Registries
Model registries and catalogues studied as data sources for the directory: what each covers and which fields it carries.
- 36registries
- 5carry a licence field
- 4carry lineage
- 1carry a country
Registries
| Registry | Coverage | Size | Licence | Lineage | Country | API | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arena (formerly LMArena) | Human-preference leaderboards: Text, Vision, Document, Search, WebDev, Image, Video, Agent | Millions of human votes; counts not on page | no | no | no | No export found; site now arena.ai | active |
| Arm ML-Zoo | Models optimised for Arm IP: Cortex-A, Cortex-M, Mali GPU, Ethos-U | 42 model entries in 8 task groups | yes | no | no | Git repository; definition.yaml machine-readable; README version badge 21.08; Apache-2.0 unless stated | active |
 Artificial Analysis | LLM and media model evaluations | not in the notes | no | no | no | Free API with key, 1,000 req/day: /data/llms/models plus media Elo endpoints; attribution required | active |
| Awesome CoreML | Edge-oriented zoo (2023-era roundup) | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes |
| AWS Bedrock (serverless catalogue) | Foundation models from AWS and partners | 19 providers and 128 named model entries (2026-10-10); Bedrock Marketplace adds over 100 more | no | no | no | AWS API and SDKs (ListFoundationModels), credentials required | active |
| Azure AI Foundry (Microsoft Foundry) model catalogue | Models sold by Azure plus partners and community, including Hugging Face Hub models | Over 10,000 models, about 50 new per month (doc dated 28 Jul 2026) | no | no | no | Azure Machine Learning registries; public catalogue export not found (unverified) | active |
| cnb.cool mirrors | Mirrors OpenBMB models (seen in search results only) | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes |
| Deci | Edge-oriented zoo (2023-era roundup) | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes |
 Edge Impulse | TinyML/edge platform, not a public model registry | not in the notes | no | no | no | APIs, CLI, Python SDK (full API in Enterprise); proprietary | active |
| Epoch AI Data on AI models | Models 1950 to present (Notable, Frontier, Large-scale, All) | Over 3,600 models | no | no | yes | CSV downloads (4 files), CC BY; updated weekly, notable/all 8 Oct 2026 | active |
| Gitee AI (Moark) | Chinese model hub and inference platform from Gitee | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | active |
| Google Vertex AI Model Garden | Google first-party, partner MaaS, self-deployed open models, plus Hugging Face Hub deployment | 200+ available models (curated set) | no | yes | no | REST publishers.models.list (v1beta1) and publishers.models.get; Google Cloud credentials required. Docs now under Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform | active |
| HF-Mirror | Volunteer mirror of huggingface.co for developers in China | Mirrors HF | yes | yes | no | HF API via HF_ENDPOINT | active |
| Hugging Face Hub | Open models, all modalities | Over 3 million public models (passed Aug 2026); 1M+ datasets (May 2026); 1.5M+ Spaces | yes | yes | no | REST API, OpenAPI spec at /.well-known/openapi.json; huggingface_hub (Python), huggingface.js; filter=base_model:<relation>:<id>, capped at 1,000 per call | active |
| Jetson Model Zoo | Edge-oriented zoo (2023-era roundup) | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes |
| Kaggle Models | Google-hosted; absorbed TF Hub | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | kagglehub library (unverified) | active |
| MediaPipe | Edge-oriented zoo (2023-era roundup) | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes |
| Model Zoo (modelzoo.co) | Web index of pre-2022 deep learning GitHub projects; 9 categories, 9 frameworks; built by Jing Yu Koh (footer: Singapore) | 3,245 model pages (sitemap, 2026-10-10) | no | no | no | Undocumented /api/ endpoints return empty objects as of 2026-10-10; only sitemap.xml remains; no data licence | frozen |
