General-purpose open or open-weight language models used in chat and RAG stacks.
Hugging Face downloads among selected open/open-weight chat model alternatives.
Ranked alternatives
Popularity-ranked entries linked back to graph nodes and deterministic sources.
| Rank | Component | Kind | Openness | Popularity metric | Tasks | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen2.5-7B-Instructmodel:qwen2.5-7b-instruct | model | open weights | 11,890,117Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | chat, instruction-following, rag | source |
| 2 | Llama 3.1 8B Instructmodel:llama-3.1-8b-instruct | model | open weights | 10,031,112Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | chat | source |
| 3 | Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3model:mistral-7b-instruct-v0.3 | model | open weights | 3,392,572Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | chat, instruction-following | source |
| 4 | Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1model:mixtral-8x7b-instruct-v0.1 | model | open weights | 824,791Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | chat | source |
| 5 | Phi-3-mini-4k-instructmodel:phi-3-mini-4k-instruct | model | open weights | 610,575Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | chat | source |
| 6 | DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7Bmodel:deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-7b | model | open weights | 489,121Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | chat, reasoning | source |
| 7 | Gemma 2 9B ITmodel:gemma-2-9b-it | model | open weights | 394,810Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | chat | source |
| 8 | GPT-J-6Bmodel:gpt-j-6b | model | open weights | 250,402Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | chat, text-generation | source |
| 9 | Falcon-7B-Instructmodel:falcon-7b-instruct | model | open weights | 243,678Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | chat | source |
| 10 | OLMo-2-1124-7B-Instructmodel:olmo-2-1124-7b-instruct | model | open weights | 52,510Hugging Face downloads as of 2026-06-10 | chat | source |