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