# 404 error for models

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**Category:** Models\
**Created:** [May 9, 2025, 11:14am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2F404-error-for-models%2F154282 "2025-05-09T11:14:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 11:17am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2F404-error-for-models%2F154282%2F2 "2025-05-09T11:17:21Z")

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Currently, the API is not functioning properly. Roughly speaking, there are at least three types of issues occurring simultaneously.

> [@Inference API stopped working](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Finference-api-stopped-working%2F150492)%3A
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> Hi everyone, I seem to be encountering a sudden issue with the Hugging Face Inference API. I was successfully using it for image-to-image tasks (specifically with models like stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-refiner-1.0), but it abruptly stopped working a short while ago. Now, regardless of which model I try to use, I consistently receive the following error pattern: Model \<model\_name\> is not supported HF inference api This is happening in two distinct ways: Via InferenceClient: My applicat…

> [@/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi-inference.huggingface.co%2Fmodels%2Fsentence-transformers%2Fparaphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2%5D(https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhttps-api-inference-huggingface-co-models-sentence-transformers-paraphrase-minilm-l6-v2%2F153574)%3A
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> Hello All, I am using sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2 while using the API. but getting the 404 error. We are in free plan. any help please

> [@Persistent DNS Resolution Errors](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fpersistent-dns-resolution-errors%2F153827)%3A
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> Hello, I’m experiencing persistent DNS resolution errors when trying to access /static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi-inference.huggingface.co from within my Space. My space is running on Nvidia 1xL4 hardware and I am receiving this error no matter which text-generation model I use: requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host=‘[api-inference.huggingface.co](http://api-inference.huggingface.co)’, port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: … (Caused by NameResolutionError: Failed to resolve ‘[api-inference.huggingface.co](http://api-inference.huggingface.co)’ ([Errno -2] Name or se…

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