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:
- Git over HTTPS:
- Direct download attempts result in “Rate limit exceeded” errors
- Hugging Face CLI:
- Created and provided a token with write permissions
- Error 429 (Too Many Requests) for the
/whoamiendpoint - Set HF_TOKEN environment variable
- Git over SSH:
- Set up SSH authentication
- Still receiving rate limit errors when pulling LFS objects
- Curl request:
- Returns 429 page
Specific error messages:
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)
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
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.