Best Open-Source LLMs
The head-term shortlist: top open LLMs ranked by license clarity, popularity, trust, and hosted-file metadata. Canonical URL: https://huggingbay.xyz/answers/best-open-source-llms.
Best Open-Source LLMs is a citation-ready Hugging Bay answer pack backed by live catalog rows. Representative rows: FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-large, openai/gpt-oss-20b, E-MIMIC/inclusively-reformulation-it5, handy-computer/nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b-gguf, handy-computer/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b-gguf. Use each canonical citation URL plus metadata/card endpoints for current license, trust, hosting, and download state. Canonical URL: https://huggingbay.xyz/answers/best-open-source-llms.
Question: What are the best open-source LLMs right now?
The head-term shortlist: top open LLMs ranked by license clarity, popularity, trust, and hosted-file metadata.
Answer pack JSON Citation pack License guide Ranking page
- FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-large: Model from Hugging Face for fill mask: FacebookAI/xlm-roberta-large · transformers
- openai/gpt-oss-20b: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: openai/gpt-oss-20b · transformers
- E-MIMIC/inclusively-reformulation-it5: Model from Hugging Face for llm: E-MIMIC/inclusively-reformulation-it5 · transformers
- handy-computer/nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b-gguf: Model from Hugging Face for automatic speech recognition: handy-computer/nemotron-3.5-asr-streaming-0.6b-gguf · transcribe.cpp
- handy-computer/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b-gguf: Model from Hugging Face for automatic speech recognition: handy-computer/parakeet-unified-en-0.6b-gguf · transcribe.cpp
- LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF · gguf
- legraphista/glm-4-9b-chat-IMat-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: legraphista/glm-4-9b-chat-IMat-GGUF · gguf
- rippertnt/HyperCLOVAX-SEED-Text-Instruct-1.5B-Q4_K_M-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for llm: rippertnt/HyperCLOVAX-SEED-Text-Instruct-1.5B-Q4_K_M-GGUF · unknown
- ReliquaryForge/qwen3-4b-base-dapo-v4: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: ReliquaryForge/qwen3-4b-base-dapo-v4 · transformers
- mudler/locate-anything.cpp-gguf: Model from Hugging Face for object detection: mudler/locate-anything.cpp-gguf · gguf
- BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-gemma: Model from Hugging Face for text classification: BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-gemma · sentence transformers
- SicariusSicariiStuff/Assistant_Pepe_8B: Model from Hugging Face for llm: SicariusSicariiStuff/Assistant_Pepe_8B · unknown
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Updated 2026-09-20 from the live catalog.