Replicate

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Run open-source AI models in the cloud via a simple API — images, video, audio, and LLMs.

Free tier available·Technical·Powered by Multi-provider (Black Forest Labs, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, ByteDance, xAI, Alibaba, Recraft, Minimax, and community models)·API available·Open source

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Key strengths

Run thousands of community and official AI models via APIFine-tune models with custom dataDeploy custom models using Cog (open-source packaging tool)Automatic scaling up and down to zeroPay-per-use pricing with no idle charges for public modelsWide model variety: image, video, speech, music, LLMs

Free tier + paid plans

San Francisco, US

Founded 2021

Facts verified against replicate.com on Oct 8, 2026

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Oct 8, 2026Plans updated: Pay-per-use: public models billed by time (e.g. CPU $0.000100/sec, Nvidia T4 $0.000225/sec, Nvidia L40S $0.000975/sec, Nvidia A100 80GB $0.001400/sec) or by input/output (e.g. flux-1.1-pro $0.04/image, deepseek-r1 $0.01/1K output tokens). Private models billed for all online time including idle.
Oct 8, 2026Models updated: Multi-provider (Black Forest Labs, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, ByteDance, xAI, Alibaba, Recraft, Minimax, and community models)

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Replicate is a cloud platform that exposes thousands of AI/ML models — spanning image generation, video, speech, music, and LLMs — through a unified REST API. Developers integrate via official clients for Node.js, Python, or raw HTTP, with no ML infrastructure to manage. Models from providers including Black Forest Labs, OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, ByteDance, xAI, Alibaba, Recraft, Minimax, and the open-source community are available out of the box. Custom models can be packaged with Cog (Replicate's open-source containerization tool) and deployed to the platform. Deployments scale automatically — including down to zero — eliminating idle costs for public models. Replicate is not self-hostable; all compute runs on Replicate's infrastructure.

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