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Hugging Face

Last updated 2026-09-25 · benchmark measured 2026-09-25 — deterministic & reproducible

Hugging Face is a platform for hosting, sharing, and deploying machine learning models and datasets.

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Legit.Show scored Hugging Face 80/100 on 2026-09-25, measured across 5 of 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/hf-hugging-face/2026-09-25

Is Hugging Face production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Hugging Face 80 out of 100 — the simple average of its 5 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Hugging Face (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Privacy; its weakest is Standards. 5 of the seven frames returned a score; Performance and Accessibility were not measurable on this service and are recorded as null — not as zero. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Accessibility — not measurable on this service (null — not scored as 0)
• Security — 70/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Web Security Baseline
• Privacy — 100/100
  How this compares across the catalogue: The Privacy Gap
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 45/100
• Discoverability — 85/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 35 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• Has a reachable privacy policy.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who built it

product account @huggingface

Who it's for

ML researchers · Icon and logo generators · Small model enthusiasts · Open-source AI developers

Pricing

Free (open-source model)

Sources and updates

Description

Taken from huggingface.co's own website on 2026-09-25.

Operator

Hugging Face Inc., as named in huggingface.co's terms, privacy page or footer.

Benchmark

Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-25.

Put together from public information, without Hugging Face's involvement. If anything here is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.

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