diff --git a/sci-ml/transformers/transformers-5.14.1-r1.ebuild b/sci-ml/transformers/transformers-5.14.1-r1.ebuild
index 95bb002ed5115..0aeeb4a2b8444 100644
--- a/sci-ml/transformers/transformers-5.14.1-r1.ebuild
+++ b/sci-ml/transformers/transformers-5.14.1-r1.ebuild
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64"
 IUSE="test torch"
+RESTRICT="test" # Need network to download models parameters
 
 RDEPEND="
 	>=sci-ml/huggingface_hub-1.5.0[${PYTHON_SINGLE_USEDEP}]