# Difference between using the Trainer class vs Accelerate library

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/difference-between-using-the-trainer-class-vs-accelerate-library/44703>\
**Category:** DeepSpeed\
**Created:** [June 27, 2023, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/difference-between-using-the-trainer-class-vs-accelerate-library/44703 "2023-06-27T08:01:52Z")\
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From this comment in 2021, it seems that accelerate is for those who don’t want to use the trainer and instead write their own loop

> <https://github.com/huggingface/accelerate/issues/214#issuecomment-997933171>
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> huggingface transformer support deepspeed (https://huggingface.co/docs/transform…ers/main\_classes/deepspeed )
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> accelerate also support deepspeed via ds-plugin, so what is design thoughts besides no trainer flexibility?

Is that the only difference?