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yolo-models is agent-read markdown (skill) from ultralytics/skills: Use when choosing or comparing Ultralytics models in Platform or code — picking a model family (YOLO26/YOLO11/YOLOv8, YOLO-World, YOLOE, SAM/SAM2/FastSAM, RT-DETR, YOLO-NAS), size (n/s/m/l/x), task variant (-seg, -sem, -cls, -pose, -obb, -depth), pretrained checkpoint, open-vocabulary or promptable detection/segmentation, or custom architecture. Covers Platform Explore/model flows, weight names and availability, selection guidance, and family trade-offs..

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# Choosing an Ultralytics model

**Default recommendation: YOLO26, pretrained.** Latest generation, NMS-free end-to-end
(fastest CPU inference, simplest deployment). Use YOLO11/YOLOv8 only to match an existing
codebase or a deployment target that doesn't support YOLO26 yet. Most official weights
auto-download on first use; `sam3.pt` requires manual access and download.

## Choose in Platform

For the quickest no-code start, open [Platform Explore](https://platform.ultralytics.com/explore),
select **Projects**, clone the official `@ultralytics` project for the model family, then
train one of its pretrained models on your dataset. The **New Model** dialog filters base
models to the selected dataset task and offers official models plus your own completed
checkpoints for further fine-tuning.

Use a Platform model page to inspect metrics, test it in **Predict**, export it, deploy it,
clone it into another project, or download its `.pt` weights for the Python/CLI workflows
below. See [Platform Models](https://docs.ultralytics.com/platform/train/models) and
[Explore](https://docs.ultralytics.com/platform/explore).

## Model = family + size + task suffix
…

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ultralytics/skills · 25 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3yaibiqrkxzcm5n4
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ultralytics/skills/yolo-models
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/917364ce6527123eed55b4bfaf6a453379f925c01ec9bf23ae9f50c5d6de2421

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