Hugging Face Jobs (hf-sandbox backend)
- Free allowance
- No free compute allowance of its own: a Job bills by the minute while it is Starting or Running, at hardware rates from $0.01 an hour for CPU Basic to $23.50 an hour for eight L40S
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- request-ratebilled by the minute only while a Job is Starting or Running, from $0.01 an hour for CPU Basic; a monthly spending limit can be set per organisation or resource group
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23
| Free tier | no free compute allowance of its own: a Job bills by the minute while it is Starting or Running, at hardware rates from $0.01 an hour for CPU Basic to $23.50 an hour for eight L40S unit none; metered on none |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
not stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not stated |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | unknown |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Evidence note | documented the Jobs pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and publishes the hardware ladder and the minute billing. It states no free allowance for a Job, so the record's free-tier claim is not established for compute; whatever free tier the Hub has lives elsewhere |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 2
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/jobs-pricing | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/jobs-pricing | 'Like hardware, it is billed by the minute, only while the Job is Starting or Running' with the hardware table: 'CPU Basic 2 vCPU 16 GB 50 GB $0.01' an hour, 'Nvidia T4 - small 4 vCPU 15 GB 16 GB 50 GB $0.40', up to '8x Nvidia L40S 192 vCPU 1534 GB 384 GB 6500 GB $23.50', quoted |
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"vcpu": 2,
"ram": 16,
"disk": 50,
"gpu_class": null,
"gpu_count": null,
"note": "CPU Basic at $0.01 an hour; GPU shapes from a T4 at $0.40 to eight L40S at $23.50"
},
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"restart_required": false,
"note": "a Job bills only while Starting or Running, and the page documents a timeout setting; a user bounds it"
},
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"network_out": null,
"price_note": null,
"free_tier_kind": "none",
"ps": {
"gib": 50,
"price": "ephemeral only",
"durability": "ephemeral",
"on_stop": false,
"on_destroy": false,
"retention": "the Job's lifetime"
},
"net": null
}Unknown values 10
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