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Kaggle and Hugging Face have launched an integration that lets users navigate between Hugging Face models and Kaggle notebooks. Users can click “Use this model” on a Hugging Face page to open a Kaggle notebook with pre‑populated code, and vice versa. When a Kaggle notebook references a Hugging Face model, a model page is automatically created on Kaggle if it does not exist, and public notebooks appear on the Kaggle model page’s Code tab. The integration also supports private models via HF_TOKEN and consent‑gated models through normal Hugging Face access procedures. Future work aims to support offline notebook submissions for competitions while preserving data integrity.
Kaggle and Hugging Face users are part of one AI community. That’s why we’re excited to announce our plans to bring our platforms and communities closer to better serve AI developers everywhere.
Beginning today, Kaggle is launching an integration that enhances visibility and discoverability for Hugging Face models directly on Kaggle.
You can navigate from Hugging Face models to Kaggle and vice versa. Start by visiting a Hugging Face model page like Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B . To use it in a Kaggle Notebook, you can click on “Use this model” and select “Kaggle” to open up a Kaggle notebook with a pre-populated code snippet to load the model. You can do the same from a Hugging Face model page on Kaggle by clicking the “Code” button.
When you run a notebook on Kaggle that references a model hosted on Hugging Face Hub, we will automatically generate a Hugging Face model page if one doesn’t exist already. You don’t need to make any special changes to your code. Additionally, when you make your notebook public, it will automatically show on the “Code” tab of the Kaggle model page.
Discover Hugging Face models and explore all the community examples in public notebooks in one place on Kaggle at https://www.kaggle.com/models . As more Hugging Face models are used on Kaggle, the number of models and associated code examples you can explore for inspiration will grow.
When browsing Hugging Face models on Kaggle, we want to make it easy for you to navigate back to Hugging Face to explore additional details, metadata, community usage in Hugging Face Spaces, discussion, and more. Simply click “Open in Hugging Face” on the Kaggle model page.
By unifying model discovery and notebook usage across two major AI platforms, developers can more easily experiment with state‑of‑the‑art models, accelerating research and deployment. The integration also supports competition integrity, a key concern for AI evaluation.