Hugging Face MCP

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Hugging Face MCP

Models + datasets + spaces via Hugging Face.

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Best for

Best for ML engineers + AI app builders working in the HF ecosystem.

At a glance

Pricing: open-source
Setup time: 15 minutes
Learning curve: easy
Last verified: 5/27/2026

What we love

✓HF-maintained
✓Largest OSS model + dataset hub
✓Spaces deploy exposed

Where it falls short

−Many endpoints rate-limited
−Inference endpoints cost separately
−Permission scopes vary

Install & connect

Copy-paste ready

Install

shell

npx -y mcp-remote https://huggingface.run.tools

Config — Claude Desktop

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "huggingface": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://huggingface.run.tools"]
    }
  }
}

Config — Claude Code

shell

claude mcp add --transport http huggingface https://huggingface.run.tools

Pricing

✓ Pricing verified Jun 14, 2026

1 tier

Open-source

perpetual

✓Apache 2.0

Overview

MCP server for Hugging Face — model + dataset lookup, inference endpoints, Spaces deploys, file upload + download. HF token.

Key features

●Model + dataset lookup
●Inference endpoints
●Spaces deploy
●File upload + download
●HF token

Exposed tools

The MCP-tool names this server exposes. Your agent can invoke any of these when this server is connected.

hf_whoami
Get authentication info for the current Hugging Face user.
space_search
Find Hugging Face Spaces using semantic search.
hub_repo_search
Search Hugging Face repositories.
hub_repo_details
Get details for one or more Hugging Face repos (model, dataset, or space).
paper_search
Find ML research papers on the Hugging Face hub.
hf_doc_search
Search Hugging Face product and library documentation.
hf_doc_fetch
Fetch a document from HF or Gradio docs.
gr1_z_image_turbo_generate
Generate an image using the Z-Image model.

Best use cases

Browse + run OSS models

Let Claude browse HF, pick a model, run inference.

Dataset preparation

Pull HF datasets into Claude for training prep.

Integrations

Hugging Face

Transformers

LangChain

LlamaIndex

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