Create an Endpoint
After your first login, you will be directed to the Endpoint creation page. As an example, this guide will go through the steps to deploy distilbert/distilbert-base-uncased-finetuned-sst-2-english for text classification.
1. Enter the Hugging Face Repository ID and your desired Endpoint name
![Create](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/hf-endpoints-documentation/main/assets/CreateEndpoint.png)
2. Select your Instance Configuration
Choose cloud provider, region, and instance type. If youβre looking for a specific cloud provider, region, or instance that you donβt yet see available, please let us know.
![select region](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/hf-endpoints-documentation/main/assets/InstanceConfiguration.png)
3. Apply Automatic Scale-to-Zero
Or leave your Endpoint as is.
![autoscaling](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/hf-endpoints-documentation/main/assets/Scale-to-Zero.png)
4. Define the Security Level for the Endpoint
![define security](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/hf-endpoints-documentation/main/assets/SecurityLevel.png)
5. Customize your Endpoint
Feel free to customize your Endpoint further in Advanced Configuration: replica autoscaling, task, revision, framework, and container type are accessible in this section.
![advanced configuration](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/hf-endpoints-documentation/main/assets/AdvancedConfigs.png)
6. Create your Endpoint
By clicking Create Endpoint. The cost estimate displayed is per hour and does not take autoscaling into account.
![create endpoint](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/hf-endpoints-documentation/main/assets/Create+Cost.png)
7. Wait for the Endpoint to build, initialize and run
Note that initializing time depends on the model size and typically takes between 1 to 5 minutes.
![running](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/hf-endpoints-documentation/main/assets/RunningEndpoint.png)
8. Test your Endpoint π
This is possible in your Endpoint Overview utilizing Playground π !
![playground](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/huggingface/hf-endpoints-documentation/main/assets/TestEndpoint.png)