Hugging Face Spaces

huggingface.co/docs/hub/en/spaces-overviewPlatform hostcompute/huggingface-spacesJSON compare report an error provider JSON

Sibling records disagree:

identity_kind: compute/huggingface-spaces says email, compute/huggingface-spaces-cpu-basic says card
verdict: compute/huggingface-spaces says 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	write-gated creating a Gradio or Docker Space needs PRO or higher; a free account cannot create one source per-object-cap each Space is limited to 16 GB RAM, 2 CPU cores and 50 GB of non-persistent disk source retention-clamped (binding) a Space on free hardware sleeps after a period of inactivity source 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.
Parsed numbers	price USD 9 / month price USD 9 / month per-object-cap 16 GB

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 12

{
 "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",
 "facets": {}
}

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