Hugging Face Hub now bills through Google Cloud Marketplace

Hugging Face now lets an organization link its account to Google Cloud, so usage appears on the existing Google Cloud invoice rather than being charged to a credit card. The covered services include Team and Enterprise subscriptions, pay-as-you-go compute such as Jobs, Inference Endpoints, Inference Providers and GPU Spaces, and extra storage at public Hugging Face pricing.

Setup begins by subscribing to the Hugging Face Hub listing on the Google Cloud Marketplace and choosing a project and billing account. An organization admin then signs up with Hugging Face and picks the organization to link, from the ones where they are an admin. Hugging Face reviews each subscription before paid usage moves to it, and until then usage stays on the existing payment method.

Organizations with a card on file switch at the start of their next billing period, while free-tier organizations without a card usually switch right away. Google Cloud replaces the card as the payment method, and adding credits is unavailable while billing runs through the marketplace. Included monthly credits still apply first, and linking and unlinking are recorded in audit logs.

Teams already on Google Cloud can route Hugging Face spend through their existing billing and procurement instead of onboarding a separate vendor and corporate card. Admins should note that credit purchases stop once the organization is billed this way, and that usage stays on the old payment method until approval.