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, BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-gemma, google-bert/bert-base-german-cased, openai-community/openai-gpt. 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
- BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-gemma: Model from Hugging Face for text classification: BAAI/bge-reranker-v2-gemma · sentence transformers
- google-bert/bert-base-german-cased: Model from Hugging Face for fill mask: google-bert/bert-base-german-cased · transformers
- openai-community/openai-gpt: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: openai-community/openai-gpt · transformers
- unsloth/GLM-4.7-Flash-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: unsloth/GLM-4.7-Flash-GGUF · transformers
- OpenSearch-AI/Ops-Colqwen3-4B: Model from Hugging Face for visual document retrieval: OpenSearch-AI/Ops-Colqwen3-4B · transformers
- MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M1-40k: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M1-40k · transformers
- baidu/ERNIE-4.5-0.3B-PT: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: baidu/ERNIE-4.5-0.3B-PT · transformers
- 01-ai/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: 01-ai/Yi-Coder-1.5B-Chat · transformers
- unsloth/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-bnb-4bit: Model from Hugging Face for text generation: unsloth/Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-bnb-4bit · transformers
- QuantFactory/YugoGPT-GGUF: Model from Hugging Face for llm: QuantFactory/YugoGPT-GGUF · unknown
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Updated 2026-09-11 from the live catalog.