# Feature extraction using Inference API error

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/feature-extraction-using-inference-api-error/13959>\
**Category:** Beginners\
**Created:** [May 15, 2022, 7:00am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/feature-extraction-using-inference-api-error/13959 "2022-05-15T07:00:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 28, 2022, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/feature-extraction-using-inference-api-error/13959/2 "2022-07-28T15:30:22Z")

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I had this same issue. It appears in the model hub some of the sentence-transformer API endpoints are set up for sentence similarity while others are set up for feature extraction. Passing the query as you have there to a sentence similarity endpoint results in an error. Try using a different model with a feature extraction endpoint like: `Craig/paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2` or `julien-c/distilbert-feature-extraction`

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