Hugging Face vs Anthropic MCP

FeatureHugging FaceAnthropic MCP
CategoryAI DevelopmentAI Development
PricingFree + Pro $9/mo + EnterpriseFree (open standard)
GitHub Stars140,00045,000
PlatformsWeb, macOS, Linux, WindowsmacOS, Linux, Windows
Features
  • ✓ Model hub
  • ✓ Datasets
  • ✓ Spaces (demos)
  • ✓ Transformers library
  • ✓ Inference API
  • ✓ Fine-tuning
  • ✓ Universal tool protocol
  • ✓ Server/client architecture
  • ✓ Stdio and SSE transport
  • ✓ TypeScript + Python SDKs
  • ✓ Growing ecosystem
Tags
open-sourcemodelsdatasetscommunityml
open-sourceprotocoltoolsintegrationstandard