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Hugging Face

Data confidence: High

The GitHub of machine learning. Hosts models, datasets, and Spaces.

Founded by: Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, Thomas Wolf

DMI: 34#3 of 262 (Top 2%)HN 30d: 319
157,504 · 32,313 forks
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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.

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Developer Adoption

Developer Adoption

Package downloads and ecosystem metrics, 30-day window

npm Downloads (30d)
1.3M
@huggingface/inference
PyPI Downloads (30d)
112.4M
transformers
Total Downloads (30d)
113.7M
npm + PyPI combined
Active Contributors (30d)
101
Unique committers, 30-day window
npm Dependents
284
Packages using @huggingface/inference

Active Contributors Trend

9698101104106Mar 5Mar 6
90-day trend

github contributors remained stable at 101 over the last 90 days.

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Dategithub contributors
Mar 5, 2026101
Mar 6, 2026101

npm Dependents Trend

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npm Download Trend

1,260,7671,293,9451,327,1231,360,3011,393,479Mar 5Mar 6
90-day trend

npm Downloads remained stable at 1,327,123 over the last 90 days.

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Datenpm downloads
Mar 5, 20261,327,123
Mar 6, 20261,327,123

PyPI Download Trend

106,839,243109,653,259112,467,275115,281,291118,095,307Mar 5Mar 6
90-day trend

PyPI Downloads declined from 112,560,641 to 112,373,909 over the last 90 days.

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Datepypi downloads
Mar 5, 2026112,560,641
Mar 6, 2026112,373,909
Key Signals

Developer Community Metrics

Metrics computed from HN discussion, GitHub activity, and funding data.

HN Discussion Rank#6 in Foundation Models by HN mentions (out of 33 tracked)
HN vs Category18.8x category median (319 vs 17 median)
GitHub VelocityCommit velocity steady (0.9x vs 4-week average)
Funding Trajectory6 rounds in 63 months, ($4M → $15M → $40M → $100M → $235M → $235M)
Community Sentiment0% positive HN sentiment (200 comments) • High confidence

Category Benchmark

33 Foundation Models companies
113.7M downloads/mo8300% above median
0Median: 1.4M2.7M+

Funding Rounds

Series D$235M

2023 · Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital

Series D$235M

2023 · Salesforce Ventures

Series C$100M

2022 · Lux Capital, Sequoia Capital

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Series B$40M

2021 · Addition

Series A$15M

2019 · Lux Capital

Seed$4M

2018 · Betaworks

Cite This Data

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).

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Metrics derived from public APIs (HN Algolia, GitHub, npm/PyPI). Sentiment classified by AI. See methodology for details →

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About

Description

The GitHub of machine learning. Hosts models, datasets, and Spaces.

Estimated Company Size

101 - 250 employees

Details

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

Excellent
95/ 100

Reflects profile completeness, metric freshness, and signal coverage.

How we calculate this

Open Source

157.5K
Stars
32.3K
Forks
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Last commit: 1 day ago
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