Model Downloads
AI Model Popularity
The public Hugging Face models pulling the most download attention right now.
Latest ranking
August 5, 2026
#1 sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 257.8M
#2 google-bert/bert-base-uncased 121.9M
#3 cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L6-v2 88.51M
#4 BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5 72.35M
#5 sentence-transformers/paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2 59.39M
#6 google/electra-base-discriminator 56.63M
#7 lpiccinelli/unidepth-v2-vitl14 38.23M
#8 BAAI/bge-m3 34.99M
#9 Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B 29.7M
#10 amazon/chronos-2 29.54M
#11 sentence-transformers/all-mpnet-base-v2 25.18M
#12 google-t5/t5-small 24.69M
#13 openai/clip-vit-base-patch32 22.15M
#14 FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-base 20.33M
#15 BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-m3 19.22M
Timeline
Key moments
- August 4, 2026
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 leads model downloads
- August 5, 2026
all-MiniLM-L6-v2 leads model downloads
Notes
Methodology
This adapter reads the Hugging Face public models API sorted by downloads. The published story keeps model id, task tag, likes, and downloads for the leading public model pages. StoryOps snapshots can accumulate the ranking over time.
Observed Hugging Face public model rankings by downloads on 2026-08-05.
Reference
Sources
- Models API — Hugging Face
- Hugging Face Models — Hugging Face