Ultralytics YOLOv8 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 and tracking, instance segmentation, image classification and pose estimation tasks.

We hope that the resources here will help you get the most out of YOLOv8. Please browse the YOLOv8 Docs for details, raise an issue on GitHub for support, and join our Discord community for questions and discussions!

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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 in a Python>=3.8 environment with PyTorch>=1.8.

pip install ultralytics

For alternative installation methods including Conda, Docker, and Git, please refer to the Quickstart Guide.

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
path = model.export(format="onnx")  # export the model to ONNX format

See YOLOv8 Python Docs for more examples.

Notebooks

Ultralytics provides interactive notebooks for YOLOv8, covering training, validation, tracking, and more. Each notebook is paired with a YouTube tutorial, making it easy to learn and implement advanced YOLOv8 features.

Docs	Notebook	YouTube
YOLOv8 Train, Val, Predict and Export Modes
Ultralytics HUB QuickStart
YOLOv8 Multi-Object Tracking in Videos
YOLOv8 Object Counting in Videos
YOLOv8 Heatmaps in Videos
Ultralytics Datasets Explorer with SQL and OpenAI Integration		Coming Soon

Models

YOLOv8 Detect, Segment and Pose models pretrained on the COCO dataset are available here, as well as YOLOv8 Classify models pretrained on the ImageNet dataset. Track mode is available for all Detect, Segment and Pose models.

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

Detection (COCO)

See Detection Docs for usage examples with these models trained on COCO, which include 80 pre-trained classes.

Model	size ^(pixels)	mAP^val 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=coco.yaml batch=1 device=0|cpu

Detection (Open Image V7)

See Detection Docs for usage examples with these models trained on Open Image V7, which include 600 pre-trained classes.

Model	size ^(pixels)	mAP^val 50-95	Speed ^{CPU ONNX (ms)}	Speed ^{A100 TensorRT (ms)}	params ^(M)	FLOPs ^(B)
YOLOv8n	640	18.4	142.4	1.21	3.5	10.5
YOLOv8s	640	27.7	183.1	1.40	11.4	29.7
YOLOv8m	640	33.6	408.5	2.26	26.2	80.6
YOLOv8l	640	34.9	596.9	2.43	44.1	167.4
YOLOv8x	640	36.3	860.6	3.56	68.7	260.6

mAP^val values are for single-model single-scale on Open Image V7 dataset.
Reproduce by yolo val detect data=open-images-v7.yaml device=0
Speed averaged over Open Image V7 val images using an Amazon EC2 P4d instance.
Reproduce by yolo val detect data=open-images-v7.yaml batch=1 device=0|cpu

Segmentation (COCO)

See Segmentation Docs for usage examples with these models trained on COCO-Seg, which include 80 pre-trained classes.

Model	size ^(pixels)	mAP^box 50-95	mAP^mask 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-seg.yaml device=0
Speed averaged over COCO val images using an Amazon EC2 P4d instance.
Reproduce by yolo val segment data=coco-seg.yaml batch=1 device=0|cpu

Pose (COCO)

See Pose Docs for usage examples with these models trained on COCO-Pose, which include 1 pre-trained class, person.

Model	size ^(pixels)	mAP^pose 50-95	mAP^pose 50	Speed ^{CPU ONNX (ms)}	Speed ^{A100 TensorRT (ms)}	params ^(M)	FLOPs ^(B)
YOLOv8n-pose	640	50.4	80.1	131.8	1.18	3.3	9.2
YOLOv8s-pose	640	60.0	86.2	233.2	1.42	11.6	30.2
YOLOv8m-pose	640	65.0	88.8	456.3	2.00	26.4	81.0
YOLOv8l-pose	640	67.6	90.0	784.5	2.59	44.4	168.6
YOLOv8x-pose	640	69.2	90.2	1607.1	3.73	69.4	263.2
YOLOv8x-pose-p6	1280	71.6	91.2	4088.7	10.04	99.1	1066.4

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

OBB (DOTAv1)

See OBB Docs for usage examples with these models trained on DOTAv1, which include 15 pre-trained classes.

Model	size ^(pixels)	mAP^test 50	Speed ^{CPU ONNX (ms)}	Speed ^{A100 TensorRT (ms)}	params ^(M)	FLOPs ^(B)
YOLOv8n-obb	1024	76.9	204.77	3.57	3.1	23.3
YOLOv8s-obb	1024	78.0	424.88	4.07	11.4	76.3
YOLOv8m-obb	1024	80.5	763.48	7.61	26.4	208.6
YOLOv8l-obb	1024	80.7	1278.42	11.83	44.5	433.8
YOLOv8x-obb	1024	81.36	1759.10	13.23	69.5	676.7

Classification (ImageNet)

See Classification Docs for usage examples with these models trained on ImageNet, which include 1000 pretrained classes.

Model	size ^(pixels)	acc ^top1	acc ^top5	Speed ^{CPU ONNX (ms)}	Speed ^{A100 TensorRT (ms)}	params ^(M)	FLOPs ^{(B) at 640}
YOLOv8n-cls	224	69.0	88.3	12.9	0.31	2.7	4.3
YOLOv8s-cls	224	73.8	91.7	23.4	0.35	6.4	13.5
YOLOv8m-cls	224	76.8	93.5	85.4	0.62	17.0	42.7
YOLOv8l-cls	224	76.8	93.5	163.0	0.87	37.5	99.7
YOLOv8x-cls	224	79.0	94.6	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

Our key integrations with leading AI platforms extend the functionality of Ultralytics' offerings, enhancing tasks like dataset labeling, training, visualization, and model management. Discover how Ultralytics, in collaboration with Roboflow, ClearML, Comet, Neural Magic and OpenVINO, can optimize your AI workflow.

Ultralytics active learning 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

Ultralytics HUB

Experience seamless AI with Ultralytics HUB ⭐, the all-in-one solution for data visualization, YOLOv5 and YOLOv8 🚀 model training and deployment, without any coding. Transform images into actionable insights and bring your AI visions to life with ease using our cutting-edge platform and user-friendly Ultralytics App. Start your journey for Free now!

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

Ultralytics offers two licensing options to accommodate diverse use cases:

AGPL-3.0 License: This OSI-approved open-source license is ideal for students and enthusiasts, promoting open collaboration and knowledge sharing. See the LICENSE file for more details.
Enterprise License: Designed for commercial use, this license permits seamless integration of Ultralytics software and AI models into commercial goods and services, bypassing the open-source requirements of AGPL-3.0. If your scenario involves embedding our solutions into a commercial offering, reach out through Ultralytics Licensing.