---
layout: default
title: Get model
parent: Model APIs
grand_parent: ML Commons APIs
nav_order: 30
---

# Get a model

You can retrieve model information using the `model_id`.

For information about user access for this API, see [Model access control considerations]({{site.url}}{{site.baseurl}}/ml-commons-plugin/api/model-apis/index/#model-access-control-considerations).

## Path and HTTP methods

```json
GET /_plugins/_ml/models/<model_id>
```

## Path parameters

The following table lists the available path parameters. 

| Parameter | Data type | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| `model_id` | String | The model ID of the model to retrieve. |

#### Example request

```json
GET /_plugins/_ml/models/N8AE1osB0jLkkocYjz7D
```
{% include copy-curl.html %}

#### Example response

```json
{
  "name" : "all-MiniLM-L6-v2_onnx",
  "algorithm" : "TEXT_EMBEDDING",
  "version" : "1",
  "model_format" : "TORCH_SCRIPT",
  "model_state" : "LOADED",
  "model_content_size_in_bytes" : 83408741,
  "model_content_hash_value" : "9376c2ebd7c83f99ec2526323786c348d2382e6d86576f750c89ea544d6bbb14",
  "model_config" : {
      "model_type" : "bert",
      "embedding_dimension" : 384,
      "framework_type" : "SENTENCE_TRANSFORMERS",
      "all_config" : """{"_name_or_path":"nreimers/MiniLM-L6-H384-uncased","architectures":["BertModel"],"attention_probs_dropout_prob":0.1,"gradient_checkpointing":false,"hidden_act":"gelu","hidden_dropout_prob":0.1,"hidden_size":384,"initializer_range":0.02,"intermediate_size":1536,"layer_norm_eps":1e-12,"max_position_embeddings":512,"model_type":"bert","num_attention_heads":12,"num_hidden_layers":6,"pad_token_id":0,"position_embedding_type":"absolute","transformers_version":"4.8.2","type_vocab_size":2,"use_cache":true,"vocab_size":30522}"""
  },
  "created_time" : 1665961344044,
  "last_uploaded_time" : 1665961373000,
  "last_loaded_time" : 1665961815959,
  "total_chunks" : 9
}
```