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Spark X2.5 Passes 2 Million Downloads, and Spark-X2.6 Is Coming Soon

Just 15 days after passing one million, Spark X2.5 has passed 2,000,000 cumulative downloads (2,029,840), counting the official model repositories on six distribution channels plus community-made derivative builds.

Spark X2.5: 2M+ cumulative downloads (2,029,840), 1M to 2M in 15 days. 1,019,681 across 6 official channels plus 1,010,159 from 109 community builds. Coming soon: Spark-X2.6 4B / 1.7B. As of Oct 14, 2026.

Thank you to everyone who downloaded, tested, quantized, fine-tuned, and shared the models.

The numbers

Downloads
Official channels (6 platforms, 48 model repos) 1,019,681
Community derivative builds (109 projects) 1,010,159
Total 2,029,840

Official channels

Channel Models Cumulative downloads Last 7 days
Hugging Face 12 985,975 +165,323
Ollama 2 15,851 +1,527
ModelScope 10 11,116 +730
Modelers 8 5,210 owner total
AtomGit 10 1,513 +80
SCNet 6 16 ยฑ0

The official channels added 167,689 downloads in the last seven days.

Community builds

Developers have independently re-published Spark X2.5 in 109 derivative projects: 45 GGUF builds, 13 MLX builds, 4 GGUF+imatrix builds, ONNX and on-device variants, and more. Together they account for 1,010,159 downloads, almost half of the total.

These are third-party builds, not official releases, so check each model card before use.

Coming soon: Spark-X2.6 ๐ŸŽ

Spark-X2.6-4B and Spark-X2.6-1.7B will soon be open source. What's been upgraded? We'll share the details at release. We're excited to explore what's possible with local AI, together with you.

Tell us what you'd most like to see improved in the XHToken community, and follow @SparkLLM on X so you don't miss the release.

Try Spark X2.5 today

Spark X2.5 comes in 1.7B and 4B sizes, with Base, GGUF, FP8, and INT8 variants.

Built a quant, a fine-tune, or an app on top of Spark X2.5? Share it in the XHToken community. We'd love to feature it.

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All figures are all-time cumulative downloads as of October 14, 2026. Hugging Face figures use all-time downloads; Modelers reports an owner-level total. Platforms count a "download" differently (per file vs. per repository), and downloads are not unique users, so the combined total is indicative.

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