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Anthropic API vs Hugging Face Inference: which is more reliable? (2026)

Hugging Face Inference is more reliable than Anthropic API, scoring 100.0 vs 36.9 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Anthropic API reported 36 incidents and Hugging Face Inference reported 0, with effective uptime of 97.53% and 100% respectively.

Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score

Anthropic API

36.9/100

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Hugging Face Inference

100.0/100

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VS
MetricAnthropic APIHugging Face Inference
Reliability score36.9100.0
Rank (LLM API providers)#11—
Uptime (90 days)97.53%100%
Incidents (90 days)360
Partial / major outages230
Avg time to resolve3h 34m—
Outages we detected00
Transparency score100/100100/100

Where Anthropic API and Hugging Face Inference differ

  • Hugging Face Inference reported no incidents in the last 90 days, while Anthropic API reported 36.
  • Anthropic API had 23 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Hugging Face Inference.

90-day uptime

Anthropic API

Aug 5, 2026: 95.32% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Aug 6, 2026 – Aug 11, 2026: no incidentsAug 12, 2026: 97.32% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 13, 2026: 96.70% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Aug 14, 2026: 96.95% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Aug 15, 2026: no incidentsAug 16, 2026: 97.52% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Aug 17, 2026: 99.03% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 18, 2026: 98.31% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 19, 2026: 99.16% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Aug 20, 2026: 98.78% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Aug 21, 2026 – Aug 23, 2026: no incidentsAug 24, 2026: 92.91% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Aug 25, 2026 – Aug 31, 2026: no incidentsSep 1, 2026: 99.00% uptime, 2 incidents (Degraded performance)Sep 2, 2026: 98.20% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 3, 2026: 93.19% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Sep 4, 2026 – Sep 9, 2026: no incidentsSep 10, 2026: 98.95% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Sep 11, 2026: 99.39% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 12, 2026 – Sep 14, 2026: no incidentsSep 15, 2026: 97.00% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 16, 2026 – Sep 21, 2026: no incidentsSep 22, 2026: 96.59% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 23, 2026 – Sep 28, 2026: no incidentsSep 29, 2026: 95.63% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Sep 30, 2026: no incidentsOct 1, 2026: 96.08% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 2, 2026 – Oct 4, 2026: no incidentsOct 5, 2026: 99.44% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 6, 2026: 99.35% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 7, 2026: 75.41% uptime, 3 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 8, 2026: 50.00% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 9, 2026: 50.00% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 10, 2026: 72.04% uptime, 1 incident (Partial outage)Oct 11, 2026 – Oct 20, 2026: no incidentsOct 21, 2026: 99.58% uptime, 1 incident (Degraded performance)Oct 22, 2026: no incidentsOct 23, 2026: 98.45% uptime, 1 incident (Major outage)Oct 24, 2026: 97.74% uptime, 3 incidents (Major outage)Oct 25, 2026: 95.42% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 26, 2026: no incidentsOct 27, 2026: 97.10% uptime, 2 incidents (Partial outage)Oct 28, 2026 – Nov 2, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago97.563% average daily uptimeToday

Hugging Face Inference

Aug 5, 2026 – Nov 2, 2026: no incidents
90 days ago100% average daily uptimeToday

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