Hugging Face now allows organizations to link their Hugging Face organization to a Google Cloud account so that Hugging Face usage appears on the organization's Google Cloud invoice rather than being charged to a credit card. The integration is initiated via the Google Cloud Marketplace.
Why this matters
Hugging Face provides services for teams, including hosting private models and datasets, running GPU workloads with Jobs, deploying models with Inference Endpoints, calling thousands of models via Inference Providers, and hosting demos on GPU Spaces. For companies already using Google Cloud, adding a new vendor and a corporate credit card can slow procurement. By linking through the Google Cloud Marketplace:
- One bill: Hugging Face usage appears on the existing Google Cloud invoice alongside other cloud spend.
- No new vendor onboarding: purchases flow through the organization's existing Google Cloud billing account and procurement process.
- Everything covered: upgrading to a Team or Enterprise subscription, pay-as-you-go compute (Jobs, Inference Endpoints, Inference Providers, GPU Spaces, ZeroGPU quota extension), and additional storage are billed at public Hugging Face pricing.
Setup steps for organization admins
- Subscribe on the Google Cloud Marketplace
- Open the Hugging Face Hub listing on the Google Cloud Marketplace, select the Google Cloud project to use, and click "Subscribe."
- On the subscription page, choose the billing account to charge, review and accept the terms, then click "Subscribe."
- After placing the order, Google Cloud will prompt you to finish setup with Hugging Face. Click "Sign up with Hugging Face" to be redirected to Hugging Face.
- Link your Hugging Face organization
- On the Hugging Face site, select the organization you want to link; only organizations where you are an admin will be listed. Confirm the selection.
- You will be redirected to the organization's billing settings, where the payment method section shows the linked Google Cloud account with a pending status.
- Every cloud marketplace subscription is reviewed by the Hugging Face team before paid usage begins being billed through it. While the subscription is pending, usage continues to be billed to the organization's existing payment method, if any.
- Subscription approval
- After approval you will receive an email confirming that the Google Cloud account and Hugging Face organization are linked.
- Organizations that already have a credit card on file switch to cloud marketplace billing at the start of their next billing period. Organizations on the free tier with no credit card on file typically switch immediately, so paid usage is billed through the cloud marketplace right away.
- You can confirm the change in your organization's billing settings: the Google Cloud account will be shown as the active payment method.
Congratulations — the organization will now be billed through your Google Cloud account and all members can use Hugging Face compute services with usage appearing on the Google Cloud bill.
Notes and limitations
- Google Cloud replaces the organization's credit card as the payment method. Usage is metered and reported to Google Cloud, so adding credits directly to Hugging Face is not available while the organization is billed through the marketplace.
- Included credits still apply: if your organization has a Team or Enterprise subscription, the monthly included credits are applied before any pay-as-you-go usage is reported to Google Cloud.
- Monitor your usage at any time from the billing section of your organization settings, and view charges in the Billing reports of the Google Cloud console.
- Linking and unlinking actions are audited and recorded in the organization's audit logs.
For more details consult the Hugging Face billing documentation or contact billing@huggingface.co.
