Hugging Face vs Modal vs ModelScope vs Baseten

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
Modal
Competitor 2
ModelScope
Competitor 3
Baseten
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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 Modal
modal.com
Run AI code without infrastructure
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Competitor ModelScope
modelscope.cn
ModelScope is an open-source model community and hosting hub founded in June 2022 by the Institute for Intelligent Computing together with the CCF Open Source Development Committee.
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Competitor Baseten
baseten.co
Models to production fast
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
31.2Mvisits/mo
972.8Kvisits/mo
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355.4Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 10.7%
▲ 5.7%
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▲ 21.3%
6-month growth
+18.4%
+13.6%
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+73.3%
Global rank web
#1,410
#43,856
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#113,597
Avg. last 3 months
28.8M
960K
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304.6K
Bounce rate lower is better
42%
37%
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39%
Pages / visit
6.3
6.6
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4.1
Visit duration
5m 01s
5m 31s
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1m 53s
Traffic sources
● Direct 81% · ● Referral 18%
● Direct 94% · ● Referral 5%
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● Direct 89% · ● Referral 9%
Hugging FaceModalModelScopeBaseten
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 · 31.2MModal · 492.6KModal · 603.8KModal · 774KModal · 803.7KModal · 856.4KModal · 1.2MModal · 987.8KModal · 986.7KModal · 920.5KModal · 972.8KBaseten · 141.4KBaseten · 136.4KBaseten · 197.3KBaseten · 205KBaseten · 246.2KBaseten · 247.6KBaseten · 265.6KBaseten · 292.9KBaseten · 355.4K100K1M10M100MHugging 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 · 31.2MModal · 492.6KModal · 603.8KModal · 774KModal · 803.7KModal · 856.4KModal · 1.2MModal · 987.8KModal · 986.7KModal · 920.5KModal · 972.8KBaseten · 141.4KBaseten · 136.4KBaseten · 197.3KBaseten · 205KBaseten · 246.2KBaseten · 247.6KBaseten · 265.6KBaseten · 292.9KBaseten · 355.4KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
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Freemium
Starting price
$9per month · free tier available
$250per month · free tier available
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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
Starter FreeTeam $250/moEnterprise Custom
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Basic CustomPro CustomEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
AudioVideoTextImages
Code
VideoTextImagesAudio
TextAudio
Output
VideoTextImagesAudio3D
Apps
VideoTextImagesAudio
TextImagesAudio
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer ToolsLarge Language Models (LLMs)+1 more
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Development & CodeLarge Language Models (LLMs)Open Source AI Models
Development & CodeAI APIAI Developer Tools
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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6
Developer tools
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Large language models
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GPU infrastructure
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Web service deployment
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LLM development
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Models management
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Performance optimization
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Prompts
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