Daily download tracking since 28 Jul 2026

Which AI models are actually winning — measured daily, not guessed.

Every night we snapshot downloads, likes and file inventories for the top 1,226 open-weights models on Hugging Face at 04:00 UTC, and prices, context windows and benchmark indices for 200 API-only models via OpenRouter. That history powers trend charts, VRAM estimates, API cost and side-by-side comparisons you can't get from a model card.

Every model is labelled: open weights you can self-host, or API-only (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok…).

Catalog downloads · trailing 30d
1.6 B
▼ 9.4% vs previous 30d
last 60 days
40,720
compare pages
1,426
models tracked
89
days tracked
#Model30dΔ 7dTrend
01 Krea-2-Turbo unsloth · text-to-image 169 K ▲ 412.1%
02 Qwen-Image-2.1-Lightning lightx2v · text-to-image 191 K ▲ 392.6%
03 snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0 Snowflake · sentence-similarity 2.5 M ▲ 95.9%
04 gemma-4-31B-it-qat-NVFP4-Blackwell melcheikh · text-generation 371 K ▲ 84.1%
05 MeinaMix Meina · text-to-image 38 K ▲ 82.0%
06 Unlimited-OCR baidu · image-text-to-text 2.3 M ▲ 80.6%
07 opus-mt-zh-en Helsinki-NLP · translation 390 K ▲ 73.3%
08 Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo-GGUF unsloth · text-to-image 495 K ▲ 68.2%

Best value via API

AA intelligence index per blended $ (3:1 input:output, per 1M tokens)
#ModelAA idxBlended /1MValue
01 Ling-3.0-flash inclusionAI · $0.021 in / $0.063 out 20.1 $0.032 638
02 DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 deepseek-ai · $0.044 in / $0.13 out 34.3 $0.067 515
03 gpt-oss-20b openai · $0.018 in / $0.09 out 10 $0.036 278
04 Ling-3.0-flash-VL inclusionAI · $0.06 in / $0.18 out 24.6 $0.09 273
05 MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL XiaomiMiMo · $0.14 in / $0.28 out 37.9 $0.18 217
06 DeepSeek-V4-Flash deepseek-ai · $0.091 in / $0.18 out 24.4 $0.11 214
07 GLM-5.3-Flash zai-org · $0.15 in / $0.50 out 41.8 $0.24 176
08 MiniMax-M3.1-Flash MiniMaxAI · $0.15 in / $0.60 out 42.7 $0.26 163
09 gemma-4-26B-A4B-it google · $0.068 in / $0.23 out 16.7 $0.11 156
10 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 deepseek-ai · $0.15 in / $0.60 out 39.5 $0.26 150

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Read-only JSON, no key, 60 req/min. Snapshots also ship as a daily CSV dump.
Data from the public Hugging Face and OpenRouter APIs, snapshotted daily; benchmark indices from Artificial Analysis. VRAM figures are estimates — see /methodology.