Decart vs Hugging Face

Decart — Foundation Models · Private · $4B valuation · 3 of 3 figures sourced  |  Hugging Face — Infrastructure · Private · $4.5B valuation · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Decart Optimization Stack and Hugging Face Jobs do comparable work on model training; both also serve buyers who need to train or fine-tune a model; same layer and the same scale band (growth-stage private).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

4 of 8 capabilitiesShared product typeSame scale band

4 of 8 capabilities — Shares model hosting, model inference, model training and 1 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship API service, application and infrastructure service.

Ludbee product records

Same scale band — Both growth-stage private.

Ludbee scale bands · from valuation and funding figures

Aligned comparison

FieldDecartHugging Face
Valuation$4B$4.5B Hugging Face has 14% more
Employees—250
Founded20232016 7 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryFoundation ModelsInfrastructure
Stack layerAPI service, Application, Infrastructure service, Model APIAPI service, Application, Infrastructure service, Platform
HeadquartersTel Aviv, IsraelNew York, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Model hostingModel inferenceModel trainingText generation

Not verified for Hugging Face · 4

GPU programmingImage editingVideo editingVideo generation

Recorded for Decart. Hugging Face’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for Decart · 1

AI compute hardware

Recorded for Hugging Face. Decart’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Decart

Application

Delulu (by Decart)Application

Delulu is Decart's consumer mobile app for AI photo transformation, published on iOS and Android by Decart.AI, Inc. Its store listing describes it as a way to 'Turn any photo into something fun, weird, or just really good-looking, with a single tap', browsing preset styles and creating stickers to share.

LucyApplication

Real-time video editing platform that edits and transforms live video at streaming speed, for enterprises, brands, creators and live/streaming/gaming use cases; built on Decart's DOS infrastructure.

API service

Oasis 3API service

Interactive world model for Physical AI, generating realistic, controllable real-time simulation environments for training autonomous systems, distributed as an API/SDK product built on Decart's Optimization Stack (DOS) infrastructure.

Infrastructure service

Decart Optimization StackInfrastructure service

The Decart Optimization Stack (DOS) is Decart's inference and training optimization infrastructure, spanning hardware-aware model design, kernel tooling, proprietary compilers and inference optimization. It is sold to hardware providers and AI teams as engagements covering benchmark optimization, customer-defined kernel and compiler work, cross-workload efficiency gains, and profiler and simulator licensing, and is marketed as hardware-agnostic across GPUs, TPUs, Trainium and AMD accelerators.

Hugging Face

Application

HuggingChatApplication

Chat app powered by open-source AI models with an Omni router that automatically selects the most suitable model, or lets users pick directly from 140+ open models.

API service

Inference ProvidersAPI service

Marketplace connecting users to multiple third-party inference providers for hosted AI models, billed per input/output token with provider- and model-specific rates shown side by side.

Infrastructure service

Hugging Face JobsInfrastructure service

Pay-as-you-go compute for running AI training, fine-tuning, synthetic data generation and batch inference jobs on Hugging Face's own CPU/GPU/TPU infrastructure via CLI or Python API.

Inference EndpointsInfrastructure service

Deploys a model from the Hub to a dedicated managed endpoint, billed by the hour.

No counterpart

Decart sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Hugging Face yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Model API

CogitoModel API

Cogito is Decart's OpenAI-compatible LLM inference API, serving frontier open-weight models including Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code, GLM-5.2, Qwen3 235B and GPT-OSS 120B across Trainium, TPU and GPU capacity. A self-serve Standard tier is billed per token, while an ultra-fast reserved tier advertises 1,000+ tokens per second. It is built on Decart's own DOS optimization stack.

Decart API PlatformModel API

Hosted API for Decart's real-time video and world models.

Hugging Face sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Decart yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Platform

Hugging Face HubPlatform

Hosts and versions open models, datasets and demo applications, publicly or privately.

SpacesPlatform

Hosts runnable demo applications for models on free or paid hardware.