# Is it possible to run Roboflow model offline? **URL:** \ **Category:** 🤝 Community Help\ **Created:** [February 4, 2024, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/is-it-possible-to-run-roboflow-model-offline/4370 "2024-02-04T10:11:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![will99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19adc/32.png) [@will99](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/will99)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2024, 10:11am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/is-it-possible-to-run-roboflow-model-offline/4370/1 "2024-02-04T10:11:02Z")
I recently created a model on Roboflow, and I’m wondering if there’s a way to run or download it without using the API. I’d like to have more flexibility with the model and explore different options. Does anyone have experience with this? 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Lenny](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/lenny/32/2383_2.png) [@Lenny](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/Lenny)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2024, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/is-it-possible-to-run-roboflow-model-offline/4370/2 "2024-02-04T10:12:52Z")
> ℹ **Update (September 2026):** Model weights download is now available on every plan, including the Free Tier, through the [Roboflow Inference](https://inference.roboflow.com) package or the Python SDK. See [Download Roboflow Model Weights](https://docs.roboflow.com/models/model-weights/download-roboflow-model-weights). Self-hosting with Roboflow Inference is also free and doesn’t consume credits. Commercial self-hosting of some models (for example Ultralytics YOLO and RF-DETR 2XL) needs an Enterprise license add-on, see [roboflow.com/licensing](https://roboflow.com/licensing). * * * _Original answer (February 2024):_ Based on the information available, it seems that Roboflow does not offer the ability to directly download the model weights from Roboflow Universe. However, you can use their API or their open-source inference server to use your model. Instructions on how to use the API can be found on the Model page on Roboflow’s website [source](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/3934). If you’re looking to use the model in a Python project in Visual Studio, you can download one of the notebooks from [models.roboflow.com](https://models.roboflow.com) as a .py file. You can then run model training in Visual Studio after downloading your images with Roboflow’s [Python package](https://docs.roboflow.com/python) [source](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/446). If you’re looking to run the model on a Raspberry Pi, Roboflow has a page in their documentation on how to run inference using a Roboflow model on a Raspberry Pi [source](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/3082). Please note that these methods require an internet connection. If you’re looking to use Roboflow for custom detection in an offline environment, the information available does not provide a solution for this [source](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/3286). * * * > Hi! I’m Roboflow’s AI powered bot. This is an automated response powered using AI with knowledge from our docs, blog, and forum. If this solves your issue, please mark it as the solution using the checkbox icon. **If this doesn’t solve your issue, please follow up with what you’ve tried/why, and the community will continue to chime in as usual.** ---
**Author:** ![trevorhlynn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discuss.roboflow.com/trevorhlynn/32/1690_2.png) [@trevorhlynn](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/trevorhlynn)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/is-it-possible-to-run-roboflow-model-offline/4370/3 "2024-02-04T21:16:06Z")
Hello - as Lenny mentioned, you can export the dataset to train using one of our open source notebooks [GitHub - roboflow/notebooks: Examples and tutorials on using SOTA computer vision models and techniques. Learn everything from old-school ResNet, through YOLO and object-detection transformers like DETR, to the latest models like Grounding DINO and SAM.](https://github.com/roboflow/notebooks) Also, you can use Inference ([GitHub - roboflow/inference: A fast, easy-to-use, production-ready inference server for computer vision supporting deployment of many popular model architectures and fine-tuned models.](https://github.com/roboflow/inference)) to deploy to many different devices. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/roboflow1/original/1X/bb6edbfa56d0cf2ee603f061e9e09103502cc8cc.png) [@system](https://discuss.roboflow.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2024, 9:16pm UTC](https://discuss.roboflow.com/t/is-it-possible-to-run-roboflow-model-offline/4370/4 "2024-02-11T21:16:30Z")
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