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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 Sep 17, 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
255.6M6Ksentence similarity
2
cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L6-v2
88.7M342text ranking
3
BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5
BAAI
64.5M583feature extraction
4
google/electra-base-discriminator
Google DeepMind
56.4M180—
5
google-bert/bert-base-uncased
47.6M3.4Kfill mask
6
sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2
45.7M1.4Ksentence similarity
7
BAAI/bge-m3
BAAI
38.1M3.6Ksentence similarity
8
google-t5/t5-small
25M632translation
9
sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2
23.2M1.4Ksentence similarity
10
amazon/chronos-2
22.3M480time series forecasting
11
Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B
Qwen · Alibaba
22.2M1.6Ktext generation
12
FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-base
21.9M922fill mask
13
openai/clip-vit-base-patch32
21.8M1.6Kzero shot image classification
14
Comfy-Org/MiniMax-H3
20M1.9K—
15
Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct
Qwen · Alibaba
18.8M1.1Kimage text to text
16
BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3
BAAI
17.8M1.2Ktext classification
17
timm/mobilenetv3_small_100.lamb_in1k
17.5M122image classification
18
jonatasgrosman/wav2vec2-large-xlsr-53-japanese
17.3M87automatic speech recognition
19
openai-community/gpt2
15.6M4.1Ktext generation
20
nomic-ai/nomic-embed-text-v1.5
15M935sentence similarity
21
Comfy-Org/stable-diffusion-v1-5-archive
14.9M161—
22
trl-internal-testing/tiny-Qwen2ForCausalLM-2.5
14.7M48text generation
23
Qwen/Qwen3-8B
Qwen · Alibaba
13.1M2Ktext generation
24
unsloth/Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-GGUF
12.8M1Ktext generation
25
timm/efficientnet_b3.ra2_in1k
12.7M29image classification

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