Replicate
Run thousands of community and official AI models through a simple API
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What is Replicate?
Replicate provides a simple API for running thousands of community and official models without managing inference infrastructure. You can fine-tune supported models or package custom predictors with Cog, then let Replicate scale the deployment as traffic changes.
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What you should know
COMMUNITY
From the forums
AI builders often praise Replicate for making new image and video models easy to test, package and call without managing a GPU. The open-model community also compares it with local ComfyUI workflows, where cost and reproducibility can be better but operational effort is higher; cold starts, changing model versions and usage costs remain common concerns.
— Community sentiment · Reddit
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FAQ
Questions, answered.
Can I use Replicate for free?＋
You can run selected models for free before billing setup, but Replicate does not publish a fixed number of free runs. It asks you to configure billing after the free allowance is exhausted.
What are Replicate's API rate limits?＋
Prediction creation is limited to 600 requests per minute, while other API endpoints allow 3,000 requests per minute by default.
How is Replicate priced?＋
Pricing depends on the model and hardware. Current examples include $0.09 per hour for the small CPU and $5.04 per hour for an Nvidia A100 80 GB, while some models charge per input or output unit.