Hugging Face vs Ollama

FeatureHugging FaceOllama
CategoryAI DevelopmentLocal AI Infrastructure
PricingFree + Pro $9/mo + EnterpriseFree (open-source)
GitHub Stars140,000120,000
PlatformsWeb, macOS, Linux, WindowsmacOS, Linux, Windows
Features
  • ✓ Model hub
  • ✓ Datasets
  • ✓ Spaces (demos)
  • ✓ Transformers library
  • ✓ Inference API
  • ✓ Fine-tuning
  • ✓ One-command setup
  • ✓ API server
  • ✓ GPU acceleration
  • ✓ Model library
  • ✓ Modelfile
  • ✓ OpenAI-compatible API
Tags
open-sourcemodelsdatasetscommunityml
open-sourcelocalllminferenceprivacygpu