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New free accounts cannot create CPU Basic Gradio Spaces (only ZeroGPU available?)

Hugging Face appears to have restricted free accounts from creating CPU Basic Gradio Spaces, leaving only ZeroGPU as the available runtime. Users report that Docker is marked as paid and switching to CPU Basic requires a PRO subscription. The change may be intentional or a rollout issue.

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New free accounts cannot create CPU Basic Gradio Spaces (only ZeroGPU available?)
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ztrx 1 I’m trying to create a new Gradio Space on a free account.

The only available runtime is ZeroGPU.

  • Docker is marked as Paid.
  • CPU Basic cannot be selected during creation.
  • After creating the Space on ZeroGPU, the hardware downgrade dialog requires PRO to switch to CPU Basic.
  • I reproduced this on a brand-new account.

Is this an intentional change to the free tier, or is this a bug/rollout issue?

source & further reading
discuss.huggingface.co — original article Rakarrack-0.6.1 port making progress! ( AI assisted ) Cloud Storage Poll Welcome to Haiku basic(Haiku Docs, Haiku slide and Haiku sheets)
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