HuggingChat
The facts below are what the maker publishes about HuggingChat, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From HuggingChat's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Free users can use their inference credits · usage is subject to available credits |
| Hugging Face PRO | $9 a month | $2 of included inference credits monthly · PRO members get 20x more credits to use in HuggingChat · /month |
The facts
Each one read from HuggingChat's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Account requirement
- The HuggingChat login page says users need a Hugging Face account to use HuggingChat.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Accuracy limit
- The live HuggingChat page warns that generated content may be inaccurate or false.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Automatic routing
- Omni automatically selects an AI model based on the request, and users can also choose an available open source model directly.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Background generation
- The announcement says multiple conversations can generate at the same time, with updates appearing when responses finish.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Conversation export
- The closure announcement said users could export past conversations as a ZIP file for use in another interface.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Credits
- The announcement says free users can use their inference credits and PRO users get 20x more credits to use.checked 11 Oct 2026
- File uploads
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Integration
- The announcement describes HuggingChat Tools as exposing Gradio Spaces from within the chat interface.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The open source Chat UI connects to Hugging Face Inference Providers, Ollama, llama.cpp, OpenRouter, and other OpenAI-compatible API endpoints.checked 12 Oct 2026
- ML Intern
- ML Intern can read papers, write scripts, run machine-learning work on Hugging Face compute, and report results.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Model catalog
- The maker's Omni announcement described 115+ available models and 15+ providers powered by Hugging Face Inference Providers.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Model routing
- Omni automatically picks an AI model based on the user's request, and users can also choose an available open source model directly.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Model selection
- The Omni announcement listed 115+ available models and 15+ providers through Hugging Face Inference Providers.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Privacy contact
- Hugging Face's privacy policy lists [email protected] for questions about the policy.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- HuggingChat is a chat app powered by open source AI models.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Product status
- A July 2025 announcement said HuggingChat was closing, and an October 2025 announcement said it had returned as HuggingChat Omni.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- HuggingChat is a chat app powered by open source AI models.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Routing details
- Omni analyzes a message and routes it to a model suited to the task, with fallback models if the primary model is unavailable.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Self-hosting
- The maker says HuggingChat is open source and provides setup instructions for running an instance yourself.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The HuggingChat Space invites users to share feedback in its public discussion thread.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Task routing
- Omni routes requests to task-specific models and shows which model handled each request while it streams.checked 12 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- App integrations
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Money
- Billing limit
- ML Intern's jobs and sandboxes are billed to Hugging Face credits, and jobs stop when the account credit balance runs out.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
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