Updated 2026-09-20 · ranked by real download data
Fastest-growing VLMs
Ranked nightly from our download snapshots of the Hugging Face catalog. Every entry shows its licence and what hardware it realistically needs.
| # | Model | Params | Context | Commercial use | 30d | Min VRAM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | GLM-5.3-Flash | 321.3 B | — | ✓ mit | 2.9 M | from 755.6 GB |
| 02 | Qwen3.8-27B-iMatrix-NVFP4-MTP-GGUF | — | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 4.0 M | — |
| 03 | Qwen3.5-9B-The-Defiant-Fable-Uncensored-Heretic-NEO-IMATRIX-MAX-MTP-GGUF | — | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 1.5 M | — |
| 04 | Qwen3.6-27B-MTP-GGUF | — | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 1.2 M | — |
| 05 | Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-GGUF | — | — | other | 1.5 M | — |
| 06 | Qwen3.5-2B | 2.3 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 4.8 M | from 5.8 GB |
| 07 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-MTP-GGUF | — | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 1.0 M | — |
| 08 | Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct | 8.8 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 19.5 M | from 21.1 GB |
| 09 | moondream2 | 1.9 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 1.9 M | from 5.0 GB |
| 10 | gemma-4-26B-A4B-it | 26.5 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 9.9 M | from 62.9 GB |
| 11 | Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive-MTP-GGUF | — | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 2.3 M | — |
| 12 | Huihui-Qwen3.8-27B-abliterated-GGUF | 27.0 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 2.8 M | from 64.0 GB |
| 13 | Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-5bit | 5.5 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 4.5 M | from 13.4 GB |
| 14 | Florence-2-base | 230 M | — | ✓ mit | 3.0 M | from 1.0 GB |
| 15 | Qwen3.8-27B-MLX-6bit | 6.4 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 4.5 M | from 15.4 GB |
| 16 | gemma-3-4b-it | 4.3 B | — | ⚠ gemma | 1.8 M | from 10.6 GB |
| 17 | medgemma-4b-it | 4.3 B | — | other | 1.1 M | from 10.6 GB |
| 18 | gemma-4-31B-it | 32.7 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 9.1 M | from 77.3 GB |
| 19 | XYZAILab_XYZ-Aquila-mini-GGUF | — | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 878 K | — |
| 20 | surya-ocr-2 | 690 M | — | ⚠ openrail | 1.2 M | from 2.1 GB |
| 21 | endless-frontier_BigBang-v1-GGUF | — | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 984 K | — |
| 22 | Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct | 2.1 B | — | ✓ apache-2.0 | 3.0 M | from 5.5 GB |
| 23 | Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct-AWQ | 8.3 B | 33 K | ✓ apache-2.0 | 1.6 M | from 20.0 GB |
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