{
  "slug": "hugging-face-inference-providers",
  "name": "Hugging Face Inference Providers",
  "url": "https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers",
  "cat": "ai",
  "group": "ai",
  "tagline": "Inference provider router",
  "price": "Pass-through provider rates with no HF markup. Monthly credits: free accounts $0.10, PRO $2, Team and Enterprise $2 per seat, then pay-as-you-go. Bringing your own provider key bills that provider directly.",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "A <b>routing</b> layer on the Hugging Face Hub that fans a single API out to 18+ inference providers including Groq, Together, Fireworks, Replicate, Cerebras and fal. It covers chat, vision, embeddings, image, video and speech, with <code>:fastest</code> and <code>:cheapest</code> routing suffixes.",
  "why": "You are already browsing models on the Hub, so calling one is a token away — no separate signup per provider. The <code>:cheapest</code> suffix auto-picks the lowest-cost host for the same open weights.",
  "warn": "The free monthly credit is only $0.10 — enough for a handful of calls, not a demo. Provider capability varies, so a model may support tool calling on one backend and not another.",
  "install": "pip install huggingface_hub",
  "category": {
    "key": "ai",
    "name": "Model APIs, routers & observability",
    "desc": "Providers, gateways, inference hosts and eval layers — constantly conflated, listed separately here.",
    "group": "ai",
    "groupName": "Put AI inside it"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/index",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T18:45:10.648+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}