text generation

Top 100 text-generation models by Hugging Face’s reported recent downloads. Check each model card and task-specific evaluation before choosing.

Snapshot: 2026-10-31T06:51:07.266Z. Rankings use this list’s declared public metric; missing values sort last, ties use record ID, and Trending retains source order.

#1

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 25,794,572

openai-community/gpt2

text-generation · transformers

25794572 recent downloads · 3903 likes

#2

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 23,941,880

Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B

text-generation · transformers

23941880 recent downloads · 1863 likes

#3

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 12,798,105

Qwen/Qwen3-14B

text-generation · transformers

12798105 recent downloads · 527 likes

#4

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 9,728,597

Qwen/Qwen3-4B

text-generation · transformers

9728597 recent downloads · 776 likes

#5

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 7,940,080

Qwen/Qwen3-8B

text-generation · transformers

7940080 recent downloads · 2156 likes

#6

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 6,295,973

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2

text-generation · transformers

6295973 recent downloads · 1590 likes

#7

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 6,122,505

openai/gpt-oss-20b

text-generation · transformers

6122505 recent downloads · 5252 likes

#8

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 5,350,289

Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct

text-generation · transformers

5350289 recent downloads · 2470 likes

#10

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 5,162,870

Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct

text-generation · transformers

5162870 recent downloads · 721 likes

#13

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 4,640,675

facebook/opt-125m

text-generation · transformers

4640675 recent downloads · 333 likes

#14

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 4,473,405

Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct

text-generation · transformers

4473405 recent downloads · 922 likes

#15

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 4,204,165

Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B

text-generation · transformers

4204165 recent downloads · 606 likes

#19

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 3,372,397

EleutherAI/pythia-160m

text-generation · transformers

3372397 recent downloads · 66 likes

#20

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 3,268,731

Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct

text-generation · transformers

3268731 recent downloads · 626 likes

#21

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 2,942,974

Qwen/Qwen3-32B

text-generation · transformers

2942974 recent downloads · 791 likes

#22

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 2,683,329

openai/gpt-oss-120b

text-generation · transformers

2683329 recent downloads · 5470 likes

#23

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 2,654,008

Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507

text-generation · transformers

2654008 recent downloads · 1041 likes

#25

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 2,507,023

zai-org/GLM-5.3

text-generation · transformers

2507023 recent downloads · 2349 likes

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