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Hello Hugging Face team,
I would like to host a Gradio demo using ZeroGPU, but the ZeroGPU option is not available for my account.
Account information:
- Username: bear-ty
- Profile: https://huggingface.co/bear-ty
- Account created: July 21, 2026
- Account age: more than 30 days
- Email verified: Yes
- Current number of Spaces: 0
- Plan: Free
According to the ZeroGPU documentation, free personal accounts in good standing with a verified email and an account older than 30 days can host up to two ZeroGPU Spaces.
However, on the “Create a new Space” page, Gradio and Docker are marked as Paid, and only Static is available. I cannot select Gradio with ZeroGPU.
I plan to build a non-commercial academic research demo called BeyondRetarget. It converts monocular RGB videos into executable motion trajectories for multiple humanoid robots.
Could you please check my account eligibility and enable ZeroGPU hosting if possible?
Thank you.
Hello,
I would also like to provide more information about the project for which I am requesting ZeroGPU access.
BeyondRetarget is a non-commercial academic research project for direct monocular-video-to-humanoid-robot motion generation. Given a short monocular RGB video, the system directly generates executable motion trajectories for eight different humanoid robots without requiring reconstructed human motion as an inference-time intermediate.
The inference pipeline includes person detection, HMR2 visual feature extraction, a unified multi-robot PyTorch model, contact prediction, contact-aware motion refinement, and MuJoCo visualization.
GPU acceleration would significantly improve the inference speed and make the research demo practically usable by students and researchers. CPU inference is too slow for an interactive online demonstration. The system is currently running temporarily on a university RTX 3090 server, but this server cannot provide stable long-term public access.
With ZeroGPU, we would be able to provide a free and publicly accessible academic demonstration. We will limit uploaded video duration and process only one task concurrently to control GPU usage.
Thank you for considering this academic project for ZeroGPU hosting access.
It seems that no one manages and responds.
I have the same issue
I’m seeing the same behavior. According to the ZeroGPU docs, free personal accounts in good standing (verified email, account older than 30 days) can host up to 2 ZeroGPU Spaces. My account appears to meet those conditions, but I can’t create a Gradio Space.
Account details:
Username: BruceLad
Account created: April 27, 2023
Email: verified
Plan: Free
Current Spaces: 1 (a Static test Space)
What I tried:
On the Create Space page, Gradio and Docker are marked “Paid” and only Static is selectable.
From the CLI I ran: hf repos create BruceLad/my-test-space --type space --sdk gradio --flavor zero-a10g --public
The CLI returned 402 Payment Required with this message: “Your account is not eligible to host ZeroGPU Spaces for free. Subscribe to PRO to host Spaces with ZeroGPU, or request a community grant.”
Request ID: Root=1-6adbc1a7-75b0349c77178a62505fea6b;a6003246-b4c7-4b12-bc5a-06e9a9d1d578
My use case is coursework for an AI Engineering Program. The first lab is a simple Gradio ChatInterface app that echoes a message, with no model and no real GPU use. I only need a Gradio Space to host it.
Could you check my account’s eligibility, or let me know if there is an additional requirement that isn’t listed in the docs? If the free tier no longer applies to new Gradio Spaces, an update to the ZeroGPU documentation would help a lot of people.
Thank you!