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Google Cloud AI Platform vs Hugging Face comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 4, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Google Cloud AI Platform
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
9th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Hugging Face
Ranking in AI Development Platforms
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the AI Development Platforms category, the mindshare of Google Cloud AI Platform is 3.6%, down from 6.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Hugging Face is 12.6%, up from 9.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

HaiPham - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps with text extraction from images and has a straightforward setup process
We use Google Cloud AI Platform to extract text from images, such as forms.  The platform's Google Vision API is particularly valuable. It helps with text extraction from images.  Improvements in text extraction accuracy and pricing adjustments would be helpful. The solution is stable.  We have…
SwaminathanSubramanian - PeerSpot reviewer
Versatility empowers AI concept development despite the multi-GPU challenge
Regarding scalability, I'm finding the multi-GPU aspect of it challenging. Training the model is another hurdle, although I'm only getting into that aspect currently. Organizations are apprehensive about investing in multi-GPU setups. Additionally, data cleanup is a challenge that needs to be resolved, as data must be mature and pristine.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I have seen measurable benefits from Google Cloud AI Platform."
"Some of the valuable features are the vast amount of services that are available, such as load balancer, and the AI architecture."
"The initial setup is very straightforward."
"The platform's Google Vision API is particularly valuable."
"Since the model could be trained in just a couple of hours and deploying it took only a few minutes, the entire process took less than an hour."
"On GCP, we are exposing our API services to our clients so that they send us their information. It can be single individual records or it can be a batch of their clients."
"The feedback left about these tools was really helpful and informative for us"
"The solution is able to read 90% of the documents correctly with a 10% error rate."
"The tool's most valuable feature is that it shows trending models. All the new models, even Google's demo models, appear at the top. You can find all the open-source models in one place. You can use them directly and easily find their documentation. It's very simple to find documentation and write code. If you want to work with AI and machine learning, Hugging Face is a perfect place to start."
"I like that Hugging Face is versatile in the way it has been developed."
"My preferred aspects are natural language processing and question-answering."
"It is stable."
"The most valuable features are the inference APIs as it takes me a long time to run inferences on my local machine."
"The tool's most valuable feature is that it's open-source and has hundreds of packages already available. This makes it quite helpful for creating our LLMs."
"I would rate this product nine out of ten."
"The solution is easy to use compared to other frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow."
 

Cons

"Improvements in text extraction accuracy and pricing adjustments would be helpful."
"One thing that I found is that Azure ML does not directly provide you with features on Google Cloud AI Platform, whereas Vertex provides some features of the platform."
"Customizations are very difficult, and they take time."
"The initial setup was straightforward for me but could be difficult for others."
"The model management on Google Cloud AI Platform could be better."
"The solution can be improved by simplifying the process to make your own models."
"I think it's the it it also has has evolved quite a bit over the last few years, and Google Cloud folks have been getting, more and more services. But I think from a improvement standpoint, so maybe they can look at adding more algorithms, so adding more AI algorithms to their suite."
"It could be more clear, and sometimes there are errors that I don't quite understand."
"It can incorporate AI into its services."
"Access to the models and datasets could be improved."
"Regarding scalability, I'm finding the multi-GPU aspect of it challenging. Training the model is another hurdle, although I'm only getting into that aspect currently."
"Hugging Face could improve by implementing a search engine or chat bot feature similar to ChatGPT."
"Initially, I faced issues with the solution's configuration."
"I believe Hugging Face has some room for improvement. There are some security issues. They provide code, but API tokens aren't indicated. Also, the documentation for particular models could use more explanation. But I think these things are improving daily. The main change I'd like to see is making the deployment of inference endpoints more customizable for users."
"Most people upload their pre-trained models on Hugging Face, but more details should be added about the models."
"I've worked on three projects using Hugging Face, and only once did we encounter a problem with the code. We had to use another open-source embedding from OpenAI to resolve it. Our team has three members: me, my colleague, and a team leader. We looked at the problem and resolved it."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution has an attractive starting program, which costs only 300 USD for a duration of three months. During this period, one can accomplish a lot of work on the solution."
"For every thousand uses, it is about four and a half euros."
"The price of the solution is competitive."
"The licenses are cheap."
"The pricing is on the expensive side."
"I recall seeing a fee of nine dollars, and there's also an enterprise option priced at twenty dollars per month."
"So, it's requires expensive machines to open services or open LLM models."
"The solution is open source."
"Hugging Face is an open-source solution."
"We do not have to pay for the product."
"The tool is open-source. The cost depends on what task you're doing. If you're using a large language model with around 12 million parameters, it will cost more. On average, Hugging Face is open source so you can download models to your local machine for free. For deployment, you can use any cloud service."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
University
8%
Computer Software Company
11%
University
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Google Cloud AI Platform?
A range of a a wide range of algorithms, EIM voice mails, which can be plugged in right away into your solution into into into our solution, and then have platform that provides know, to to come up...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Google Cloud AI Platform?
For the most part, the pricing is perfect sinceit grows with the use of my app. In some cases, they could be more specific about the pricing, especially for some AI features.
What is your primary use case for Google Cloud AI Platform?
I use Google Cloud AI Platform due to Firebase and the many APIs that are available with it.
What do you like most about Hugging Face?
My preferred aspects are natural language processing and question-answering.
What needs improvement with Hugging Face?
It is challenging to suggest specific improvements for Hugging Face, as their platform is already very well-organized and efficient. However, they could focus on cleaning up outdated models if they...
What is your primary use case for Hugging Face?
I am working on AI with various large language models for different purposes such as medicine and law, where they are fine-tuned with specific requirements. I download LLMs from Hugging Face for th...
 

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