# Uploading Model Artifacts

Before uploading your model artifact into Fiddler, you need to add the model using [model.create](/developers/client-library-reference/model-onboarding/create-a-project-and-model.md) function as well as [create a baseline for it](/developers/client-library-reference/publishing-production-data/creating-a-baseline-dataset.md).

Once you have prepared the [model artifact directory](/observability/explainability/artifacts-and-surrogates.md), you can upload your model.

**Upload the artifact**

```python

job = model.add_artifact(
    model_dir=MODEL_ARTIFACTS_DIR,
)
job.wait()
```


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