Netherlands |
| Locations | -- | 10 |
| Example customers | Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Grammarly, Ai2 | Revolut, Sword Health, Brave, Voxel51, Recraft |
| Website | huggingface.co | nebius.com |
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Our data for Hugging Face was last updated on Sept. 24, 2026, and for Nebius on Sept. 24, 2026.