Is Hugging Face Inference API down right now?

No. Our checks are finding no problems with Hugging Face Inference API right now. That verdict is live, and the banner at the top of this page carries it too. We re-check Hugging Face Inference API continuously using its official status feed, direct network probes and reports from visitors, stopping at the first check that gives a clear answer, and the page updates itself as soon as anything changes. A green verdict does not rule out a fault affecting only some users or regions.

The problems visitors report most often on this page are API errors, no response / timing out, rate limited, 5xx error pages, high latency, can't connect and slow or laggy. Those are the options the report button offers for Hugging Face Inference API, chosen for how this service actually fails rather than a generic list, and the "user reports" chart above breaks down which ones people are picking right now.

Our checks run from one place on the internet, so a fault limited to your region or network can be real while our probes succeed. With Hugging Face Inference API specifically, the inference API has regional endpoints and model replicas that fail independently, so one model or region may be unavailable while others work, or your specific model may be overloaded while others respond normally. That is why this page reports what it observed rather than declaring the service healthy, and why reports from other visitors count toward the verdict.

For Hugging Face Inference API, try a simple inference request directly via curl to the API endpoint for your model, and check the response code and latency. A problem that follows you across networks and devices is very unlikely to be yours.

If this page shows evidence of problems, the fault is most likely on Hugging Face Inference API's side. Specifically: do not retry requests in tight loops, as this adds load and delays recovery; instead, implement exponential backoff or queue requests for later. Reporting it here helps other people see they are not alone.

Continuously, around the clock. Hugging Face Inference API does not publish a machine-readable status feed, so we cannot read a verdict from them. We probe huggingface.co directly over HTTP, fall back to an ICMP ping if that is inconclusive, and weigh reports from visitors. That means we can tell you the service is unreachable, but not what Hugging Face Inference API says about it. The verification tier box on this page names whichever check produced the verdict you are reading, so you can see how direct the evidence is.

Yes, at status.huggingface.co, and it is linked further up this page. That is Hugging Face Inference API's own account of their service and it is the place to look for their estimate of a fix. We read it where we can, but we publish our own observations beside it rather than only repeating theirs, because an operator's status page can lag a problem their users are already hitting.

No. status.buzz is an independent monitoring site operated by LuzLab LLC, with no connection to Hugging Face Inference API or huggingface.co. It reads publicly available endpoints and status feeds, and publishes what it observed. For account or billing problems you need Hugging Face Inference API's own support, not us.