HuggingChat
Free tierOpen-source chat interface by Hugging Face for testing community models for free
Free·Technical·Open source
Key strengths
Entirely free, no credit cardAccess to community open-weight modelsOpen-source codebase self-hostableWeb search groundingSupports Llama, Mistral, Zephyr, and more
Completely free
US
Founded 2023
Self-hostable
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The chat-ui codebase is fully open source on GitHub and self-hostable. It connects to Hugging Face's Inference API backends, supporting text-generation-inference (TGI) as the underlying serving engine. Developers can swap models via environment variables and add custom tools.