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Is Hugging Face blocked in China?

Voidly verdict: Blocked

Yes — Hugging Face is currently blocked in China at the network level, based on Voidly's live measurements.

reachability: 3%evidence: 40domain: huggingface.co

The situation

Hugging Face reachability from mainland China is frequently unreliable, which disrupts model and dataset downloads for developers and CI pipelines.

How to read this verdict

A "blocked" or "partial" verdict reflects measured reachability at the network layer — the practical impact is failed or slow Hub downloads.

Voidly measures network reachability only — whether the service loads from inside the country. That is distinct from a provider declining sign-ups in a region (a policy layer we do not conflate with network blocking).

What people do about it

  • Domestic model mirrors are widely used in China.
  • A VPN to a supported region for the Hub API.
This page draws from Voidly's live AI-reachability data.
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Measured by Voidly's global probe network, cross-referenced with OONI, Censored Planet, and IODA. Network reachability only; verdicts update continuously. CC BY 4.0.