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Amazon SageMaker vs Hugging Face comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 4, 2024

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon SageMaker
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
4th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
38
Ranking in other categories
Data Science Platforms (2nd)
Hugging Face
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the AI Development Platforms category, the mindshare of Amazon SageMaker is 3.6%, down from 5.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Hugging Face is 6.9%, down from 13.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Development Platforms Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Hugging Face6.9%
Amazon SageMaker3.6%
Other89.5%
AI Development Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

Saurabh Jaiswal - PeerSpot reviewer
Python AWS & AI Expert at a tech consulting company
Create innovative assistants with seamless data integration for large-scale projects
The various integration options available in Amazon SageMaker, such as Firehose for connecting to data pipelines, are simple to use. Tools like AWS Glue integrate well for data transformations. The Databricks integration aids data scientists and engineers. SageMaker is fully managed, offers high availability, flexibility with TensorFlow, PyTorch, and MXNet, and comes with pre-trained algorithms for forecasting, anomaly detection, and more.
Khasim Mirza - PeerSpot reviewer
Independent IT Security Consultant at Kinetic IT
Extensive documentation and diverse models support AI-driven projects
Hugging Face is valuable because it provides a single, comprehensive repository with thorough documentation and extensive datasets. It hosts nearly 400,000 open-source LLMs that cover a wide variety of tasks, including text classification, token classification, text generation, and more. It serves as a foundational platform offering updated resources, making it essential in the AI community.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Allows you to create API endpoints."
"I have seen a return on investment, probably a factor of four or five."
"The technical support from AWS is excellent."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon SageMaker is its integration. For example, AWS Lambda. Additionally, we can write Python code."
"The deployment is very good, where you only need to press a few buttons."
"We've had no problems with SageMaker's stability."
"Feature Store, CodeCommit, versioning, model control, and CI/CD pipelines are the most valuable features in Amazon SageMaker."
"SageMaker supports building, training, and deploying AI models from scratch, which is crucial for my ML project."
"We have seen improved productivity and time saved from using Hugging Face; for a task that would have taken six hours, it saved us five hours, and we completed it in one hour with the plug-and-play integration of inference and everything, using the few lines of code that Hugging Face provides."
"The product is reliable."
"What I find the most valuable about Hugging Face is that I can check all the models on it and see which ones have the best performance without using another platform."
"There are numerous libraries available, and the documentation is rich and step-by-step, helping us understand which model to use in particular conditions."
"I would rate this product nine out of ten."
"I appreciate the versatility and the fact that it has generalized many models."
"The solution is easy to use compared to other frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow."
"My preferred aspects are natural language processing and question-answering."
 

Cons

"Scalability to handle big data can be improved by making integration with networks such as Hadoop and Apache Spark easier."
"One area for improvement is the pricing, which can be quite high."
"I would say the IDE is quite immature, but it is still in its infancy, so I expect it to get better over time."
"Amazon SageMaker could improve in the area of hyperparameter tuning by offering more automated suggestions and tips during the tuning process."
"The solution needs to be cheaper since it now charges per document for extraction."
"The product must provide better documentation."
"They could add features such as managing environments, experiment management across those environments, and the integration with training datasets as you go through those experiments."
"The payment and monitoring metrics are a bit confusing not only for Amazon SageMaker but also for the range of other products that fall under AWS, especially for a new user of the product."
"Access to the models and datasets could be improved. Many interesting ones are restricted."
"Most people upload their pre-trained models on Hugging Face, but more details should be added about the models."
"The solution must provide an efficient LLM."
"I believe Hugging Face has some room for improvement. There are some security issues. They provide code, but API tokens aren't indicated. Also, the documentation for particular models could use more explanation. But I think these things are improving daily. The main change I'd like to see is making the deployment of inference endpoints more customizable for users."
"Hugging Face could improve by implementing a search engine or chat bot feature similar to ChatGPT."
"It can incorporate AI into its services."
"The area that needs improvement would be the organization of the materials. It could be clearer and more systematic. It would be good if the layout was clear and we could search the models easily."
"Access to the models and datasets could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would rate the solution's price a ten out of ten since it is very high."
"The cost offers a pay-as-you-go pricing model. It depends on the instance that you do."
"The tool's pricing is reasonable."
"The pricing is comparable."
"Amazon SageMaker is a very expensive product."
"The pricing is complicated as it is based on what kind of machines you are using, the type of storage, and the kind of computation."
"There is no license required for the solution since you can use it on demand."
"The product is expensive."
"The tool is open-source. The cost depends on what task you're doing. If you're using a large language model with around 12 million parameters, it will cost more. On average, Hugging Face is open source so you can download models to your local machine for free. For deployment, you can use any cloud service."
"We do not have to pay for the product."
"Hugging Face is an open-source solution."
"I recall seeing a fee of nine dollars, and there's also an enterprise option priced at twenty dollars per month."
"The solution is open source."
"So, it's requires expensive machines to open services or open LLM models."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
University
6%
Manufacturing Company
10%
University
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise17
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise4
 

Questions from the Community

How would you compare Databricks vs Amazon SageMaker?
We researched AWS SageMaker, but in the end, we chose Databricks. Databricks is a Unified Analytics Platform designed to accelerate innovation projects. It is based on Spark so it is very fast. It...
What do you like most about Amazon SageMaker?
We've had experience with unique ML projects using SageMaker. For example, we're developing a platform similar to ChatGPT that requires models. We utilize Amazon SageMaker to create endpoints for t...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon SageMaker?
If you manage it effectively, their pricing is reasonable. It's similar to anything in the cloud; if you don't manage it properly, it can be expensive, but if you do, it's fine.
What needs improvement with Hugging Face?
Everything is pretty much sorted in Hugging Face, but it could be improved if there was an AI chatbot or an AI assistant in Hugging Face platform itself, which can guide you through the whole platf...
What is your primary use case for Hugging Face?
My main use case for Hugging Face is to download open-source models and train on a local machine. We use Hugging Face Transformers for simple and fast integration in our applications and AI-based a...
What advice do you have for others considering Hugging Face?
We have seen improved productivity and time saved from using Hugging Face; for a task that would have taken six hours, it saved us five hours, and we completed it in one hour with the plug-and-play...
 

Also Known As

AWS SageMaker, SageMaker
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Sample Customers

DigitalGlobe, Thomson Reuters Center for AI and Cognitive Computing, Hotels.com, GE Healthcare, Tinder, Intuit
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