ModelScope vs Hugging Face vs Replicate vs Runware

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Model Hubs · verified 13 Aug 2026

×ModelScopeAlibabacurrent

×Hugging FaceHugging Facecurrent

×ReplicateCloudflarecurrent

×RRunwareRunwarecurrent

Specification	ModelScope	Hugging Face	Replicate	Runware
Summary	Closest structural clone of Hugging Face.	The reference hub — models, datasets, Spaces.	Run 50,000+ models via one API.	One API for image, video, audio, 3D and LLMs.
Catalogue	Large	Millions	50,000+	400,000+
Live demos	Yes	Yes — Spaces	Yes	Partial
Hosted inference	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Category	Model Hubs	Model Hubs	Model Hubs	Model Hubs
Official	Alibaba ↗	Hugging Face ↗	Cloudflare ↗	Runware ↗

Highlighted rows are where these differ.

Closest structural clone of Hugging Face.

Best for Chinese models.

Best for discovery.

Best for breadth.

One API for image, video, audio, 3D and LLMs.

Best for cost at scale.