# OpenRouter vs Hugging Face

Both are commercial model provider options with comparable terms, so the choice comes down to which model of the problem you prefer — compare the descriptions below rather than the licence.

| | OpenRouter | Hugging Face |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Licence | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Pricing | usage based | freemium |
| Self-hostable | No | No |
| Languages | TypeScript, Python | TypeScript, Python |
| Install | — | pip install huggingface_hub |
| Keys required | OPENROUTER_API_KEY | HF_TOKEN |

## Full pages

- https://newagent.build/c/openrouter
- https://newagent.build/c/huggingface

## Machine interfaces

- `GET https://newagent.build/api/registry` — every component as JSON
- `GET https://newagent.build/api/vendors` — vendors, with the repo and releases feed to watch
- `GET https://newagent.build/api/advise?q=<plain english>` — recommended stack for a description
- `GET https://newagent.build/api/stack?<layer>=<id>&format=sh|json|md|yml|agents|env` — a stack as files
- `GET https://newagent.build/llms.txt` — the whole registry in one fetch

Any page here also returns markdown if you send `Accept: text/markdown`.