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Free allowance
The monthly credits table now reads: "Free Users | None" and "PRO Users | $2.00", with the note that free users can only use Inference Providers "by purchasing credits, or by upgrading to PRO".
Verdict
paidno free allowance; listed for its price
Cost
no price stated
Identity
emailno card, no phone
Binding limit
noneno named constraint binds
Evidence
documented3 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 tierThe monthly credits table now reads: "Free Users | None" and "PRO Users | $2.00", with the note that free users can only use Inference Providers "by purchasing credits, or by upgrading to PRO".
unit none; metered on wall-clock; none
Pricenone stated
Bindingnone nothing binds because nothing is granted: the free lane on Inference Providers is now zero credits a month
Identityemail not published
Egressnot stated
Interfaceunknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed
Toolingnot stated
Composes withThe USD 2 a month that PRO buys is the cheapest documented way to exceed the 5-minute ZeroGPU day, so a single PRO subscription is the paid upgrade path out of both free limits.
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesA refutation of the figure that circulated through 2025, where a free account received a small monthly inference credit. The free lane is now explicitly zero and the monthly credit starts at PRO.
Parsed numbers
  • has-free-tier 0
Evidence 3
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-22huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricingquoted monthly credits table: Free Users None, PRO Users USD 2.00, Team or Enterprise USD 2.00 per seat
2026-10-22huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricingquoted: credits are general-purpose compute credits spendable on Inference Providers, Inference Endpoints, upgraded Spaces hardware including ZeroGPU beyond quota, and Jobs, credited every month
2026-11-03huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricingthe monthly credits table still grants a free user nothing; the page is per-token pricing and lists no hourly card
More fields 1
facets{"class": "refutation-monthly-credit-removed","free_tier_kind": "none","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null}}
Unknown values 7
  • egress metered: egress metering was not published
  • egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
  • interface: the access interface was not established
  • 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