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RF-DETR vs Grounding DINO

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Object Detection · verified 13 Aug 2026

RF-DETRRoboflowcurrent
IGrounding DINOIDEA Researchcurrent
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SpecificationRF-DETRGrounding DINO
SummaryFirst real-time detector past 60 mAP on COCO.Detects whatever you describe in words.
COCO mAP60.5~52 zero-shot
SpeedReal timeModerate
LicenceApache 2.0Apache 2.0
FamilyTransformer, set predictionOpen vocabulary
Open vocabularyNoYes
Released20252023
CategoryObject DetectionObject Detection
OfficialRoboflow ↗IDEA Research ↗

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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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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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