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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 Jun 17, 2026 · 25 models
LLM IntelligenceText-to-ImageImage EditingText-to-VideoImage-to-VideoText-to-SpeechOpen LLMMost DownloadedCommunity Favorites
#ModelLikesDownloadsTask
1
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
DeepSeek
13.4K5.1Mtext generation
2
black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-dev
Black Forest Labs
13.2K712.2Ktext to image
3
stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0
Stability AI
7.8K1.1Mtext to image
4
CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4
7K317.7Ktext to image
5
meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B
Meta AI
6.6K987Ktext generation
6
hexgrad/Kokoro-82M
6.3K13.6Mtext to speech
7
meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
Meta AI
6.1K6.9Mtext generation
8
openai/whisper-large-v3
5.8K4.6Mautomatic speech recognition
9
black-forest-labs/FLUX.1-schnell
Black Forest Labs
5.1K221.4Ktext to image
10
bigscience/bloom
5K4.2Ktext generation
11
stabilityai/stable-diffusion-3-medium
Stability AI
5K2.4Ktext to image
12
sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2
5K185.4Msentence similarity
13
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro
DeepSeek
4.9K2.8Mtext generation
14
openai/gpt-oss-120b
OpenAI
4.9K3.2Mtext generation
15
Tongyi-MAI/Z-Image-Turbo
4.8K699.1Ktext to image
16
meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf
Meta AI
4.8K199.4Ktext generation
17
openai/gpt-oss-20b
4.7K5.2Mtext generation
18
mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1
Mistral AI
4.7K715.2K—
19
meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
Meta AI
4.6K1.1Mtext generation
20
meta-llama/Llama-2-7b
Meta AI
4.5K112text generation
21
mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1
Mistral AI
4.1K569.6Ktext generation
22
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3
DeepSeek
4.1K770.3Ktext generation
23
lllyasviel/ControlNet-v1-1
4.1K0—
24
WarriorMama777/OrangeMixs
3.9K1.3Ktext to image
25
lllyasviel/ControlNet
3.8K1—

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