HuggingChat

Spec sheet

Purpose

HuggingChat is a chat app powered by open source AI models.Read 11 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Product

HuggingChat is a chat app powered by open source AI models.Read 12 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Free plan

YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · huggingface.co

Integrations

The open source Chat UI connects to Hugging Face Inference Providers, Ollama, llama.cpp, OpenRouter, and other OpenAI-compatible API endpoints.Read 12 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Support

The HuggingChat Space invites users to share feedback in its public discussion thread.Read 11 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Account requirement

The HuggingChat login page says users need a Hugging Face account to use HuggingChat.Read 12 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Accuracy limit

The live HuggingChat page warns that generated content may be inaccurate or false.Read 12 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Automatic routing

Omni automatically selects an AI model based on the request, and users can also choose an available open source model directly.Read 11 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Background generation

The announcement says multiple conversations can generate at the same time, with updates appearing when responses finish.Read 12 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Billing limit

ML Intern's jobs and sandboxes are billed to Hugging Face credits, and jobs stop when the account credit balance runs out.Read 12 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Conversation export

The closure announcement said users could export past conversations as a ZIP file for use in another interface.Read 11 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Credits

The announcement says free users can use their inference credits and PRO users get 20x more credits to use.Read 11 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

File uploads

YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · huggingface.co

Integration

The announcement describes HuggingChat Tools as exposing Gradio Spaces from within the chat interface.Read 11 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

ML Intern

ML Intern can read papers, write scripts, run machine-learning work on Hugging Face compute, and report results.Read 12 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Model catalog

The maker's Omni announcement described 115+ available models and 15+ providers powered by Hugging Face Inference Providers.Read 12 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Model routing

Omni automatically picks an AI model based on the user's request, and users can also choose an available open source model directly.Read 12 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Model selection

The Omni announcement listed 115+ available models and 15+ providers through Hugging Face Inference Providers.Read 11 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Privacy contact

Hugging Face's privacy policy lists [email protected] for questions about the policy.Read 11 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Product status

A July 2025 announcement said HuggingChat was closing, and an October 2025 announcement said it had returned as HuggingChat Omni.Read 11 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Routing details

Omni analyzes a message and routes it to a model suited to the task, with fallback models if the primary model is unavailable.Read 11 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Self-hosting

The maker says HuggingChat is open source and provides setup instructions for running an instance yourself.Read 12 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Task routing

Omni routes requests to task-specific models and shows which model handled each request while it streams.Read 12 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Tools and multimodal input

The Chat UI documentation describes MCP server function calling and image uploads on models that support vision.Read 12 Oct 2026 · huggingface.co

Web search

YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · huggingface.co

Plans and prices

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