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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
39
Ranking in other categories
Data Science Platforms (3rd)
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 3.3%, down from 5.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Hugging Face is 6.0%, down from 13.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Development Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Hugging Face6.0%
Amazon SageMaker3.3%
Other90.7%
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 solution is easy to scale...The documentation and online community support have been sufficient for us so far."
"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."
"SageMaker supports building, training, and deploying AI models from scratch, which is crucial for my ML project."
"I have seen a return on investment, probably a factor of four or five."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon SageMaker is that you don't have to do any programming in order to perform some of your use cases."
"The tool makes our ML model development a bit more efficient because everything is in one environment."
"There is no cessation from what I can see; whatever they have in the industry, they can solve 98% of the use cases."
"I have seen a return on investment, probably a factor of four or five."
"Overall, the platform is excellent."
"I like that Hugging Face is versatile in the way it has been developed."
"Hugging Face provides open-source models, making it the best open-source and reliable solution."
"I would rate this product nine out of ten."
"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."
"My preferred aspects are natural language processing and question-answering."
"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."
"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

"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 room for improvement in the collaboration with serverless architecture, particularly integration with AWS Lambda."
"Creating notebook instances for multiple users is pretty expensive in Amazon SageMaker."
"The product must provide better documentation."
"Comparatively, GCP offers very low cost when compared to Amazon SageMaker. People are moving from Amazon SageMaker to GCP because of the cost constraints."
"The documentation must be made clearer and more user-friendly."
"One area where Amazon SageMaker could improve is its pricing. The high costs can drive companies to explore other cloud options. Additionally, while generally good, the updates sometimes come with bugs, and the documentation could be much better. More examples and clearer guidance would be helpful."
"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."
"Implementing a cloud system to showcase historical data would be beneficial."
"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."
"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."
"The solution must provide an efficient LLM."
"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."
"Most people upload their pre-trained models on Hugging Face, but more details should be added about the models."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would rate the solution's price a ten out of ten since it is very high."
"You don't pay for Sagemaker. You only pay for the compute instances in your storage."
"Amazon SageMaker is a very expensive product."
"There is no license required for the solution since you can use it on demand."
"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 pricing is complicated as it is based on what kind of machines you are using, the type of storage, and the kind of computation."
"The tool's pricing is reasonable."
"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."
"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."
"The solution is open source."
"We do not have to pay for the product."
"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%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Computer Software Company
8%
University
5%
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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