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Top 20 most liked open models

The community's favourites on Hugging Face

Updated · likes (likes)

Why these 20

Likes on Hugging Face: a running popularity contest among open models.

  1. 1 d

    deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

    Open model by deepseek-ai, licence mit

    14,394 likes 14,394 likes1,295,021 downloadsmit

  2. 2 m

    meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct

    Open model by meta-llama, licence llama3.1

    8,512 likes 8,512 likes5,490,624 downloadsllama3.1

    Also in: #12 most downloaded open language models

  3. 3 m

    meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B

    Open model by meta-llama, licence llama3

    6,758 likes 6,758 likes157,601 downloadsllama3

  4. 4 d

    deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro

    Open model by deepseek-ai, licence mit

    5,686 likes 5,686 likes364,869 downloadsmit

  5. 5 o

    openai/gpt-oss-120b

    Open model by openai, licence apache-2.0

    5,427 likes 5,427 likes3,181,265 downloadsapache-2.0

  6. 6 m

    meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct

    Open model by meta-llama, licence llama3

    5,415 likes 5,415 likes474,388 downloadsllama3

  7. 7 o

    openai/gpt-oss-20b

    Open model by openai, licence apache-2.0

    5,200 likes 5,200 likes5,897,765 downloadsapache-2.0

    Also in: #8 most downloaded open language models

  8. 8 z

    zai-org/GLM-5.2

    Open model by zai-org, licence mit

    5,186 likes 5,186 likes411,387 downloadsmit

  9. 9 b

    bigscience/bloom

    Open model by bigscience, licence bigscience-bloom-rail-1.0

    5,088 likes 5,088 likes12,971 downloadsbigscience-bloom-rail-1.0

  10. 10 m

    meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-chat-hf

    Open model by meta-llama, licence llama2

    4,909 likes 4,909 likes190,934 downloadsllama2

  11. 11 d

    deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash

    Open model by deepseek-ai, licence mit

    4,658 likes 4,658 likes1,367,081 downloadsmit

  12. 12 m

    meta-llama/Llama-2-7b

    Open model by meta-llama, licence llama2

    4,572 likes 4,572 likes123 downloadsllama2

  13. 13 d

    deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3

    Open model by deepseek-ai

    4,451 likes 4,451 likes1,368,479 downloads

  14. 14 o

    openai-community/gpt2

    Open model by openai-community, licence mit

    4,262 likes 4,262 likes17,217,426 downloadsmit

    Also in: #2 most downloaded open language models

  15. 15 m

    mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.1

    Open model by mistralai, licence apache-2.0

    4,222 likes 4,222 likes325,248 downloadsapache-2.0

  16. 16 d

    deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

    Open model by deepseek-ai, licence mit

    4,085 likes 4,085 likes4,328,385 downloadsmit

    Also in: #19 most downloaded open language models

  17. 17 E

    Edge0/Edge0-35B-A3B-preview

    Open model by Edge0, licence apache-2.0

    3,584 likes 3,584 likes8,292 downloadsapache-2.0

  18. 18 m

    microsoft/phi-2

    Open model by microsoft, licence mit

    3,527 likes 3,527 likes483,361 downloadsmit

  19. 19 g

    google/gemma-7b

    Open model by google, licence gemma

    3,457 likes 3,457 likes7,996 downloadsgemma

  20. 20 m

    mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2

    Open model by mistralai, licence apache-2.0

    3,267 likes 3,267 likes1,710,510 downloadsapache-2.0

How it is measured

Hugging Face Hub API, text-generation, sorted by likes.

References

  1. Hugging Face models, Hugging Face (public API). Checked 2026-10-19 20:57 UTC.

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