Is Hugging Face Inference API Down?
Reachable from all 8 checked regions
Average response time: 204ms
Last checked · checks run every 6 hours
Official status page: https://status.huggingface.co
Hugging Face Inference API uptime
Measured from multiple regions every 6 hours. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 57 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.
30-day history
57-day clean streakReachability by region
Each region runs its own request from a different part of the world. A service can be up for one continent and down for another, which is usually the first sign of a routing or CDN problem.
What Hugging Face Inference API does
Hugging Face hosts the model and dataset repository most machine learning work pulls from, along with hosted inference endpoints and Spaces demos. Training scripts, build pipelines, and production applications download weights from it at runtime, which makes it a build-time and deploy-time dependency for teams who never open the website themselves.
What an outage looks like
Model downloads fail partway with connection or 5xx errors, and code loading a pretrained model hangs or raises a repository-not-found error for models that plainly exist. Git pushes and pulls of large model files stall separately from the website. Spaces demos show a proxy error, and hosted Inference Endpoints time out.
What to do about it
Check status.huggingface.co, which separates the Hub, git hosting, Spaces, the CDN, and Inference Endpoints, because these fail independently and the component you depend on may be fine. Locally cached models keep working, so setting HF_HUB_OFFLINE stops libraries revalidating against the network mid-incident and turns long timeouts into immediate cache hits.
Is it down for everyone, or just you?
If this page says Hugging Face Inference API is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from up to 17 cities across three regions to find out where it breaks.
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Hugging Face Inference API outage FAQ
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How we measure this
- We request Hugging Face Inference API's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — the most recent check ran from 8 of them.
- A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A
403or429means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage. - A single failing region is treated as probe noise. We only change the verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
- Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
- Where Hugging Face Inference API publishes an official status feed we read it too. An all-clear from the vendor can soften an unconfirmed degradation; a vendor-declared outage only worsens our verdict when our own checks corroborate it.
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