Hugging Face
Data confidence: HighThe GitHub of machine learning. Hosts models, datasets, and Spaces.
Founded by: Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, Thomas Wolf
Hugging Face has a Developer Momentum Index of 34, ranking #3 of 262 companies. Key metrics include 113.7M monthly package downloads, 157.5K GitHub stars, $629M in total funding.
Developer Adoption
Developer Adoption
Package downloads and ecosystem metrics, 30-day window
Active Contributors Trend
github contributors remained stable at 101 over the last 90 days.
View data table
| Date | github contributors |
|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2026 | 101 |
| Mar 6, 2026 | 101 |
npm Dependents Trend
Trend data not yet available
Check back soon as we collect more data.
npm Download Trend
npm Downloads remained stable at 1,327,123 over the last 90 days.
View data table
| Date | npm downloads |
|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2026 | 1,327,123 |
| Mar 6, 2026 | 1,327,123 |
PyPI Download Trend
PyPI Downloads declined from 112,560,641 to 112,373,909 over the last 90 days.
View data table
| Date | pypi downloads |
|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2026 | 112,560,641 |
| Mar 6, 2026 | 112,373,909 |
Key Signals
Developer Community Metrics
Metrics computed from HN discussion, GitHub activity, and funding data.
Category Benchmark
33 Foundation Models companies30-Day Trends
npm Downloads
npm Downloads remained stable at 1,327,123 over the last 90 days.
View data table
| Date | npm downloads |
|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2026 | 1,327,123 |
| Mar 6, 2026 | 1,327,123 |
PyPI Downloads
PyPI Downloads declined from 112,560,641 to 112,373,909 over the last 90 days.
View data table
| Date | pypi downloads |
|---|---|
| Mar 5, 2026 | 112,560,641 |
| Mar 6, 2026 | 112,373,909 |
GitHub Stars
GitHub Stars grew from 156,225 to 157,504 over the last 90 days.
View data table
| Date | github stars |
|---|---|
| Feb 1, 2026 | 156,225 |
| Feb 7, 2026 | 156,440 |
| Feb 8, 2026 | 156,477 |
| Feb 9, 2026 | 156,516 |
| Feb 10, 2026 | 156,558 |
| Feb 12, 2026 | 156,724 |
| Feb 13, 2026 | 156,734 |
| Feb 14, 2026 | 156,764 |
| Feb 15, 2026 | 156,795 |
| Feb 16, 2026 | 156,856 |
| Feb 17, 2026 | 156,876 |
| Feb 19, 2026 | 156,993 |
| Feb 21, 2026 | 157,130 |
| Feb 22, 2026 | 157,185 |
| Feb 23, 2026 | 157,266 |
| Feb 24, 2026 | 157,270 |
| Feb 25, 2026 | 157,321 |
| Feb 26, 2026 | 157,418 |
| Feb 27, 2026 | 157,495 |
| Feb 28, 2026 | 157,504 |
HN Mentions
HN Mentions grew from 222 to 245 (+10.4%) over the last 90 days.
View data table
| Date | hn mentions |
|---|---|
| Jan 6, 2026 | 222 |
| Jan 9, 2026 | 214 |
| Jan 10, 2026 | 138 |
| Jan 15, 2026 | 228 |
| Jan 16, 2026 | 222 |
| Jan 17, 2026 | 222 |
| Jan 18, 2026 | 234 |
| Jan 20, 2026 | 222 |
| Jan 21, 2026 | 223 |
| Jan 22, 2026 | 323 |
| Jan 23, 2026 | 317 |
| Jan 24, 2026 | 315 |
| Jan 25, 2026 | 315 |
| Jan 27, 2026 | 317 |
| Jan 29, 2026 | 308 |
| Jan 30, 2026 | 309 |
| Jan 31, 2026 | 309 |
| Feb 1, 2026 | 317 |
| Feb 2, 2026 | 331 |
| Feb 3, 2026 | 335 |
| Feb 4, 2026 | 322 |
| Feb 5, 2026 | 245 |
Funding Rounds
2023 · Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital
2023 · Salesforce Ventures
2022 · Lux Capital, Sequoia Capital
Show 3 earlier roundsHide earlier rounds
2021 · Addition
2019 · Lux Capital
2018 · Betaworks
According to AI-Buzz, Hugging Face has 1,327,123 npm downloads in 30 days, with 112,373,909 PyPI downloads in 30 days, with 101 active contributors in 30 days, with 284 npm dependent packages, ranks #6 in Foundation Models for HN discussion share (out of 33 tracked with 4.9% of HN discussion), with 0% positive developer sentiment (200 HN comments analyzed), with 85 commits/week (steady).
Source: https://www.ai-buzz.com/companies/hugging-face?utm_source=citation&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=cite_this_data
Metrics derived from public APIs (HN Algolia, GitHub, npm/PyPI). Sentiment classified by AI. See methodology for details →
About
About
Description
The GitHub of machine learning. Hosts models, datasets, and Spaces.
Estimated Company Size
101 - 250 employees
Website
huggingface.coDetails
Founded
2016
Description
Hugging Face is the central hub for ML. Their Transformers library has 140K+ GitHub stars. Hosts 500K+ models. Raised $235M at $4.5B valuation from Google, Nvidia, Salesforce.
Data Confidence
ExcellentReflects profile completeness, metric freshness, and signal coverage.
How we calculate thisEmbed Badge
Featured in Intelligence
npm Downloads surge: Hugging Face, Mistral AI, QdrantDecember 8, 2025
PyPI Downloads decline: AI21 Labs, Hugging Face, Weights & BiasesAugust 18, 2025
npm Downloads decline: Instructor, Hugging Face, Ollama
Weekly AI Intelligence
Which AI companies are developers actually adopting? We track npm and PyPI downloads for 262+ companies. Get the biggest shifts weekly - before they show up in the news.