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: 2026-11-01T06:51:29.042Z. Rankings use this list’s declared public metric; missing values sort last, ties use record ID, and Trending retains source order.

#27

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 2,384,204

HuggingFaceTB/SmolLM2-135M

text-generation · transformers

2384204 recent downloads · 266 likes

#29

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 2,204,135

Qwen/Qwen3-8B-AWQ

text-generation · transformers

2204135 recent downloads · 69 likes

#31

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 2,119,703

Qwen/Qwen3-14B-AWQ

text-generation · transformers

2119703 recent downloads · 89 likes

#40

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 1,742,424

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1

text-generation · transformers

1742424 recent downloads · 14422 likes

#41

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 1,699,525

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3

text-generation · transformers

1699525 recent downloads · 4453 likes

#42

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 1,682,044

zai-org/GLM-5

text-generation · transformers

1682044 recent downloads · 2141 likes

#45

Ranked by 30-day downloads: 1,565,055

distilbert/distilgpt2

text-generation · transformers

1565055 recent downloads · 666 likes

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