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Hugging Face Inference

LLM 4.0/10

Model access through Hugging Face ecosystem and providers.

Free credit
$0.1
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30 days
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No

Hugging Face Inference scores 4/10 for free value in LLM. The main constraint: Free/provider credits and limits vary by account, provider, and model.

Category LLM Kind Model APIs Caveats Do not assume always-free production quota. Renewal monthly Card required No Eligibility anyone

Free value score

4.0 / 10
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Value 3/10
value = 0.1 $ one-time
weighted score = 0.7 * 3/10
Model Quality 9.2/10
value = 51 artificial_analysis_score
weighted score = 0.2 * 9.2/10
Volume 1.1/10
value = 107527 tok/mo
weighted score = 0.1 * 1.1/10
Access 7/10
value = 7/10
score = 7/10

Key metrics

zai-org/GLM-5.2 51 Best model
$0.1 Credit
Yes Commercial use

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40 free · 125+ total

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Model Family AA Access
zai-org/GLM-5.2 GLM 51.1 free
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro DeepSeek 44.3 free
moonshotai/Kimi-K2.6 Kimi 42.8 free
moonshotai/Kimi-K2.7-Code Kimi 42 free
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash DeepSeek 40.3 free
nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Ultra-550B-A55B-NVFP4 Nemotron 37.8 free
Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B Qwen 32 free
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp DeepSeek 24.7 free
openai/gpt-oss-120b GPT 23.8 free
zai-org/GLM-4.6 GLM 23 free
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus DeepSeek 21.1 free
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 DeepSeek 20.1 free
moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct Kimi 19.4 free
moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Thinking Kimi 19.4 free
zai-org/GLM-4.5-Air GLM 16.5 free
openai/gpt-oss-20b GPT 14.9 free
meta-llama/Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-FP8 Llama 14.3 free
meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct Llama 10 free
Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct Qwen 7.1 free
CohereLabs/c4ai-command-a-03-2025 Cohere free
CohereLabs/command-a-reasoning-08-2025 Cohere free
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-Prover-V2-671B DeepSeek free
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 DeepSeek free
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324 DeepSeek free
google/gemma-3-27b-it Gemma free
meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Llama free
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2 MiniMax free
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 MiniMax free
mistralai-not-listed/placeholder Mistral free
moonshotai/Kimi-K2-Instruct-0905 Kimi free
openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b GPT free
Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct Qwen free
Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 Qwen free
Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 Qwen free
Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct Qwen free
Qwen/Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Thinking Qwen free
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Instruct Qwen free
Qwen/QwQ-32B Qwen free
zai-org/GLM-4.5 GLM free
zai-org/GLM-4.6V GLM free

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  • Card required for pay-as-you-go beyond credits

    Continuing inference past the monthly $0.10 credit requires purchasing additional credits, which requires a payment method on file.

  • Free credits subject to removal

    HF documentation explicitly states the $0.10 monthly free credits are 'subject to change', meaning they can be reduced or eliminated at any time.

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