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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
2nd
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 February 2026, in the AI Development Platforms category, the mindshare of Amazon SageMaker is 3.7%, down from 6.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Hugging Face is 7.2%, down from 13.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Development Platforms Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Hugging Face7.2%
Amazon SageMaker3.7%
Other89.1%
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.
KM
Independent IT Security Consultant at Self-Employed
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 technical support of the tool was good."
"The evolution from SageMaker Classic to SageMaker Studio, particularly the UI part of Studio, is commendable."
"I recommend SageMaker for ML projects if you need to build models from scratch."
"The tangible benefits we have observed from using Amazon SageMaker include improved time to insight and generally the common stack that is easier to support over time."
"Feature Store, CodeCommit, versioning, model control, and CI/CD pipelines are the most valuable features in Amazon SageMaker."
"They are doing a good job of evolving."
"SageMaker offers functionalities like Jupyter Notebooks for development, built-in algorithms, model tuning, and options to deploy models on managed infrastructure."
"Allows you to create API endpoints."
"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."
"The most valuable features are the inference APIs as it takes me a long time to run inferences on my local machine."
"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."
"The tool's most valuable feature is that it shows trending models. All the new models, even Google's demo models, appear at the top. You can find all the open-source models in one place. You can use them directly and easily find their documentation. It's very simple to find documentation and write code. If you want to work with AI and machine learning, Hugging Face is a perfect place to start."
"Hugging Face provides open-source models, making it the best open-source and reliable solution."
"I like that Hugging Face is versatile in the way it has been developed."
"There are numerous libraries available, and the documentation is rich and step-by-step, helping us understand which model to use in particular conditions."
 

Cons

"Creating notebook instances for multiple users is pretty expensive in Amazon SageMaker."
"There are other better solutions for large data, such as Databricks."
"I had to create custom templates for labeling multi-data sets, such as text and images, which was time-consuming."
"Amazon SageMaker could improve in the area of hyperparameter tuning by offering more automated suggestions and tips during the tuning process."
"The main challenge with Amazon SageMaker is the integrations."
"The product must provide better documentation."
"Improvement is needed in the no-code and low-code capabilities of Amazon SageMaker. This would empower citizen data scientists to utilize the tool more effectively since many data scientists do not have a core development background."
"The solution requires a lot of data to train the model."
"Initially, I faced issues with the solution's configuration."
"Most people upload their pre-trained models on Hugging Face, but more details should be added about the models."
"Access to the models and datasets could be improved."
"Access to the models and datasets could be improved. Many interesting ones are restricted."
"Regarding scalability, I'm finding the multi-GPU aspect of it challenging. Training the model is another hurdle, although I'm only getting into that aspect currently."
"I've worked on three projects using Hugging Face, and only once did we encounter a problem with the code. We had to use another open-source embedding from OpenAI to resolve it. Our team has three members: me, my colleague, and a team leader. We looked at the problem and resolved it."
"The initial setup can be rated as a seven out of ten due to occasional issues during model deployment, which might require adjustments."
"It can incorporate AI into its services."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is no license required for the solution since you can use it on demand."
"In terms of pricing, I'd also rate it ten out of ten because it's been beneficial compared to other solutions."
"The product is expensive."
"SageMaker is worth the money for our use case."
"Amazon SageMaker is a very expensive product."
"I rate the pricing a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is the lowest price, and ten is the highest price. The solution is priced reasonably. There is no additional cost to be paid in excess of the standard licensing fees."
"The cost offers a pay-as-you-go pricing model. It depends on the instance that you do."
"The pricing could be better, especially for querying. The per-query model feels expensive."
"The solution is open source."
"So, it's requires expensive machines to open services or open LLM models."
"We do not have to pay for the product."
"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."
"I recall seeing a fee of nine dollars, and there's also an enterprise option priced at twenty dollars per month."
"Hugging Face is an open-source solution."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
9%
University
6%
University
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
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 Business9
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
 

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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