# Hugging Face Transformers vs spaCy

| Attribute | Hugging Face Transformers | spaCy |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 76.2 (26% (low)) | 49.2 (32% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 13 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 15,793 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 33,849 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A community-driven hub where developers can create, discover, and collaborate on AI models, datasets, and applications with integrated compute resources and deployment capabilities. | An open-source natural language processing library designed for building real-world applications. It excels at large-scale information extraction and has become an industry standard since 2015 with a robust ecosystem of plugins. |
| integrations.count | 5 | 1 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Kaggle"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"GCP"},{"name":"NVIDIA DGX Cloud"}]` | `[{"name":"PyTorch"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Python |
| license.spdx | - | MIT |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"mac":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"PRO","summary":"$9/month","features":["Private storage","20× included inference credits","Host ZeroGPU, Gradio & Docker Spaces","8× ZeroGPU quota","Highest queue priority","PRO badge"],"minSeats":1,"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":9,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Personal account upgrade","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Team","summary":"$20/user/month","features":["Single Sign-On","Regions","Priority Support","Audit Logs","Resource Groups","Access 45,000+ models via unified API"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"seat","amount":20,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Growing teams","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Enterprise-grade security","Access controls","Dedicated support","Custom configuration"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":50,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Custom onboarding and enterprise features","contactSales":true}],"addOns":[{"name":"Storage","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"TB/month"},"kind":"metered","amount":12,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"TB/month"},"kind":"metered","amount":8,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"TB/month"},"kind":"metered","amount":10,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Spaces Hardware","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.03,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.4,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.8,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":23.5,"currency":"USD"}]},{"name":"Inference Endpoints","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.033,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":4.5,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"hour"},"kind":"metered","amount":74,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"PRO at $9/month, Team from $20/user/month, storage from $8/TB/month, compute starting at $0.033/hour. Free tier available.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://huggingface.co/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T17:47:17.911Z","startingPrice":{"amount":9,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month","hour"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","summary":"Free, open-source library","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://spacy.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T14:46:03.884Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | low | free |
| pricing.starting_price | `{"amount":9,"currency":"USD"}` | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| release.cadence_days | - | 20 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/release-v3.8.16","date":"2026-08-24T10:01:11Z","type":"stable","version":"release-v3.8.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/release-v3.8.15","date":"2026-08-07T17:13:19Z","type":"stable","version":"release-v3.8.15"},{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/release-v3.8.14","date":"2026-03-29T07:47:14Z","type":"stable","version":"release-v3.8.14"},{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/release-v3.8.13","date":"2026-03-23T17:40:51Z","type":"stable","version":"release-v3.8.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/release-v3.8.12","date":"2026-03-23T13:33:37Z","type":"stable","version":"release-v3.8.12"},{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/release-v3.8.11","date":"2025-11-17T20:37:38Z","type":"stable","version":"release-v3.8.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/release-v3.8.10","date":"2025-11-17T15:54:29Z","type":"stable","version":"release-v3.8.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/release-v3.8.9","date":"2025-11-13T14:57:22Z","type":"stable","version":"release-v3.8.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/release-v3.8.8","date":"2025-11-07T09:26:30Z","type":"stable","version":"release-v3.8.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/release-v3.8.7","date":"2025-05-23T08:53:14Z","type":"stable","version":"release-v3.8.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/release-v3.8.6","date":"2025-05-19T07:52:28Z","type":"stable","version":"release-v3.8.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/release-v3.8.3","date":"2024-12-11T13:11:38Z","type":"stable","version":"release-v3.8.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/release-v3.8.2","date":"2024-10-01T18:19:33Z","type":"stable","version":"release-v3.8.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/prerelease-v3.8.0.dev0","date":"2024-09-09T14:19:15Z","type":"prerelease","version":"prerelease-v3.8.0.dev0"},{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/prerelease-v3.7.6a","date":"2024-08-20T10:09:49Z","type":"prerelease","version":"prerelease-v3.7.6a"},{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/v3.7.5","date":"2024-06-05T07:57:36Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/v3.7.4","date":"2024-02-15T19:16:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/v3.7.2","date":"2023-10-16T16:11:22Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/v3.7.1","date":"2023-10-05T06:46:15Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/explosion/spaCy/releases/tag/v3.7.0","date":"2023-10-02T09:10:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.0"}]` |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | - | 5.2 |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=spacy&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (NLP Apis)

| Capability | Hugging Face Transformers | spaCy |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Custom model training | - | - |
| Domain specific models | - | - |
| Deployment model | - | - |
| Batch processing | - | - |
| Real time latency | - | - |
| Embeddings endpoint | - | - |
| Data residency EU | - | - |
| Open source | - | - |
| Pricing model | - | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T14:41:32.068Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*