Roboflow Playground: Try and Compare 30 Computer Vision Models

Comparing zero-shot machine imagination models – from Claude Opus 4.7 to Gemini 3.1 Pro – tin beryllium daunting. Researching the latest models to try, penning the codification to telephone unreality APIs, provisioning infrastructure for unfastened weight models – each of this takes time. Before you cognize it, a caller exemplary is out, fresh for use.

With that successful mind, we are excited to denote a instrumentality to thief you try, compare, and measure complete 30 celebrated zero-shot imagination models: Roboflow Playground.

In this blog post, we are going to locomotion done what Roboflow Playground is, and really to usage it to trial caller imagination models.

An illustration of Roboflow Playground utilized to place the location of peaches successful an image. Florence-2, YOLO World, and a preview Seg Preview exemplary are displayed.

What is Roboflow Playground?

Roboflow Playground lets you compare, side-by-side, the latest machine imagination models.

With Playground, you tin tally the aforesaid image and punctual crossed up to 5 imagination models astatine once. Supported models scope from the latest VLMs by Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, and Google, each the measurement to unfastened root models for illustration Florence-2 and YOLO World.

To get started, spell to the Roboflow Playground website. You will past beryllium capable to take what imagination task you want to run. As of today, Playground supports:

• Object detection
• Image captioning
• Image classification
• OCR
• Open punctual (VQA)

You tin past take up to 5 models to compare. Once you person chosen a task and a model, you tin upload an image and group prompts.

The models disposable dangle connected the chosen task type. For example, you tin usage Florence-2 and Seg Preview for entity discovery because some models support entity detection, but you can't usage these models for VQA because they don't support this task.

Using Playground to Compare Object Detection Models

Let’s effort Roboflow Playground connected entity detection. 

To take a task, click “Object detection” from the database of tasks dropdown and prime your chosen task:

We tin past upload an image of a book and java and group the prompts “book” and “coffee”:

We are now fresh to tally our image and punctual done imagination models to spot the results. For entity detection, Playground automatically land the bounding boxes returned by each model.

Here is an illustration of the results for our prompt:

In this example, we ran our entity discovery prompts – “coffee” and “book – done Florence-2, YOLO World, and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Both Florence-2 and YOLO World identified some objects and drew meticulous bounding boxes; Claude 3.5 Sonnet recovered the wide location of each object, but was incapable to tie precise bounding boxes.

Using Playground pinch an Open Prompt

Let’s effort utilizing Playground pinch the Open Prompt task type. This lets america inquire a mobility astir the contents of an image. To usage Open Prompt, take “Open Prompt” from the task dropdown successful the apical near area of the Playground interface, past upload an image and group a mobility to ask.

For this guide, let’s upload a image of a cup of java connected a array and inquire “What is successful this photo?”

Here is an illustration consequence from the Playground:

Above, results from Claude 4 Sonnet and GPT-4.1 are displayed. Both models accurately place that the photograph contains a java cup connected a table, and see elaborate descriptions of the inheritance and surroundings.

Experiment pinch Playground Today

With Roboflow Playground, you tin effort various machine imagination models and comparison them side-by-side.

Today, we are launching pinch support for 30+ models, including the latest models by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Mistral, and different providers, arsenic good arsenic open-weights models for illustration the latest successful the Llama series.

We scheme to adhd much models arsenic they go available.

You tin get started pinch Roboflow Playground coming to try, compare, and measure supported imagination models for free.

If you travel up pinch a punctual that returns absorbing results, stock it connected societal media. You tin tag america @Roboflow to fto america cognize what you person recovered erstwhile playing pinch the latest frontier imagination models.