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RTMDet vs YOLO11

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RTMDet vs YOLO11 Comparison Table

Evals updated July 10, 2026Pricing updated July 21, 2026

PropertyRTMDetYOLO11
OrganizationOpenMMLabUltralytics
Categoryopenopen
Modalityvisionvision
Release DateDec 2022Sep 2024
Context Window
Parameters4.8M-94.9M2.6M-56.9M
LicenseGPL v3AGPL 3.0
Model Sizes input resolution per size variant
Nano640×640
Small1280×1280, 640×640
Medium1280×1280, 640×640
Large1280×1280, 640×640
XL1280×1280, 640×640
Vision Tasks
Object DetectionDemo (COCO)
Instance SegmentationDemo (COCO)
Model Features
Real-Time Vision

RTMDet vs YOLO11: Overview

RTMDet

RTMDet is a real-time object detection model developed by OpenMMLab, released in December 2022 under the GPL-3.0 license. It adopts a single-stage detection architecture with large-kernel depthwise convolution in both the backbone and neck, enabling it to capture long-range spatial dependencies without the computational cost of full self-attention. The model family spans from RTMDet-tiny to RTMDet-x, covering a wide range of speed-accuracy operating points.

RTMDet-x achieves 52.6% AP on COCO at 114 FPS on an NVIDIA 3090 GPU. The architecture supports instance segmentation and rotated object detection variants. RTMDet is included in the OpenMMLab ecosystem and is well suited for applications requiring fast, accurate detection with flexible model sizing.

YOLO11

YOLO11 is an object detection and multi-task vision model developed by Ultralytics, released in September 2024 under the AGPL-3.0 license. It is the latest generation in the Ultralytics YOLO series and supports object detection, instance segmentation, image classification, pose estimation, and oriented bounding box detection within a single unified framework. YOLO11 introduces architectural refinements that improve accuracy while reducing parameter count compared to YOLOv8 at equivalent model sizes.

YOLO11 is available in five model sizes from Nano to Extra Large and is deployable through the Ultralytics Python package, Roboflow Inference, and export formats including ONNX, TensorRT, and CoreML. It supports fine-tuning on custom datasets through the standard Ultralytics training API.