Pyyan / Compare / RF-DETR vs YOLO26
Object Detection · verified 13 Aug 2026
| Specification | RF-DETR | YOLO26 |
|---|---|---|
| Summary | First real-time detector past 60 mAP on COCO. | The latest in the line most people mean by object detection. |
| COCO mAP | 60.5 | ~55 |
| Speed | Real time | Very high |
| Licence | Apache 2.0 | AGPL-3.0 |
| Family | Transformer, set prediction | Single stage |
| Open vocabulary | No | No |
| Released | 2025 | 2026 |
| Category | Object Detection | Object Detection |
| Official | Roboflow ↗ | Ultralytics ↗ |
Highlighted rows are where these differ.
Best for most custom detection tasks.
Best for edge and mobile deployment.