Hugging Face vs OpenRouter

FeatureHugging FaceOpenRouter
CategoryAI DevelopmentAI Development
PricingFree + Pro $9/mo + EnterprisePay-per-use (varies by model)
GitHub Stars140,000—
PlatformsWeb, macOS, Linux, WindowsWeb
Features
  • ✓ Model hub
  • ✓ Datasets
  • ✓ Spaces (demos)
  • ✓ Transformers library
  • ✓ Inference API
  • ✓ Fine-tuning
  • ✓ 200+ models
  • ✓ Unified API
  • ✓ Auto-fallback
  • ✓ Rate limiting
  • ✓ Usage tracking
  • ✓ OpenAI-compatible
Tags
open-sourcemodelsdatasetscommunityml
apimulti-modelgatewayroutingpay-per-use