# Help with DeepSeek-V3-0324 Model Download

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## Issue: Rate Limiting When Downloading DeepSeek-V3-0324

I’m experiencing consistent rate limiting issues when trying to download the DeepSeek-V3-0324 large model.

### What I’ve tried:

1. **Git over HTTPS** :

- Direct download attempts result in “Rate limit exceeded” errors

1. **Hugging Face CLI** :

- Created and provided a token with write permissions
- Error 429 (Too Many Requests) for the `/whoami` endpoint
- Set HF\_TOKEN environment variable

1. **Git over SSH** :

- Set up SSH authentication
- Still receiving rate limit errors when pulling LFS objects

1. **Curl request** :

- Returns 429 page

### Specific error messages:

```auto
batch response: Rate limit exceeded: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324.git/info/lfs/objects/batch
Failed to fetch some objects from 'https://hf.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324.git/info/lfs'

```

git over ssh with skip(configured correctly)

```auto
GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDE=1 git clone git@hf.co:deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324                                                                 
Cloning into 'DeepSeek-V3-0324'...                                                             
remote: Enumerating objects: 203, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (199/199), done.                                                                                                                                               
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (198/198), done.                                                                                                                                            
remote: Total 203 (delta 13), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 4 (from 1)                       
Receiving objects: 100% (203/203), 2.41 MiB | 6.35 MiB/s, done.                                
Resolving deltas: 100% (13/13), done.                                                          
Downloading model-00001-of-000163.safetensors (5.2 GB)                                                                                                                                        
Error downloading object: model-00001-of-000163.safetensors (134f51f): Smudge error: Error downloading model-00001-of-000163.safetensors (134f51f4642dde3f3d63aacc8e4605e6355d27aceb4ee1a1f914e30464623f10): batch response: Rate limit exceeded: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324.git/info/lfs/objects/batch   

```

Huggingface Cli error

```auto
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                                                            
  File "/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_http.py", line 409, in hf_raise_for_status                                                                    
    response.raise_for_status()                                                                                                                                                               
  File "/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 1024, in raise_for_status                                                                                  
    raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)                                                                                                                                            
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url: https://huggingface.co/api/whoami-v2                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                              
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                                              
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                                                            
  File "/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/hf_api.py", line 1737, in whoami                                                                                     
    hf_raise_for_status(r)                                                                                                                                                                    
  File "/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_http.py", line 482, in hf_raise_for_status                                                                    
    raise _format(HfHubHTTPError, str(e), response) from e                                                                                                                                    
huggingface_hub.errors.HfHubHTTPError: 429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url: https://huggingface.co/api/whoami-v2                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                                              
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                                              
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                                                            
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>                                                                                                                                                         
  File "/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_deprecation.py", line 101, in inner_f                                                                         
    return f(*args, **kwargs)                                                                                                                                                                 
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                                                                                                                                                                 
  File "/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_deprecation.py", line 31, in inner_f                                                                          
    return f(*args, **kwargs)                                                                                                                                                                 
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                                                                  
  File "/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/_login.py", line 130, in login                                                                                       
    interpreter_login(new_session=new_session)                                                 
  File "/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_deprecation.py", line 101, in inner_f                                                                         
    return f(*args, **kwargs)                                                                                                                                                                 
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                                                                                                                                                                 
  File "/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_deprecation.py", line 31, in inner_f
    return f(*args, **kwargs)                                                                                                                                                                 
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^                                                                                                                                                                 
  File "/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/_login.py", line 291, in interpreter_login                                                                           
    _login(token=token, add_to_git_credential=add_to_git_credential)                                                                                                                          
  File "/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/_login.py", line 405, in _login                                                                                      
    token_info = whoami(token)                 

```

Is anyone else experiencing issues with DeepSeek-V3-0324? Are there alternative download methods available?

Any assistance would be appreciated.

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There have been a lot of reports of 429 errors for about two weeks, so it’s possible that the rate limit has been raised. Also, as a method of downloading, there is the following method that uses the Python **huggingface\_hub** library.

