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Inference Endpoints by Hugging Face - AI Model Serving Tool

Overview

Inference Endpoints by Hugging Face is a fully managed service for deploying models from the Hugging Face Hub on secure, scalable infrastructure. It supports a variety of tasks including text generation, speech recognition, and image generation, with a pay-as-you-go billing model.

Key Features

  • Fully managed inference deployments for models from the Hugging Face Hub
  • Supports Transformers and Diffusers model families
  • Secure, compliant, and scalable infrastructure for production workloads
  • Pay-as-you-go billing with no fixed upfront commitments
  • Handles text generation, speech recognition, image generation, and more

Ideal Use Cases

  • Deploying text generation APIs with pretrained Transformer models
  • Serving image generation models for on-demand media creation
  • Running speech recognition models for transcription services
  • Scaling inference for production ML applications with compliance requirements
  • Integrating model inference into web and mobile applications

Getting Started

  • Create a Hugging Face account or sign in
  • Select a model from the Hugging Face Hub
  • Create a new inference endpoint and configure compute settings
  • Deploy the endpoint to provision managed infrastructure
  • Call the endpoint with your API key to run inference

Pricing

Offers pay-as-you-go pricing; specific rates and tiers are available at https://endpoints.huggingface.co/.

Key Information

  • Category: Model Serving
  • Type: AI Model Serving Tool
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