# Requests returning a 404 error constantly

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**Post date:** [May 16, 2025, 6:31am UTC](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Frequests-returning-a-404-error-constantly%2F155450%2F2 "2025-05-16T06:31:33Z")

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It seems that the specifications have changed and it no longer works.

> [@Persistent 404 Not Found Errors with Public Inference API](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fpersistent-404-not-found-errors-with-public-inference-api%2F154119)%3A
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> Problem: For the past day or so, all My attempts to make POST requests to the public Inference API endpoint result in a 404 Not Found error. This happens regardless of the model I try to query, including standard, known-available models like gpt2. The response body simply contains “Not Found"“ My Hugging Face Username: Mehdimemar Troubleshooting Steps Taken: Model Validity Confirmed: I’ve tested numerous valid model IDs (like gpt2, distilbert-base-uncased-fine tuned-sst-2-english, various …

> [@/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi-inference.huggingface.co%2Fmodels%2Fsentence-transformers%2Fparaphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2%5D(https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fhttps-api-inference-huggingface-co-models-sentence-transformers-paraphrase-minilm-l6-v2%2F153574)%3A
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> Hello All, I am using sentence-transformers/paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2 while using the API. but getting the 404 error. We are in free plan. any help please

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