diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9b3e9de56..2c76281dd 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-## 0.4.9-dev0
+## 0.4.9-dev1
 
 * Added ingest modules and s3 connector
+* Default to `url=None` for `partition_pdf` and `partition_image`
 
 ## 0.4.8
 
diff --git a/docs/source/bricks.rst b/docs/source/bricks.rst
index 80b8dd21b..0f244434c 100644
--- a/docs/source/bricks.rst
+++ b/docs/source/bricks.rst
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Examples:
   from unstructured.partition.pdf import partition_pdf
 
   # Returns a List[Element] present in the pages of the parsed pdf document
-  elements = partition_pdf("example-docs/layout-parser-paper-fast.pdf", url=None)
+  elements = partition_pdf("example-docs/layout-parser-paper-fast.pdf")
 
 
 ``partition_image``
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Examples:
   from unstructured.partition.image import partition_image
 
   # Returns a List[Element] present in the pages of the parsed image document
-  elements = partition_image("example-docs/layout-parser-paper-fast.jpg", url=None)
+  elements = partition_image("example-docs/layout-parser-paper-fast.jpg")
 
 
 
diff --git a/unstructured/__version__.py b/unstructured/__version__.py
index cf8927f93..65f235f32 100644
--- a/unstructured/__version__.py
+++ b/unstructured/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.4.9-dev0"  # pragma: no cover
+__version__ = "0.4.9-dev1"  # pragma: no cover
diff --git a/unstructured/partition/image.py b/unstructured/partition/image.py
index ffa218a0a..24a40975d 100644
--- a/unstructured/partition/image.py
+++ b/unstructured/partition/image.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ from unstructured.partition.pdf import partition_pdf_or_image
 def partition_image(
     filename: str = "",
     file: Optional[bytes] = None,
-    url: Optional[str] = "https://ml.unstructured.io/",
+    url: Optional[str] = None,
     template: Optional[str] = None,
     token: Optional[str] = None,
     include_page_breaks: bool = False,
diff --git a/unstructured/partition/pdf.py b/unstructured/partition/pdf.py
index 2bd8cd4d4..e62006453 100644
--- a/unstructured/partition/pdf.py
+++ b/unstructured/partition/pdf.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from unstructured.partition.common import normalize_layout_element, document_to_
 def partition_pdf(
     filename: str = "",
     file: Optional[bytes] = None,
-    url: Optional[str] = "https://ml.unstructured.io/",
+    url: Optional[str] = None,
     template: Optional[str] = None,
     token: Optional[str] = None,
     include_page_breaks: bool = False,