diff --git a/samples/snippets/model_test.py b/samples/snippets/model_test.py
index 7f915c5d..0d37a85c 100644
--- a/samples/snippets/model_test.py
+++ b/samples/snippets/model_test.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 import os
 
 from google.cloud import automl_v1beta1 as automl
+import pytest
 
 import automl_translation_model
 
@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@
 compute_region = "us-central1"
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="creates too many models")
 def test_model_create_status_delete(capsys):
     # create model
     client = automl.AutoMlClient()