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Fireworks AI vs Hugging Face
Fireworks AI or Hugging Face? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In inglese
In short
- Both: Choice of models, API, Official SDKs, Runs models for you
- Only Fireworks AI states: Command line
- Only Hugging Face states: Builds agents and workflows
Fireworks AI
Fireworks AI hosts, fine-tunes, and serves open models through serverless and dedicated APIs.
Plans
Serverless Inference — Embeddings (up to 150M parameters)
- $0.008 / 1M input tokens
- Per-token pricing
- Zero setup
- No cold starts
- High rate limits
- Postpaid billing
Serverless Inference — Embeddings (150M–350M parameters)
- $0.016 / 1M input tokens
- Per-token pricing
- Zero setup
- No cold starts
- High rate limits
- Postpaid billing
Serverless Inference — Qwen3 8B
- $0.1 / 1M input tokens
- Per-token pricing
- Zero setup
- No cold starts
- High rate limits
- Postpaid billing
Managed Training — Models up to 16B parameters
- $0.50 / 1M training tokens
- $1.00 / 1M training tokens
- $2.00 / 1M training tokens
- Supervised and preference fine-tuning
- Serve fine-tuned models for the same price as base models
Managed Training — Models 16.1B–80B
- $3.00 / 1M training tokens
- $6.00 / 1M training tokens
- $12.00 / 1M training tokens
- Supervised and preference fine-tuning
- Serve fine-tuned models for the same price as base models
Managed Training — Models 80B–300B
- $6.00 / 1M training tokens
- $12.00 / 1M training tokens
- $24.00 / 1M training tokens
- Supervised and preference fine-tuning
- Serve fine-tuned models for the same price as base models
Managed Training — Models over 300B
- $10.00 / 1M training tokens
- $20.00 / 1M training tokens
- $40.00 / 1M training tokens
- Supervised and preference fine-tuning
- Serve fine-tuned models for the same price as base models
Serverless Training API — GLM 5.3
- $4.86 / 1M Prefill
- $0.972 / 1M Cached Prefill
- $12.15 / 1M Sample
- $14.58 / 1M Train
- Shared, always-on trainer pool for LoRA training
- No provisioning or idle cost
- Pay only for tokens prefetched, sampled, and trained
Serverless Training API — Qwen 3.8 27B
- $1.86 / 1M Prefill
- $0.372 / 1M Cached Prefill
- $5.595 / 1M Sample
- $4.103 / 1M Train
- Shared, always-on trainer pool for LoRA training
- No provisioning or idle cost
- Pay only for tokens prefetched, sampled, and trained
Serverless Training API — Kimi K3
- $10.87 / 1M Prefill
- $2.17 / 1M Cached Prefill
- $27.11 / 1M Sample
- $32.55 / 1M Train
- Shared, always-on trainer pool for LoRA training
- No provisioning or idle cost
- Pay only for tokens prefetched, sampled, and trained
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Command line — “Developers Model Library Docs CLI API Changelog” source
- Choice of models — “Route to the best open or closed model for every task, and cut your AI coding spend 50 to 75%.” source
- API — “Serverless. Pay per token with Priority and Fast options to meet your requirements. OpenAI and Anthropic compatible.” source
- Official SDKs — “The Fireworks Training SDK lets us focus on our research instead of wrestling with infrastructure.” source
- Runs models for you — “Serve the latest open models, or your own trained versions.” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “SOC 2 Type 2” source
- SOC 2 — “SOC 2 Type 2” source
- ISO 27001 — “ISO 27001 Certificate” source
- ISO 42001 — “ISO 42001 Certificate” source
- GDPR — “Compliance SOC 2 Type 2 HIPAA GDPR” source
- HIPAA — “SOC 2 Type 2 HIPAA” source
Latest updates
- Serverless pricing update: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Serverless pricing for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash changes; dedicated deployment and Reserved Throughput pricing is unaffected.
- New deployment creation flags: deploymentShape: "default" and acceptShapelessRisk
Create Deployment adds deploymentShape: "default" to pick a validated deployment shape and acceptShapelessRisk to create without a shape.
- Upcoming Serverless deprecation: older DeepSeek, GLM, Muse, and Kimi models
Several older Serverless models will be decommissioned on September 25, 2026; migrate to a recommended replacement before then.
Hugging Face
Hugging Face hosts AI models, datasets, apps, libraries, and tools for building, sharing, and deploying machine-learning systems.
Plans
PRO Account
- $9 /month
- 10× private storage capacity
- 2× public storage capacity
- 20× included inference credits
- 8× ZeroGPU quota and highest queue priority
- Host ZeroGPU, Gradio & Docker Spaces
- Spaces Dev Mode
Team
- $20 /month per user
- SSO support (SAML & OIDC)
- Data location control with Storage Regions
- Detailed action reviews with Audit Logs
- Granular access control via Resource Groups
- Repository usage Analytics
- Advanced auth policies and repository visibility controls
Enterprise
- $50 /month per user
- + All benefits from the Team plan
- Highest storage, bandwidth, and API rate limits
- Automated user management with SCIM provisioning
- Advanced security and access controls
- Managed billing with annual commitments
- Legal and Compliance processes
Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Choice of models — “Browse 2M+ models” source
- API — “Access 45,000+ models from leading AI providers through a single, unified API with no service fees.” source
- Official SDKs — “Python client to interact with the Hugging Face Hub” source
- Runs models for you — “Deploy any ML model on dedicated and autoscaling infrastructure, right from the HF Hub.” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “Smol library to build great agents in Python” source
Latest updates
- Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants
Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants.
- tokenizers v1: encode, decode and scaling, measured (v1)
tokenizers v1 covers encode, decode, and scaling.
- NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder
NeoMME is a multimodal-native and multilingual encoder.