> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://efreedirectory.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # ZeroGPU Gives Free Accounts Five Minutes of GPU a Day - URL: https://efreedirectory.com/hugging-face-zerogpu-free-quota/ - Published: 2026-11-11T10:15:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-11T10:15:00.000Z - Description: Five minutes a day is a real allowance rather than a trial, which makes it the rarest thing in free infrastructure: a quota that stays the same next year. - Author: Alpesh Gevariya - Tags: tool, Developer & Code **Hugging Face's ZeroGPU allocates NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell GPUs on demand to Spaces, and the free quota is five minutes a day for a signed-in free account. Unauthenticated visitors get two minutes, PRO accounts get 40 minutes with priority queueing, and free accounts in good standing can host two ZeroGPU Spaces. Quota resets 24 hours after first use rather than at a fixed midnight.**[1](#sources) Five minutes sounds trivial until you price it. A demo that answers a question with a small model spends seconds per call, not minutes, so five minutes of GPU time is a working public demo rather than a taste. ## The quota, by account | Account | Daily GPU quota | Queue priority | | ------------------------------ | ---------------------- | -------------- | | Unauthenticated | 2 minutes | Low | | Free account | 5 minutes | Medium | | PRO | 40 minutes, extensible | Highest | | Team organisation member | 40 minutes, extensible | Highest | | Enterprise organisation member | 60 minutes, extensible | Highest | **Prices measured on 27 October 2026.** Vendor plan terms, allowances and prices change without notice, so treat every figure on this page as a dated snapshot rather than a permanent fact. Where a number here differs from the vendor's own pricing page, the vendor's page is correct and the figure above is simply older than it. Two details decide whether the five minutes is usable. The first is that the quota is consumed by effective task duration, so a function that finishes early costs less. The second is the GPU size table: the default large slice is half an RTX Pro 6000 with 48GB of VRAM at 1x quota cost, while xlarge is the full card with 96GB and costs double, so a 45-second task consumes 90 seconds of allowance. That choice is the single biggest lever a free account has. Half a Blackwell card is plenty for most demos, and picking it doubles the number of runs per day. ## What hosting your own Space actually costs Hosting is separate from usage, and this is where free accounts run into a wall that is easy to miss. A free personal account can host two ZeroGPU Spaces, provided the account is verified and older than 30 days. PRO raises that to ten. The wall is elsewhere: a Space that runs on compute at all, Gradio or Docker, requires a paid plan. Static Spaces are free for everyone. So the free path is real but narrow: you can host two GPU-backed Spaces, and nothing else needs a card. For someone building a portfolio piece or a research demo, that is enough. For anyone shipping a small product, the two-Space ceiling arrives before the GPU quota does. ## Why a daily quota beats a monthly one for demos A monthly allowance rewards conserving and punishes experimenting late in the month. A daily one behaves like a utility: it is there when you need it and it does not accumulate regret. The five-minute figure resets on a rolling 24-hour window from first use, so a demo that gets traffic at the same hour every day never runs dry. That design is also why the quota is honest. Nothing about it expires like a trial, vanishes like a promotional credit, or depends on a launch calendar. Compare that with [Vercel's Hobby cron limits, which fail at deploy time](https://efreedirectory.com/vercel-free-plan-limits/) if an expression would run more than once a day, or [Together AI's $15 minimum before the API answers at all](https://efreedirectory.com/together-ai-no-free-tier/). Seven days of ZeroGPU is worth more than a month of an allowance that resets only if you have not spent it. ## The catch that is worth knowing before you deploy ZeroGPU is shared infrastructure, and it says so. The GPUs are dynamically allocated and released, which means a Space is not guaranteed a card the moment a request arrives; it joins a queue, and queue priority depends on the account tier of the person making the request, not the person hosting. That is a design choice with a visible consequence. A popular free Space will queue its visitors, and the hosting account cannot buy its way out for them. For a demo that is fine. For anything with a latency promise, it is not, and the honest answer is a dedicated GPU on a different product. ## Where this sits in the free infrastructure picture Five minutes of a Blackwell GPU per day, two hosted Spaces, no card and no expiry is, on the evidence of this month's coverage, the most durable free GPU allowance available to an individual. It is smaller than a cloud trial credit and it does not run out. The limitation to plan around is the hosting rule rather than the quota. Compute-backed Spaces need a paid plan, so the free route is two GPU demos and nothing else, and the moment you want a third the answer is a subscription rather than a top-up. ## Frequently asked questions **How much free GPU time does ZeroGPU give?** Five minutes a day for a free account, two minutes unauthenticated and 40 minutes on PRO. **When does the quota reset?** Exactly 24 hours after your first GPU use, not at a fixed time of day. **How many ZeroGPU Spaces can I host for free?** Two, on a verified free account older than 30 days. PRO allows ten. **Is ZeroGPU the full card?** The default large slice is half an RTX Pro 6000 with 48GB of VRAM. The xlarge slice is the full card and consumes quota twice as fast. **Can I go past the daily quota?** PRO accounts can continue beyond the daily quota using prepaid credits. *The two, five, 40 and 60 minute daily quotas by account type, the 24-hour reset from first use, the large and xlarge GPU sizes with 48GB and 96GB of VRAM and their quota costs, the two-Space hosting limit for free accounts, the ten-Space PRO limit, the requirement for a paid plan on compute Spaces and PRO's prepaid credits all verified in* [*Hugging Face's ZeroGPU documentation*](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-zerogpu?ref=efreedirectory.com)*, read on 9 November 2026.* ## Sources 1. Hugging Face Hub: Spaces ZeroGPU: [huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-zerogpu](https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/spaces-zerogpu?ref=efreedirectory.com). Used for: Daily GPU quotas by account type, the rolling 24-hour reset, GPU sizes and quota costs, hosting limits and the compute-Space paid-plan rule. *All sources are the vendor's own plan or documentation pages, checked on 27 October 2026\. Plan terms change without notice, so confirm current limits before you rely on them.*