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YOLOv10 vs YOLOv8

YOLOv10 scores 38.0–53.6 COCO mAP 50:95 across 5 sizes. YOLOv8 scores 36.5–52.9 across 5. Both are open-weight under AGPL 3.0, so commercial use needs a license (included on Roboflow cloud).

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YOLOv10 vs YOLOv8 on COCO

At similar sizes, YOLOv10 Large (25.8M params) scores 52.3 and YOLOv8 Medium (25.9M) scores 49.2.

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COCO val2017 mAP 50:95 against parameter count, one point per size · from leaderboard.roboflow.com

YOLOv10 vs YOLOv8 Comparison Table

PropertyYOLOv10YOLOv8
OrganizationTHU-MIGUltralytics
Categoryopenopen
Modalityvisionvision
Release DateMay 2024Jan 2023
Context Window——
Parameters2.3M-29.5M3.2M-68.2M
LicenseAGPL 3.0AGPL 3.0
Commercial usecommercial use needs a license (included on Roboflow cloud)commercial use needs a license (included on Roboflow cloud)
COCO Benchmark object detection, mAP 50:95 on COCO val2017
Best size53.6XL · 31.7M params52.9XL · 68.2M params
Smallest size38.0Nano · 2.8M params36.5Nano · 3.2M params
mAP range38.0–53.6across 5 sizes36.5–52.9across 5 sizes
Model Sizes COCO mAP 50:95, tested resolution and params per size
Nano38.0640×640 · 2.8M params36.5640×640 · 3.2M params
Small45.7640×640 · 8.1M params44.1640×640 · 11.2M params
Medium50.3640×640 · 16.5M params49.2640×640 · 25.9M params
Large52.3640×640 · 25.8M params51.8640×640 · 43.7M params
XL53.6640×640 · 31.7M params52.9640×640 · 68.2M 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
Both support 1 more task
Model Features
Real-Time VisionNot listedSupported

YOLOv10 vs YOLOv8: Overview

YOLOv10

YOLOv10 is a real-time end-to-end object detection model developed by THU-MIG at Tsinghua University, released in May 2024 under the AGPL-3.0 license. It introduces consistent dual assignments during training — using both one-to-many and one-to-one label assignment strategies — to eliminate the need for non-maximum suppression at inference time while maintaining competitive accuracy. This end-to-end design reduces inference latency compared to NMS-dependent detectors at similar accuracy levels.

YOLOv10-B achieves 52.7% AP on COCO with 46% lower latency than YOLOv9-C at comparable performance. The model is available in six sizes from Nano to Extra Large, built on the Ultralytics framework, and exportable to ONNX, TensorRT, and CoreML. YOLOv10 is suited for latency-sensitive deployment scenarios where post-processing overhead is a constraint.

YOLOv8

YOLOv8 is an object detection and multi-task vision model developed by Ultralytics, released in January 2023 under the AGPL-3.0 license. It succeeds YOLOv5 and introduces an anchor-free detection head, a new C2f module for improved gradient flow, and a decoupled head that separates classification and regression tasks. These changes improve both accuracy and training efficiency compared to earlier Ultralytics models.

YOLOv8 supports object detection, instance segmentation, image classification, pose estimation, and oriented bounding box detection within a unified codebase. It is available in five sizes from Nano to Extra Large and exports to ONNX, TensorRT, CoreML, and other formats. YOLOv8 is one of the most widely adopted detection models in production and is directly supported by Roboflow Inference for custom model training and deployment.