{"slug": "is-there-an-response-length-limit-for-the-inference-api", "title": "Is there an response length limit for the inference API?", "summary": "Hugging Face's Inference API returns only 2-3 sentences per response regardless of the model used, according to a user report. The issue may be resolved by setting the `max_new_tokens` parameter higher, ensuring the model supports long-form generation, and checking the context window limits.", "body_md": "Hi, I am testing the Inference API with different models to rewrite texts. But no matter which model I choose, only about 2 - 3 sentences are returned as response. How can this be adjusted?\n\nA few things to check:\n\n-\nMake sure you’re setting `max_new_tokens`\n\n(or the equivalent generation parameter) high enough. The default value can be quite small.\n\n-\nVerify that the model you’re using supports long-form text generation.\n\n-\nCheck whether your input plus output exceeds the model’s context window.\n\n-\nIf you’re using the Inference API, inspect the full response to see if it indicates the generation stopped because it reached a token limit (`finish_reason`\n\nor similar).\n\nIf you can share the model name and your request payload, it will be easier to identify the cause.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/is-there-an-response-length-limit-for-the-inference-api", "canonical_source": "https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/is-there-an-response-length-limit-for-the-inference-api/79153#post_2", "published_at": "2026-08-04 10:24:58+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-04 10:38:50.741874+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Hugging Face", "Inference API"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/is-there-an-response-length-limit-for-the-inference-api", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/is-there-an-response-length-limit-for-the-inference-api.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/is-there-an-response-length-limit-for-the-inference-api.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/is-there-an-response-length-limit-for-the-inference-api.jsonld"}}