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Grounding DINO vs RF-DETR

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Object Detection · verified 13 Aug 2026

IGrounding DINOIDEA Researchcurrent
RF-DETRRoboflowcurrent
3 slots left
SpecificationGrounding DINORF-DETR
SummaryDetects whatever you describe in words.First real-time detector past 60 mAP on COCO.
COCO mAP~52 zero-shot60.5
SpeedModerateReal time
LicenceApache 2.0Apache 2.0
FamilyOpen vocabularyTransformer, set prediction
Open vocabularyYesNo
Released20232025
CategoryObject DetectionObject Detection
OfficialIDEA Research ↗Roboflow ↗

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Grounding DINO

  • Text prompt in, boxes out
  • Fine-tuning still beats it on specialised objects

Best for classes you have no data for.

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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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