Hugging Face now lets organizations pay for its services through Google Cloud. The change, announced on November 10, 2026, means usage can appear on a company’s Google Cloud bill instead of a credit card charge.
The option is available through the Google Cloud Marketplace. It is aimed at companies that already run their operations on Google’s cloud platform. Hugging Face published step-by-step setup instructions for organization admins.
Hugging Face is a platform where teams find, build and run open AI models. Its services include hosting private models and datasets, running GPU workloads and deploying models. It also offers access to thousands of models through Inference Providers and hosts demos on GPU Spaces.
What the Google Cloud Billing Covers
The new billing link covers upgrades to Team or Enterprise subscriptions. It also covers pay-as-you-go compute, including Jobs, Inference Endpoints, Inference Providers, GPU Spaces and ZeroGPU quota extensions.
Extra storage is included as well. All of these services are billed at public Hugging Face pricing. That means companies pay the same rates as other Hugging Face customers.
According to Hugging Face, the goal is to remove the need for a new vendor and a corporate credit card. Purchases go through a company’s existing Google Cloud billing account and procurement process.
Charges show up on the same Google Cloud invoice as the rest of a company’s cloud spending. Once linked, all members of an organization can use Hugging Face compute services under that bill.
How the Approval Process Works
Only admins of a Hugging Face organization can set up the link. The process starts on the Google Cloud Marketplace, where the admin picks a Google Cloud project and clicks “Subscribe.”
The admin then selects a billing account, accepts the terms and places the order. Google Cloud then sends the user to Hugging Face to choose which organization to connect.
After linking, the account shows a pending status in the organization’s billing settings. The Hugging Face team reviews every cloud marketplace subscription before paid usage is billed through it.
While the review is pending, usage is still charged to the organization’s existing payment method, if one exists. Admins receive an email once the subscription is approved.
Timing of the switch depends on the account. Organizations with a credit card on file move to marketplace billing at the start of their next billing period.
Free tier organizations with no credit card on file usually switch right away. Their paid usage is then billed through Google Cloud immediately.
Once active, Google Cloud replaces the credit card as the payment method. Because usage is metered and reported to Google Cloud, organizations cannot add credits while billed this way.
Included credits still apply for Team and Enterprise subscribers. Those monthly credits are used before any pay-as-you-go usage is reported to Google Cloud.
Organizations can monitor usage from the billing section of their Hugging Face settings. Charges also appear in the Billing reports of the Google Cloud console.
Hugging Face said both linking and unlinking are audited, with each action recorded in the organization’s audit logs. Admins can confirm the change in organization settings, where Google Cloud appears as the active payment method.