| Modelers (modelers.cn) | AI open-source community run by China Telecom Ctyun with Huawei: model library, datasets, experience spaces, development toolchains; Ascend-adapted models | Over 7,000 datasets via OpenDataLab (September 2024); no model count given | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes |
| ModelScope | Chinese open model community: models, datasets, demos; initiated by Alibaba Cloud | 267,096 models (API TotalCount, 2026-10-10); official 170,000 open models (Mar 2026); 25 million users; Qwen over 400 official and over 34,000 derived models | yes | no | no | GET https://www.modelscope.cn/openapi/v1/models (no key, paginated); Python SDK modelscope (Apache 2.0) | active |
| MTEB / MMTEB leaderboard | Embedding and retrieval benchmark, multilingual, multimodal | not in the notes | no | no | no | Leaderboard at huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard; Python package; code Apache-2.0 | active |
| NVIDIA NGC | NVIDIA and partner models (NeMo, Riva, TAO, TensorRT) | 902 models (2026-10-10); TAO 31 models | no | no | no | NGC CLI/API (not confirmed on page) | active |
| Ollama library | Curated local LLMs in GGUF | About 245 models (manual count) | no | no | no | Ollama CLI/API (unverified) | active |
| ONNX Model Zoo | ONNX vision, language, other | About 55 validated models | no | no | no | HF mirror at huggingface.co/onnxmodelzoo; Git LFS downloads ended 1 Jul 2025; Apache 2.0 | deprecated |
| Open LLM Leaderboard (HF) | Open LLM evals | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | Results datasets on HF (open-llm-leaderboard-old/results) | archived |
| OpenI | Open-source AI community on Peng Cheng Laboratory infrastructure, offering compute plus models | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | active |
| OpenRouter | Hosted inference router | 63+ visible in API excerpt; full count not obtained | no | yes | no | GET /api/v1/models (public JSON) | active |
| OpenVINO Open Model Zoo | Edge-oriented zoo | 200+ models | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes |
| Papers with Code | SOTA tables, papers, methods | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | Archive on GitHub (paperswithcode/paperswithcode-data); shut down by Meta 24 to 25 Jul 2025; successors HF Papers, Semantic Scholar API, CodeSOTA | archived |
| PINTO Model Zoo | Edge-oriented zoo of quantized models | 260+ quantized models | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes |
| PyTorch Hub | Models published from GitHub repos through hubconf.py, loaded with torch.hub.load | 52 entries linked from pytorch.org/hub (2026-10-10) | no | no | no | torch.hub Python API per repo; metadata in pytorch/hub GitHub markdown; no catalogue API | active |
| Qualcomm AI Hub | Edge-optimized models for Snapdragon and Dragonwing | 551 variants of 241 models (2026-10-10) | no | no | no | API docs, Workbench (sign-in); compile/profile service; runtimes TFLite, ONNX Runtime, Qualcomm AI Runtime, GenieX | active |
 Replicate | Hosted inference for public and private models (image, video, audio, LLM) | No official count; Cloudflare combined offer passes 50,000 models (not Replicate-only) | yes | no | no | HTTP API with token: models.list, models.search, models.get, models.readme.get, models.versions.list, collections.list; OpenAPI schema, llms.txt, MCP server. Cloudflare acquisition announced Nov 2025 | active |
| Stanford HELM | Holistic LLM evaluation | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | Website; raw download not confirmed | active |
| TensorFlow Hub | Legacy TF models | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | tfhub.dev URLs still resolve via tensorflow_hub library; redirects to Kaggle since 15 Nov 2023; unmigrated assets deleted 18 Mar 2024 | deprecated |
| WiseModel | Chinese model hub, now titled All-for-Agent platform | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | not in the notes | active |
Where this comes from
From T06 Part 2 and G06 Part C of the research notes.
