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Hugging Face

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Free value

5/5

Performance

4/5

Range of uses

5/5

Free and enormous — nearly every open model, plus demos and courses.

Published benchmark scores: No published score. Hugging Face hosts models rather than making one, so there's nothing to score. Worth knowing: its own Open LLM Leaderboard was retired in March 2025, so anyone still citing it is citing something frozen.
Cost: Free accounts and downloads; PRO $9/month.
Performance: Not one model but nearly all of them — plus the datasets, demos and courses around them.
Use it for: Finding an open model for a specific job
Trying a model in the browser before installing anything