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Benchmarks

Leaderboards

How open-weight models stack up — across reasoning, code, vision, and image generation. Cached from public sources and refreshed every 12 hours.

LLM Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index — a blended measure of reasoning, knowledge, and coding across open-weight and proprietary language models.

#ModelIntelligence
1
GLM-5.2
Z AI
50.7
2
DeepSeek V4 Pro
DeepSeek
44.3
3
Kimi K2.6
Kimi
42.8
4
Kimi K2.7 Code
Kimi
41.9
5
DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek
40.3
Artificial Analysis · Jun 17, 2026Full board

Text-to-Image

Human-preference Elo for text-to-image models from the Artificial Analysis Arena — open-weight and proprietary, ranked head-to-head.

#ModelElo
1
HiDream-O1-Image-Dev-2604
HiDream
1,189
2
ERNIE Image
Baidu
1,168
3
ERNIE Image Turbo
Baidu
1,160
4
FLUX.2 [dev]
Black Forest Labs
1,159
5
FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo
Fal
1,156
Artificial Analysis Arena · Jun 17, 2026Full board

Image Editing

Human-preference Elo for instruction-based image editing models, ranked head-to-head in the Artificial Analysis Arena.

#ModelElo
1
HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct
Tencent
1,230
2
HiDream-O1-Image
HiDream
1,210
3
FLUX.2 [klein] 9B
Black Forest Labs
1,168
4
FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo
Fal
1,157
5
HiDream-O1-Image-Dev
HiDream
1,150
Artificial Analysis Arena · Jun 17, 2026Full board

Text-to-Video

Human-preference Elo for text-to-video models from the Artificial Analysis Arena — the fastest-moving open-vs-proprietary race in generative AI.

#ModelElo
1
LTX-2.3 Fast
Lightricks
1,130
2
LTX-2 Fast
Lightricks
1,128
3
Wan 2.2 A14B
Qwen · Alibaba
1,116
4
HunyuanVideo-1.5
Tencent
1,027
5
Wan 2.1 14B
Qwen · Alibaba
1,021
Artificial Analysis Arena · Jun 17, 2026Full board

Image-to-Video

Human-preference Elo for image-to-video models, ranked head-to-head in the Artificial Analysis Arena.

#ModelElo
1
LTX-2 Fast
Lightricks
1,179
2
LTX-2.3 Fast
Lightricks
1,161
3
HunyuanVideo-1.5
Tencent
1,122
4
Wan 2.2 A14B
Qwen · Alibaba
1,107
5
LTX Video v0.9.7 13B
Lightricks
1,040
Artificial Analysis Arena · Jun 17, 2026Full board

Text-to-Speech

Human-preference Elo for text-to-speech models from the Artificial Analysis Arena — open-weight and proprietary voices, ranked head-to-head.

#ModelElo
1
Kokoro 82M v1.0
Kokoro
1,067
2
Maya1
Maya Research
1,057
3
Fish Speech 1.5
Fish Audio
1,013
4
Chatterbox
Resemble AI
1,006
5
Zonos-v0.1
Zyphra
1,000
Artificial Analysis Arena · Jun 17, 2026Full board

Open LLM

Aggregate of contamination-resistant benchmarks — IFEval, BBH, MATH, GPQA, MUSR, MMLU-Pro — for open-weight language models. The final snapshot of Hugging Face's Open LLM Leaderboard.

#ModelAvg.
1
MaziyarPanahi/calme-3.2-instruct-78b
52.1
2
MaziyarPanahi/calme-3.1-instruct-78b
51.3
3
dfurman/CalmeRys-78B-Orpo-v0.1
51.2
4
MaziyarPanahi/calme-2.4-rys-78b
50.8
5
huihui-ai/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct-abliterated
48.1
Open LLM Leaderboard · Jun 17, 2026Full board

Most Downloaded

The most-downloaded open-weight models on Hugging Face over the last 30 days — the community's working set, straight from the Hub and refreshed every 12 hours.

#ModelDownloads
1
sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
185.4M
2
cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L6-v2
58.3M
3
google-bert/bert-base-uncased
45.3M
4
BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5
44.3M
5
sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2
37.2M
Hugging Face Hub · Jun 17, 2026Full board

Community Favorites

The most-liked open-weight models on Hugging Face — a durable signal of community esteem spanning every modality, refreshed every 12 hours.

#ModelLikes
1
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
13.4K
2
black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev
Black Forest Labs
13.2K
3
stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0
Stability AI
7.8K
4
CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4
7K
5
meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B
Meta AI
6.6K
Hugging Face Hub · Jun 17, 2026Full board