# Create a Spice app

Once [signed in with GitHub](/getting-started/get-started/portal-login.md), you will be redirected to the **new application page.** Set a name, add a model provider, and optionally select one of ready to use datasets.

1. Enter a name for the application.
2. Select region.
3. Click **Create application**.

   It will take up to 30 seconds to create and provision a dedicated Spice.ai instance for the application.
4. Once the application instance is deployed and ready, you will be redirected to the [Playground](https://github.com/spicehq/docs/blob/trunk/cloud/portal/playground/README.md).
5. Executing the `show tables` SQL query will show the default datasets available for the app.

🎉 **Congrats, you've created your first** [**Spice app**](https://github.com/spicehq/docs/blob/trunk/cloud/portal/apps/README.md)**!**

Continue to [Step. 3 to add a dataset and query it](/getting-started/get-started/step-2-add-dataset-and-query-data.md).

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