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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 Sep 17, 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
15.5K7.5Mimage text to text
2
black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev
Black Forest Labs
14.8K798.3Ktext to image
3
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
14.3K741Ktext generation
4
moonshotai/Kimi-K3
Moonshot AI
11.4K2.2Mimage text to text
5
stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0
Stability AI
8.2K2.8Mtext to image
6
meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Meta AI
7.7K5.9Mtext generation
7
CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4
7.1K645.3Ktext to image
8
hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
6.9K11.7Mtext to speech
9
meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B
Meta AI
6.7K304Ktext generation
10
openai/whisper-large-v3
6.3K4.8Mautomatic speech recognition
11
sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
6K255.6Msentence similarity
12
black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell
Black Forest Labs
5.9K706.9Ktext to image
13
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro
DeepSeek
5.6K593.5Ktext generation
14
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3
MiniMax
5.4K4.6Mimage text to video
15
Qwen/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Qwen · Alibaba
5.3K706.1Kimage text to text
16
Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo
Qwen · Alibaba
5.3K674.1Ktext to image
17
openai/gpt-oss-120b
OpenAI
5.3K5.2Mtext generation
18
zai-org/GLM-5.2
Zhipu AI
5.1K988.5Ktext generation
19
bigscience/bloom
5.1K14.8Ktext generation
20
openai/gpt-oss-20b
5.1K6.7Mtext generation
21
stabilityai/stable-diffusion-3-medium
Stability AI
5K4.2Ktext to image
22
meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
Meta AI
5K1.2Mtext generation
23
meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf
Meta AI
4.9K422.1Ktext generation
24
mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1
Mistral AI
4.8K217.1K—
25
meta-llama/Llama-2-7b
Meta AI
4.6K94text generation

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