Roboflow launched Roboflow Playground on September 30, 2025, a browser-based tool for testing and comparing more than 30 computer-vision models. Users can submit the same image and prompt to as many as five compatible zero-shot models simultaneously, including models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Google, Mistral, and open-weight providers such as Florence-2, Qwen3.8 27B, Muse Glimmer 30B, and Llama-series releases. Playground supports object detection, image classification, optical character recognition, captioning, and open-prompt visual question answering. Available models vary by task: Gemini 3.6 Flash and SAM 3 can be selected for object detection, while SAM 3 cannot be used for visual question answering. The service lets users upload images, enter prompts, and inspect output side by side without separately provisioning cloud APIs or infrastructure for open-weight models. For object detection, Playground draws bounding boxes returned by each model. In a Roboflow example using prompts for a book and coffee, Florence-2 and YOLO World identified both objects with accurate boxes, while Claude 3.5 Sonnet located them generally but did not produce precise boxes. In an open-prompt example, Claude 4 Sonnet and GPT-4.1 identified a coffee cup on a table and described the surrounding scene. Roboflow says Playground is available free to try and that it plans to add models as they become available.