// Get open-weight models
Hugging Face
The largest hub for open models, datasets and AI demo apps (Spaces).
Closed / commercial Maintained For developers
IN ONE PARAGRAPH
Hugging Face is the largest hub for open models, datasets and AI demo apps (Spaces).
Good for: Developers and teams who want to get open-weight models.
Not for: teams that require open source or self-hosting.
01How to start
- 1Read the official quick-start (link above).
- 2Install or sign up as the official guide describes.
- 3Try it on a small example before wiring it into a project.
02Alternatives & comparison
Compare side by side → DeepSeek-V3 Open-weight models ★ 105k Qwen3 Qwen3 is the large language model series developed by Qwen team, Alibaba Cloud. ★ 28k gpt-oss gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b are two open-weight language models by OpenAI ★ 20k Qwen3-Coder Qwen3-Coder is the code version of Qwen3, the large language model series developed by Qwen team. ★ 17k Kimi-K2 Kimi K2 is the large language model series developed by Moonshot AI team ★ 11k
Versions, why it is listed, for AI to read
Popularity evidence (third-party snapshots)
- Monthly visits：31.2M (+0.1% MoM) · AlphaMoat 2026-09
- a16z Top 100 Gen AI Apps (7th ed.)：listed · a16z Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps — 7th Edition 2026-10-05
For AI agents
- Interfaces：its own app or website
- Machine-readable record：/api/v1/software/hugging-face.json · llms.txt
- Added 2026-10-10