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DETR vs RF-DETR

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Object Detection · verified 13 Aug 2026

DETRMetacurrent
RF-DETRRoboflowcurrent
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SpecificationDETRRF-DETR
SummaryThe paper that removed anchors and NMS.First real-time detector past 60 mAP on COCO.
COCO mAP~4460.5
SpeedLowReal time
LicenceApache 2.0Apache 2.0
FamilyTransformer, set predictionTransformer, set prediction
Open vocabularyNoNo
Released20202025
CategoryObject DetectionObject Detection
OfficialMeta ↗Roboflow ↗

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DETR

  • Reframed detection as set prediction
  • Slow to train, and every transformer detector descends from it

Best for understanding where RF-DETR came from.

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RF-DETR

  • Leads the RF100-VL domain-transfer benchmark
  • DINOv2 backbone, markedly better on occluded objects
  • Apache 2.0, which YOLO is not

Best for most custom detection tasks.

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