diff --git a/modules/interrogate.py b/modules/interrogate.py
index 9769aa347..1a9c758e3 100644
--- a/modules/interrogate.py
+++ b/modules/interrogate.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import modules.shared as shared
 from modules import devices, paths, lowvram
 
 blip_image_eval_size = 384
+blip_model_local = os.path.join('models', 'Interrogator', 'BLIP_model.pth')
 blip_model_url = 'https://storage.googleapis.com/sfr-vision-language-research/BLIP/models/model_base_caption_capfilt_large.pth'
 clip_model_name = 'ViT-L/14'
 
@@ -47,7 +48,13 @@ class InterrogateModels:
     def load_blip_model(self):
         import models.blip
 
-        blip_model = models.blip.blip_decoder(pretrained=blip_model_url, image_size=blip_image_eval_size, vit='base', med_config=os.path.join(paths.paths["BLIP"], "configs", "med_config.json"))
+        if not os.path.isfile(blip_model_local):
+            print("Downloading BLIP...")
+            import requests as req
+            open(blip_model_local, 'wb').write(req.get(blip_model_url, allow_redirects=True).content)
+            print("BLIP downloaded to", blip_model_local + '.')
+
+        blip_model = models.blip.blip_decoder(pretrained=blip_model_local, image_size=blip_image_eval_size, vit='base', med_config=os.path.join(paths.paths["BLIP"], "configs", "med_config.json"))
         blip_model.eval()
 
         return blip_model