Hugging Face vs Lilac
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Hugging Face
The open AI hub for models, datasets and demos, being acquired by NVID...
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Lilac
Archived open-source dataset curation tool, acquired by Databricks
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.5 / 10 | 6.5 / 10 |
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| Ease of use | — | |
| ASEAN readiness | — | |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | Free account: public models/datasets, 100GB private storage, 5 min/day ZeroGPU, $0.10/mo Inference Providers credits, free CPU Basic Spaces | Free: archived Apache-2.0 code on GitHub (databricks/lilac) and PyPI (0.3.9). The hosted Garden service and website are gone; nothing is for sale |
| Paid from | PRO $9/mo; Team $20/user/mo; Enterprise from $50/user/mo | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | ~13M monthly active users; 50,000+ organizations | — |
| Founded | 2016 | 2023 |
| Maker | Independent (Hugging Face, Inc.; NVIDIA acquisition pending) | Databricks (acquired 2024) |
| Verdict | Hugging Face remains indispensable for anyone working with open AI models: the default place to find, share and test models and datasets, with simple paid plans and pay-as-you-go inference with no markup on partner provi... |
Lilac made large text datasets explorable: it clustered and auto-titled documents, ran semantic and keyword search, and flagged PII and near-duplicates through a local UI and Python API. Databricks acquired it in March 2... |
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