Try our new research platform with insights from 80,000+ expert users

Hugging Face vs PyTorch comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

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

Hugging Face
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
5th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
PyTorch
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
8th
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the AI Development Platforms category, the mindshare of Hugging Face is 13.2%, up from 6.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PyTorch is 1.2%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Development Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

AshishKumar11 - PeerSpot reviewer
Open-sourced, reliable, and enables organizations to finetune data for business requirements
Hugging Face is a website that provides various open-source models. We use them to finetune models for our business. It is just like ChatGPT, but ChatGPT has paid sources. If we have to call an API, we must pay for it. However, Hugging Face has various open-source models like Llama 2 and Llama 3…
Jithin James - PeerSpot reviewer
User-friendly, easy to learn, performs well, and is more advanced than other tools
The most valuable feature would be the solution’s performance. The product is more advanced than the other libraries that I have used. Since every functionality is production-ready, I can easily write code. I don't have to rewrite the code for production. It has production-ready code from the start. The tool is very user-friendly. It took us a week to learn how to use it. It's straightforward to learn.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"There are numerous libraries available, and the documentation is rich and step-by-step, helping us understand which model to use in particular conditions."
"The solution is easy to use compared to other frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow."
"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."
"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."
"It is stable."
"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."
"My preferred aspects are natural language processing and question-answering."
"The product is reliable."
"The framework of the solution is valuable."
"yTorch is gaining credibility in the research space, it's becoming easier to find examples of papers that use PyTorch. This is an advantage for someone who uses PyTorch primarily."
"It's been pretty scalable in terms of using multiple GPUs."
"The tool is very user-friendly."
"We use PyTorch libraries, which are working well. It's very easy."
"Its interface is the most valuable. The ability to have an interface to train machine learning models and construct them with the high-level interface, without excess busting and reconstructing the same technical elements, is very useful."
"I like PyTorch's scalability."
"It’s reliable, secure and user-friendly. It allows you to develop any AIML project efficiently. PySearch is the best option for developing any project in the AIML domain. The product is easy to install."
 

Cons

"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."
"Hugging Face could improve by implementing a search engine or chat bot feature similar to ChatGPT."
"It can incorporate AI into its services."
"Initially, I faced issues with the solution's configuration."
"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 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."
"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."
"I do not have any complaints."
"The product has certain shortcomings in the automation of machine learning."
"We faced an issue with PyTorch due to version incompatibility. PyTorch has no latest version after v12.3."
"I would like a model to be available. I think Google recently released a new version of EfficientNet. It's a really good classifier, and a PyTorch implementation would be nice."
"I've had issues with stability when I use a lot of data and try out different combinations of modeling techniques."
"The analyzing and latency of compiling could be improved to provide enhanced results."
"The training of the models could be faster."
"On the production side of things, having more frameworks would be helpful."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"We do not have to pay for the product."
"The solution is open source."
"So, it's requires expensive machines to open services or open LLM models."
"I recall seeing a fee of nine dollars, and there's also an enterprise option priced at twenty dollars per month."
"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."
"Hugging Face is an open-source solution."
"The solution is affordable."
"It is free."
"PyTorch is an open-source solution."
"PyTorch is open-sourced."
"It is free."
"PyTorch is open source."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which AI Development Platforms solutions are best for your needs.
831,071 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
11%
University
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
30%
Computer Software Company
10%
Healthcare Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Hugging Face?
My preferred aspects are natural language processing and question-answering.
What needs improvement with Hugging Face?
Hugging Face could improve by implementing a search engine or chat bot feature similar to ChatGPT. This would aid developers in easily finding how to fine-tune models with specific data or get mode...
What is your primary use case for Hugging Face?
I use Hugging Face primarily to work with open LLM models. I recently started using the open LOM models and also use embedding models. I use these models to train custom data and monitor our deskto...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PyTorch?
I haven't gone for a paid plan yet. I've just been using the free trial or open-source version.
What needs improvement with PyTorch?
The analyzing and latency of compiling could be improved to provide enhanced results.
 

Comparisons

 

Learn More

Video not available
 

Overview

Find out what your peers are saying about Hugging Face vs. PyTorch and other solutions. Updated: December 2024.
831,071 professionals have used our research since 2012.