Replicate

Cloud platform to run, fine-tune, and deploy open-source and custom machine learning models through a simple API, without managing GPU infrastructure.

Replicate is a cloud platform that lets developers run, fine-tune, and deploy machine learning models via a simple API. It hosts a large catalog of community-contributed, production-ready models (image, video, speech, music, and large language models) that can be called with minimal code. Developers can also package and deploy their own models using Cog, Replicate's open-source containerization tool, which generates an API server and manages the underlying cloud infrastructure. The platform auto-scales compute up and down with demand and bills per second of active usage. Founded in 2019 by Ben Firshman (creator of Docker Compose) and Andreas Jansson (ex-Spotify ML), Replicate went through Y Combinator (W20) and was acquired by Cloudflare (announced November 2025), continuing to operate as a distinct brand with its existing API.

Category

Infrastructure & Cloud

Pricing

Usage-based, Enterprise

Target Market

Enterprise, Startups, Developers

Founded

2019

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

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  Run models via API

  Access thousands of community-contributed, production-ready models (image, video, speech, music, and LLMs) and call them with as little as one line of code.

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  Cog

  Open-source tool for packaging machine learning models into containers that automatically generates an API server and handles cloud infrastructure.

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  Fine-tuning

  Customize existing models on your own data to create specialized versions for particular tasks.

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  Deployments & auto-scaling

  Deploy your own models on dedicated hardware with automatic scaling up and down based on traffic, paying only for active compute.

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  Client SDKs

  Official Python and JavaScript/Node.js client libraries for interacting with the platform programmatically.

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  Per-second usage billing

  Transparent per-second GPU and CPU pricing (plus per-token/per-image rates for certain models) so you are billed only for what you use.

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  Add AI features to applications

  Integrate image generation, video, speech, music, and language models into products through a single API without building ML infrastructure.

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  Deploy custom and fine-tuned models

  Package models with Cog and deploy them to production with managed, auto-scaling GPU infrastructure.

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  Prototype and experiment with ML

  Quickly test and iterate on open-source models in the cloud without provisioning or managing GPUs.

Pricing is usage-based. Most public models are billed by processing time at per-second hardware rates that vary by GPU/CPU tier (e.g. CPU ~$0.36/hr, Nvidia T4 ~$0.81/hr, L40S ~$3.51/hr, A100 80GB ~$5.04/hr, H100 ~$5.49/hr), with multi-GPU options scaling proportionally. Certain models (notably large language models and some image models) are billed per input/output token or per output image instead of by time. Private/custom models run on dedicated hardware and are billed for setup, idle, and active processing time. Enterprise adds a dedicated account manager, priority support, higher GPU limits, performance SLAs, and volume discounts. Exact per-model rates are listed on each model page and on the pricing page.