{"slug": "help-with-deepseek-v3-0324-model-download", "title": "Help with DeepSeek-V3-0324 Model Download", "summary": "A user reports persistent rate limiting errors when downloading the DeepSeek-V3-0324 model from Hugging Face, despite trying Git over HTTPS, SSH, and the Hugging Face CLI with authentication tokens. The issue prevents successful download of large LFS objects, returning HTTP 429 errors.", "body_md": "[oomtig](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/oomtig)\n1\nIssue: Rate Limiting When Downloading DeepSeek-V3-0324\n\nI’m experiencing consistent rate limiting issues when trying to download the DeepSeek-V3-0324 large model.\n\nWhat I’ve tried:\n\n**Git over HTTPS**:\n\n- Direct download attempts result in “Rate limit exceeded” errors\n\n**Hugging Face CLI**:\n\n- Created and provided a token with write permissions\n- Error 429 (Too Many Requests) for the\n`/whoami`\n\nendpoint\n- Set HF_TOKEN environment variable\n\n**Git over SSH**:\n\n- Set up SSH authentication\n- Still receiving rate limit errors when pulling LFS objects\n\n**Curl request**:\n\nSpecific error messages:\n\n```\nbatch response: Rate limit exceeded: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324.git/info/lfs/objects/batch\nFailed to fetch some objects from 'https://hf.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324.git/info/lfs'\n```\n\ngit over ssh with skip(configured correctly)\n\n```\nGIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDE=1 git clone git@hf.co:deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324 \nCloning into 'DeepSeek-V3-0324'... \nremote: Enumerating objects: 203, done.\nremote: Counting objects: 100% (199/199), done. \nremote: Compressing objects: 100% (198/198), done. \nremote: Total 203 (delta 13), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 4 (from 1) \nReceiving objects: 100% (203/203), 2.41 MiB | 6.35 MiB/s, done. \nResolving deltas: 100% (13/13), done. \nDownloading model-00001-of-000163.safetensors (5.2 GB) \nError 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\n```\n\nHuggingface Cli error\n\n```\nTraceback (most recent call last): \n File \"/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_http.py\", line 409, in hf_raise_for_status \n response.raise_for_status() \n File \"/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/requests/models.py\", line 1024, in raise_for_status \n raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self) \nrequests.exceptions.HTTPError: 429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url: https://huggingface.co/api/whoami-v2 \n \nThe above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: \n \nTraceback (most recent call last): \n File \"/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/hf_api.py\", line 1737, in whoami \n hf_raise_for_status(r) \n File \"/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_http.py\", line 482, in hf_raise_for_status \n raise _format(HfHubHTTPError, str(e), response) from e \nhuggingface_hub.errors.HfHubHTTPError: 429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url: https://huggingface.co/api/whoami-v2 \n \nThe above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: \n \nTraceback (most recent call last): \n File \"\", line 1, in \n File \"/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_deprecation.py\", line 101, in inner_f \n return f(*args, **kwargs) \n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ \n File \"/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_deprecation.py\", line 31, in inner_f \n return f(*args, **kwargs) \n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ \n File \"/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/_login.py\", line 130, in login \n interpreter_login(new_session=new_session) \n File \"/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_deprecation.py\", line 101, in inner_f \n return f(*args, **kwargs) \n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ \n File \"/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_deprecation.py\", line 31, in inner_f\n return f(*args, **kwargs) \n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ \n File \"/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/_login.py\", line 291, in interpreter_login \n _login(token=token, add_to_git_credential=add_to_git_credential) \n File \"/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/_login.py\", line 405, in _login \n token_info = whoami(token)\n```\n\nIs anyone else experiencing issues with DeepSeek-V3-0324? Are there alternative download methods available?\n\nAny assistance would be appreciated.\n\nThere 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.\n\n[oomtig](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/oomtig)\n3\nThank you [@John6666](/u/john6666)\n\nJust for testing, I’ve reattempted downloading from scratch, with SSH authentication, git ssh and extremely limited download bandwidth(about 10-20 Gigs an hour).\n\nI particularly met the rate limiting error after I downloaded the 100th safetensor so can’t download anything over 100\n\nThis is the error\n\n```\n18:11:10.393098 trace git-lfs: tq: sending batch of size 1 [0/775]\n18:11:10.393267 trace git-lfs: ssh cache expired: git@hf.co git-lfs-authenticate deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324 download \n18:11:10.393307 trace git-lfs: run_command: sh -c ssh -v git@hf.co 'git-lfs-authenticate deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324 download' \n18:11:10.393361 trace git-lfs: exec: sh '-c' 'ssh -v git@hf.co 'git-lfs-authenticate deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324 download'' \n18:11:10.757466 trace git-lfs: api: batch 1 files \n18:11:10.757848 trace git-lfs: HTTP: POST https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324.git/info/lfs/objects/batch \n> POST /deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324.git/info/lfs/objects/batch HTTP/1.1 \n> Host: huggingface.co \n> Accept: application/vnd.git-lfs+json \n> Authorization: Basic * * * * * \n> Content-Length: 233 \n> Content-Type: application/vnd.git-lfs+json; charset=utf-8 \n> User-Agent: git-lfs/3.3.0 (GitHub; linux amd64; go 1.19.8) \n> \n{\"operation\":\"download\",\"objects\":[{\"oid\":\"9976dae2a44b4407a3a39dc69104ccce67001a307b1b49e966c98ab246b371f2\",\"size\":4302317817}],\"transfers\":[\"lfs-standalone-file\",\"basic\",\"ssh\"],\"ref\":{\"nam\ne\":\"refs/heads/main\"},\"hash_algo\":\"sha256\"}18:11:10.883177 trace git-lfs: HTTP: 429 \n \n \n< HTTP/2.0 429 Too Many Requests \n< Content-Length: 3134 \n< Content-Type: text/html \n< Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:11:10 GMT \n< Server: CloudFront \n< Via: 1.1 2f51a381830e231f6bc2b46fda74f69e.cloudfront.net (CloudFront) \n< X-Amz-Cf-Id: UAy76RQ23ZYFRXxVpysyAzg765cXgMIF16yeb8vec4LgJ9M_kBvgVQ== \n< X-Amz-Cf-Pop: ORD56-P7 \n< X-Cache: Error from cloudfront \n< \n18:11:10.883437 trace git-lfs: api error: Rate limit exceeded: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324.git/info/lfs/objects/batch \nError downloading object: model-00101-of-000163.safetensors (9976dae): Smudge error: Error downloading model-00101-of-000163.safetensors (9976dae2a44b4407a3a39dc69104ccce67001a307b1b49e966c9\n8ab246b371f2): batch response: Rate limit exceeded: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324.git/info/lfs/objects/batch \n \nErrors logged to '/mnt/deepseek/deepseek_model/DeepSeek-V3-0324/.git/lfs/logs/20250401T181110.883602204.log'. \nUse `git lfs logs last` to view the log. \nerror: external filter 'git-lfs filter-process' failed \nfatal: model-00101-of-000163.safetensors: smudge filter lfs failed \nwarning: Clone succeeded, but checkout failed. \nYou can inspect what was checked out with 'git status' \nand retry with 'git restore --source=HEAD :/'\n```\n\nFollowing 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)\n\n```\n>>> hf_hub_download(repo_id='deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324', filename ='model-00101-of-000163.safetensors') [4/833]\nTraceback (most recent call last): \n File \"/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_http.py\", line 409, in hf_raise_for_status\n response.raise_for_status() File \"/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/requests/models.py\", line 1024, in raise_for_status\n raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self) \nrequests.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\n\nThe above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:\n\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n File \"/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/file_download.py\", line 1484, in _get_metadata_or_catch_error\n metadata = get_hf_file_metadata(\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n File \"/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_validators.py\", line 114, in _inner_fn\n return fn(*args, **kwargs)\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n File \"/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/file_download.py\", line 1401, in get_hf_file_metadata\n r = _request_wrapper(\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n File \"/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/file_download.py\", line 285, in _request_wrapper\n response = _request_wrapper(\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n File \"/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/file_download.py\", line 309, in _request_wrapper\n hf_raise_for_status(response)\n File \"/mnt/deepseek/.venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/huggingface_hub/utils/_http.py\", line 482, in hf_raise_for_status\n raise _format(HfHubHTTPError, str(e), response) from e\nhuggingface_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\n\nThe above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:\n```\n\nThe bugs referred has been raised 21st November, so it seems the model at the moment is not accessible.\n\nInspecting the download rates - I can also notice in the download counter that the downloads in the month started to go in a rapid decline.\n\nI didn’t find a recent post on this issue.\n\nIs this a bug of some kind…? [@Wauplin](/u/wauplin) [@pierric](/u/pierric)\n\n[oomtig](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/oomtig)\n5\nJust to clean up and summarize experience:\n\nUsing git downloads more than 1T data, possibly leading to IP ban,\n\nUsing a custom cloud provider - the assigned IP address might be in the range of banned addresses, resulting in 429 rejection\n\nIt seems the best approach is a targeted download of the tensorfiles with huggingface_hub cli as indicated\n\nI can approve - this seems to work, if the rate limit has not been hit.\n\nHave you tried shutting off your vpn? Same happened to me then my dumb butt realized it was my vpn\n\nI 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.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/help-with-deepseek-v3-0324-model-download", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/help-with-deepseek-v3-0324-model-download/148254#post_7", "published_at": "2026-07-09 08:24:14+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-09 08:53:25.250007+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["DeepSeek", "Hugging Face", "DeepSeek-V3-0324"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/help-with-deepseek-v3-0324-model-download", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/help-with-deepseek-v3-0324-model-download.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/help-with-deepseek-v3-0324-model-download.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/help-with-deepseek-v3-0324-model-download.jsonld"}}