Is huggingface.co a scam?

Our automated security review found no threat indicators on huggingface.co. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.

Is huggingface.co safe to use?

huggingface.co passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 88/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.

Does huggingface.co have a valid SSL certificate?

Yes. huggingface.co presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Amazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04, expiring in 123 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.

Is huggingface.co on any phishing or malware blacklists?

No. huggingface.co is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.

Where is huggingface.co hosted?

huggingface.co resolves to an IP operated by Amazon.com, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.

How often is the huggingface.co report updated?

We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.

SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

Security Review

Is huggingface.co legit or a scam?

Name: Is huggingface.co legit or a scam?
Item: huggingface.co
Rating: 5
Author: MalwareTips

Our verdict:Safe· 88/100

SafeSuspiciousDangerous

Official Hugging Face AI platform with clean scans, established 2016 company registration, and professional homepage.

Why we trust it

Active US business registration since 2016 with headquarters in New York City.Clean IP reputation with zero abuse reports.Valid SSL certificate and no blocklist hits.

huggingface.coScanned 9d ago

Post Facebook

Trust score

SAFE

Heuristics 94·MT 85

Category tags

ai platform90% MT confidence

Positive signals (3)

Not on major blacklists Encrypted connection Clean server reputation

View density

Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence

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Data unavailable

Domain Age

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Registration date unknown

MT Intelligence

Safe

Low likelihood · 90% confidence

MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence

MT Security Analyst

Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust85/100

MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection

Confidence

The page is the legitimate Hugging Face homepage hosting models, datasets, and community tools for machine learning. Strongest signal is the confirmed active US business registration for Hugging Face, Inc. since 2016 along with zero abuse reports on the hosting IP. Supporting signals include valid SSL, clean browser blocklist status, and visual confirmation of a fully rendered professional site with no clone indicators. Forum complaints exist about user-posted scam content and occasional billing issues, but these do not indicate the site itself is malicious. Overall signals point to a trusted, long-running platform rather than a fraudulent operation.

Full dossier

Analysis complete

Page Content

Professional homepage for an AI collaboration platform with sections for models, datasets, spaces, and community features. Body text matches the known Hugging Face service with no deceptive claims or urgent calls to action.

Infrastructure

Valid SSL certificate from Amazon, hosting IP shows zero abuse reports, and external resources load from known legitimate CDNs and services. No redirects or homoglyph tricks detected.

Domain History

Company records confirm Hugging Face, Inc. as an active Delaware corporation founded in 2016 with headquarters in New York City.

Web Reputation

Independent sources describe the site as the official platform. A small number of user complaints appear on the site's own forums regarding billing and user-generated spam, but no widespread scam reports from external news outlets.

Risk Factors

Forum posts mention occasional billing deductions without successful subscription activation.
Platform hosts user-generated content that sometimes includes scam profiles or threads.

Positive Signals

Active US business registration since 2016 with headquarters in New York City.
Clean IP reputation with zero abuse reports.
Valid SSL certificate and no blocklist hits.
Professional homepage with extensive legitimate ML content and community features.

AI Recommendation

The site is safe for normal use as the official Hugging Face platform. Review any subscription charges carefully and report suspicious user content through official channels.

Next-gen fraud intelligence

Evidence-backedCross-checked

Website Preview

LIVE RENDER

huggingface.co

Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.

Visual Screenshot Analysis

We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.

/ 100

No visual red flags

No scam visual patterns detected

Page is the fully rendered, professional Hugging Face homepage with no scam indicators visible.

Visual risk0/100

Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for huggingface.co, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Business registration

Active · United States

Site traces back to an actively registered business.

Clone check

Not a clone

No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.

Typosquat check

No look-alike match

The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.

Web mentions

3 scam reports · 5 complaints · 1 positive

Key findings

6 headline facts from open-web research

Official website of Hugging Face, Inc. (huggingface.co), major open-source AI/ML platform founded 2016 in New York City.
Scamadviser rates as 'Very Likely Safe'; valid SSL, established several years ago, labeled safe by DNSFilter and Maltiverse.
User complaints on official forums about billing deductions without subscription and scam/spam content posted by users.
Wikipedia and company ToS confirm Hugging Face, Inc. as Delaware corporation with NYC HQ; SEC Form D filing exists.
Bitdefender reported 2024 security incident of unauthorized access to Spaces platform secrets.
Trustpilot page exists with only 8 reviews; no major aggregated scam reports found.

Scam reports (3)

Direct quotes from public scam databases, forums, and news.

Hugging Face Forumsopen
"Great scam , on site is 10000 profiles threads with scam People and still nobody delete this. You should go to prison for scamming People."
Hugging Face Forumsopen
"I just tried to pay to subscribe to hugging face pro twice and got the message of my pre-paid card not being accepted so I can’t subscribe but hugging face still deducted the money."
Hugging Face Forumsopen
"Huggingface.co again scam poeple ... 1000 or more scam on this site after ..."

Positive reviews (1)

Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.

Scamadviseropen
"In summary, we think huggingface.co is legit and safe for consumers to access."

Business registration

Status: active · United States

Hugging Face, Inc., Delaware corporation, HQ New York City/Brooklyn, founded 2016 by Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, Thomas Wolf

Research summary

Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

Our research found the site is the official platform of Hugging Face, Inc., a Delaware company founded in 2016. Forum threads on the site itself mention user-posted scam profiles and a few billing complaints about subscription charges. Independent review sites rate the domain as safe, and company registration records confirm active status in the United States.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check

Not flagged on major threat lists

Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.

Contact Verification

We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.

What We Found

Has a contact email on its own domain

Emails on site's domainpress@huggingface.co

Phone numbersNone

Postal addressNot listed

Linked social profiles3

Signal Summary

Contact details look reasonable

No phone number listed on the page.
No postal address visible on the page.

Contact email on the site's own domain (press@huggingface.co).
Links to 4 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Encryption Certificate

StatusValid

ProtocolTLSv1.3

IssuerAmazon · Amazon RSA 2048 M04

ExpiresSep 27, 2026 (123d)

Self-signedNo

Hosting & Technology

HostingAmazon.com, Inc.

Server locationUS

Redirect Chain

Hops

Cross-domain

Lookalike

Punycode

1301http://huggingface.co/
2200https://huggingface.co/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence

Confidence score0%

Reports on file0

ISPAmazon.com, Inc.

Usage typeContent Delivery Network

Still, stay alert

No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.

Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on huggingface.co and not a lookalike like h-uggingface.co.com or an IDN homoglyph.
Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
Discuss this site on the forum
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing

Not listedCheck ↗

AbuseIPDB

Not listedCheck ↗

Also verify:Spamhaus ↗DNSBL / SURBL ↗PhishTank ↗

Referenced Domains

Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.

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Safety FAQ

Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.

Our automated security review found no threat indicators on huggingface.co. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.

Final Verdict

Trust / 100

Final Verdict·huggingface.co

SAFE

Hugging Face is the official site of a major open-source AI and machine learning platform founded in 2016. Our analysis finds clean technical signals, valid business registration, and no malware or phishing indicators. Users should still review billing carefully due to occasional forum complaints.

The site is safe for normal use as the official Hugging Face platform. Review any subscription charges carefully and report suspicious user content through official channels.

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