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Hugging Face founders claim Hub storage at $8 to $12 per terabyte is cheaper than AWS S3

Egress and CDN services are bundled for no extra charge.

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Julien Chaumond@julien_c#253inAI

Your monthly reminder that HF is much cheaper at scale, for both storage and egress (especially if you use several cloud providers for compute) than S3, GCS, and even Backblaze.

Store your AI data on the infrastructure that's actually optimized for it 馃

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Users praise Hugging Face's cheaper and transparently priced AI storage and egress versus S3 or Backblaze, plus its convenient CLI for agents.

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Caleb@calebfahlgren

@julien_c not to mention hf cli is so nice to get agents to use it 馃檶

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Your monthly reminder that HF is much cheaper at scale, for both storage and egress (especially if you use several cloud providers for compute) than S3, GCS, and even Backblaze.

Store your AI data on the infrastructure that's actually optimized for it 馃

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Invincible@InvincibleEdge

@julien_c transparent pricing is the real flex here

backblaze was my budget go-to but hf might just take it

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Big Chirpy@loudchirper

@julien_c the cost advantages might lead to shifts in usage patterns, especially if users start reallocating budget for more compute resources. timing your migration can maximize these savings even further.

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Blissy@BlissyOnX

@julien_c the real cost for most teams is the 500 tabs of "what the hell did we spend on egress" mystery

if hub pricing holds at scale thats a real shift

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Chestuits@Chestu_eth

@julien_c Good to know for anyone scaling up AI infrastructure

The storage and egress costs add up fast when you're dealing with large datasets and multiple cloud providers for compute

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