diff --git a/libs/langchain/langchain/embeddings/huggingface.py b/libs/langchain/langchain/embeddings/huggingface.py
index 823e1902a3c..a835da8775b 100644
--- a/libs/langchain/langchain/embeddings/huggingface.py
+++ b/libs/langchain/langchain/embeddings/huggingface.py
@@ -279,9 +279,15 @@ class HuggingFaceInferenceAPIEmbeddings(BaseModel, Embeddings):
     """Your API key for the HuggingFace Inference API."""
     model_name: str = "sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2"
     """The name of the model to use for text embeddings."""
+    api_url: Optional[str] = None
+    """Custom inference endpoint url. None for using default public url."""
 
     @property
     def _api_url(self) -> str:
+        return self.api_url or self._default_api_url
+
+    @property
+    def _default_api_url(self) -> str:
         return (
             "https://api-inference.huggingface.co"
             "/pipeline"