Can you use PAYG for an entreprise without a Team/Entreprise plan?

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Hello,

I am currently trying to generate a lot of embeddings as part of a research project for my company.

We have a team account setup as well as a valid billing method, and a token associated to our company in order to perform API calls.

I’m using Qwen3-Embeddings-8B ( Qwen/Qwen3-Embedding-8B · Hugging Face )

I can call it and get some embeddings, but after around 3000 or so embeddings I get hit with a limit and receive a 402 “Payment Required” exception. This surprised me since we do have a billing method.

Then I looked into it a bit more and saw that “Inference Usage” has a max limit of $0 per month unless you have a team/entreprise account. So that means that you can’t pay per usage at all as a company until you set that up? Am I understading this correctly?

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I believe that a Pro, Teams, or Enterprise subscription is required for PAYG billing for Inference Provider (at least for now). It would be best to check with Hugging Face support to be certain. [email protected]

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Thanks for the reply. I’ll mail HF directly

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Hi @lrizzellotaskbase Thanks for posting! Upgrading your org to Team or Enterprise for Inference Providers usage comes with many perks:

  • Your organization has a pool of $2 of included usage per seat, shared among org members

  • Usage past those included credits is billed on top of the subscription (pay-as-you-go)

  • Organization admins can enable/disable usage of Inference Providers and set a spending limit (on top of included credits)

  • Team & Enterprise orgs have a dedicated Inference Providers dashboard, offering full visibility into team usage across our serverless inference partners

More info on pricing here: Pricing and Billing . We also have more info on the features of Team and Enterprise here: Hugging Face – Pricing.

Hope this helps! Let me know if you have other questions.

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Thanks for the reply, but that still leaves my main question open: Is it possible to use huggingface’s pay-per-use inference (more specifically for Qwen Embedding 8B) as a company without having to upgrade to team or entreprise?

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A PRO, Team, or Enterprise subscription is needed - more here: Pricing and Billing .

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