Finding and boxing things in images and video. The licence matters as much as the accuracy here. · ranked by COCO mAP, and licence realism · verified 13 Aug 2026

#	Name	COCO mAP	Speed	Licence	Family	Open vocabulary	Status
1	RF-DETR Roboflow	60.5	Real time	Apache 2.0	Transformer, set prediction	No	current
2	YOLO26 Ultralytics	~55	Very high	AGPL-3.0	Single stage	No	current
3	YOLOv12 Ultralytics	~55	Very high	AGPL-3.0	Single stage	No	current
4	RTMDet OpenMMLab	~52	300+	MIT	Single stage	No	current
5	IGrounding DINO IDEA Research	~52 zero-shot	Moderate	Apache 2.0	Open vocabulary	Yes	current
6	YOLO-World Tencent	~46 zero-shot	High	GPL-3.0	Open vocabulary	Yes	current
7	IDINO-X IDEA Research	~56	Moderate	Proprietary	Open vocabulary	Yes	current
8	SAM 2 Meta	Not applicable	Real time	Apache 2.0	Segmentation	Yes	current
9	OWLv2 Google	~45 zero-shot	Moderate	Apache 2.0	Open vocabulary	Yes	current
10	DETR Meta	~44	Low	Apache 2.0	Transformer, set prediction	No	current
11	Faster R-CNN Microsoft	~42	Low	MIT	Two stage	No	current