Academia Hub

Ask your university’s IT or Procurement Team to get in touch from a university-affiliated email address to initiate the subscription process.

Where universities build, teach, and publish AI.

For universities, by design. One subscription gives your students, faculty, and research staff the same tools used by the world’s leading AI teams: open, auditable, and governed by your institution.

Academia Hub gives universities the tools and ecosystem to put open-source AI at the center of how students learn, experiment, and build with it.

With Academia Hub, you get an all-in-one subscription to the Hugging Face Hub for students, researchers and staff.

What’s included in the subscription

1. Storage: 1 TB of private and 1 TB of public storage per seat, including our new Storage Buckets!
2. Compute: $2/month/seat of credits for Inference Providers, daily higher ZeroGPU priority access for Spaces, and higher Hub rate limits.
3. Collaboration tools: Resource Groups, Data Studio for private datasets, Audit Logs, and access controls.
4. Governance & security: Seat management, centralized admin, SSO, 2FA, SCIM, SOC 2 certified.
5. Global Open Source community: publish and collaborate alongside the researchers and builders working on the field’s most-used models and datasets.

Pricing

Starting at $10/seat/month, with volume-based discounts.

Contact our Academia Hub Team for a bespoke package!

We require a minimum of 250 annual seats to enter the program. For smaller groups, we recommend starting with a Team plan.

How to get started

Researchers and students: Contact us to express interest in Academia Hub and help us connect with your university’s IT or Procurement Team.

IT or Procurement staff: Get in touch directly to set up your institution’s Academia Hub subscription or find out more about how your institution can benefit from Academia Hub.

Common use cases

🎓 Teaching & Coursework

• Explore, test and compare models interactively without necessarily writing code.
• Fine-tune a base model on a Hub dataset for a downstream task.
• Sync agent traces to buckets for shared collaboration and reuse.
• Use thousands of Spaces to solve tasks in agentic workflows.

🔬 Research & Publication

• Store private checkpoints and datasets, then publish final artefacts with DOIs.
• Keep code, data, and weights together for reproducible results.
• Showcase work on the Hugging Face community blog.

🤝 Collaboration

• Share an org workspace across labs or campuses with granular access controls.
• Preserve data and class materials under one institutional organisation, mount or use locally when needed.

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