diff --git a/nodes/nodes.py b/nodes/nodes.py
index 78e7c13..3afb26c 100644
--- a/nodes/nodes.py
+++ b/nodes/nodes.py
@@ -1332,6 +1332,12 @@ https://huggingface.co/roborovski/superprompt-v1
         from transformers import T5Tokenizer, T5ForConditionalGeneration
 
         checkpoint_path = os.path.join(script_directory, "models","superprompt-v1")
+        if not os.path.exists(checkpoint_path):
+                print(f"Downloading model to: {checkpoint_path}")
+                from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
+                snapshot_download(repo_id="roborovski/superprompt-v1", 
+                                  local_dir=checkpoint_path, 
+                                  local_dir_use_symlinks=False)
         tokenizer = T5Tokenizer.from_pretrained("google/flan-t5-small", legacy=False)
 
         model = T5ForConditionalGeneration.from_pretrained(checkpoint_path, device_map=device)