---
title: "Create a repository"
description: "Create a Model Repository with a name, a model type, and a new EOS bucket that TIR creates for the model files."
content_type: "how-to"
product: "model-repository"
platform: "TIR"
url: "/tir/model-repository/how-to/create-a-repository/"
topic: ["create-and-connect"]
---

# Create a repository

Create a repository to hold the files of a model. TIR creates the bucket behind it and its access keys. The repository grows with its files as you add them.

## Before you begin

- A TIR project in Delhi or Chennai. A repository belongs to one project and one region, and the portal creates it in the region you are working in.
- Permission to create model repositories in the project. A Member gets it through a policy that allows creating for the Inference service.

## Fill in the form

1. In TIR, open your project. In the side menu, under **Inference**, select **Model Repository**, then select **Create Repository**. The **Create Model Repository** form opens.
2. Check **Repository Name**. It starts with a suggestion, `tir-model-` followed by the date and time, and you can type your own. A name has up to 50 characters. It starts with a lowercase letter, ends with a letter or a number, and has only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens. It must be new in the project and region. You set a repository's name once, so choose one you want to keep.
3. Choose a **Model Type**. Pick **PyTorch** for PyTorch models (`.pth`, `.pt`) and Hugging Face models, **Triton** for Triton Inference Server model repositories, and **Custom** for other formats. For a TensorFlow model, choose any type, because a repository takes any file.
4. Choose a **Storage Type**. **New EOS Bucket** is the default. Keep it when you are starting fresh, because TIR then creates the bucket and its keys. To reuse a bucket you already have, or one that another account owns, see [Use an existing or external bucket](/tir/model-repository/how-to/use-an-existing-or-external-bucket/).
5. Select **Create**.

If the create is refused, the form shows the reason. See [Troubleshooting Model Repository](/tir/model-repository/troubleshooting/model-repository/).

## Check the repository

The repository is ready at once. **Next Steps** shows how to upload files to it with the SDK, from a TIR notebook, or with a command-line tool. Close it, or select **Go to File Browser**, to return to the list, where the new repository is selected.

**Bucket Name** on the **Overview** tab is the bucket TIR created. TIR creates the repository in the region you are working in, Delhi or Chennai. There is no encryption choice when you create a repository.

Then [upload model files](/tir/model-repository/how-to/upload-model-files/) or [find the repository's access keys and endpoint](/tir/model-repository/how-to/find-the-keys-and-endpoint-of-a-repository/). For rates, see [E2E's pricing page](https://www.e2enetworks.com/pricing).