Hugging Face vs. IBM watsonx.ai

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Hugging Face
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
Hugging Face is an open-source provider of natural language processing (NLP) technologies.
$9
per month
IBM watsonx.ai
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Watsonx.ai is part of the IBM watsonx platform that brings together new generative AI capabilities, powered by foundation models, and traditional machine learning into a studio spanning the AI lifecycle. Watsonx.ai can be used to train, validate, tune, and deploy generative AI, foundation models, and machine learning capabilities, and build AI applications with less time and data.
$0
Pricing
Hugging FaceIBM watsonx.ai
Editions & Modules
Pro Account
$9
per month
Enterprise Hub
$20
per month per user
Free Trial
$0
ML functionality (20 CUH limit /month); Inferencing (50,000 tokens / month)
Standard
$1,050
Monthly tier fee; additional usage based fees
Essentials
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Usage based fees
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Hugging FaceIBM watsonx.ai
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPricing for watsonx.ai includes: model inference per 1000 tokens and ML tools and ML runtimes based on capacity unit hours.
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User Ratings
Hugging FaceIBM watsonx.ai
Likelihood to Recommend
9.4
(6 ratings)
8.3
(10 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(4 ratings)
User Testimonials
Hugging FaceIBM watsonx.ai
Likelihood to Recommend
Hugging Face
If an organisation has more access to data and have access to high end computers like GPUs it’s recommended to use Hugging face as it will give better accuracy than any other models. If an organisation having less data and has less access to GPUsis looking for decent performance then traditional algorithms are more appropriate than hugging face
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IBM
I have built a code accelerator tool for one of the IBM product implementation. Although there was a heavy lifting at the start to train the model on specifics of the packaged solution library and ways of working; the efficacy of the model is astounding. Having said that, watsonx.ai is very well suited for customer service automation, healthcare data analytics, financial fraud detection, and sentiment analysis kind of projects. The Watsonx.ai look and feel is little confusing but I understand over a period of time , it will improve dramatically as well. I do feel that Watsonx.ai has certain limitations from cross-platform deployment flexibility. If an organization is deeply invested in a multi-cloud environment, Watson's integration on other cloud platforms may not be seamless comported to other AI platforms.
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Pros
Hugging Face
  • Model APIs
  • Hugging Face Spaces for deploying demo apps
  • Latest updated models available easily
  • Vast support for language parsing and other relevant tasks
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IBM
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  • risk analysis
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  • analise dos sentimentos
  • análise de riscos
  • análise de fraudes
  • criação de insights
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Cons
Hugging Face
  • Most of the Hugging face models are of big size, hence difficult to work if there is no access to high computational system like GPU.
  • It’s good to have some visualization tool in hugging face for viewing model architecture.
  • I recommend to implement hugging face lite version so that it can run on any system with less specifications.
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IBM
  • Some members of the team may also find it difficult to learn and use IBM watsonx.ai.
  • It can be long, hence may raise the operation cost
  • The integration of IBM watsonx.ai with other systems can be cumbersome as well as require technical help
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Usability
Hugging Face
No answers on this topic
IBM
I needed some time to understand the different parts of the web UI. It was slightly overwhelming in the beginning. However, after some time, it made sense, and I like the UI now. In terms of functionality, there are many useful features that make your life easy, like jumping to a section and giving me a deployment space to deploy my models easily.
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Alternatives Considered
Hugging Face
There are some other services offer similar capacity as to Hugging Face, but not entirely the same. For example, amazon web services have a machine learning service called Comprehend, which offer a set of easy to use APIs to do machine translation and entity recognition and some other common NLP use case.
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IBM
I think that the user interface is where IBM watsonx.ai shines the most compared to competitors. There is a visual tool to build AI pipelines in a very easy and instinctive way, that anybody can master in no time I think.
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Return on Investment
Hugging Face
  • Hugging Face is cost and time saving.
  • Pay is less, you pay what you use, doesn't affect much.
  • Overall positive impact on business.
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IBM
  • Excellent customer service and prompt resolution of issues.
  • Simple to use and access.
  • Works with a many systems, such as websites, messaging apps and mobile apps.
  • Gives the best protection to keep private data safe.
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IBM watsonx.ai Screenshots

Screenshot of the foundation models available in watsonx.ai. Clients have access to IBM selected open source models from Hugging Face, as well as other third-party models, and a family of IBM-developed foundation models of different sizes and architectures.Screenshot of the Prompt Lab in watsonx.ai, where AI builders can work with foundation models and build prompts using prompt engineering techniques in watsonx.ai to support a range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) type tasks.Screenshot of the Tuning Studio in watsonx.ai, where AI builders can tune foundation models with labeled data for better performance and accuracy.Screenshot of the data science toolkit in watsonx.ai where AI builders can build machine learning models automatically with model training, development, visual modeling, and synthetic data generation.