Unlisted Huggingface spaces

Is there a way to set the visibility of a huggingface space to be similar to the YouTube unlisted setting? In other words, (unregistered) users with a direct link to the space can access it but those exploring the platform won’t be able to discover it.

I would like to enable GPU for a demo and share it with non-technical users. I’m worried about making the space fully public, as that is likely to run up the GPU costs. Maybe there’s just a workaround to only enable users with a particular token to have access to paid hardware?

we’ve discussed it in the past but so far haven’t implemented it

cc @victor @osanseviero

What you can do as a workaround is to create an ad hoc org, set your Space to private inside the org, and add your users to the org

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BTW, re. GPU costs we bill for uptime, not for volume of requests. So the price would be the same whatever the number of users (but latency might go up of course)

Let us know if this helps!

Any updates on this for 2025? At my work place we have developers using Spaces happily, but the last mile of sharing that with the larger organisation, and supporting trusted user testing, remains a bit rough when we add more seats to work around the lack of “invite-only” or “unlisted app” support. Hoping to find that there’s indeed a way to invite external users to a private Spaces deployment.

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Workarounds as of today for now.