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RF-DETR

First real-time detector past 60 mAP on COCO.

currentRoboflow ↗Verified 2026-08-13

60+

COCO mAP

Specifications

COCO mAP60.5
SpeedReal time
LicenceApache 2.0
FamilyTransformer, set prediction
Open vocabularyNo
Released2025

Official links

Roboflow official site

What matters

  • 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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