YOLO-NAS vs YOLO11
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YOLO-NAS vs YOLO11 Comparison Table
Evals updated October 13, 2026Pricing updated October 23, 2026
| Property | YOLO-NAS | YOLO11 |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Deci AI | Ultralytics |
| Category | open | open |
| Modality | vision | vision |
| Release Date | May 2023 | Sep 2024 |
| Context Window | — | — |
| Parameters | Unknown | 2.6M-56.9M |
| License | Custom | AGPL 3.0 |
| Commercial use | weights license restricts commercial use (Deci's consent needed) | commercial use needs a license (included on Roboflow cloud) |
| COCO Benchmark object detection, mAP 50:95 on COCO val2017 | ||
| Best size | Not benchmarked | 53.6XL · 56.9M params |
| Smallest size | Not benchmarked | 38.6Nano · 2.6M params |
| mAP range | Not benchmarked | 38.6–53.6across 5 sizes |
| Model Sizes COCO mAP 50:95, tested resolution and params per size | ||
| Nano | Not available | 38.6640×640 · 2.6M params |
| Small | 640×640 | 45.5640×640 · 9.4M params |
| Medium | 640×640 | 50.5640×640 · 20.1M params |
| Large | 640×640 | 52.2640×640 · 25.3M params |
| XL | Not available | 53.6640×640 · 56.9M params |
| COCO val2017 mAP 50:95 and parameter counts from leaderboard.roboflow.com. Size names don't line up across model families, so compare sizes with similar parameter counts. The live demo runs some of these sizes at other resolutions, which were not benchmarked. | ||
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Object Detection | Demo (COCO) | Demo (COCO) |
| Instance Segmentation | Not listed | Demo (COCO) |
| Model Features | ||
| Real-Time Vision | Supported | Supported |
YOLO-NAS vs YOLO11: Overview
YOLO-NAS is an object detection model developed by Deci AI, released in May 2023 as part of the super-gradients open-source training library. The architecture was generated using Deci's proprietary Neural Architecture Search technology, AutoNAC, which searches for network structures that balance accuracy and inference latency on target hardware. This produced three model sizes (small, medium, and large) featuring quantization-friendly blocks that reduce accuracy loss when converting weights to INT8 precision for deployment on edge devices and mobile hardware.
YOLO-NAS achieves competitive accuracy-latency tradeoffs against YOLOv5, YOLOv6, YOLOv7, and YOLOv8 on the Microsoft COCO benchmark at release, and ships with pretraining on Objects365 in addition to COCO. Note that YOLO-NAS uses a custom license: the surrounding super-gradients framework code is Apache-2.0, but the YOLO-NAS model weights are released under a separate non-commercial license that restricts production and commercial use. Teams evaluating YOLO-NAS for commercial applications should review the LICENSE.YOLONAS.md terms directly. Deci AI was acquired by NVIDIA in April 2024, and the super-gradients repository is no longer actively maintained by the original team. Users can still download and use the released weights, but no further updates or new variants are expected.
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.
