Hugging Face open standards support
AI models · 5 standards supported · 3 from adopter lists · read Nov 5, 2026
Hugging Face, Inc., is an American company based in New York City that develops computation tools for building applications using machine learning.
AI agents1
Model Context Protocol
Hugging Face runs an MCP server, per the official MCP Registry and its own documentation.
Model APIs and runtimes2
OpenAI-compatible API
Hugging Face serves an OpenAI-compatible API, per its own documentation.
ONNX
Hugging Face runs ONNX models, per the ONNX supported tools page and its own documentation.
File and memory formats1
Apache Arrow
Hugging Face uses Apache Arrow, per the Powered by Apache Arrow page.
Identity and sign-in1
OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
Hugging Face offers single sign-on over OpenID Connect, per its own documentation.
About Hugging Face
Hugging Face, Inc., is an American company based in New York City that develops computation tools for building applications using machine learning. Hugging Face's Transformers library is built for natural language processing applications.
- Status
- Deal announced
- Headquarters
- Brooklyn, United States
- Founded
- 2016
- Website
- huggingface.co
No public evidence found for
- AI agents
- A2A
- Telemetry and lineage
- OTel, Lineage
- Table formats
- Iceberg, Delta, Hudi
- File and memory formats
- Parquet
- Query languages
- SQL:2023
- Identity and sign-in
- SPIFFE, FIDO2
- Provenance and supply chain
- C2PA, SPDX, CycloneDX
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