332K
▲ 53% since Q4 2024
new models created on Hugging Face in Q4 2025, plus 153,000 new datasets
Q1 2022Q4 2025

What the chart shows

Users created about 332,000 new models on Hugging Face in the fourth quarter of 2025, and about 1.18 million across the year. In the first quarter of 2022 the figure was about 3,000.

New datasets jumped in the fourth quarter of 2025 to about 153,000, almost double the 81,800 of the previous quarter.

Key numbers

MeasureValue
New models, Q4 2025332,098
New models, all of 20251,180,864
New datasets, Q4 2025152,907
New models, Q1 20223,068

How to read it

  • Counts repositories created in each quarter, including fine-tunes, copies and quantised versions of existing models.
  • Creation does not mean use; most repositories receive few downloads.
Source: Hugging Face, 2025, via the AI Index Report 2026 (Stanford HAI), figure 1.5.6: Number of models and datasets on Hugging Face, 2022–25. Chart and text by AI Adoption.
Numbers checked against the published data on 19 October 2026.
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