Hugging Face ZeroGPU
- Free allowance
- A free account in good standing (verified email, older than 30 days) may host up to 2 ZeroGPU Spaces and use 5 minutes of GPU a day, on a half RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell with 48 GB VRAM
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota5 minutes of GPU a day on a free account
- Evidence
- documented8 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-24checked 2026-10-24 (live); stale on 2026-11-24
| Free tier | a free account in good standing (verified email, older than 30 days) may host up to 2 ZeroGPU Spaces and use 5 minutes of GPU a day, on a half RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell with 48 GB VRAM unit minutes; metered on wall-clock; The quota is per day and resets 24 hours after first use. Only the Gradio SDK is compatible. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits | |
| Binding | volume-quota 5 minutes a day is 300 seconds, and a single diffusion call can eat a tenth of it |
| Identity | email a verified email and an account older than 30 days; no card. The 30-day age is the real gate and cannot be bought past. |
| Egress | no egress allowance published |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a session, not an object |
| Retention | the Space repo persists; the GPU allocation is per function call and released on completion |
| Interface | rest one https endpoint per Space serving a Gradio app; no SSH and no shell |
| Tooling | Gradio on the Space SDK; huggingface_hub |
| Composes with | 5 minutes of GPU a day for a Gradio demo, which is an inference budget and not a training budget |
| Reliability | quota exhaustion drops the caller down the GPU queue, and the xlarge size costs double quota for the same wall-clock |
| Notes | The best VRAM for free and the smallest time budget. It is a serving allowance for a public demo, not a compute allowance for a job. |
| Evidence note | documented the daily quotas, the account gate and the VRAM are quoted from the ZeroGPU docs today. |
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Evidence 8
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-06 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/spaces-zerogpu | free accounts in good standing may host up to 2 ZeroGPU Spaces with 5 minutes of GPU per day |
| 2026-10-22 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/spaces-overview | free personal accounts in good standing can host up to 2 Gradio Spaces running on ZeroGPU |
| 2026-10-22 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-zerogpu | 'Free personal accounts: accounts in good standing (verified email, account older than 30 days) can host up to 2 ZeroGPU Spaces for free', with a usage table row 'Free account | 5 minutes | Medium', quoted |
| 2026-10-24 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/spaces-zerogpu | quoted: '| Free account | 5 minutes | Medium |' in the daily GPU quota table |
| 2026-10-24 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/spaces-zerogpu | quoted: 'Free personal accounts: accounts in good standing (verified email, account older than 30 days) can host up to 2 ZeroGPU Spaces for free.' |
| 2026-10-24 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/spaces-zerogpu | quoted: '| large *(default)* | Half NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell | 48GB | 1× |' |
| 2026-10-24 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/spaces-zerogpu | quoted: 'Included daily quota resets exactly 24 hours after your first GPU usage.' |
| 2026-10-24 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/spaces-zerogpu | quoted, bold markers in the original: 'PRO, Team, and Enterprise users can continue using ZeroGPU Spaces beyond their included daily quota by consuming pre-paid credits at the rate of $1 per 10 minutes of GPU time.' |
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| shape | {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": 16,"disk_gib": 50,"gpu_class": "NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (half)","gpu_count": 1,"note": "48 GB VRAM on the default 'large' size; the 16 GB / 50 GB figures are the CPU Basic envelope the Space runs in"} |
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| billing model | free |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "no session cap; 5 minutes of GPU a day"} |
| persistent storage | {"included_gib": null,"price_gib_month": "not persistent","durability": "none","survives_stop": false,"survives_destroy": false,"max_retention": "the Space lifetime"} |
| network out | {"allow_outbound": true,"allow_inbound_listen": true,"ports": "one https endpoint per Space","static_ip": false,"ipv6": false,"per_session_bytes": null} |
| free tier kind | free-forever-with-quota |
| term | none |
| m10h usd | 0.0 |
| m24h usd | 0.0 |
| price arithmetic | USD 0.00 for 5 minutes a day; USD 1.00 per 10 minutes past the quota on a paid plan |
| unattended | yes |
| unattended mechanism | the Space serves requests without a browser tab; each call gets a GPU for its duration |
| units | RAM and disk are quoted in the vendor's own decimal GB, not GiB. The ram_gib and disk_gib keys carry the vendor's number unconverted, so where a vendor writes 30 GB the key holds 30 and the true value is about 27.9 GiB. No conversion was performed. |
Corrections
- 2026-10-22 Hugging Face Spaces has a free lane, and the ZeroGPU allowance recurs daily