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