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Leaderboards

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

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LLM Intelligence

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

Intelligence
1GLM-5.3Zhipu AI
44.9
58 t/s$2.15/M blended
2Kimi K3Moonshot AI
43.8
38 t/s$6/M blended
3GLM 5.3 FlashZhipu AI
41.9
109 t/s$0.24/M blended
4Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BQwen · Alibaba
40.0
39 t/s$3/M blended
5Qwen3.8-Flash-NextQwen · Alibaba
39.9
57 t/s$0.23/M blended
6DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeepSeek
39.5
221 t/s$0.53/M blended
7DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek
36.3
80 t/s$1.98/M blended
8DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 VisionDeepSeek
35.0
223 t/s$0.66/M blended

Best value · intelligence vs. price

How much capability each open model delivers per dollar. Models on the frontier (top-left) lead on value.

203345$0.2$0.5$1$2$5Price — $/M tokens (log scale)Intelligence →GLM-5.3GLM 5.3 FlashQwen3.8-Flash-Next

Every board

LLM Intelligence

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

#ModelIntelligence
1
GLM-5.3
Zhipu AI
44.9
2
Kimi K3
Moonshot AI
43.8
3
GLM 5.3 Flash
Zhipu AI
41.9
4
Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B
Qwen · Alibaba
40.0
5
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Qwen · Alibaba
39.9
Artificial Analysis · Sep 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
FLUX.2 [dev]
Black Forest Labs
1,000
2
FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo
Fal
999
3
HiDream-O1-Image
HiDream
978
4
HunyuanImage 3.0 Instruct
Tencent
966
5
HunyuanImage 3.0
Tencent
945
Artificial Analysis Arena · Sep 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
1,027
2
FLUX.2 [klein] 9B
Black Forest Labs
1,014
3
FLUX.2 [dev]
Black Forest Labs
1,000
4
FLUX.2 [dev] Turbo
Fal
998
5
FLUX.2 [klein] Base 9B
Black Forest Labs
973
Artificial Analysis Arena · Sep 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-2.5 Fast
Lightricks
1,217
2
LTX-2 Fast
Lightricks
1,125
3
LTX-2.3 Fast
Lightricks
1,121
4
Wan 2.2 A14B
Qwen · Alibaba
1,116
5
HunyuanVideo-1.5
Tencent
1,020
Artificial Analysis Arena · Sep 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-2.5 Fast
Lightricks
1,214
2
LTX-2 Fast
Lightricks
1,189
3
LTX-2.3 Fast
Lightricks
1,147
4
HunyuanVideo-1.5
Tencent
1,133
5
Wan 2.2 A14B
Qwen · Alibaba
1,105
Artificial Analysis Arena · Sep 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
Falcon 2
Murf AI
1,155
2
Kokoro 82M v1.0
Kokoro
1,060
3
Maya1
Maya Research
1,040
4
Higgs Audio V3 TTS
Boson AI
1,037
5
Chatterbox
Resemble AI
1,019
Artificial Analysis Arena · Sep 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
255.6M
2
cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L6-v2
88.7M
3
BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5
BAAI
64.5M
4
google/electra-base-discriminator
Google DeepMind
56.4M
5
google-bert/bert-base-uncased
47.6M
Hugging Face Hub · Sep 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
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
Qwen · Alibaba
15.5K
2
black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev
Black Forest Labs
14.8K
3
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
14.3K
4
moonshotai/Kimi-K3
Moonshot AI
11.4K
5
stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0
Stability AI
8.2K
Hugging Face Hub · Sep 17, 2026Full board