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Fireworks AI vs Hugging Face comparison

 

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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

Fireworks AI
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
11th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
AI Software Development (21st), AI Finance & Accounting (4th), AI Research (4th)
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 Fireworks AI is 4.4%, up from 4.0% 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%
Fireworks AI4.4%
Other88.4%
AI Development Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2588646 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Development Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Enhanced text-to-image creation with solid API and fine-tuning support
We primarily use Fireworks AI for text-to-image generation. We are developing a platform for artists to sell their art styles, where the system helps them tune a model and then sell images generated from their signature Fireworks AI has helped our organization by enabling us to create a platform…
Mihir Jadhav - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at Futurescape Technologies
Integration of open-source models and deployment in cloud apps has drastically improved productivity
The best features Hugging Face offers are Transformers and Spaces to deploy the app in clicks. What I like most about Transformers and Spaces is the ease of use. Hugging Face is like a Git repository, so it is very helpful and easy to use. Hugging Face has positively impacted my organization because we can deploy open-source applications for testing on Spaces, and one of the main things is the models that it provides and the number of open-source models to compare with. The main part is that it offers inference as well for free for many of the models, so we can use it directly in our applications with a few lines of code.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Fireworks AI has a solid API and is quite easy to interact with."
"My preferred aspects are natural language processing and question-answering."
"Hugging Face provides open-source models, making it the best open-source and reliable solution."
"I would rate this product nine out of ten."
"There are numerous libraries available, and the documentation is rich and step-by-step, helping us understand which model to use in particular conditions."
"Overall, the platform is excellent."
"It is stable."
"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."
"I like that Hugging Face is versatile in the way it has been developed."
 

Cons

"When using the API, it does not return information about the charges for image generation, which would be useful for our solution."
"Access to the models and datasets could be improved. Many interesting ones are restricted."
"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."
"It can incorporate AI into its services."
"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."
"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 platform, making it easier for the user."
"Most people upload their pre-trained models on Hugging Face, but more details should be added about the models."
"Regarding scalability, I'm finding the multi-GPU aspect of it challenging."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available
"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."
"Hugging Face is an open-source solution."
"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 solution is open source."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
University
17%
Computer Software Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
University
10%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fireworks AI?
I cannot comment on pricing or setup cost since others handle that aspect. As a developer, I primarily use the API.
What needs improvement with Fireworks AI?
Returning the values charged for each event generation would improve Fireworks AI. When using the API, it does not return information about the charges for image generation, which would be useful f...
What is your primary use case for Fireworks AI?
We primarily use Fireworks AI for text-to-image generation. We are developing a platform for artists to sell their art styles, where the system helps them tune a model and then sell images generate...
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...
 

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