Hugging Face Community
- Free allowance
- 'Do you have an awesome Space but need help covering the GPU hardware upgrade costs?
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- write-gatedthe grant is attached to a single Space rather than to an account: approval is discretionary, it covers the hardware tier of that Space only, and nothing in the record says the hours can be moved to a training job.
- Evidence
- documented9 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04
| Free tier | 'Do you have an awesome Space but need help covering the GPU hardware upgrade costs? We love helping out those with an innovative Space so please feel free to apply for a community GPU grant and see if yours makes the cut! This application can be found in your Space hardware repo settings in the lower left corner under "sleep time settings"'. There is also a lighter path, quoted: 'You can even request a free upgrade if you are building a cool demo for a side project!' The unit is a hardware tier attached to one Space, not a credit balance, and billing is quoted as 'based on hardware usage and is computed by the minute'. unit hours; metered on wall-clock; grant |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Identity | email not published |
| Egress | not stated |
| Interface | rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Composes with | The grant is a route to a dedicated, always-on GPU behind a public URL with no card: a free account gets 2 ZeroGPU Spaces with 5 minutes of GPU a day (the compute record huggingface-spaces-zerogpu), and this grant is what a project applies for when 96 GB and a 5 minute window are not enough. It composes with inference APIs because the Space can sit in front of an external API and hold the connection. Hardware table on the Spaces GPU page (column 'Hourly Price', billed by the minute while a Space is Starting or Running; the page has no on-demand, spot or community label and states no minimum bill): 1x Nvidia L4 24 GB $0.80, 1x Nvidia L40S 48 GB $1.80, Nvidia A100 - large 80 GB $2.50. The Nvidia H100 rows are struck through and marked 'removed December 2025'. No GeForce row. |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The amount is unverified and deliberately so: the docs publish no tier list, no hour count and no approval rate, and the public applications found on Spaces range from a demo to 2,500 GPU hours, so the honest claim is the mechanism. A 'community grant' could cover hardware only, hardware plus storage, or a cash-equivalent credit. The docs describe hardware ('covering the GPU hardware upgrade costs') and a public applicant asked for storage separately, which supports hardware-only. |
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Evidence 9
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-gpus | 'Do you have an awesome Space but need help covering the GPU hardware upgrade costs? We love helping out those with an innovative Space so please feel free to apply for a community GPU grant'; 'This application can be found in your Space hardware repo settings in the lower left corner under "sleep time settings"'; 'You can even request a free upgrade if you are building a cool demo for a side project!'; 'Billing on Spaces is based on hardware usage and is computed by the minute'; page 200 |
| 2026-10-22 | huggingface.co/spaces/cicero-im/marimo/discussions/1 | an open application on a public Space requesting '2,500 GPU hours for model training and evaluation' and '5TB for datasets', which shows the request channel is public and the ask is negotiable rather than fixed (reported: one applicant's request, not an award) |
| 2026-11-03 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-gpus | the docs read 'makes the cut'; the record quoted 'will make the cut' |
| 2026-11-03 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-gpus | 1x Nvidia L4 with 24 GB GPU memory is $0.80 an hour |
| 2026-11-03 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-gpus | 1x Nvidia L40S with 48 GB is $1.80 an hour |
| 2026-11-03 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-gpus | Nvidia A100 - large with 80 GB is $2.50 an hour |
| 2026-11-03 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-gpus | the H100 row is struck through and marked removed December 2025 |
| 2026-11-03 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-gpus | billing runs only while the Space is Starting or Running |
| 2026-11-03 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-gpus | billing is per minute of running hardware |
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "community-grant","free_tier_kind": "grant","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": 1}} |
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Unknown values 6
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field