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Workflow Caching in Self-Hosted Roboflow Inference
Learn how self-hosted inference caching works in Roboflow Workflows and how to force a deployment refresh.
• 10 min read
Process RTSP Streams for Real-Time Video Analytics
Ingest RTSP streams, handle frame buffering, and run wildfire smoke detection on the Roboflow Inference Docker container.
• 4 min read
How to Use a VLM to Control a PC
Learn how to use a VLM to control a PC. See how a model can read your screen and click for you. See why it works and watch Qwen 3.5 do it live.
• 5 min read
Serverless GPU Inference Cost Comparison: Roboflow, GCP, AWS, Azure
SUMMARY
Serving a custom RF-DETR XL model on serverless GPU infrastructure produces dramatically different monthly costs depending on the provider and traffic pattern, so this post benchmarks Roboflow Serverless, GCP Cloud Run, AWS SageMaker, and Azure Serverless GPU across three workloads: continuous inference at one request per 10 seconds,
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Which is the Best Coding Agent for Vision tasks?
SUMMARY
This benchmark pits four coding agents (Claude Code with Opus 4.6, Cursor with Composer 2, Gemini CLI with Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Codex with GPT 5.4) against five computer vision tasks including bird counting with SAM 3, car counting in video and RTSP streams, avocado detection,
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Inference 1.0: Foundational Infrastructure for Visual Understanding
SUMMARY
Roboflow Inference 1.0 is a modular, multi-backend execution engine built to run vision models at enterprise scale across cloud and edge hardware. The 1.0 release adds automatic backend selection across ONNX, PyTorch, and TensorRT, so the server picks the best runtime for the underlying hardware without
• 6 min read
Inference as a Service: How Roboflow Makes Vision AI Production-Ready
This guide explores how to abstract away the complexities of GPU orchestration and hardware allocation. Roboflow offers a production-grade API with built-in active learning, model chaining, and auto-scaling to turn your vision models into real-world solutions.
• 14 min read
How to Increase Inference Speed for Computer Vision Models
Struggling with low FPS in your computer vision model? This guide explains how to move from single-digit performance to real-time deployment using smarter preprocessing, Nano-scale models like RF-DETR, GPU acceleration, TensorRT optimization, and Roboflow Inference pipelines for maximum throughput.
• 7 min read
How Do I Monitor Inference Health?
Inference health monitoring is necessary to keep computer vision systems reliable in production. This guide explains key signals like latency, uptime, drift, and confidence trends, and shows how Roboflow helps teams track, diagnose, and improve real-world model performance.
• 9 min read
Comparing Cloud and On-Device Inference for Computer Vision Models
Learn how to architect a unified vision pipeline that leverages the speed of edge inference for real-time action while escalating high-complexity tasks to frontier cloud models.
• 4 min read
Launch: Train and Deploy YOLO26 with Roboflow
SUMMARY
Roboflow platform support for YOLO26 covers the full workflow from labeling and training to deployment. The model's edge-optimized architecture, which removes Non-Maximum Suppression for end-to-end predictions and introduces the MuSGD optimizer, can be deployed via Roboflow Inference on CPU or GPU hardware. Dataset
• 10 min read
Inference Latency
Learn about inference latency, why it matters, and how to optimize every stage of the pipeline to build reliable, real-time vision systems.
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Putting the New M4 Macs to the Test
Apple's new M4 chips deliver massive performance gains in computer vision, with up to 3x the speed of the M1 Max. Benchmarks using Roboflow's tools highlight the M4's dominance in real-time object detection and segmentation, driven by SME hardware enhancements. The future of AI just got faster!
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