diff --git a/src/transformers/pipelines/__init__.py b/src/transformers/pipelines/__init__.py
index 8ee0137a20b3ff..e60035dd5732d6 100755
--- a/src/transformers/pipelines/__init__.py
+++ b/src/transformers/pipelines/__init__.py
@@ -782,6 +782,7 @@ def pipeline(
                 _raise_exceptions_for_gated_repo=False,
                 _raise_exceptions_for_missing_entries=False,
                 _raise_exceptions_for_connection_errors=False,
+                cache_dir=model_kwargs.get("cache_dir"),
                 **hub_kwargs,
             )
             hub_kwargs["_commit_hash"] = extract_commit_hash(resolved_config_file, commit_hash)