Hugging Face
French-founded open AI platform and model hub, often called the GitHub of machine learning. Significant US presence reflected in lower score.
Quick facts
Headquarters New York, United States
Company Hugging Face, Inc.
Founded 2016
Ownership VC-backed
Hosting 🇺🇸 United States, 🇫🇷 France
Infrastructure Amazon AWS
Data jurisdiction US
Open source Partial
GDPR Compliant
Pricing Freemium · from Free
Free tier Yes
Platforms Web
Languages
ENFRDEESZH
25 · Not Very European
Explore Hugging Face Why does it score 25?
Legal jurisdiction
HQ outside Europe
0/30Ownership & control
VC-backed, no non-EU parent
15/25Data sovereignty
US cloud, non-EU hosted (−5 US jurisdiction)
0/30Accountability & trust
Partially open source + GDPR
10/15EuroPoints total
25/100
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Hugging Face
Mistral AI
Aleph AlphaEuroPoints
Not Very European
Strongly European
Strongly European
Legal jurisdiction
Ownership & control
Data sovereignty
Accountability & trust
Independence bonus
Headquarters
New York, United States
Paris, France
Heidelberg, Germany
Founded
2016
2023
2019
Open source
Partial
Partial
Partial
Infrastructure
Amazon AWS
Own infrastructure
Own infrastructure
GDPR
Free tier
Pricing
Freemium · from Free
Freemium · from Free
Enterprise
Platforms
Web
Web, iOS, Android
Web
Languages
en, fr, de, es, zh
en, fr, de, es, it, pt, nl, pl, zh, ar, ja, ko, ru
en, de, fr, es, it, nl
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