# ModelScope

9 Hacker News commenters recommended ModelScope and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** China's Hugging Face-style model hub, useful for Chinese models and as a backup to Hugging Face.

## Why people recommend it

- Chinese alternative to Hugging Face (4 comments): "There's also modelscope.cn (china's huggingface) which is worth checking out." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49458998)) "ModelScope is the Chinese equivalent of Hugging Face and a good back up." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092566)) "you can use the Chinese version of huggingface with all Chinese models" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025501))
- Good backup to Hugging Face (2 comments): "ModelScope is the Chinese equivalent of Hugging Face and a good back up." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092566)) "use huggingface or modelscope (wherever it is published)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772189))

## What people warn about

- Owned by Alibaba, which has its own incentives (1 comments): "It's already part of Alibaba, which has its own incentives" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49459278))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Hugging Face](https://hackerapproved.com/p/hugging-face.md): 92 recommend
- [Civitai](https://hackerapproved.com/p/civitai.md): 7 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.modelscope.cn/home)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "ModelScope", https://hackerapproved.com/p/modelscope/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).