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Ultralytics YOLOv8, developed by Ultralytics, is a cutting-edge, state-of-the-art (SOTA) model that builds upon the success of previous YOLO versions and introduces new features and improvements to further boost performance and flexibility. YOLOv8 is designed to be fast, accurate, and easy to use, making it an excellent choice for a wide range of object detection, image segmentation and image classification tasks.

To request an Enterprise License please complete the form at Ultralytics Licensing.

Documentation

See below for a quickstart installation and usage example, and see the YOLOv8 Docs for full documentation on training, validation, prediction and deployment.

Install

Pip install the ultralytics package including all requirements.txt in a Python>=3.7 environment with PyTorch>=1.7.

pip install ultralytics

Usage

CLI

YOLOv8 may be used directly in the Command Line Interface (CLI) with a yolo command:

yolo predict model=yolov8n.pt source="https://ultralytics.com/images/bus.jpg"

yolo can be used for a variety of tasks and modes and accepts additional arguments, i.e. imgsz=640. See the YOLOv8 CLI Docs for examples.

Python

YOLOv8 may also be used directly in a Python environment, and accepts the same arguments as in the CLI example above:

from ultralytics import YOLO

# Load a model
model = YOLO("yolov8n.yaml")  # build a new model from scratch
model = YOLO("yolov8n.pt")  # load a pretrained model (recommended for training)

# Use the model
model.train(data="coco128.yaml", epochs=3)  # train the model
metrics = model.val()  # evaluate model performance on the validation set
results = model("https://ultralytics.com/images/bus.jpg")  # predict on an image
success = model.export(format="onnx")  # export the model to ONNX format

Models download automatically from the latest Ultralytics release. See YOLOv8 Python Docs for more examples.

Model Architectures

⭐ NEW YOLOv5u anchor free models are now available.

All supported model architectures can be found in the Models section.

Known Issues / TODOs

We are still working on several parts of YOLOv8! We aim to have these completed soon to bring the YOLOv8 feature set up to par with YOLOv5, including export and inference to all the same formats. We are also writing a YOLOv8 paper which we will submit to arxiv.org once complete.

• TensorFlow exports
• DDP resume
• arxiv.org paper

Models

All YOLOv8 pretrained models are available here. Detection and Segmentation models are pretrained on the COCO dataset, while Classification models are pretrained on the ImageNet dataset.

Models download automatically from the latest Ultralytics release on first use.

Detection

See Detection Docs for usage examples with these models.

Model	size (pixels)	mAPval 50-95	Speed CPU ONNX (ms)	Speed A100 TensorRT (ms)	params (M)	FLOPs (B)
YOLOv8n	640	37.3	80.4	0.99	3.2	8.7
YOLOv8s	640	44.9	128.4	1.20	11.2	28.6
YOLOv8m	640	50.2	234.7	1.83	25.9	78.9
YOLOv8l	640	52.9	375.2	2.39	43.7	165.2
YOLOv8x	640	53.9	479.1	3.53	68.2	257.8

• mAP^val values are for single-model single-scale on COCO val2017 dataset.
  Reproduce by yolo val detect data=coco.yaml device=0
• Speed averaged over COCO val images using an Amazon EC2 P4d instance.
  Reproduce by yolo val detect data=coco128.yaml batch=1 device=0/cpu

Segmentation

See Segmentation Docs for usage examples with these models.

Model	size (pixels)	mAPbox 50-95	mAPmask 50-95	Speed CPU ONNX (ms)	Speed A100 TensorRT (ms)	params (M)	FLOPs (B)
YOLOv8n-seg	640	36.7	30.5	96.1	1.21	3.4	12.6
YOLOv8s-seg	640	44.6	36.8	155.7	1.47	11.8	42.6
YOLOv8m-seg	640	49.9	40.8	317.0	2.18	27.3	110.2
YOLOv8l-seg	640	52.3	42.6	572.4	2.79	46.0	220.5
YOLOv8x-seg	640	53.4	43.4	712.1	4.02	71.8	344.1

• mAP^val values are for single-model single-scale on COCO val2017 dataset.
  Reproduce by yolo val segment data=coco.yaml device=0
• Speed averaged over COCO val images using an Amazon EC2 P4d instance.
  Reproduce by yolo val segment data=coco128-seg.yaml batch=1 device=0/cpu

Classification

See Classification Docs for usage examples with these models.

Model	size (pixels)	acc top1	acc top5	Speed CPU ONNX (ms)	Speed A100 TensorRT (ms)	params (M)	FLOPs (B) at 640
YOLOv8n-cls	224	66.6	87.0	12.9	0.31	2.7	4.3
YOLOv8s-cls	224	72.3	91.1	23.4	0.35	6.4	13.5
YOLOv8m-cls	224	76.4	93.2	85.4	0.62	17.0	42.7
YOLOv8l-cls	224	78.0	94.1	163.0	0.87	37.5	99.7
YOLOv8x-cls	224	78.4	94.3	232.0	1.01	57.4	154.8

• acc values are model accuracies on the ImageNet dataset validation set.
  Reproduce by yolo val classify data=path/to/ImageNet device=0
• Speed averaged over ImageNet val images using an Amazon EC2 P4d instance.
  Reproduce by yolo val classify data=path/to/ImageNet batch=1 device=0/cpu

Integrations

Roboflow	ClearML ⭐ NEW	Comet ⭐ NEW	Neural Magic ⭐ NEW
Label and export your custom datasets directly to YOLOv8 for training with Roboflow	Automatically track, visualize and even remotely train YOLOv8 using ClearML (open-source!)	Free forever, Comet lets you save YOLOv8 models, resume training, and interactively visualize and debug predictions	Run YOLOv8 inference up to 6x faster with Neural Magic DeepSparse

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Contribute

We love your input! YOLOv5 and YOLOv8 would not be possible without help from our community. Please see our Contributing Guide to get started, and fill out our Survey to send us feedback on your experience. Thank you 🙏 to all our contributors!

License

YOLOv8 is available under two different licenses:

• GPL-3.0 License: See LICENSE file for details.
• Enterprise License: Provides greater flexibility for commercial product development without the open-source requirements of GPL-3.0. Typical use cases are embedding Ultralytics software and AI models in commercial products and applications. Request an Enterprise License at Ultralytics Licensing.

Contact

For YOLOv8 bug reports and feature requests please visit GitHub Issues or the Ultralytics Community Forum.