Hugging Face lets organizations bill Hub usage through Google Cloud
Hugging Face organizations can now link their accounts to Google Cloud, allowing Hub usage to appear on an existing Google Cloud bill instead of being charged to a credit card. The option is available through the Google Cloud Marketplace.
- Hugging Face usage can appear on an organization's Google Cloud bill.
- The integration is set up through the Google Cloud Marketplace.
- It covers subscriptions, compute, quota extensions and additional storage.
- Marketplace billing replaces the organization's credit card payment method.
- Linking and unlinking are recorded in audit logs.
One billing route for Hugging Face services
The integration is aimed at companies that already use Google Cloud and want to avoid adding a separate vendor and corporate credit card to use Hugging Face services. Once linked, purchases go through the organization's existing Google Cloud billing account and procurement process.
According to Hugging Face, the arrangement covers Team and Enterprise subscriptions, pay-as-you-go compute for Jobs, Inference Endpoints, Inference Providers and GPU Spaces, ZeroGPU quota extension, and additional storage at public Hugging Face pricing.
Hugging Face describes its Hub as a place where teams find, build and run open models. Its services include hosting private models and datasets, running GPU workloads with Jobs, deploying models with Inference Endpoints, accessing models through Inference Providers and hosting demos on GPU Spaces.
How organizations connect their accounts
An administrator first opens the Hugging Face listing in the Google Cloud Marketplace, selects the Google Cloud project, chooses the billing account and accepts the terms. Google Cloud then directs the administrator to Hugging Face to complete the setup.
On Hugging Face, the administrator selects the organization to link. Only organizations where that person is an admin are listed. The linked Google Cloud account initially appears in the organization's billing settings with a pending status while Hugging Face reviews the marketplace subscription.
Paid usage continues to use the organization's existing payment method during that review, if one is available. After approval, Hugging Face sends a confirmation email. Organizations with a credit card switch to marketplace billing at the start of their next billing period. Free tier organizations without a credit card usually switch immediately.
What changes after approval
Google Cloud replaces the credit card as the organization's payment method, and usage is metered and reported to Google Cloud. Members of the organization can use Hugging Face compute services, with the resulting usage appearing on the Google Cloud bill.
Organizations billed through the marketplace cannot add credits. However, monthly included credits for Team or Enterprise subscriptions are applied before pay-as-you-go usage is reported to Google Cloud.
Administrators can monitor usage in the billing section of their organization settings and view the charges in Google Cloud console Billing reports. Hugging Face also says that linking and unlinking are recorded in the organization's audit logs, giving companies a record of both actions.
Hugging Face: Pay for Hugging Face Hub with your Google Cloud Account
