Hola desde México cómo puedo tener suscripción a hugging face pro. no me da la opción. no se realiza
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:
- the Pro checkout does not start;
- the page gets stuck while preparing payment;
- the user sees a
Failed to prepare paymenterror; - payment appears on the bank/card side, but Pro is not activated;
- the Hugging Face Billing page shows no invoice even though the bank shows a pending or posted transaction;
- 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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