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Hugging Face Connection

Connect Hugging Face Inference API to run thousands of ML models.

Required Credentials​

  • API Key (User Access Token)

Setup Steps​

  1. Go to Hugging Face
  2. Create an account or sign in
  3. Go to Settings → Access Tokens
  4. Click "New token"
  5. Name your token and select permissions:
    • read for inference only
    • write if you need to upload models
  6. Click "Generate token"
  7. Copy the token
  8. Add it to your Workflow Builder connections

Features​

  • Text generation
  • Text classification
  • Image classification
  • Object detection
  • Speech recognition
  • Translation
  • And thousands more models

Free vs Pro Inference​

Free Tier​

  • Rate limited
  • Shared infrastructure
  • May have queuing

Pro/Enterprise​

  • Higher rate limits
  • Dedicated infrastructure
  • Priority access

Best Practices​

  • Check model cards for usage guidelines
  • Handle model loading times
  • Use popular models for faster cold starts
  • Monitor API usage and costs
  • Test models before production use