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Baseten vs Hugging Face

Baseten 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 short

  • Both: Choice of models, API, Runs models for you
  • Only Baseten states: Self-hosted
  • Only Hugging Face states: Official SDKs, Builds agents and workflows

Baseten

Baseten provides managed infrastructure to deploy, serve, train, and distribute open-source, custom, and fine-tuned AI models.

Plans

Basic

Free

  • Dedicated deployments
  • Model APIs
  • Training
  • Fast cold starts
  • SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant
  • Email and in-app chat support

Dedicated Deployments — T4

  • $0.01052 per minute
  • 16 GiB VM

Dedicated Deployments — L4

  • $0.01414 per minute
  • 24 GiB VRAM

Dedicated Deployments — A10G

  • $0.02012 per minute
  • 24 GiB VM

Dedicated Deployments — A100

  • $0.06667 per minute
  • 80 GiB VRAM

Dedicated Deployments — H100 MIG

  • $0.0625 per minute
  • 40 GiB VRAM

Dedicated Deployments — H100

  • $0.10833 per minute
  • 80 GiB VRAM

Dedicated Deployments — B200

  • $0.16633 per minute
  • 180 GiB VRAM

Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

  • Choice of models — “You can deploy open source and custom models on Baseten.” source
  • Self-hosted — “Yes, you can self-host Baseten in order to manage security and use your own cloud commitments.” source
  • API — “Model APIs” source
  • Runs models for you — “Instant access to pre-optimized models running on the Baseten Inference Stack.” source

Security

  • SOC 2 Type II — “Baseten Labs, Inc. SOC 2 Type 2 Report 5.31.26.pdf” source
  • SOC 2 — “Baseten Labs, Inc. SOC 2 Type 2 Report 5.31.26.pdf” source
  • ISO 27001 — “Baseten Labs, Inc. ISO 27001 Certificate.pdf” source
  • GDPR — “SOC 2 ISO 27001:2022 HIPAA CCPA GDPR PCI DSS - SAQ D” source
  • HIPAA — “Baseten Labs, Inc. HIPAA Report 5.31.26.pdf” source

Latest updates

About Baseten

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

About Hugging Face