Pay for Hugging Face Hub through a Google Cloud account

Hugging Face has added payment through Google Cloud Marketplace. Companies can now link a Hugging Face organization to a Google Cloud account, with service costs added to their consolidated cloud bill instead of being charged to a bank card. This simplifies purchasing for teams already using Google Cloud: they do not need to onboard a new vendor or arrange a separate corporate card. Marketplace payments cover Team and Enterprise subscriptions, usage-based compute, and additional storage.

Hugging Face adds payment through Google Cloud

Which costs can be moved to Google Cloud

Hugging Face is used to find, build and run open models. The platform lets users host private models and datasets, run GPU compute jobs through Jobs, deploy models with inference Endpoints, access thousands of models through inference Providers, and host demos on GPU Spaces.

Linking a Hugging Face organization to Google Cloud Marketplace gives a company three options:

Hugging Face charges are added to the existing Google Cloud bill.

Purchases use the Google Cloud billing account and procurement process already in place.

Marketplace payments cover Team and Enterprise subscriptions, usage-based compute in Jobs, inference Endpoints, inference Providers and GPU Spaces, expanded ZeroGPU quotas, and additional storage at Hugging Face’s public prices.

A Hugging Face organization administrator can set up payments.

How to link an organization

First, find Hugging Face Hub in Google Cloud Marketplace, select a Google Cloud project and click Subscribe. On the subscription page, specify the billing account, accept the terms and confirm the order. Google Cloud will then prompt you to finish setting up your Hugging Face account by clicking Sign up with Hugging Face.

After going to Hugging Face, the administrator selects the organization to link to Google Cloud and confirms the choice. The list shows only organizations where the user has administrator privileges.

The user is then taken to the organization’s billing settings. The payment methods section shows the linked Google Cloud account with a pending status.

Until the Hugging Face team approves the subscription, paid services continue to be charged to the organization’s previous payment method, if one is configured. Each subscription request through a cloud marketplace is reviewed before payments start going through Google Cloud.

Once Hugging Face approves the request, it sends an email confirming that the Google Cloud account has been linked to the organization. If the organization already has a bank card on file, the switch to Marketplace billing takes place at the start of the next billing period. Organizations on a free plan without a card usually switch immediately, with paid usage billed through the cloud marketplace right away.

You can check the connection in the billing settings, where the Google Cloud account will appear as an active payment method for the organization.

What changes after linking

All organization members can use Hugging Face’s compute services, and the costs appear on the Google Cloud bill. A few conditions apply:

Google Cloud replaces the organization’s bank card as its payment method. Costs are tracked and passed on to Google Cloud, so organizations linked through Marketplace cannot top up their balance.

Credits included with Team and Enterprise subscriptions remain available: they are used first, then charges for service usage above the allowance are passed on to Google Cloud.

Usage can be tracked in the organization’s billing settings, while charges appear in the Billing reports in the Google Cloud console.

Linking and unlinking Marketplace payments are recorded in the organization’s audit log.

Dataist's take: This setup primarily simplifies corporate purchasing for companies that already pay for Google Cloud, since Hugging Face services go through a familiar billing account. However, the previous payment method remains in use until the subscription is approved, and balances cannot be topped up after switching to Marketplace.

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