ModelScope
ModelScope (Alibaba)Alibaba's hosted model community at modelscope.cn, with an international edition at modelscope.ai. Account holders publish models, datasets and Studio apps into repositories with public, internal or private visibility, versioned by branch, tag and commit. The hub serves downloads over git and an OpenAPI surface that the official modelscope-hub client and CLI wrap.
Scored as the hosted hub. The open modelscope library and modelscope-hub client connect to it; neither contains the hub's server.
Openness
1 high confidence- license
- proprietary(hosted service
- source
- closed(hosted service
ModelScope's hub runs as an Alibaba service, and what Alibaba publishes under Apache-2.0 is the library and client that call it. Those clients are separate from the platform and do not make it self-hostable.
- https://pypi.org/pypi/modelscope-hub/json recorded 2026-09-27
summary: "The official Python client to connect with ModelScope Hub."
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modelscope/modelscope/HEAD/README.md recorded 2026-09-27
The library "enables the necessary interactions with ModelScope backend services, particularly with the Model-Hub and Dataset-Hub." The repository is the client and model library, not the hub.
Adoption
4 low confidenceThe hub's public API reports how many models, datasets and apps it hosts and a cumulative download counter per repository, and its most-downloaded models, speech models from Alibaba's own lab, are in the hundreds of millions. ModelScope publishes no platform-wide or monthly figure, so the reading is a judgment from those counters rather than a count of users.
- https://www.modelscope.cn/openapi/v1/datasets?page_size=1 recorded 2026-09-27
"total_count":43062 in the public datasets listing, 2026-09-27.
- https://www.modelscope.cn/openapi/v1/models?page_size=1 recorded 2026-09-27
"total_count":259537 in the public models listing, 2026-09-27.
- https://www.modelscope.cn/openapi/v1/models?page_size=3&sort=downloads recorded 2026-09-27
Sorted by downloads: iic/speech_fsmn_vad_zh-cn-16k-common-pytorch "downloads":283264119, then 171184552 and 117069748 for the next two, 2026-09-27.
- https://www.modelscope.cn/openapi/v1/studios?page_size=1 recorded 2026-09-27
"total_count":16347 in the public studios listing, 2026-09-27.
Capability
5 medium confidenceModelScope covers the same cycle as Hugging Face Hub: account holders create repositories for models, datasets and apps, version them by branch, tag and commit, and pull them over git or an API other tools call. Its documentation pages render only in a browser, so the reading comes from the official client's reference and the hub's own API.
- https://pypi.org/pypi/modelscope-hub/json recorded 2026-09-27
Connects "models, datasets, Studio spaces, skills, and MCP servers"; "ms-hub create my-org/my-model --repo-type model --visibility private"; "--revision REV ... Branch, tag, or commit hash".
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modelscope/modelscope/HEAD/modelscope/hub/constants.py recorded 2026-09-27
"REPO_TYPE_DATASET, REPO_TYPE_MODEL, REPO_TYPE_STUDIO" and public, internal and private visibility constants.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modelscope/modelscope/HEAD/README.md recorded 2026-09-27
"Most models on ModelScope are public and can be downloaded directly from the website" "with api provided by modelscope library or git."
- https://www.modelscope.cn/openapi/v1/studios?page_size=1 recorded 2026-09-27
The public studios endpoint returns app entries such as "sdk_type":"gradio".
Verified 2026-09-27