# Hello, when I try to work with the API, I get this error

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/hello-when-i-try-to-work-with-the-api-i-get-this-error/137662>\
**Category:** 🤗Hub\
**Created:** [January 28, 2025, 4:52am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/hello-when-i-try-to-work-with-the-api-i-get-this-error/137662 "2025-01-28T04:52:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![qwdqwdqeqeqewq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/cc9497/32.png) [@qwdqwdqeqeqewq](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/qwdqwdqeqeqewq)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 4:52am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/hello-when-i-try-to-work-with-the-api-i-get-this-error/137662/1 "2025-01-28T04:52:40Z")

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429 Client Error: Too Many Requests for url: [https://api-inference.huggingface.co/models/Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct/v1/chat/completions](https://api-inference.huggingface.co/models/Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct/v1/chat/completions) (Request ID: ek\_Dca)

Model is overloaded

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**Author:** ![John6666](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/john6666/32/27664_2.png) [@John6666](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/John6666)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2025, 7:41am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/hello-when-i-try-to-work-with-the-api-i-get-this-error/137662/2 "2025-01-28T07:41:18Z")

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I think it’s a problem on the HF server side. There’s nothing we can do but wait…

 ![429](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/original/3X/8/8/8802b24f90374e5f4b10efc8700f349500d97a0c.png)