Service / country evidence
Is Hugging Face blocked
in Iran?
The source result for huggingface.co. Network evidence and provider restrictions stay separate.
Selected domain / Iran
HuggingFace
huggingface.co
Raw reachability score
A responding domain or CDN edge does not prove signup, API access, model inference or availability for every user.
- Source evidence count
- Unavailable
- Reported method(s)
- Not supplied
- Provider restriction flag
- Not supplied
- Read checked
- 2026-09-16T00:05:44.317Z
- Response generated
- Not reported
- Last observation
- Not reported
Source state and exact JSON
Response generation and cache time do not establish when a domain was last measured.
- stale / stale_known
- not reported / not reported
- Cache / partial
- not reported / not reported
- Invalid or duplicate entries omitted
- 0
Confidence, original provider reference and raw fields
Source confidence: Not supplied. The implementation derives this heuristic from record count and stored evidence confidence. It is not a calibrated probability of censorship, and it is never calculated as 1 minus reachability here.
The original site's provider list does not flag this pair. That list has no per-entry date or policy citation. It does not override this source read or establish current account eligibility. Check the provider’s current product information ↗
Read this result carefully.
A classified network signal describes the retrieved source sample. It is not a guarantee for every ISP, account or app feature. A provider restriction can coexist with a responding domain; a source policy flag does not prove government blocking.
The source combines retained evidence with seven-day probe records. Its response time is not the latest observation date. Unknown, unavailable, zero and partial results remain distinct. Source confidence is a heuristic, not a calibrated probability.
The original context.
The complete, distinct editorial text from this guide is preserved below. It is undated source commentary, not a fresh verification of provider policy, cause, reliability or account eligibility.
The situation
Hugging Face hosts models, datasets and inference — core developer infrastructure. Sanctions and filtering both bite here, which is why developers in Iran frequently report broken downloads.
How the original guide reads a verdict
A "blocked" verdict reflects measured network unreachability. For a developer platform, that breaks model and dataset downloads outright, not just the website.
The source may overlay a vendor policy onto its status. A low domain score or a method label alone does not prove the cause claimed in historical commentary. Use the explicit source fields above.
Alternatives described in the original guide
- Mirrors / proxies for model + dataset downloads.
- A VPN to a supported region for the web UI and Hub API.
These are preserved descriptions, not new guarantees of reliable access. Network reachability does not remove provider eligibility or account restrictions.
Source-led citation
Keep the context.
Cite the canonical guide, exact domain and country, source response and access date. Missing observation dates remain missing. Voidly-original research is CC BY 4.0; upstream measurements retain their own terms.