Sources
Arena (formerly LMArena)
- Arena Leaderboard: Official AI Model Rankings & Benchmarks arena.ai https://arena.ai/leaderboard
Arm ML-Zoo
- GitHub - Arm-Examples/ML-zoo github.com https://github.com/ARM-software/ML-zoo
- raw.githubusercontent.com/ARM-software/ML-zoo/HEAD/models/keyword_spott... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ARM-software/ML-zoo/HEAD/models/keyword_spotting/micronet_large/tflite_int8/definition.yaml
Artificial Analysis
- API Reference | Artificial Analysis artificialanalysis.ai https://artificialanalysis.ai/documentation
Awesome CoreML
- 13 Free Resources and Model Zoos for Deep Learning and Computer Vision Models - Edge AI and Vision Alliance edge-ai-vision.com https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/?p=35949
AWS Bedrock (serverless catalogue)
- Models at a glance - Amazon Bedrock docs.aws.amazon.com https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/model-cards.html
- FoundationModelSummary - Amazon Bedrock docs.aws.amazon.com https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/APIReference/API_FoundationModelSummary.html
- Amazon Bedrock Marketplace - Amazon Bedrock docs.aws.amazon.com https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/amazon-bedrock-marketplace.html
- Supported foundation models in Amazon Bedrock - Amazon Bedrock docs.aws.amazon.com https://docs.aws.amazon.com/bedrock/latest/userguide/models-supported.html
Azure AI Foundry (Microsoft Foundry) model catalogue
- Microsoft Foundry Models overview (classic) - Microsoft Foundry (classic) portal learn.microsoft.com https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/concepts/foundry-models-overview
- Explore Microsoft Foundry Models in Azure Machine Learning - Azure Machine Learning learn.microsoft.com https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/concept-model-catalog
cnb.cool mirrors
- ai-models/openbmb/MiniCPM4-0.5B , Cloud Native Build cnb.cool https://cnb.cool/ai-models/openbmb/MiniCPM4-0.5B
Deci
- 13 Free Resources and Model Zoos for Deep Learning and Computer Vision Models - Edge AI and Vision Alliance edge-ai-vision.com https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/?p=35949
Edge Impulse
- Edge Impulse Documentation - Edge Impulse Documentation docs.edgeimpulse.com https://docs.edgeimpulse.com/
Epoch AI Data on AI models
- Data on AI models epoch.ai https://epoch.ai/data/ai-models
Gitee AI (Moark)
- 模力方舟（Gitee AI） ai.gitee.com https://ai.gitee.com/models
Google Vertex AI Model Garden
- Model Garden on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform cloud.google.com https://cloud.google.com/model-garden
- Overview of Model Garden | Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform | Google Cloud Documentation cloud.google.com https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/model-garden/explore-models
- Method: models.list | Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform | Google Cloud Documentation docs.cloud.google.com https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/reference/rest/v1beta1/publishers.models/list
- REST Resource: publishers.models | Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform | Google Cloud Documentation docs.cloud.google.com https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platform/reference/rest/v1beta1/publishers.models
HF-Mirror
- HF-Mirror hf-mirror.com https://hf-mirror.com/
Hugging Face Hub
- Hugging Face Hub erreicht Meilenstein von 3 Millionen KI-Modellen mind-verse.de https://www.mind-verse.de/news/hugging-face-hub-meilenstein-3-millionen-ki-modelle
- huggingface.co/docs/hub/model-cards https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/model-cards
- huggingface.co/docs/hub/api https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/api
- huggingface.co/docs/hub/model-cards https://huggingface.co/docs/hub/model-cards
- huggingface.co/api/models?filter=base_model:finetune:Qwen/Qw... https://huggingface.co/api/models?filter=base_model:finetune:Qwen/Qwen3-8B
- Unsupervised Model Tree Heritage Recovery arxiv.org https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18432
Jetson Model Zoo
- 13 Free Resources and Model Zoos for Deep Learning and Computer Vision Models - Edge AI and Vision Alliance edge-ai-vision.com https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/?p=35949
Kaggle Models
- Models Documentation kaggle.com https://www.kaggle.com/docs/models
