# Hugging Face — Say hello to `hf`: a faster, friendlier Hugging Face CLI ✨

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-07-25T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Subject: Platform
- Pricing: pay-as-you-go, Pro users and Team/Enterprise only
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/hf-cli
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1648-say-hello-to-hf-a-faster-friendlier-hugging-face-cli

Hugging Face announced a major update to its CLI, renaming it from huggingface-cli to hf and reorganizing commands into a "hf <resource> <action>" pattern. Additionally, a new "hf jobs" command was introduced, allowing users to run scripts or Docker images on Hugging Face infrastructure with pay-as-you-go billing, available to Pro and Team/Enterprise users.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/hf-cli:

> We are glad to announce a long-awaited quality-of-life improvement: the Hugging Face CLI has been officially renamed from huggingface-cli to hf!

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