{"slug": "activating-a-space-gets-error-403-no-cpu-quota-available", "title": "Activating a space gets error 403 no CPU quota available", "summary": "Hugging Face users are reporting a 403 error when activating Spaces, citing a cpu-basic quota limit even after pausing existing Spaces. One user, YadavAgent, received the error 'Quota exceeded for flavour cpu-basic (requested=1) : current=0 ,limit=0' on the Space 'youtube-automation-agent', despite having only one Space and a verified email. The issue appears to affect free-tier users, with some unable to proceed without a credit card.", "body_md": "Getting error when trying to start a space [EV Smart-Charging Advisor - a Hugging Face Space by sid009991](https://huggingface.co/spaces/sid009991/ev-smart-charging-advisor) the error pops up: **403**\n\nYou’ve reached your cpu-basic quota limit, please upgrade your account, or pause your previous Spaces to restart this one\n\nEven after pausing all the spaces, it still doesn’t run. Is anyone facing the error?\n\nSame issue here!\n\n-Username: YadavAgent\n\n-Space: YadavAgent/youtube-automation-agent\n\n-Error: “Quota exceeded for flavour cpu-basic (requested=1) : current=0 ,limit=0”\n\n-Only 1 space, already paused, email verified\n\n-No credit card available (student) Please help me", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/activating-a-space-gets-error-403-no-cpu-quota-available", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/activating-a-space-gets-error-403-no-cpu-quota-available/178109#post_2", "published_at": "2026-08-17 07:07:29+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-17 07:11:51.077089+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Hugging Face", "YadavAgent", "youtube-automation-agent", "sid009991", "EV Smart-Charging Advisor"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/activating-a-space-gets-error-403-no-cpu-quota-available", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/activating-a-space-gets-error-403-no-cpu-quota-available.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/activating-a-space-gets-error-403-no-cpu-quota-available.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/activating-a-space-gets-error-403-no-cpu-quota-available.jsonld"}}