Tool profile
A cloud API for running open-source and commercial AI models across text, image, audio, and video workflows.
Model APIs
Replicate is an API platform for running models without managing GPU infrastructure yourself. Developers use it to access open-source and hosted models across image, video, audio, and text use cases while keeping integration simpler than self-hosting.
Its main appeal is speed to experimentation and shipping. If your team wants to try many models, swap them quickly, or add multimodal features without standing up its own ML infrastructure, Replicate is one of the cleanest ways to do that.
Quick fit
Editorial take
Replicate should be compared with Together, Fal, Baseten, and direct model-hosting strategies based on whether you want speed, model breadth, or deeper infrastructure control. It is strongest when the team values rapid model access more than owning every inference detail.
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Pricing snapshot
Replicate is pay-as-you-go. Official examples include around $3 per million input tokens for Claude 3.7 Sonnet, around $0.04 per image for FLUX 1.1 Pro, and some video workloads around $0.09 to $0.25 per second.
AgentOps
Free planAgent observability
Observability for AI agents with tracing, debugging, session visibility, and production monitoring.
Closer to agent observability than to model hosting or prompt tooling
