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 1,213 open-weights models on Hugging Face at 04:00 UTC, and prices, context windows and benchmark indices for 210 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
1.7 B
▲ 1.7% vs previous 30d
last 60 days
47,202
compare pages
1,423
models tracked
106
days tracked
#Model30dΔ 7dTrend
01 whisperkit-coreml argmaxinc · ASR 51.6 M ▲ 88.6%
02 whisper-base openai · ASR 4.6 M ▲ 39.3%
03 wav2vec2-large-960h-lv60-self facebook · ASR 512 K ▲ 24.2%
04 faster-whisper-base.en Systran · ASR 1.2 M ▲ 20.4%
05 faster-whisper-medium Systran · ASR 2.0 M ▲ 14.7%
06 wav2vec2-xlsr-53-espeak-cv-ft facebook · ASR 718 K ▲ 10.8%
07 faster-whisper-base Systran · ASR 2.2 M ▲ 10.2%
08 faster-whisper-large-v3 Systran · ASR 1.6 M ▲ 9.5%

Best value via API

AA intelligence index per blended $ (3:1 input:output, per 1M tokens)
#ModelAA idxBlended /1MValue
01 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 deepseek-ai · $0.006 in / $0.50 out 28.6 $0.13 221
02 MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL XiaomiMiMo · $0.14 in / $0.28 out 26.7 $0.18 153
03 GLM-5.3-Flash zai-org · $0.15 in / $0.50 out 27.8 $0.24 117
04 MiniMax-M3.1-Flash MiniMaxAI · $0.15 in / $0.60 out 29.1 $0.26 111
05 GLM-5.3 zai-org · $0.07 in / $1.40 out 31.7 $0.40 79
06 MiMo-V2.6-Pro-RL XiaomiMiMo · $0.44 in / $0.87 out 29.9 $0.54 55
07 NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16 nvidia · $0.07 in / $0.20 out 5.5 $0.10 54
08 granite-4.2-8b ibm-granite · $0.06 in / $0.25 out 5.1 $0.11 47
09 Beam-1.0-501B-A23B reflection · $0.30 in / $1.00 out 17.7 $0.48 37
10 MiniMax-M3 MiniMaxAI · $0.30 in / $1.20 out 18.9 $0.53 36

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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.