- Deployment
- hosted
- Hq Country
- United States
- Hq City
- New York
- Ownership
- private
- Founded
- 2016
- Training Default
- never
- Residency Options
- routed provider's own region, EU providers selectable (OVHcloud FR, Scaleway FR, Nscale), Hugging Face routing layer: United States
- Gov Access Exposure
- us-cloud-act
- Eu Ai Act Role
- deployer
- Certs
- SOC 2 Type II
- DPA available
- no
- Zero Retention Available
- Yes
- Retention Default
- No request body or response is stored when routing through Hugging Face. Debug logs are kept up to 30 days and contain no user data or tokens.
- Retention Exceptions
- The 17 routed providers set their own retention. Hugging Face states that external providers are responsible for their own security measures and directs users to each provider's data policy — so retention past the routing layer is whatever that provider offers, and Z.ai (Zhipu AI, PRC) is one of them.
- Subprocessors
- Discourse, AWS SES, Amazon Web Services, Metronome, Stripe, MongoDB Atlas, Google Cloud Platform, GitHub, OVHcloud, Slack Technologies, Hugging Face SAS
- Subprocessor Count
- 11
- Transfer Mechanism
- none-stated
- Eu Procurement Ready
- fail
- Eu Procurement Reason
- The routing layer is genuinely clean — Hugging Face stores neither request nor response — and an EU provider can be selected inside the product. But the privacy policy names no Article 46 transfer mechanism, relying on user consent for transfers out of the EEA, and no DPA is published. The 17 routed providers are not on the subprocessor list, so the chain a buyer actually needs to assess is not the chain that is documented.
- Training Claim Basis
- stated
- Training Confidence
- high
- Residency Claim Basis
- inferred
- Residency Confidence
- medium
- Retention Claim Basis
- stated
- Retention Confidence
- high
- Subprocessors Claim Basis
- stated
- Subprocessors Confidence
- high
- Residency Class
- eu-selectable
- Portability / Exit Path
- serves-open-models
- Subprocessor Jurisdiction
- mixed
- Underlying model providers
- Cerebras, Cohere, DeepInfra, Fal AI, Featherless AI, Fireworks AI, Groq, HF Inference, Novita, Nscale, OVHcloud AI Endpoints, Public AI, Replicate, Scaleway, Together AI, WaveSpeedAI, Z.ai