> **[Download files from the Hub](https://huggingface.co/docs/huggingface_hub/guides/download)**
>
> We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

> <https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/34841>
>
> \### System Info
> 
> Hi team,
> 
> From yesterday, we have been seeing 429 errors when… trying to access different models.
> 
> 
> Here's an example of the error we're seeing:
> 
> \`\`\`
> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 1024, in raise\_for\_status  
> raise HTTPError(http\_error\_msg, response=self)  
> requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for URL: https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B/resolve/main/config.json  
> \`\`\`
> 
> We suspect we are being rate-limited. We can share the IPs with you.
> 
> Could we look into resolving this issue? 
> 
> Thank you so much!
> 
> cc @amyeroberts @philschmid @sgugger 
> 
> 
> \### Who can help?
> 
> @amyeroberts @philschmid @sgugger 
> 
> \### Information
> 
> \- \[\] The official example scripts
> \- \[X\] My own modified scripts
> 
> \### Tasks
> 
> \- \[X\] An officially supported task in the \`examples\` folder (such as GLUE/SQuAD, ...)
> \- \[\] My own task or dataset (give details below)
> 
> \### Reproduction
> 
> We ran into the issues in our internal runs. 
> 
> \### Expected behavior
> 
> Run without hitting the 429 errors.

> [@AutoTrain 429 Apocalypse: Token Verification Meltdown on Windows 11](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Ft%2Fautotrain-429-apocalypse-token-verification-meltdown-on-windows-11%2F146800)%3A
>
> Greetings from the edge of the galaxy—or at least from my Windows 11 rig, where I’m battling an AutoTrain crisis worthy of a sci-fi blockbuster. I’m armed with a write token, PowerShell wizardry, and a dream of training models without the universe imploding, but alas, your API is throwing a 429 Too Many Requests tantrum, followed by a melodramatic “Invalid token” sob story. I’m pretty sure I didn’t sign up for this level of intergalactic drama, so let’s unpack this mess. Here’s the saga in all …

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Thank you @John6666

Just for testing, I’ve reattempted downloading from scratch, with SSH authentication, git ssh and extremely limited download bandwidth(about 10-20 Gigs an hour).

I particularly met the rate limiting error after I downloaded the 100th safetensor so can’t download anything over 100

This is the error

```auto
18:11:10.393098 trace git-lfs: tq: sending batch of size 1 [0/775]
18:11:10.393267 trace git-lfs: ssh cache expired: git@hf.co git-lfs-authenticate deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324 download                                                                        
18:11:10.393307 trace git-lfs: run_command: sh -c ssh -v git@hf.co 'git-lfs-authenticate deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324 download'                                                               
18:11:10.393361 trace git-lfs: exec: sh '-c' 'ssh -v git@hf.co 'git-lfs-authenticate deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324 download''                                                                  
18:11:10.757466 trace git-lfs: api: batch 1 files                                                                                                                                             
18:11:10.757848 trace git-lfs: HTTP: POST https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324.git/info/lfs/objects/batch                                                                      
> POST /deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324.git/info/lfs/objects/batch HTTP/1.1                                                                                                                      
> Host: huggingface.co                                                                                                                                                                        
> Accept: application/vnd.git-lfs+json                                                                                                                                                        
> Authorization: Basic * * * * *                                                                                                                                                              
> Content-Length: 233                                                                                                                                                                         
> Content-Type: application/vnd.git-lfs+json; charset=utf-8                                                                                                                                   
> User-Agent: git-lfs/3.3.0 (GitHub; linux amd64; go 1.19.8)                                                                                                                                  
>                                                                                                                                                                                             
{"operation":"download","objects":[{"oid":"9976dae2a44b4407a3a39dc69104ccce67001a307b1b49e966c98ab246b371f2","size":4302317817}],"transfers":["lfs-standalone-file","basic","ssh"],"ref":{"nam
e":"refs/heads/main"},"hash_algo":"sha256"}18:11:10.883177 trace git-lfs: HTTP: 429                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                              
< HTTP/2.0 429 Too Many Requests                                                                                                                                                              
< Content-Length: 3134                                                                                                                                                                        
< Content-Type: text/html                                                                                                                                                                     
< Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:11:10 GMT                                                                                                                                                         
< Server: CloudFront                                                                                                                                                                          
< Via: 1.1 2f51a381830e231f6bc2b46fda74f69e.cloudfront.net (CloudFront)                                                                                                                       
< X-Amz-Cf-Id: UAy76RQ23ZYFRXxVpysyAzg765cXgMIF16yeb8vec4LgJ9M_kBvgVQ==                                                                                                                       
< X-Amz-Cf-Pop: ORD56-P7                                                                                                                                                                      
< X-Cache: Error from cloudfront                                                                                                                                                              
<                                                                                                                                                                                             
18:11:10.883437 trace git-lfs: api error: Rate limit exceeded: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324.git/info/lfs/objects/batch                                                 
Error downloading object: model-00101-of-000163.safetensors (9976dae): Smudge error: Error downloading model-00101-of-000163.safetensors (9976dae2a44b4407a3a39dc69104ccce67001a307b1b49e966c9
8ab246b371f2): batch response: Rate limit exceeded: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324.git/info/lfs/objects/batch                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                                              
Errors logged to '/mnt/deepseek/deepseek_model/DeepSeek-V3-0324/.git/lfs/logs/20250401T181110.883602204.log'.                                                                                 
Use `git lfs logs last` to view the log.                                                                                                                                                      
error: external filter 'git-lfs filter-process' failed                                                                                                                                        
fatal: model-00101-of-000163.safetensors: smudge filter lfs failed                                                                                                                            
warning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed.                                                                                                                                                
You can inspect what was checked out with 'git status'                                                                                                                                        
and retry with 'git restore --source=HEAD :/'           

