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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.

Source: Hugging Face Hub · Updated Aug 3, 2026 · 25 models
LLM IntelligenceText-to-ImageImage EditingText-to-VideoImage-to-VideoText-to-SpeechOpen LLMMost DownloadedCommunity Favorites
#ModelDownloadsLikesTask
1
sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
257.6M5.2Ksentence similarity
2
google-bert/bert-base-uncased
114.9M2.7Kfill mask
3
cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L6-v2
89.1M293text ranking
4
BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5
BAAI
72.5M520feature extraction
5
sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2
60M1.3Ksentence similarity
6
google/electra-base-discriminator
Google DeepMind
55.8M148—
7
lpiccinelli/unidepth-v2-vitl14
36.2M47—
8
BAAI/bge-m3
BAAI
35.2M3.3Ksentence similarity
9
Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B
Qwen · Alibaba
29M1.5Ktext generation
10
amazon/chronos-2
28.4M388time series forecasting
11
sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2
25.8M1.3Ksentence similarity
12
google-t5/t5-small
25.3M588translation
13
openai/clip-vit-base-patch32
22.9M992zero shot image classification
14
FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-base
21.3M877fill mask
15
BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3
BAAI
19.2M1.1Ktext classification
16
timm/mobilenetv3_small_100.lamb_in1k
18.5M99image classification
17
facebook/opt-125m
17.9M286text generation
18
Qwen/Qwen3-8B
Qwen · Alibaba
15.9M1.3Ktext generation
19
intfloat/multilingual-e5-small
15.6M378sentence similarity
20
nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5
15.5M883sentence similarity
21
trl-internal-testing/tiny-Qwen2ForCausalLM-2.5
15.4M18text generation
22
Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct
Qwen · Alibaba
14M788text generation
23
autogluon/chronos-bolt-small
13.7M58time series forecasting
24
openai-community/gpt2
13.6M3.4Ktext generation
25
BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5
BAAI
13.4M707feature extraction

Leaderboard data is cached from Hugging Face Hub and refreshed every 12 hours. Scores shown are for reference; see the source for full methodology.