Hugging Face Hub — Top 10,000 Models By Downloads (Task, Library, Licence, Likes)

DatasetCSV.GZOpenHuggingfaceAI ModelsLLMMachine LearningOpen SourceRankingsFree

10,000 most-downloaded models on the Hugging Face Hub ranked by 30-day downloads, with repository id, author, pipeline task, library, downloads, likes, creation and last-modified timestamps, licence tag, gating flag and tag count, from the public Hub API as of 2026-09-06.

Use Cases

Open-model adoption tracking
Library and task mix of the ecosystem
Licence screening for model selection
Watchlists of fast-rising models

Methodology

Ten cursor-paginated pages of 1,000 models sorted by downloads, following the Link rel=next header; licence read from the license: tag; gated is true for both auto and manual gating.

Update Schedule

Static snapshot. Hub download counts are rolling 30-day figures that change daily; refresh weekly.

Attribution

Source: Hugging Face Hub public API (huggingface.co/api/models); repository metadata only, each model carries its own licence.

Schema

name	type
rank	integer
model_id	string
author	string
pipeline_tag	string
library_name	string
downloads	integer
likes	integer
created_at	date
last_modified	date
license	string
gated	boolean
tag_count	integer

Sample Data

rank	gated	likes	author	license	model_id	downloads	tag_count	created_at	library_name	pipeline_tag	last_modified
1	false	5560	sentence-transformers	apache-2.0	sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2	253029336	47	2022-03-02T23:29:05.000Z	sentence-transformers	sentence-similarity	2026-06-01T06:29:13.000Z
2	false	311	cross-encoder	apache-2.0	cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L6-v2	86493507	18	2022-03-02T23:29:05.000Z	sentence-transformers	text-ranking	2026-08-09T15:22:24.000Z
3	false	548	BAAI	mit	BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5	65591890	22	2023-09-12T05:20:55.000Z	sentence-transformers	feature-extraction	2024-02-22T03:36:23.000Z
4	false	158	google	apache-2.0	google/electra-base-discriminator	58408339	12	2022-03-02T23:29:05.000Z	transformers		2024-02-29T10:20:20.000Z
5	false	2986	google-bert	apache-2.0	google-bert/bert-base-uncased	52338347	20	2022-03-02T23:29:04.000Z	transformers	fill-mask	2024-02-19T11:06:12.000Z

Get this via API

# 1. Add dAgentBase once, in any MCP client. No install, no vendor keys.
#    Claude.ai / Claude Desktop: Settings -> Connectors -> Add custom connector
#    Cursor / Claude Code / others: mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dagentbase": {
      "url": "https://dagentbase.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer dm_live_YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

# 2. Then ask your agent, in plain language:
#    "Preview 'Hugging Face Hub — Top 10,000 Models by Downloads (Task, Library, Licence, Likes)' and, if it fits, claim it and download the files."
#    Tools it will use: search_listings -> preview_listing -> purchase_listing -> get_download_urls

# 1. Add dAgentBase once, in any MCP client. No install, no vendor keys.
#    Claude.ai / Claude Desktop: Settings -> Connectors -> Add custom connector
#    Cursor / Claude Code / others: mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dagentbase": {
      "url": "https://dagentbase.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer dm_live_YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

# 2. Then ask your agent, in plain language:
#    "Preview 'Hugging Face Hub — Top 10,000 Models by Downloads (Task, Library, Licence, Likes)' and, if it fits, claim it and download the files."
#    Tools it will use: search_listings -> preview_listing -> purchase_listing -> get_download_urls

Free

one time · open license

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Size418 KB

Files1

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