Open models for license plates and vehicles

These models read a license plate from a camera, tell vehicle types apart and count traffic. They go on barriers and entrances, in warehouses, car parks, car washes and logistics. One caveat: filming people and vehicles and storing such footage is personal data handling; the rules and retention periods are a question for a lawyer.

13 open model families in this collection.Updated 22 Sep 2026Open the full catalog with filters
Plates and vehicles2026

Intel Vehicle Models (OpenVINO)

Intel · USA

Intel models for vehicle video analytics: car, truck, bus, motorcycle, plus entry and exit logging and vehicles stopped too long. Filming vehicles and people is personal data processing: agree the procedure with a lawyer.

  • Counting vehicles and splitting them by type
  • Logging vehicle entry and exit
  • Monitoring parking space occupancy
Sizes
YOLO26 variants from nano to x
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use allowedDetails
Plates and vehicles2020–2026

BoxMOT

Mikel Brostrom (open project) · not disclosed

A set of trackers: it links the same vehicle across frames and cameras, which is how flow and time on site are counted. Filming vehicles and people and storing the records is personal data processing: agree the procedure with a lawyer.

  • Counting vehicles crossing a line
  • Following a vehicle across frames
  • Finding the same vehicle on another camera
Sizes
trackers plus re-identification models from compact to large
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use with conditionsDetails
Plates and vehicles2024–2026

Open Image Models

ankandrew (open project) · not disclosed

Ready-made ONNX detectors that find the license plate in a frame, plus general object detectors. Filming vehicles and people and storing the records is personal data processing: agree the procedure with a lawyer.

  • Finding the plate in a camera frame
  • Preparing a crop for character reading
  • Picking frames with vehicles out of a video stream
Sizes
YOLO-v9 detectors at input sizes from 256 to 640 pixels
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use allowedDetails
Plates and vehicles2025–2026

YOLOv11 License Plate Detection

MorseTechLab · not disclosed

The most downloaded plate detector on Hugging Face: it finds the plate in a frame, and a separate model then reads it. Filming vehicles and people and storing the records is personal data processing: agree the procedure with a lawyer.

  • Finding the plate in camera video
  • Preparing crops for plate reading
  • Testing a plate recognition idea without training
Sizes
a fine-tuned YOLO11, with an ONNX build available
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use with conditionsDetails
Plates and vehicles2024–2026

FastPlateOCR

ankandrew (open project) · not disclosed

Lightweight models that read characters from an already cropped license plate and run on an ordinary CPU. Filming vehicles and people and storing such records is personal data processing: agree the procedure and retention with a lawyer.

  • Reading a plate at entry and exit
  • Matching a plate against a whitelist of passes
  • Going through archived camera footage
Sizes
XS and S models on the CCT architecture
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use allowedDetails
Plates and vehicles2024–2026

FastALPR

ankandrew (open project) · not disclosed

A ready pipeline for plate recognition: plate detector and character reading in one package, with your own models pluggable. Filming vehicles and people and storing the records is personal data processing: agree the procedure with a lawyer.

  • Getting plate recognition running quickly on site
  • Automatic vehicle access by list
  • Logging vehicle entry and exit
Sizes
a lightweight plate detector paired with XS and S reading models
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use allowedDetails
Plates and vehicles2022–2026

PP-Vehicle (PaddleDetection)

PaddlePaddle (Baidu) · China

A ready set of models for vehicle tasks: plate recognition, car color and type, counting entries and exits, spotting parking where it is not allowed. Filming vehicles and people is personal data processing: agree the procedure with a lawyer.

  • Counting traffic flow
  • Identifying car type and color
  • Reading the plate at the entrance
Sizes
a set of models: vehicle detector, attributes, plate reading on PP-OCR
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use allowedDetails
Plates and vehicles2026

Autolane ALPR

Autolane · not disclosed

A recent set of plate recognition weights: two plate detectors and a reading model, trained on US plates, so the Russian format needs fine-tuning. Filming vehicles and people is personal data processing: agree the procedure with a lawyer.

  • Finding the plate in a frame
  • Reading the plate characters
  • Running on cameras and single-board computers
Sizes
RF-DETR and YOLOX-S detectors, CCT-S for character reading
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use allowedDetails
Plates and vehicles2024–2025

VehiclePaliGemma

NYU Abu Dhabi (ComNets) · UAE

A model that looks at a photo and answers in words what the plate says: fine-tuned on Malaysian plates, so the Russian format needs fine-tuning. Filming vehicles and people is personal data processing: agree the procedure with a lawyer.

  • Reading plates in difficult frames
  • Answering questions about a vehicle photo
  • Going through an archive of camera photos
Sizes
3B
Hardware
from: 1 GPU
Commercial use with conditionsDetails
Plates and vehicles2023–2025

Hezar License Plate Recognition

Hezar AI · Iran

Character reading for Iranian license plates; the model is small and runs without a GPU. It was trained on another country plates, so the Russian format needs fine-tuning. Filming vehicles and people is personal data processing: agree the procedure with a lawyer.

  • Reading a plate from a cropped image
  • Using the architecture as an example for your own plate format
  • Fine-tuning reading on your own footage
Sizes
a compact CRNN model
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use with conditionsDetails
Plates and vehicles2023–2025

HyperLPR

szad670401 (open project) · China

A well-known open system for Chinese plates: single-row blue and yellow plates, electric vehicles, driving-school cars. It has to be fine-tuned for the Russian plate format. Filming vehicles and people is personal data processing: agree the procedure with a lawyer.

  • Plate recognition at entry and exit
  • Running on modest hardware without a GPU
  • Embedding recognition into your own application
Sizes
compact detection and reading models designed to run without a GPU
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use allowedDetails
Plates and vehiclesRU2022–2024

Nomeroff Net

RIA.com · Ukraine

A plate recognition system with separate reading modules for Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. Filming vehicles and people and storing the records is personal data processing: agree the procedure with a lawyer.

  • Reading a Russian plate from a camera
  • Identifying the country and plate type
  • Logging vehicles at entry and exit
Sizes
a YOLOv8 detector plus separate character-reading modules
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use with conditionsDetails
Plates and vehicles2023–2024

ViT Vehicle Classifiers (dima806)

dima806 (open project) · not disclosed

Two simple photo classifiers: vehicle type and car brand. Trained on public datasets, so check them on your own footage before use. Filming vehicles and people is personal data processing: agree the procedure with a lawyer.

  • Identifying the vehicle type from a photo
  • Pre-labelling the car brand
  • Going through photos in listings and applications
Sizes
based on ViT-base (google/vit-base-patch16-224-in21k)
Hardware
from: Laptop
Commercial use allowedDetails

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