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Replicate

Run AI with an API

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What is Replicate?

Platform for running, fine-tuning, and deploying AI models (LLMs, image generation, video, speech, etc.) via API. Thousands of open-source and proprietary models available, plus the ability to deploy custom models.

Independently observed

Replicate pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $0.00/moUsage-basedFree tier

Usage-based: public models from $0.01–$0.25 per output token/image/second; private models from $0.09–$40.32/hr. Free tier available.

Public Models

Per-token or per-output pricing varies by model

Thousands of open-source and proprietary models billed by execution time or output tokens/images

  • Run public models
  • Text-to-image generation
  • Image editing and restoration
  • Video generation
  • Speech generation
  • Large language models
  • Music generation

Private Models

$0.09–$20.16/hr depending on hardware

Deploy custom models on dedicated hardware. Billed for all uptime (setup, idle, and processing)

  • Dedicated hardware (no shared queue)
  • Auto-scaling
  • Custom model deployment
  • Hourly billing available

Fast Booting Fine-Tunes

Active processing time only

Private fine-tuned models billed only for active processing time (no idle time charges)

  • Fine-tuned model deployment
  • No idle time billing

Add-ons

  • Multi-GPU A100 Capacity$0.01/4x Nvidia A100 (80GB)/second + $0.01/8x Nvidia A100 (80GB)/second
  • Multi-GPU H100 Capacity$0.00/2x Nvidia H100/second + $0.01/4x Nvidia H100/second + $0.01/8x Nvidia H100/second

What Replicate does

The capabilities that matter for mlops & llmops tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Core
Tool role
Model serving
Deployment
Self-hostable / OSS core
✓
Managed cloud available
✓
On-prem / VPC deployment
✗
Observability
LLM tracing / observability
✗
Evaluation (offline / LLM-judge / human)
✗
Dev
Prompt management + versioning
✗
Tracking
Experiment tracking / model registry
✗
Serving
Model serving / inference endpoint
✓
Interop
OpenTelemetry / OpenLLMetry compatible
✗
Framework-agnostic
✓
Gateway
Multi-provider model support
✓
Data
No-train-on-customer-data guarantee
-
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (9)

Independently observed
  • Node.js
  • Python
  • Next.js
  • SwiftUI
  • Discord
  • ComfyUI
  • Cloudflare
  • Val Town
  • OpenAI

Replicate alternatives

Other mlops & llmops tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.

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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Replicate, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 67 / 100
low · 49%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Capabilities7532.002391.1✓
Pricing Transparency10016.001600.0✓
Price Level8010.00800.0✓
Reliability5012.00600.0✓
Integrations2918.00517.6✓
Security Posture012.000.0-

Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.

All data & sourcesshow ↓

Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"role":"serving","evaluation":false,"managed_cloud":true,"model_serving":true,"self_hostable":true,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":false,"otel_compatible":false,"llm_observability":false,"prompt_management":false,"framework_agnostic":true,"experiment_tracking":false}mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count9mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Starting gbp0mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%