Hello, I’ve been building an app that makes calls to your Hugging Face API and I’ve been receiving 429 response codes after regular use. I wasn’t aware there was a rate limit for the API - What is the rate limit for your API and is there a way to remove the rate limit for my account? If not, is ther…

cc @Narsil can share more about rate limiting from Inference API.

Still no response. I’d like to know as well!

I am looking for documentation on limits and error codes. My app suddenly got timeouts on requests and I can’t even run models on the HF website. Any help is appreciated.

Same here. 429 rate limit errors, but starting right away. Would be great to know the cause or if anyone found a fix.

Same here only for all new people in my classes. This is a show stopper for beginners since when I demonstrate examples even if they are just clicking the link they get the 429 error right away limiting HF usefulness to new users. Any chance you can fix this? Or explain a workaround that lets HF …

me too {‘error’: ‘Rate limit reached. You reached free usage limit (reset hourly). Please subscribe to a plan at Hugging Face – Pricing to use the API at this rate’}

I’m also facing the same problem

wow… No one has responded to this… I’m getting the same issue here. Hugging Face Team, please come through this is frustrating!

Hugging Face API rate limits

Beginners

John6666 June 11, 2025, 10:17am 16

Something like this:

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Hugging Face API rate limits

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