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Hugging Face

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AI / LLM · Reviewed 2026-09-11

Delaware corporation with French engineering roots and Paris office; Inference Endpoints and Spaces run on AWS regions. EU region available; the US contracting entity remains.

Contracting entity
Hugging Face, Inc.
Ultimate parent
Hugging Face, Inc. (US)
Hosting regions
us, eu
Subprocessors
aws
Transfer mechanism
DPF
Operational access from
US, FR

Rating by dimension

Entity control
Red — CLOUD Act exposure
Data location
Amber — mitigations present
Operational access
Amber — mitigations present
Subprocessor chain
Amber — mitigations present
Transfer mechanism
Amber — mitigations present

EU alternatives

Sources

Note Hugging Face's French founder team is often cited as making it "sort of European" — but the contracting entity is Delaware. Self-hosted open-source models are jurisdiction-neutral.

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