{"slug": "new-free-accounts-cannot-create-cpu-basic-gradio-spaces-only-zerogpu-available", "title": "New free accounts cannot create CPU Basic Gradio Spaces (only ZeroGPU available?)", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "[ztrx](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/ztrx)\n1\nI’m trying to create a new Gradio Space on a free account.\n\nThe only available runtime is **ZeroGPU**.\n\n- Docker is marked as\n**Paid**.\n- CPU Basic cannot be selected during creation.\n- After creating the Space on ZeroGPU, the hardware downgrade dialog requires\n**PRO** to switch to CPU Basic.\n- I reproduced this on a brand-new account.\n\nIs this an intentional change to the free tier, or is this a bug/rollout issue?", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-free-accounts-cannot-create-cpu-basic-gradio-spaces-only-zerogpu-available", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/new-free-accounts-cannot-create-cpu-basic-gradio-spaces-only-zerogpu-available/177629#post_2", "published_at": "2026-07-09 22:26:10+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-09 22:43:50.973859+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["Hugging Face", "Gradio", "ZeroGPU"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-free-accounts-cannot-create-cpu-basic-gradio-spaces-only-zerogpu-available", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-free-accounts-cannot-create-cpu-basic-gradio-spaces-only-zerogpu-available.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-free-accounts-cannot-create-cpu-basic-gradio-spaces-only-zerogpu-available.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/new-free-accounts-cannot-create-cpu-basic-gradio-spaces-only-zerogpu-available.jsonld"}}