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Community Favorites

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

Source: Hugging Face Hub · Updated Nov 2, 2026 · 25 models
LLM IntelligenceText-to-ImageImage EditingText-to-VideoImage-to-VideoText-to-SpeechOpen LLMMost DownloadedCommunity Favorites
#ModelLikesDownloadsTask
1
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
Qwen · Alibaba
18.9K7.9Mimage text to text
2
black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev
Black Forest Labs
15.9K558.3Ktext to image
3
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
14.4K1.7Mtext generation
4
moonshotai/Kimi-K3
Moonshot AI
11.9K813.1Kimage text to text
5
Lightricks/LTX-2.5
10.2K2.4Mimage to video
6
meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Meta AI
8.7K4.5Mtext generation
7
stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0
Stability AI
8.4K4.5Mtext to image
8
hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
7.3K11.2Mtext to speech
9
CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4
7.1K466.2Ktext to image
10
meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B
Meta AI
6.8K134Ktext generation
11
openai/whisper-large-v3
6.7K3.5Mautomatic speech recognition
12
Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Qwen · Alibaba
6.7K4Mimage text to text
13
black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell
Black Forest Labs
6.5K357.5Ktext to image
14
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3
MiniMax
6.5K5.9Mimage text to video
15
sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
6.1K183.8Msentence similarity
16
convaiinnovations/laya
Convaiinnovations
5.9K61Ktext classification
17
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro
DeepSeek
5.7K367.5Ktext generation
18
meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
Meta AI
5.7K318.7Ktext generation
19
facebook/sam3
Meta AI
5.6K1.9Mmask generation
20
Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo
Qwen · Alibaba
5.5K747.7Ktext to image
21
openai/gpt-oss-120b
OpenAI
5.5K2.5Mtext generation
22
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized
5.5K2.5Mtext to image
23
unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF
5.5K6.3M—
24
openai/gpt-oss-20b
5.3K6Mtext generation
25
zai-org/GLM-5.2
Zhipu AI
5.2K263.3Ktext generation

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