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DINO-X vs RF-DETR

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Object Detection · verified 13 Aug 2026

IDINO-XIDEA Researchcurrent
RF-DETRRoboflowcurrent
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SpecificationDINO-XRF-DETR
SummaryOpen-world detection, segmentation and pose in one model.First real-time detector past 60 mAP on COCO.
COCO mAP~5660.5
SpeedModerateReal time
LicenceProprietaryApache 2.0
FamilyOpen vocabularyTransformer, set prediction
Open vocabularyYesNo
Released20242025
CategoryObject DetectionObject Detection
OfficialIDEA Research ↗Roboflow ↗

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DINO-X

  • Handles long-tail objects without class lists
  • API-first

Best for open-world perception.

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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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