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Each line below was read on the official page linked next to it, on the date shown. A line older than 30 days says “not verified” instead of the old value.
Hugging Face · Free tier
Free allowance
$0.10of credits/month
Listed as “subject to change”. Past it, usage needs purchased credits.
Monthly credits for every account, spent on models routed through Hugging Face.
Depends on the provider the request is routed to.
7 of 12 cells above were read on the provider’s own page in the last 30 days (oldest check: ). Each check mark opens that page. The other 5 say “not verified” instead of repeating a number from someone else’s article.
The free allowance is a monthly credit of $0.10, spent at the price of whichever provider Hugging Face routes the request to. It covers a short evaluation, and the amount is marked “subject to change”.
Requests made with your own provider key are billed by that provider and do not consume the credit.
These steps are a summary of the provider’s console and were not re-walked with a new account; the screens may differ. Open the Hugging Face Inference Providers console.
import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://router.huggingface.co/v1",
api_key=os.environ["HF_TOKEN"],
)
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Reply with the word: ok"}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)The key is read from an environment variable on your machine. This site has no field for keys and never asks for one.
Free tier: $0.10 of credits/month. Requests per minute: not published (The allowance is a monthly credit, not a request count). Requests per day: not published (The allowance is a monthly credit, not a request count). Read on the official page on 3 Oct 2026.
not verified on an official page.
not verified on an official page.
not verified on an official page.
Yes. Set the base URL to https://router.huggingface.co/v1 and the model to an id such as deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324.