hf-mirror.com / hf-mirror.net (Hugging Face mirror — read-only proxy)
- Free allowance
- None of its own — it is a transparent reverse proxy.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- not stated
- Identity
- institution?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap50 GB/file
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | None of its own — it is a transparent reverse proxy. unit none; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
per-object-cap: inherits HF (50 GB/file at the time of the linked HF issues). Retention: inherits HF. Write path is redirected straight to huggingface.co, not mirrored: probe POST /api/repos/create -> 308 Location: https://huggingface.co/api/repos/create. So the mirror gives you nothing new to store INTO. |
| Identity | institution (inferred, not read) not published |
| Egress | Free and anonymous for reads; resolves to HF's own CDN. Not applicable as a storage delta — the bytes live on HF, which is already known and excluded as a discovery. |
| Per-object cap | 50 GB/file (50000000000 bytes) |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest, rclone rest |
| Tooling | Drop-in hostname swap: HF_ENDPOINT=https://hf-mirror.com for huggingface_hub / hf_transfer / rclone (rclone 'hf' backend points at it). |
| Composes with | Only as an egress accelerator for an HF dataset you already have — it is a CDN in front of a host already on the known list, not a new quota. |
| Reliability | Reads work; One probe returned a bare 200 with an HTML body from the LFS batch endpoint rather than JSON — parse the body, not the status. |
| Parsed numbers |
|
Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | hf-mirror.net/terms.html | (last revised 2026-09-11) — proxy-only positioning, no storage offered, no upload surface |
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | probe: GET hf-mirror.com/HPAI-BSC/Llama3.1-Aloe-Beta-8B/resolve/main/LICENSE -r 0-99 -L -> 308 (Caddy) -> 307 to HF CDN |
| 2026-10-21 | huggingface.co/api/repos/create | probe: POST hf-mirror.com/api/repos/create -> 308 Location: (writes are not mirrored) |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "None of its own — it is a transparent reverse proxy.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
|---|
Unknown values 3
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read