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Amazon SageMaker vs Hugging Face comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 4, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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
39
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
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 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 Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
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

"The most valuable features are the ability to store artifacts and gather reports and measures from experiments."
"The technical support from AWS is excellent."
"The return on investment varies by use case and offers significant value in revenue increases and cost saving capabilities, especially in real time fraud detection and targeted advertisements."
"The tool has made client management easier where patients need to upload their health records and we can use the tool to understand details on treatment date, amount, etc."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon SageMaker is SageMaker Studio."
"The deployment is very good, where you only need to press a few buttons."
"I recommend SageMaker for ML projects if you need to build models from scratch."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon SageMaker is its integration. For example, AWS Lambda. Additionally, we can write Python code."
"I like that Hugging Face is versatile in the way it has been developed."
"The solution is easy to use compared to other frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow."
"The most valuable features are the inference APIs as it takes me a long time to run inferences on my local machine."
"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."
"Hugging Face provides open-source models, making it the best open-source and reliable solution."
"My preferred aspects are natural language processing and question-answering."
"The tool's most valuable feature is that it's open-source and has hundreds of packages already available. This makes it quite helpful for creating our LLMs."
"Overall, the platform is excellent."
 

Cons

"AI is a new area and AWS needs to have an internship training program available."
"Creating notebook instances for multiple users is pretty expensive in Amazon SageMaker."
"I had to create custom templates for labeling multi-data sets, such as text and images, which was time-consuming."
"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."
"For any cloud provider, the cost has to be substantially reduced, especially in the case of Amazon SageMaker, which is extremely expensive for huge workloads."
"The model repository is a concern as models are stored on a bucket and there's an issue with versioning."
"The platform could be more accessible to users with basic coding skills, making it more intuitive and easier for beginners to use comfortably."
"Amazon SageMaker could improve in the area of hyperparameter tuning by offering more automated suggestions and tips during the tuning process."
"Access to the models and datasets could be improved. Many interesting ones are restricted."
"The initial setup can be rated as a seven out of ten due to occasional issues during model deployment, which might require adjustments."
"Hugging Face could improve by implementing a search engine or chat bot feature similar to ChatGPT."
"It can incorporate AI into its services."
"Regarding scalability, I'm finding the multi-GPU aspect of it challenging."
"Most people upload their pre-trained models on Hugging Face, but more details should be added about the models."
"Initially, I faced issues with the solution's configuration."
"Access to the models and datasets could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is no license required for the solution since you can use it on demand."
"On average, customers pay about $300,000 USD per month."
"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten."
"The solution is relatively cheaper."
"The support costs are 10% of the Amazon fees and it comes by default."
"Databricks solution is less costly than Amazon SageMaker."
"SageMaker is worth the money for our use case."
"The cost offers a pay-as-you-go pricing model. It depends on the instance that you do."
"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."
"We do not have to pay for the product."
"The solution is open source."
"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."
"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
17%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
University
6%
Comms Service Provider
10%
University
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise11
Large Enterprise18
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...
 

Comparisons

 

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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