# Calling Inference API for text embedding

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/calling-inference-api-for-text-embedding/49403>\
**Category:** Inference Endpoints on the Hub\
**Created:** [August 3, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/calling-inference-api-for-text-embedding/49403 "2023-08-03T22:58:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![alazsengul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@alazsengul](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/alazsengul)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2023, 10:58pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/calling-inference-api-for-text-embedding/49403/1 "2023-08-03T22:58:38Z")

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Up until recently I was able to call the Inference API (i.e. [https://api-inference.huggingface.co/models/intfloat/e5-large-v2](https://api-inference.huggingface.co/models/intfloat/e5-large-v2)) on embedding models found on the MTEB leaderboard [MTEB Leaderboard - a Hugging Face Space by mteb](https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard).

However now it seems like all those models were transferred and tagged as “Sentence Similarity” models, so the API doesn’t work with a query of “inputs”. It needs a “source\_sentence” and “sentences”.

Any idea why this change happened? And how I can start using the Inference API for text embedding again?

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**Author:** ![alazsengul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed655f/32.png) [@alazsengul](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/alazsengul)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 5:21pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/calling-inference-api-for-text-embedding/49403/2 "2023-08-04T17:21:25Z")

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Resolved! See [Can one get an embeddings from an inference API that computes Sentence Similarity? - #5 by osanseviero](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/can-one-get-an-embeddings-from-an-inference-api-that-computes-sentence-similarity/9433/5).