{"slug": "access-denied-trying-to-download-any-model", "title": "\"Access Denied\" trying to download any model", "summary": "Hugging Face users are reporting an 'Access Denied' error when attempting to download any model, including previously accessible open-weight models. The issue appears to be a widespread outage on Hugging Face's end, affecting all download attempts.", "body_md": "[17slim](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/17slim)\n1\nHi! 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 doubt I’ve been locked or anything like that, and these models are open-weights and should be downloadable - so this is really throwing me for a loop. Thanks!\n\nsame issue, so its probably something on their end\n\nI’m getting this on every single download attempt right now\n\n`AccessDenied`\n\nAccess denied\n\nThis XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.\n\n`AccessDenied`\n\nAccess denied\n\n…\n\nSame Here. Just getting `AccessDenied`\n\nAccess denied\n\nThis XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.\n\n`AccessDenied`\n\nAccess denied\n\n…\n\nAnd it’s very irritating.\n\nANY IDEA WHAT’S GOING ON?", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/access-denied-trying-to-download-any-model", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/access-denied-trying-to-download-any-model/177783#post_5", "published_at": "2026-07-13 22:31:57+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-13 22:52:14.865314+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Hugging Face"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/access-denied-trying-to-download-any-model", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/access-denied-trying-to-download-any-model.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/access-denied-trying-to-download-any-model.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/access-denied-trying-to-download-any-model.jsonld"}}