Hugging Face Inference
AI & ML Free key (no card)
AuthenticationFree key (no card)
Rate limitFree rate-limited inference per model with a free account.
Documentation: huggingface.co ยท Checked Sep 18, 2026
About
One free Hugging Face key unlocks serverless inference across thousands of open-source models for text, image, audio, and more, with no GPU bills and no deployment. Free accounts get rate-limited inference with no card required, plus a small monthly credit for inference providers.
Details
Free to start. You may need a free key, but no credit card.
Auth: Free key (no card)
Rate limit: Free rate-limited inference per model with a free account.
Verified: 2026-09-18
Best for: developer
Setup
- Create a free account at huggingface.co and open Access Tokens in settings.
- Create a fine-grained token with inference permission.
- POST prompts to the inference endpoint of any supported model.
Example
POST https://api-inference.huggingface.co/models/gpt2 --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_HF_TOKEN"Use cases
- Trying open models free
- Text and image generation
- Embeddings on a budget