Ultralytics YOLO

platform-cli

Use when operating Ultralytics Platform from a terminal or script with the ul cloud CLI (ul cloud RESOURCE OPERATION key=value, PyPI package ultralytics-platform) — listing, creating, updating, cloning, or moving projects, datasets, and models; inspecting dataset images, statistics, metadata, duplicates, and similar images; starting and monitoring cloud training runs; per-image model validation analysis; downloading weights; exports, deployments, uploads, trash and restore, storage integrations, and account usage, storage, and billing; and building Agents (YOLO, LLM, gate, and alert workflows). For the Platform web UI or local yolo commands, see yolo; for choosing what to train and how to improve it, see yolo-training and yolo-tuning.

yolo

Use for ANY task involving Ultralytics Platform, the ultralytics Python package, yolo CLI, YOLO model weights (.pt), dataset annotation, training, validation, prediction, tracking, export, deployment, or the detect / segment / semantic / depth / classify / pose / OBB vision tasks.

yolo-datasets

Use when uploading, annotating, building, converting, analyzing, or debugging datasets in Ultralytics Platform or local YOLO — Platform dataset management and Smart Annotation, data.yaml, YOLO label .txt formats, COCO/DOTA/mask conversion, auto-labeling, splits, validation, and errors like "no labels found" or mAP near 0. Covers detect, segment, semantic, depth, classify, pose, and OBB data.

yolo-export

Use when exporting or deploying Ultralytics YOLO models in Platform or code — the Platform Export tab and yolo export/model.export() for ONNX, TensorRT, CoreML, Core AI, OpenVINO, LiteRT, NCNN, ExecuTorch, and NPUs (RKNN, QNN, Hailo, Ascend, IMX, Axelera, DeepX, Xilinx), FP16/INT8 quantization, benchmarking, and non-Python runtimes. For inference with .pt weights or Platform endpoints, see yolo-inference.

yolo-inference

Use when testing, running, or deploying Ultralytics YOLO inference in Platform or code on images, video, webcams, or streams — Platform Predict and dedicated endpoints, model.predict()/yolo predict, Results API boxes/masks/keypoints, persistent tracking, annotated video, and Solutions such as counting, heatmaps, speed, queues, and parking. For optimized runtime exports, see yolo-export.

yolo-models

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, custom architecture, Platform Explore, or exact weight names and availability.

yolo-training

Use when training, fine-tuning, or validating Ultralytics YOLO models in Platform, cloud GPUs, or local code — model.train(), yolo train/val, remote metric streaming, epochs, batch, imgsz, devices, augmentation, multi-GPU, resumes, results, and fixing OOM, NaN loss, low mAP, or overfitting. For hyperparameter search and systematic improvement loops, see yolo-tuning.

yolo-tuning

Use when improving or comparing Ultralytics YOLO models in Platform or code, or running hyperparameter search/autotraining — Platform experiment comparison, the systematic improvement playbook, model.tune() genetic evolution, Ray Tune, search spaces, and deciding whether tuning is worthwhile. For one training run and its arguments, see yolo-training.