Top open text-generation models (LLMs)
Large language models for text generation, chat, and completion.
How this list works: ranked by Hugging Face downloads in the last 30 days, among models with 1,000+ downloads.
| # | Model | Author | Downloads (30 days) | Likes | Size | License | Commercial use | Runs on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen3-0.6B | Qwen | 29.5M | 1.8K | 600M | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 2 | gpt2 | openai-community | 17.2M | 4.3K | – | MIT | Yes | CPU |
| 3 | Qwen3-4B | Qwen | 11.8M | 765 | 4B | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 4 | Qwen3-8B | Qwen | 8.9M | 2.1K | 8B | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 5 | Qwen3-14B | Qwen | 8.4M | 510 | 14B | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 6 | Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct | Qwen | 6.8M | 2.4K | 7B | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 7 | gpt-oss-20b | openai | 5.9M | 5.2K | 20B | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 8 | opt-125m | 5.8M | 330 | 125M | Custom (other) | Check the license | GPU | |
| 9 | Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct | Qwen | 5.8M | 700 | 500M | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 10 | Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct | Qwen | 5.6M | 893 | 1.5B | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 11 | Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct | meta-llama | 5.5M | 8.5K | 8B | Llama 3.1 license | Yes, with conditions | GPU |
| 12 | DeepSeek-V3.2 | deepseek-ai | 5.3M | 1.6K | – | MIT | Yes | GPU |
| 13 | Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct | meta-llama | 5.1M | 1.9K | 1B | Llama 3.2 license | Yes, with conditions | GPU |
| 14 | Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF | ornith-ai | 4.9M | 563 | 9B | MIT | Yes | CPU |
| 15 | dolphin-2.9.1-yi-1.5-34b | dphn | 4.7M | 83 | 34B | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 16 | Kimi-K3-DSpark | RadixArk | 4.5M | 73 | – | Not stated | Check the license | GPU |
| 17 | Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4 | nvidia | 4.4M | 664 | 35B | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 18 | DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 | deepseek-ai | 4.3M | 4.1K | – | MIT | Yes | GPU |
| 19 | Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct | Qwen | 4.2M | 609 | 3B | Custom (other) | Check the license | GPU |
| 20 | Qwen3-1.7B | Qwen | 4.2M | 587 | 1.7B | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 21 | tiny-Qwen2ForCausalLM-2.5 | trl-internal-testing | 4.1M | 70 | – | Not stated | Check the license | GPU |
| 22 | Ornith-1.5-35B-A3B-GGUF | ornith-ai | 3.8M | 523 | 35B | MIT | Yes | CPU |
| 23 | pythia-160m | EleutherAI | 3.4M | 60 | 160M | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
| 24 | Ternary-Bonsai-2-27B-gguf | prism-ml | 3.3M | 2.8K | 27B | Apache 2.0 | Yes | CPU |
| 25 | gpt-oss-120b | openai | 3.2M | 5.4K | 120B | Apache 2.0 | Yes | GPU |
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