Hugging Face vs Replicate vs Together AI vs Modal
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Hugging Face
The registry the open-source AI world runs on
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Replicate
Run any open AI model via API — no infrastructure
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Together AI
High-performance inference for open-weights LLMs
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Modal
Serverless GPU compute for AI workloads
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.5 / 10 | 8 / 10 | 8 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Paid | Paid | Paid |
| Free tier | Unlimited public model/dataset access; 100GB private storage; limited daily ZeroGPU/inference credits | — | — | — |
| Paid from | PRO $9/mo/user; Team $20/mo/seat; Enterprise $50+/mo/user | — | — | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Users | ~13M monthly active users; 50,000+ organizations | — | — | — |
| Founded | 2016 | 2019 | 2022 | 2021 |
| Maker | Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, Thomas Wolf | — | — | — |
| Verdict | The open-source AI world runs on this. If a model is public — Llama, Qwen, Whisper, a fine-tuned diffusion checkpoint — it almost certainly lives on the Hub, and pulling it down is a two-line call in the transformers lib... |
Replicate is a developer platform for running open-source and custom AI models via a clean API with pay-per-second pricing, no infrastructure to manage. Its Cog packaging, huge community model catalogue (image, video, au... |
Together AI is a developer-focused cloud for running, fine-tuning, and training open-source models (Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, Flux, and many more) with an OpenAI-compatible API, competitive pricing, and strong inference per... |
Modal is a serverless compute platform built for AI and data workloads: you define functions in Python, decorate them, and Modal handles containerization, scheduling, GPUs, and autoscaling. Its strengths are developer ex... |
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