fotonet is a free, open-source object detection library for Python: labeling, inference, training and export in one package. Its models are designed and trained from scratch on COCO alone, with no outside pretraining and no distillation, and they return one box per object with no NMS step. They export to ONNX, TensorRT, Core ML and other runtimes, so the same model runs on servers, in browsers, on phones and on small boards. fotonet is meant for anyone who builds with object detection, from hobbyists to companies shipping products, without licence fees or strings attached.