Hugging Face · Buckets

Private storage, at the best price.

Yes, Hugging Face does object storage now, and it beats AWS, Google and Azure on price, mostly because we don't charge you to read your own data. Put in your numbers and see.

Your usage

Stored data 250 TB

20 TB to 2 PB

Transferred out / month 100 TB

≈ 0.4× your stored data. Counts only what leaves to the internet or another region. Reading into compute in the same region is free everywhere.

HF Buckets includes up to 2,000 TB egress free — 8× your stored data.

Compare against

Cloud committed-use discount 0%

Applies to AWS S3 storage only. Egress is never discounted.

You'd save with HF Buckets

$118,092 / yr

74% lower than AWS S3

🤗HF Buckets

AWS S3

Storage / yr

$42,000

$66,600

Egress / yr

$93,492

Total / yr

$42,000

$160,092

All-in effective rate $14 / TB-mo vs $53 / TB-mo

Also not in their bill above ↑

PUT / GET / LIST request fees
Retrieval fees & storage-class charges (IA / Glacier)
Version-history storage accumulation

▸ Show the math, sources & what's not included

Why the gap exists

No egress fees

Download and move your data as much as you need. You're never charged to read it, which adds up fast with big models and datasets.

Xet

Efficient storage with Xet

Xet splits files into chunks and skips anything it already has. Change 5% of a model's weights and you upload and pay for just that 5%. Duplicate files are stored once.

Purpose-built for ML workloads

It's built for big files. Models, datasets and checkpoints move fast, so your team spends less time waiting on transfers.

hf://

Migrate in place

Copy data across on the server, with no re-upload, even at petabyte scale. hf:// paths work everywhere on the Hub, so switching is low-risk.

Ready to stop paying the egress tax?

Talk to us about moving your storage, or jump into the docs and start today.

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