Hugging Face vs Groq vs RunPod vs Together AI

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

Your tool
Hugging Face
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Competitor 1
Groq
Competitor 2
RunPod
Competitor 3
Together AI
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Hugging Face
huggingface.co
The GitHub for machine learning
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Competitor Groq
groq.com
AI inference at unprecedented speed
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Competitor RunPod
runpod.io
Cheap GPUs on demand
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Competitor Together AI
together.ai
Open-source models without infrastructure
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
31.2Mvisits/mo
4.2Mvisits/mo
2.8Mvisits/mo
785.1Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 10.7%
▼ 12.2%
▲ 14.2%
▼ 6.4%
6-month growth
+18.4%
+19.4%
+19.0%
+1.9%
Global rank web
#1,410
#9,344
#19,060
#60,843
Avg. last 3 months
28.8M
4.1M
2.5M
794.7K
Bounce rate lower is better
42%
32%
32%
42%
Pages / visit
6.3
6.1
7.4
3.2
Visit duration
5m 01s
3m 48s
8m 19s
1m 57s
Traffic sources
● Direct 81% · ● Referral 18%
● Direct 78% · ● Referral 20%
● Direct 78% · ● Referral 21%
● Direct 77% · ● Referral 21%
Hugging FaceGroqRunPodTogether AI
07.8M15.6M23.4M31.2MHugging Face · 21.9MHugging Face · 24MHugging Face · 24.9MHugging Face · 23.3MHugging Face · 26.4MHugging Face · 30.3MHugging Face · 27.4MHugging Face · 27.1MHugging Face · 28.2MHugging Face · 31.2MGroq · 1.4MGroq · 1.9MGroq · 2.1MGroq · 2.5MGroq · 3.5MGroq · 3.7MGroq · 3.6MGroq · 3.4MGroq · 4.8MGroq · 4.2MRunPod · 1.8MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 2.4MRunPod · 2.3MRunPod · 2.3MRunPod · 2.2MRunPod · 2.5MRunPod · 2.8MTogether AI · 566.8KTogether AI · 552.7KTogether AI · 645.8KTogether AI · 637.7KTogether AI · 770.2KTogether AI · 792.8KTogether AI · 756.1KTogether AI · 760.5KTogether AI · 838.4KTogether AI · 785.1K100K1M10M100MHugging Face · 21.9MHugging Face · 24MHugging Face · 24.9MHugging Face · 23.3MHugging Face · 26.4MHugging Face · 30.3MHugging Face · 27.4MHugging Face · 27.1MHugging Face · 28.2MHugging Face · 31.2MGroq · 1.4MGroq · 1.9MGroq · 2.1MGroq · 2.5MGroq · 3.5MGroq · 3.7MGroq · 3.6MGroq · 3.4MGroq · 4.8MGroq · 4.2MRunPod · 1.8MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 1.9MRunPod · 2.4MRunPod · 2.3MRunPod · 2.3MRunPod · 2.2MRunPod · 2.5MRunPod · 2.8MTogether AI · 566.8KTogether AI · 552.7KTogether AI · 645.8KTogether AI · 637.7KTogether AI · 770.2KTogether AI · 792.8KTogether AI · 756.1KTogether AI · 760.5KTogether AI · 838.4KTogether AI · 785.1KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Paid
Starting price
$9per month · free tier available
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$1.99per month
Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
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Plans
Free FreePro $9/moTeam $20/moStorage $8/mo+1 more
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Pods (Community Cloud) Custom/hourServerless Custom/hourClusters Custom/hourStorage Custom/mo
Serverless Inference $0.30/usage-basedDedicated Inference GPU $3.99/usage-basedGPU Clusters $1.99/usage-basedFine-Tuning $0.34/usage-based
Capabilities input → output
Input
AudioVideoTextImages
TextAudio
DataCode
TextImagesCodeAudio
Output
VideoTextImagesAudio3D
TextAudio
Apps
VideoTextImagesCodeAudio
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer ToolsLarge Language Models (LLMs)+1 more
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer ToolsOpen Source AI Models
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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8
Development
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GPU infrastructure
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Large language models
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Inference
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Cloud infrastructure
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Fine-Tuning
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LLM development
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LLM training
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Reviews
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Prompts
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