# 404 error for models **URL:** \ **Category:** Models\ **Created:** [May 9, 2025, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/404-error-for-models/154282 "2025-05-09T11:14:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/404-error-for-models/154282/2 "2025-05-09T11:17:21Z")
Currently, the API is not functioning properly. Roughly speaking, there are at least three types of issues occurring simultaneously. > [@Inference API stopped working](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/inference-api-stopped-working/150492): > > 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 \ is not supported HF inference api This is happening in two distinct ways: Via InferenceClient: My applicat… > [@https://api-inference.huggingface.co/models/sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/https-api-inference-huggingface-co-models-sentence-transformers-paraphrase-minilm-l6-v2/153574): > > 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](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/persistent-dns-resolution-errors/153827): > > Hello, I’m experiencing persistent DNS resolution errors when trying to access https://api-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… --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/404-error-for-models/154282)._