{"slug": "free-cpu-basic-quota-is-0-on-new-account", "title": "Free cpu-basic quota is 0 on new account", "summary": "Hugging Face now requires a paid plan to create any new Space that runs on compute, including Gradio and Docker Spaces, after users on brand-new accounts reported the free cpu-basic quota is effectively 0. An HF staff member confirmed in a support thread that running a Space on cpu-basic requires PRO, even though the docs still list CPU Basic as free with 8 concurrent CPU units, and pointed users to upgrade to PRO, add credits, or switch to the still-free Static SDK. The same \"You've reached your cpu-basic quota limit\" error has appeared since June/July on new accounts with a single paused Space, including those of users PhoeSai99, ibbo2121 and maelanoi.", "body_md": "Hi, my account Yashsalidev (email verified) can’t start any free Space. Restarting Yashsalidev/chest-xray-ai fails with “You’ve reached your cpu-basic quota limit” even though it’s my only Space and it’s paused. Could you enable the free CPU tier? Thanks!\n\n \n \nNot a per-account bug on your side: this exact error shows up on brand-new accounts with a single paused Space in a lot of threads since June/July (PhoeSai99, ibbo2121, maelanoi and others), so the free cpu-basic quota does look like it’s effectively 0 for a lot of new accounts right now. An HF staff member replied in one of those threads that running a Space on cpu-basic requires PRO, even though the docs still list CPU Basic as free (8 concurrent CPU units on paper), so docs and actual enforcement don’t match at the moment.\n\nYour options: subscribe to PRO, or switch the Space to the Static SDK, which is still free (works if the model can run client-side, e.g. Transformers.js). If you want a definitive answer on whether your account is supposed to have free CPU quota, email [website@huggingface.co](mailto:website@huggingface.co) with your username and Space id.\n\n \n \nHi [@Yashsalidev](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/yashsalidev) creating a new Space that runs on compute (Gradio or Docker) requires a paid plan. You can [upgrade to PRO](https://huggingface.co/subscribe/pro?from=support) or add credits to your account to upgrade your Space to more [CPU/GPU hardware](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/main/en/spaces-gpus#hardware-specs) options at anytime.\n\n[@RDTvlokip](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/rdtvlokip) Docs are updated here: [Using GPU Spaces · Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/main/en/spaces-gpus#hardware-specs).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/free-cpu-basic-quota-is-0-on-new-account", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/free-cpu-basic-quota-is-0-on-new-account/180764#post_3", "published_at": "2026-09-28 17:17:10+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-28 17:22:45.090962+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "developer-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Hugging Face", "Yashsalidev", "PhoeSai99", "ibbo2121", "maelanoi", "RDTvlokip", "Hugging Face PRO", "Transformers.js"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/free-cpu-basic-quota-is-0-on-new-account", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/free-cpu-basic-quota-is-0-on-new-account.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/free-cpu-basic-quota-is-0-on-new-account.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/free-cpu-basic-quota-is-0-on-new-account.jsonld"}}