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 1,061 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.

Open-weights models on Hugging Face only — hosted APIs like GPT or Claude are a planned, separate section.

Catalog downloads · trailing 30d
1.8 B
▲ 1.8% vs previous 30d
last 58 days
29,651
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1,061
models tracked
58
days tracked
#Model30dΔ 7dTrend
01 Octen-Embedding-8B Octen · sentence-similarity 1.1 M ▲ 58.1%
02 embeddinggemma-300m google · sentence-similarity 2.8 M ▲ 26.3%
03 gte-multilingual-base Alibaba-NLP · sentence-similarity 1.4 M ▲ 10.7%
04 e5-small-v2 intfloat · sentence-similarity 566 K ▲ 8.8%
05 paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2 sentence-transformers · sentence-similarity 10.1 M ▲ 8.0%
06 bge-small-en-v1.5-onnx-Q Qdrant · sentence-similarity 1.2 M ▲ 7.2%
07 msmarco-bert-base-dot-v5 sentence-transformers · sentence-similarity 450 K ▲ 6.3%
08 snowflake-arctic-embed-l-v2.0 Snowflake · sentence-similarity 898 K ▲ 5.0%

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Data from the public Hugging Face API, snapshotted daily. VRAM figures are estimates — see /methodology.