- raw.githubusercontent.com/tensorflow/hub/HEAD/README.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tensorflow/hub/HEAD/README.md
MediaPipe
- 13 Free Resources and Model Zoos for Deep Learning and Computer Vision Models - Edge AI and Vision Alliance edge-ai-vision.com https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/?p=35949
Model Zoo (modelzoo.co)
- modelzoo.co https://modelzoo.co/
- modelzoo.co/static/js/main.787f9992.js https://modelzoo.co/static/js/main.787f9992.js
- modelzoo.co/sitemap.xml https://modelzoo.co/sitemap.xml
- Jing Yu Koh kohjingyu.com http://kohjingyu.com
- Model Zoo – Pretrained deep learning models | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17309327
- archive.org/wayback/available?url=modelzoo.co/api/categor... https://archive.org/wayback/available?url=modelzoo.co/api/categories/
- 13 Free Resources and Model Zoos for Deep Learning and Computer Vision Models - Edge AI and Vision Alliance edge-ai-vision.com https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/?p=35949
- modelzoo.co https://modelzoo.co/
Modelers (modelers.cn)
- ctyun.cn/newsboard/1000030970 https://ctyun.cn/newsboard/1000030970
ModelScope
- modelscope.cn/openapi/v1/models?page_size=1 https://www.modelscope.cn/openapi/v1/models?page_size=1
- modelscope.cn/api/v1/dolphin/models https://www.modelscope.cn/api/v1/dolphin/models
- 9个月内用户增长千万 魔搭社区已服务2500万开发者 stdaily.com https://www.stdaily.com/web/gdxw/2026-03/22/content_490099.html
- GitHub - modelscope/modelscope: ModelScope: bring the notion of Model-as-a-Service to life. github.com https://github.com/modelscope/modelscope
- 首页 - ModelScope 魔搭社区 modelscope.cn https://www.modelscope.cn/home
MTEB / MMTEB leaderboard
- GitHub - embeddings-benchmark/mteb: MTEB: State-of-the-art evaluation of embeddings across languages and modalities github.com https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb
NVIDIA NGC
- GPU-optimized AI, Machine Learning, & HPC Software | NVIDIA NGC catalog.ngc.nvidia.com https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/models
Ollama library
- library ollama.com https://ollama.com/library
ONNX Model Zoo
- GitHub - onnx/models: A collection of pre-trained, state-of-the-art models in the ONNX format github.com https://github.com/onnx/models
- huggingface.co/onnxmodelzoo/models https://huggingface.co/onnxmodelzoo/models
Open LLM Leaderboard (HF)
- Longterm Wiki longtermwiki.com https://www.longtermwiki.com/resources/519d45a8450736f6
- huggingface.co/datasets/open-llm-leaderboard-old/results https://huggingface.co/datasets/open-llm-leaderboard-old/results
OpenI
- OpenI - 启智AI开源社区提供普惠算力！ openi.pcl.ac.cn https://openi.pcl.ac.cn/explore/models
OpenRouter
- openrouter.ai/docs/api-reference/list-available-models https://openrouter.ai/docs/api-reference/list-available-models
- openrouter.ai/api/v1/models https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models
OpenVINO Open Model Zoo
- 13 Free Resources and Model Zoos for Deep Learning and Computer Vision Models - Edge AI and Vision Alliance edge-ai-vision.com https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/?p=35949
Papers with Code
- Papers with Code Shutdown Date: Meta July 2025 Timeline | CodeSOTA codesota.com https://www.codesota.com/papers-with-code/shutdown
PINTO Model Zoo
- 13 Free Resources and Model Zoos for Deep Learning and Computer Vision Models - Edge AI and Vision Alliance edge-ai-vision.com https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/?p=35949
PyTorch Hub
- PyTorch HubFor Researchers - PyTorch pytorch.org https://pytorch.org/hub/
- GitHub - pytorch/hub: Submission to https://pytorch.org/hub/ github.com https://github.com/pytorch/hub
Qualcomm AI Hub
- Qualcomm AI Hub aihub.qualcomm.com https://aihub.qualcomm.com/models
Replicate
- HTTP API - Replicate replicate.com https://replicate.com/docs/reference/http
- Cloudflare expands its AI reach by acquiring Replicate the-decoder.com https://the-decoder.com/cloudflare-acquires-replicate-with-its-50000-ai-models/
- api.replicate.com/v1/models https://api.replicate.com/v1/models
Stanford HELM
- Holistic Evaluation of Language Models (HELM) crfm.stanford.edu https://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/
TensorFlow Hub
- raw.githubusercontent.com/tensorflow/hub/HEAD/README.md https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tensorflow/hub/HEAD/README.md
WiseModel
- 始智AI(wisemodel) - AI智能体和模型生态平台 wisemodel.cn https://www.wisemodel.cn/models