Best Alternatives to Hugging Face

GitHub of ML — 500K+ models, free Spaces, ZeroGPU. Compare 10 similar free AI tools.

1. HF Transformers — Unified API for 1M+ models — 152K stars (Free: Apache 2.0)
2. Together AI — 200+ open-source models on dedicated clusters (Free: Up to $100 free credits)
3. HF ZeroGPU — Free H200 (70GB VRAM) dynamic allocation — $10M commitment (Free: Dynamic H200; PRO: ~25 min/day H200)
4. Gradio — Build ML demos with Python in minutes (Free: Fully free; HF Spaces hosting)
5. BentoML / OpenLLM — Deploy AI apps at scale (Free: Free OSS + cloud credits)
6. DeepSeek-V3 / R1 — Rivals GPT-4; R1 = chain-of-thought reasoning (Free: 671B MoE; fully open)
7. Continue.dev — Open-source AI code assistant — bring your own model (local or cloud) (Free: Fully free; unlimited with local models via Ollama)
8. DeepSeek API — GPT-4 class at $0.27/M tokens (Free: Unlimited (rate-limited); $0.27/M tokens)
9. Google Gemini API — Most generous free tier — all models including 2.5 Pro/Flash, 1M context (Free: Flash: 250 req/day; Pro: 100 req/day; no credit card)
10. Mistral AI API — European AI — 1B free tokens/month, open-weight models (Free: 1B tokens/month free; Codestral included)

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