Hugging Face now lets organizations link their Hugging Face account to a Google Cloud account, so that Hugging Face usage appears on the Google Cloud bill instead of being charged to a credit card. The company's blog post says the setup is available through the Google Cloud Marketplace.
The post says teams can use Hugging Face to host private models and datasets, run GPU workloads with Jobs, deploy models with Inference Endpoints, call models through Inference Providers, and host demos on GPU Spaces. It says that adding a new vendor and a corporate credit card can slow down companies that already run on Google Cloud.
To set it up, an organization admin subscribes to the Hugging Face Hub listing on the Google Cloud Marketplace, selects a Google Cloud project, and chooses the billing account to be charged. After the order is placed, the admin clicks "Sign up with Hugging Face" and selects an organization from the list. Only organizations where the user is an admin appear. The organization's billing settings then show the linked Google Cloud account with a pending status.
According to the post, Hugging Face reviews each marketplace subscription before paid usage moves to it. While the subscription is pending, usage stays on the organization's existing payment method, if