Hugging Face Spaces
Sibling records disagree:
- identity_kind:
compute/huggingface-spacessays email, compute/huggingface-spaces-cpu-basic says card - verdict:
compute/huggingface-spacessays qualifies-with-caveat, compute/huggingface-spaces-cpu-basic says paid-only
- Free allowance
- Static Spaces are free for everyone; Gradio and Docker Spaces require a paid plan to create, PRO for personal accounts; free accounts in good standing may host up to 2 ZeroGPU Spaces
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- USD 9/monthparsed from the record, in USD
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clampeda Space on free hardware sleeps after a period of inactivity
- Evidence
- documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | Static Spaces are free for everyone; Gradio and Docker Spaces require a paid plan to create, PRO for personal accounts; free accounts in good standing may host up to 2 ZeroGPU Spaces unit none; metered on wall-clock; the CPU Basic hardware still lists as FREE but you cannot create a Space that uses it on a free account |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
ZeroGPU on a free account allows 5 minutes of GPU a day and needs an account older than 30 days |
| Binding | retention-clamped the 5 minutes of GPU a day and the sleep-on-inactivity bind long before the 2-Space limit does |
| Identity | email a verified email and an account older than 30 days; no card for the free lane |
| Egress | not priced on the page read |
| Retention | a Space on free hardware sleeps after a period of inactivity; a paused Space stops executing until restarted |
| Interface | rest, cli Gradio, Docker or static SDK; ZeroGPU for Gradio on a free account |
| Tooling | huggingface_hub, the Space SDK, git push to the Space repo |
| Composes with | ZeroGPU is a GPU allowance of 5 minutes a day, which is an inference budget and not a machine |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | The free 2 vCPU / 16 GB CPU Basic hardware still exists and still costs nothing; What survives on a free account is a static Space, which has no runtime. Paid-only was wrong. A free lane exists, limited to 2 ZeroGPU Spaces for a personal account with a verified email older than 30 days. The ZeroGPU table prices it at 5 minutes of GPU a day. |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/spaces-overview | 'Static Spaces are free for everyone. Gradio and Docker Spaces run on compute and require a paid plan to create: PRO for personal accounts' |
| 2026-10-22 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/spaces-overview | free personal accounts in good standing can host up to 2 Gradio Spaces on ZeroGPU |
| 2026-10-22 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/spaces-overview | each Space is limited to 16 GB RAM, 2 CPU cores and 50 GB of non-persistent disk; CPU Basic lists as FREE hardware |
| 2026-10-22 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-overview | 'Static Spaces are free for everyone. Gradio and Docker Spaces run on compute and require a paid plan to create: PRO for personal accounts, Team or Enterprise for organizations. Free personal accounts in good standing can still host up to 2 Gradio Spaces running on ZeroGPU', quoted |
More fields 11
| shape | {"vcpu": 2,"ram_gib": 16,"disk_gib": 50,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null} |
|---|---|
| billing model | wall-clock |
| granularity | {"min_billed_s": 60,"rounding_s": 60} |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "a free-hardware Space sleeps after inactivity; the interval is not stated on this page"} |
| keep rate | {"value": 0.0,"basis": "a sleeping Space is not billed; CPU Basic has no hourly cost","source": "https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/spaces-overview"} |
| persistent storage | {"included_gib": 50,"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": "HTTPS on the Space URL","static_ip": false,"ipv6": null,"per_session_bytes": null} |
| free tier kind | none |
| m10h usd | 9.0 |
| m24h usd | 9.0 |
| price arithmetic | USD 9 a month for PRO is the entry price for a compute Space, before hardware upgrades |
Unknown values 2
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
Corrections
- 2026-10-22 Hugging Face Spaces has a free lane, and the ZeroGPU allowance recurs daily