Private HuggingFace Models

In order to deploy a Parasail dedicated endpoint for a private model from HuggingFace, you need to follow these steps:

• Make your model private in HuggingFace.

  • Go to the settings page of your model.

  • At the top of the page, click on the button Make private.

  • After the model becomes private, you should see the following:

• Create a HuggingFace access token with finegrained permissions that only allows access to your private model.

• On the Access Tokens page, click on the button Create new token.

  • Leave token type as Fine-grained and write a name for your access token.

  • Scroll down to the section Repositories permissions.

  • In the textbox Search for repos, type the name of your model (for example meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1 B).

  • Leave the permission to be Read access to contents of selected repos.

  • Click on the button Create token at the bottom of the page.

  • Copy the access token that is generated.

• Create a dedicated deployment in Parasail.

  • Click on the button Create Dedicated Model on the Parasail dashboard.

  • Copy your model name (for example meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1 B) into the textbox HuggingFace ID / URL

  • Copy your access token to the textbox HuggingFace Token.

  • Click on the button Deploy.