Hugging Face Statistics 2026: Traffic, Revenue & Rankings

Hugging Face Hub is a web platform for hosting and versioning machine learning models, datasets, and demo apps called Spaces. Developers and researchers use it to discover artifacts, collaborate through git based repositories, and access content programmatically through the Hub API. It also offers serverless model inference through Inference Providers for people who want to run models without managing infrastructure.

Hugging Face usage statistics

• Overall AI rank: #8 of 1210 tools
• API rank: #2 of 34
• Cisco Umbrella rank: 33,266
• Tranco rank: 1,386
• 30-day traffic growth: +2.7%
• Share of AI web traffic: 1.9%
• Revenue: $150M ARR (Aug 2026 estimate)
• Valuation: $13B+ (Aug 23, 2026 exploring sale; Reuters via MarketScreener/Business Insider)
• Pricing: Free tier; PRO $9/mo

Rankings use the independent Tranco domain-popularity list, with Cisco Umbrella as a fallback for domains not listed by Tranco. Updated daily.

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