Daily download tracking since 28 Jul 2026

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

We snapshot downloads, likes and file inventories for the top 1,028 Hugging Face models every night at 04:00 UTC. That history powers trend charts, VRAM estimates and side-by-side comparisons you can't get from the model card.

Catalog downloads · trailing 30d
1.7 B
last 13 days
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#Model30dΔ 7dTrend
01 bge-base-en-v1.5-course-recommender-v5 datasocietyco · sentence-similarity 2.3 M ▲ 55.3%
02 gte-small thenlper · sentence-similarity 819 K ▲ 20.6%
03 paraphrase-MiniLM-L6-v2 sentence-transformers · sentence-similarity 2.7 M ▲ 8.6%
04 embeddinggemma-300m google · sentence-similarity 2.1 M ▲ 7.3%
05 paraphrase-mpnet-base-v2 sentence-transformers · sentence-similarity 1.5 M ▲ 4.6%
06 stsb-bert-tiny-safetensors sentence-transformers-testing · sentence-similarity 1.7 M ▲ 3.9%
07 text2vec-base-chinese shibing624 · sentence-similarity 803 K ▲ 2.4%
08 bm25 Qdrant · sentence-similarity 939 K ▲ 1.4%

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