Which open LLMs (text generation) can be used commercially?
Among the 50 most downloaded open text-generation models on Hugging Face, the top one whose license tag allows commercial use is openai-community/gpt2 (mit, 33,593,897 downloads in 30 days). License tags are a first-pass reading — check the model card before shipping.
| openai-community/gpt2 | mit (permissive) · 33,593,897 downloads |
| Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B | apache-2.0 (permissive) · 18,515,687 downloads |
| Qwen/Qwen3-14B | apache-2.0 (permissive) · 13,025,679 downloads |
| deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2 | mit (permissive) · 8,656,286 downloads |
| Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct | apache-2.0 (permissive) · 6,504,050 downloads |
| Qwen/Qwen3-8B | apache-2.0 (permissive) · 6,111,761 downloads |
| ornith-ai/Ornith-1.5-9B-GGUF | mit (permissive) · 5,837,311 downloads |
| openai/gpt-oss-20b | apache-2.0 (permissive) · 5,641,053 downloads |
| Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct | apache-2.0 (permissive) · 5,142,982 downloads |
| dphn/dolphin-2.9.1-yi-1.5-34b | apache-2.0 (permissive) · 4,838,679 downloads |
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