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Hugging Face Hub — the fine print

The highest-staleness details behind the Hugging Face Hub option page: what going public licenses away, the unanswered training question, where repos are stored, and pricing.

Last verified: 2026-06-07

Public means openly licensed to everyone

Setting a repo public grants every other user a perpetual, irrevocable license to use and build on your content, and a public repo is fair game for anyone to train on. Going private or gated is the only way to take that back — and even then, a copy already downloaded stays out. [confirmed]

The training question is unanswered, not answered "no"

Hugging Face's docs don't say whether they train on your uploads. The reasonable read is they don't — but that's an absence of any claim, not a promise. If a grant or partner forbids training on the data, the clean answer is an Enterprise data agreement, not the silence. → Can you trust the company? [unclear]

Repos are stored in the US by default

Pinning storage to the EU is a Team/Enterprise feature. Name it if a funder restricts where data may sit. [confirmed]

Pricing and free-storage caps

Public repos cost nothing; large private storage is paid. Re-check live at huggingface.co/pricing — the exact free private-storage limits aren't pinned to one doc. [unclear] (checked 2026-06-07)

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