diff --git a/modelscope/hub/api.py b/modelscope/hub/api.py
index 747cf242..3c26dff5 100644
--- a/modelscope/hub/api.py
+++ b/modelscope/hub/api.py
@@ -742,13 +742,14 @@ class HubApi:
 
         Args:
             repo_id (`str`): The repo id to use
-            filename (`str`): The queried filename
+            filename (`str`): The queried filename, if the file exists in a sub folder,
+                please pass <sub-folder-name>/<file-name>
             revision (`Optional[str]`): The repo revision
         Returns:
             The query result in bool value
         """
-        files = self.get_model_files(repo_id, revision=revision)
-        files = [file['Name'] for file in files]
+        files = self.get_model_files(repo_id, recursive=True, revision=revision)
+        files = [file['Path'] for file in files]
         return filename in files
 
     def create_dataset(self,
diff --git a/tests/hub/test_file_exists.py b/tests/hub/test_file_exists.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6f21a02a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/hub/test_file_exists.py
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Copyright (c) Alibaba, Inc. and its affiliates.
+import os
+import shutil
+import tempfile
+import unittest
+import uuid
+from os.path import expanduser
+
+from requests import delete
+
+from modelscope.hub.api import HubApi
+from modelscope.hub.constants import Licenses, ModelVisibility
+from modelscope.hub.errors import NotExistError
+from modelscope.hub.file_download import model_file_download
+from modelscope.hub.git import GitCommandWrapper
+from modelscope.hub.repository import Repository
+from modelscope.utils.constant import ModelFile
+from modelscope.utils.logger import get_logger
+from modelscope.utils.test_utils import (TEST_ACCESS_TOKEN1,
+                                         TEST_MODEL_CHINESE_NAME,
+                                         TEST_MODEL_ORG, delete_credential)
+
+logger = get_logger()
+logger.setLevel('DEBUG')
+DEFAULT_GIT_PATH = 'git'
+download_model_file_name = 'test.bin'
+
+
+class FileExistsTest(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_file_exsists(self):
+        api = HubApi()
+        self.assertTrue(
+            api.file_exists('iic/gte_Qwen2-7B-instruct', 'added_tokens.json'))
+        self.assertTrue(
+            api.file_exists('iic/gte_Qwen2-7B-instruct',
+                            '1_Pooling/config.json'))
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()