Hi! As in the title - trying to download any model or quantization at all results in an “Access Denied” XML response, even for models I have downloaded in the past (like, even a few weeks ago). Is HuggingFace down or something? I have no emails to my account besides the email verification, so I doub…

same issue, so its probably something on their end

Seems similar issue? Multiple Public dataset LFS files return 403 AccessDenied from cdn-lfs-us-1.hf.co despite visible metadata · Issue #4430 · huggingface/huggingface_hub · GitHub Perhaps related: Url is not fetched from the parquet api

I’m getting this on every single download attempt right now AccessDeniedAccess denied This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. AccessDenied Access denied …

Same Here. Just getting AccessDeniedAccess denied This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. AccessDenied Access denied … And it’s very irritating. ANY IDEA WHAT’S GOING ON?

I am also getting this 403 error even when downloading a 10 MB file via the browser… Just yesterday I downloaded some models using a regular fetch, and now it has stopped working. Moreover, if you run: hf repository/name model2.onnx model_name.onnx --local-dir ./models The file downloads perfectl…

Might be down. Also experiencing the same issue. Does anyone have a workaround?

I ran a quick Colab experiment around this cluster of issues: Short answer This looks much more like a service-side file-delivery problem than an account lock, gating problem, or permission mistake on your side. Shortly after the reports in this thread, I could reproduce XML AccessDenied response…

I have the same issue for the last 2 hours! Downloading any model and seeing message: Access Denied. I’m realtive new to this platform and it is very frustrating.. i try to pinpoint the issue with different IP or logged in etc. But as it read here: probably there HF servers?? Where is this status i…

update from https://huggingface.co/proxy/status.huggingface.co/ Resolved: On April 13, 2026, between approximately 13:30 UTC and 19:00 UTC, some users experienced stalled or hung downloads of large files. The issue primarily affected users routed through our US Central CDN endpoints (ORD/DFW regions), particularly when …

"Access Denied" trying to download any model

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John6666 July 13, 2026, 11:49pm 11

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"Access Denied" trying to download any model

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