Julien C (@julien_c) posted on 2026-06-05 that Hugging Face (HF) is significantly cheaper at scale for storage and egress compared with S3, GCS, and Backblaze. He emphasized cross-cloud egress costs when using multiple cloud providers for compute and urged storing AI data on HF’s infrastructure, which he says is optimized for AI workloads.
On 2026-06-05 @julien_c asserted Hugging Face (HF) is materially cheaper at scale for both storage and egress than Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage (GCS), and Backblaze.
Your monthly reminder that HF is much cheaper at scale, for both storage and egress (especially if you use several cloud providers for compute) than S3, GCS, and even Backblaze.
Store your AI data on the infrastructure that's actually optimized for it 🫡