```

Following your recommendation of using huggingface\_hub - I get the same error, at the same endpoint for this particular file(I can download other small files)

```auto
>>> hf_hub_download(repo_id='deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324', filename ='model-00101-of-000163.safetensors') [4/833]
Traceback (most recent call last):                                                                                                                                                            
  File "/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_http.py", line 409, in hf_raise_for_status
    response.raise_for_status() File "/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/requests/models.py", line 1024, in raise_for_status
    raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)                                                                                                                                            
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324/resolve/main/model-00101-of-000163.safetensors

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/file_download.py", line 1484, in _get_metadata_or_catch_error
    metadata = get_hf_file_metadata(
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_validators.py", line 114, in _inner_fn
    return fn(*args, **kwargs)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/file_download.py", line 1401, in get_hf_file_metadata
    r = _request_wrapper(
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/file_download.py", line 285, in _request_wrapper
    response = _request_wrapper(
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/file_download.py", line 309, in _request_wrapper
    hf_raise_for_status(response)
  File "/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_http.py", line 482, in hf_raise_for_status
    raise _format(HfHubHTTPError, str(e), response) from e
huggingface_hub.errors.HfHubHTTPError: 429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324/resolve/main/model-00101-of-000163.safetensors

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

```

The bugs referred has been raised 21st November, so it seems the model at the moment is not accessible.

Inspecting the download rates - I can also notice in the download counter that the downloads in the month started to go in a rapid decline.

I didn’t find a recent post on this issue.

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**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2FJohn6666)%5C
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Is this a bug of some kind…? @Wauplin @pierric

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**Author:** ![oomtig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9adbd/32.png) [@oomtig](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Foomtig)%5C
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Just to clean up and summarize experience:

Using git downloads more than 1T data, possibly leading to IP ban,  
Using a custom cloud provider - the assigned IP address might be in the range of banned addresses, resulting in 429 rejection

It seems the best approach is a targeted download of the tensorfiles with huggingface\_hub cli as indicated

> **[deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324 · Downloading weights without duplicates](https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324/discussions/52)**
>
> Downloading with regular git/lfs makes duplicates in .git/lfs/objects which are quite huge for 680Gb weights files:

I can approve - this seems to work, if the rate limit has not been hit.

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Have you tried shutting off your vpn? Same happened to me then my dumb butt realized it was my vpn

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**Author:** ![drkatzmaths](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@drkatzmaths](/static-proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscuss.huggingface.co%2Fu%2Fdrkatzmaths)%5C
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I would like to download the DeepSeek R1 Distill 70B model as well as several others. I am running Debian 12, have python 3.11.2, have all standard build tools for gcc, g++, gfortran, gnu Octave, etc. I have not installed git and git-lfs as one AI recommended: though I would ask here (AI often goofs). I want a download method that can pick up fron where it left should a glitch or interruption occur. I see huggingface\_hub cli recommended, any instructions for using it? I am very familiar with standard Bash CLI, and would usually use wget or curl, or other standard tool. No rush, so downloading a small chunk at a time is fine, as is throttling the download rate.