Pirate Face helps keep sovereign AI models available. It indexes eligible Hugging Face models, records source checksums, and lists community torrents so people can share the files.

No. You can browse, download, and seed without an account.

Sign in to submit a torrent or manage a claimed handle. Claiming a handle is optional. See why people create an account.

An account gives you a place to manage your claimed handles and track your contributions. Claiming reserves a public handle. If you already have a matching Hugging Face account, you can verify your handle to add the creator badge and help prevent impersonation.

Benefits are planned for account holders, including exclusive model releases. Details will be announced on X.

Hugging Face verification shows that a creator controls the matching account or organization. It helps distinguish verified creators from people who have only reserved a handle.

Pirate Face still uses Hugging Face for source records. Listed torrents can keep working while peers have the files. Direct model publishing without Hugging Face is planned, not live.

No. You can reserve an available name, but the verified badge requires verification through the matching Hugging Face account.

For example, a Hugging Face account named john123 can verify john123, not john.

You can still reserve john, but it stays unverified. The matching Hugging Face owner could reclaim that handle without deleting your Pirate Face account.

Manage your connected accounts and reserved handles in Account.

Anyone can reserve a handle, but it stays unverified. The badge requires the matching Hugging Face account or organization, and that owner can reclaim an unverified reservation.

For model files, compare your download's hash with the Hugging Face hash shown on the model page.

Pirate Face records a SHA-256 hash for each weight file when Hugging Face provides one. Compare your downloaded file's hash with the value on the model page. A match means the bytes are identical to the recorded Hugging Face file.

Download from Hugging Face directly, or use the magnet link on a model page when a community torrent is listed.

If the Hugging Face source disappears, the magnet can still work while peers have complete copies. Models recovered through peers are marked Rescued.

Yes. curl https://pirateface.co/s/qwen prints every matching model that has a torrent, one per line: name, size, seeds, and the magnet last. Join words with +, as in https://pirateface.co/s/kimi+k3.

To grab the top result with aria2: curl -s https://pirateface.co/s/qwen | head -1 | awk '{print $NF}' | xargs aria2c --seed-ratio=1.0

Yes. You can submit a torrent for your model directly through Pirate Face, including a surviving copy whose Hugging Face page is gone. Seed the complete files, then provide the magnet, original repository and pinned revision, file hashes, and license evidence.

Today, the form still asks for an original Hugging Face repository and revision. Publishing a model that was never on Hugging Face is planned.

Eligible MIT and Apache-2.0 submissions with matching Hugging Face hashes can list immediately; removed sources or uncertain evidence go to review. Kimi-K3 and Audn's Penclaw GLM-5.3 have model-specific exceptions.

A web-seed is an ordinary download URL a torrent client can use alongside peers. Some listed torrents include one for a Hugging Face file.

Coming soon: Pirate Face aims to work as an alternate endpoint for compatible Hugging Face downloads. The goal is to keep existing model paths and change only HF_ENDPOINT.

Points track contributions on the leaderboard. An account's first qualifying handle earns welcome points. Referring a new account's first handle earns 50 points, up to 10 referrals. An approved torrent earns 25 points per distinct model when credited to a verified handle. Seeding points are planned, not active.