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Grounding DINO vs YOLO-World
2 of 5Object Detection · verified 13 Aug 2026
IGrounding DINOIDEA Researchcurrent
YOLO-WorldTencentcurrent| Specification | Grounding DINO | YOLO-World |
|---|---|---|
| Summary | Detects whatever you describe in words. | Open-vocabulary detection at YOLO speed. |
| COCO mAP | ~52 zero-shot | ~46 zero-shot |
| Speed | Moderate | High |
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | GPL-3.0 |
| Family | Open vocabulary | Open vocabulary |
| Open vocabulary | Yes | Yes |
| Released | 2023 | 2024 |
| Category | Object Detection | Object Detection |
| Official | IDEA Research ↗ | Tencent ↗ |
Highlighted rows are where these differ.
Grounding DINO
- Text prompt in, boxes out
- Fine-tuning still beats it on specialised objects
Best for classes you have no data for.
YOLO-World
- The speed of YOLO with text-defined classes
- Weaker than Grounding DINO on hard prompts
Best for prompted detection that has to be fast.