# Academia Hub

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> Ask your university's IT or Procurement Team to get in touch from a university-affiliated email address to initiate the subscription process.

    

## Where universities build, teach, and publish AI.
For universities, by design. One subscription gives your students, faculty, and research staff the same tools used by the world's leading AI teams: open, auditable, and governed by your institution.

Academia Hub gives universities the tools and ecosystem to put open-source AI at the center of how students learn, experiment, and build with it.

With Academia Hub, you get **an all-in-one subscription to the Hugging Face Hub for students, researchers and staff.**

  
  
  
  
  
  

## What's included in the subscription
1. **Storage:** 1 TB of private and 1 TB of public storage per seat, including our new Storage Buckets!
2. **Compute:** $2/month/seat of credits for Inference Providers, daily higher ZeroGPU priority access for Spaces, and higher Hub rate limits.
3. **Collaboration tools:** [Resource Groups](./security-resource-groups), [Data Studio](./data-studio) for private datasets, [Audit Logs](./audit-logs), and access controls.
4. **Governance & security:** Seat management, centralized admin, [SSO](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/enterprise-sso), [2FA](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/enterprise-advanced-security), [SCIM](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/enterprise-sso#user-provisioning-scim), SOC 2 certified.
5. **Global Open Source community:** publish and collaborate alongside the researchers and builders working on the field's most-used models and datasets.

## Pricing
Starting at $10/seat/month, with volume-based discounts. 
Contact our Academia Hub Team for a bespoke package!

We require a minimum of 250 annual seats to enter the program. For smaller groups, we recommend starting with a Team plan.

## How to get started
Researchers and students: Contact us to express interest in Academia Hub and help us connect with your university's IT or Procurement Team.

IT or Procurement staff: Get in touch directly to set up your institution's Academia Hub subscription or find out more about how your institution can benefit from Academia Hub.

## Common use cases
🎓 Teaching & Coursework
- Explore, test and compare models interactively without necessarily writing code.
- Fine-tune a base model on a Hub dataset for a downstream task.
- Sync agent traces to buckets for shared collaboration and reuse.
- Use thousands of Spaces to solve tasks in agentic workflows.

🔬 Research & Publication
- Store private checkpoints and datasets, then publish final artefacts with DOIs.
- Keep code, data, and weights together for reproducible results.
- Showcase work on the Hugging Face community blog.

🤝 Collaboration
- Share an org workspace across labs or campuses with granular access controls.
- Preserve data and class materials under one institutional organisation, mount or use locally when needed.