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Hola desde México cómo puedo tener suscripción a hugging face pro. no me da la opción. no se realiza

Hugging Face Forums [Unofficial] May 16, 2026
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The surest way is to contact Hugging Face support via email. website@huggingface.co It seems this is a fairly rare occurrence:


LLM-assisted notes: Hugging Face Pro subscription / checkout failures

I looked for similar public reports about Hugging Face Pro subscription failures. I did not find an official statement saying that Mexico is blocked from subscribing to Pro.

What I did find is that there are several related failure patterns:

  1. the Pro checkout does not start;
  2. the page gets stuck while preparing payment;
  3. the user sees a Failed to prepare payment error;
  4. payment appears on the bank/card side, but Pro is not activated;
  5. the Hugging Face Billing page shows no invoice even though the bank shows a pending or posted transaction;
  6. some card-issuing countries or card types may have recurring-payment restrictions.

Similar public reports

1. Checkout preparation gets stuck or fails

These look closest to a case where the Pro subscription flow itself does not properly start:

  • Cannot sign up for Pro - preparing payment stuck
  • Cannot subscribe to Pro Account - prepare payment fails
  • I cannot sign up for pro: Error: Failed to prepare payment

Reported symptoms include:

Preparing payment, please wait...
Failed to prepare payment
Error: Failed to prepare payment

This suggests that at least some users are failing before a normal card-authentication or card-decline step.

2. Pro payment setup fails from the website

There is also a Hugging Face Forum report where the user says the Pro payment page says it is setting up the payment, then fails:

  • Unable to purchase pro plan

This sounds similar to a website checkout/session problem rather than a simple wrong-card-number problem.

3. Payment appears to happen, but Pro is not activated

There are also reports where the bank/card side shows a payment or pending authorization, but the account does not become Pro:

  • Pro subscription not activated after successful payment, no invoice in Billing
  • Payment Processed but PRO Subscription Not Activated
  • Money was cut out, but the Pro subscription is not activated

This may be a separate issue from the checkout page not appearing. It could be an authorization hold, a failed capture, a delayed activation, or a mismatch between the payment provider and Hugging Face Billing.

4. Card / country / recurring-payment restrictions

Hugging Face’s official Billing documentation says that cards should support:

3D Secure authentication
Recurring online payments

It also says that credit cards issued in India are not currently supported :

  • Hugging Face Billing documentation

So, for India-issued cards, there is an official card-issuing-country explanation.

For Mexico, I did not find a similar official statement.

Possible explanations

Based on the public reports, this could be one of several things:

  • a checkout-session preparation problem;
  • a temporary Hugging Face website/payment-provider issue;
  • a browser/session/cookie problem;
  • a VPN/proxy/geolocation mismatch;
  • a Stripe/payment-provider setup issue;
  • a card that does not support 3D Secure;
  • a card that does not support recurring international online payments;
  • a debit/prepaid/virtual/wallet-backed card problem;
  • a card-issuing-country restriction;
  • or a pending authorization that did not become an activated Pro subscription.

Details that may help Hugging Face investigate

If you contact Hugging Face, it may help to include:

Hugging Face username: <hf_username>
country of access: <country>
billing country: <country>
card issuing country: <country>
browser and version: <browser_and_version>
operating system: <operating_system>
exact error message: <error_message>
time of attempt: <timestamp_and_timezone>
VPN/proxy used: <yes_or_no>
does the Pro option appear: <yes_or_no>
does checkout start: <yes_or_no>
does Billing show an invoice: <yes_or_no>
does the bank show pending authorization or posted charge: <pending_or_posted_or_none>

For this kind of website / Pro checkout / payment-flow issue, I have heard that website@huggingface.co may be the safer contact address to try right now. If Hugging Face staff has a better routing address for Pro payment-flow issues, please correct me.

Current guess

I would not assume this is definitely Mexico-specific.

The public evidence seems stronger for a general Pro checkout/payment-flow problem, card capability issue, card-issuing-country issue, or payment-provider/session preparation issue.

The clearest documented country/card case I found is India-issued cards. For Mexico, I only found the user report, not an official restriction notice.

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