Hugging Face free plan limits for nonprofits

Pricing for nonprofits

A Hugging Face account is free with 100GB of private storage, best-effort public storage and 500GB as the largest single file.

Review for nonprofits

Model and dataset repository with a free account including 100GB of private storage.

A Hugging Face account is free with 100GB of private storage, best-effort public storage and 500GB as the largest single file.

Typical nonprofit uses:

Host and share open models for a project
Publish a dataset with a data card for reuse
Download models and datasets for internal research
Track which versions of a model a team relies on
Run a demo on Spaces for a community project

Pros:

No cost to create an account
100GB of private storage included
No per-repository size limit for models and datasets
Free monthly inference credit for experimentation
Version history on every repository

Cons:

Public storage is best-effort rather than guaranteed
Repository licences vary, so reuse rights are not uniform
The platform itself is not published as open source
Grants are case by case rather than an automatic nonprofit discount

FAQ about Hugging Face for nonprofits

How much storage is included for free?

A free user or organization account includes 100GB of private storage and best-effort public storage. Hugging Face asks that large public uploads be genuinely useful to the community, and substantial public storage needs a paid plan.

Are there size limits on what I can upload?

There is no per-repository size limit for models and datasets, but no single file may exceed 500GB, a folder may not hold more than 10,000 files, and Hugging Face recommends keeping files per repository under 100,000 and each file under 200GB.

Is Hugging Face open source?

The client libraries are published under permissive licences such as Apache 2.0, but the Hub platform itself is not offered as one open-source codebase, and the service terms reserve Hugging Face's own intellectual property. Each model and dataset carries its own licence, which may be permissive, restricted or research-only, so the platform licence grants no rights to the weights.

Do nonprofits get a discount or grant?

No automatic discount is published. Storage grants for research teams and nonprofits are available in some cases for high-impact open-source work, assessed case by case and requiring evidence of community impact such as downloads and citations, with applications sent to the datasets or models addresses.

What does the paid plan cost?

PRO is $9 a month and raises included public storage to up to 10TB and private storage to 1TB, with higher inference and GPU allowances. Private storage above the included amount is charged at $18 per TB per month by default, with lower rates at higher volumes.