Ultralytics builds the open-source YOLO computer vision models. See YOLO11/YOLO26 features, AGPL licensing, and Ultralytics Hub pricing.
Ultralytics is a computer vision company founded in 2014 by Glenn Jocher, best known for developing and maintaining the YOLO (You Only Look Once) family of real-time object detection models, one of the most widely used architectures in applied computer vision.
The company is headquartered in Frederick, Maryland, and operates as a distributed team across North America, Europe, and Asia, with roughly 50 to 60 employees as of 2026.
Ultralytics provides both an open-source Python library for training and running YOLO models locally, and Ultralytics Hub, a hosted platform for dataset management, cloud training, and model deployment.
The YOLO model family supports object detection, instance segmentation, pose estimation, oriented bounding box detection, image classification, and multi-object tracking, with successive generations (YOLOv5, YOLOv8, YOLO11, YOLO26) improving speed and accuracy.
Ultralytics Hub adds dataset annotation tools including automated SAM (Segment Anything Model) assistance, cloud-based model training with configurable compute, and one-click export to 17-plus deployment formats such as ONNX, TensorRT, and CoreML.
Models can be deployed to edge devices, mobile, cloud endpoints, or embedded systems, and the library integrates with common MLOps tools for experiment tracking and versioning.
The Ultralytics YOLO codebase is free and open source under AGPL-3.0, which requires derivative works distributed to others to also be open-sourced. Organizations that want to embed YOLO in closed-source commercial products need an Enterprise License, priced individually based on usage scope.
Ultralytics Hub adds a separate SaaS pricing tier on top of the open-source library: a free plan with core training and storage limits, a Pro plan at 29 dollars per seat per month (290 dollars per year with annual billing), and a custom Enterprise plan bundling the commercial license with dedicated support.
Ultralytics is best known for developing and maintaining the YOLO family of real-time object detection and computer vision models.
Yes, the core YOLO codebase is free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 license, though commercial closed-source use requires an Enterprise License.
Ultralytics was founded in 2014 by Glenn Jocher, who serves as its CEO.
YOLO11 is a newer generation of the YOLO architecture released after YOLOv8, offering improved accuracy and efficiency; both are maintained and distributed by Ultralytics.
Ultralytics Hub (the Ultralytics Platform) is a cloud service for dataset management, model training, and deployment built on top of the open-source YOLO library.
Ultralytics Hub Pro costs 29 dollars per seat per month, or 290 dollars per year with annual billing.
You need an Enterprise License if you want to embed YOLO in a proprietary, closed-source product without complying with AGPL-3.0's open-source requirements.
Ultralytics is headquartered in Frederick, Maryland, United States.