How much does Replicate cost?
- Free plan
- Not stated
- Usage price
- $0/minute
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
In your favor
- Notice before price changes. Reasonable prior notice of subscription fee changes
How you buy and get started
- Sign up
- Self-serve sign in, including with GitHub "Information when you register for an account, including if you sign in with GitHub credentials."
- Setup
- Not stated
- When sales steps in
- Enterprise tier for volume discounts and SLAs via contact form "We've also got volume discounts for large amounts of spend."
- Support
- Priority support for enterprise "Priority support"
- Support
- Support email "support@replicate.com"
What Replicate does
Replicate lets developers run thousands of community and official models (image, video, speech, music and language) via a single API, fine-tune them, and deploy custom models packaged with Cog. Billing is pay-as-you-go by hardware time or by input/output, with an enterprise tier for volume discounts, SLAs and support.
- Good for
- Software developers and businesses that want to call or deploy AI models through an API without managing infrastructure.
- Channels
- API, Web playground, Node client, Python client, HTTP
- Main product
- Hosted API for running, fine-tuning and deploying AI models
- Also includes
- API access to thousands of community and official models, Fine-tuning of models with your own data, Custom model deployment with Cog, Automatic scaling, Playground for comparing models, MCP server and agent skills
- Connects to
- GitHub
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Yes
- Public API access
Run AI with an API.
- Long context windowNot stated
- Fine-tuning support
Run and fine-tune models.
- Tool and function callingNot stated
- Image and audio inputNot stated
- SOC 2 complianceNot stated
- Zero data retention optionNot stated
- VPC or on-prem deploymentNot stated
The same 8 checks appear on every tool in Large language models. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.
Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | Not stated | |
| GDPR | Not stated | |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Not stated | |
| Trust center | Not stated |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardware: CPU (Small)/sec | $0per minute | – | – | – | "$0.000025/sec" |
| Hardware: CPU/sec | $0per minute | – | – | – | "$0.000100/sec" |
| Hardware: Nvidia T4 GPU/sec | $0per minute | – | – | – | "$0.000225/sec" |
| Hardware: Nvidia L40S GPU/sec | $0per minute | – | – | – | "$0.000975/sec" |
| Hardware: Nvidia A100 (80GB) GPU/sec | $0per minute | – | – | – | "$0.001400/sec" |
| Hardware: Nvidia H100 GPU/sec | $0per minute | – | – | – | "$0.001525/sec" |
| Enterprise | Quote | – | – | – | "We've also got volume discounts for large amounts of spend." |
Fine print
- Billing increment
- per second "When running or training one of these public models, you only pay for the time it takes to process your request."
- Billed beyond usage
- Not stated
- Contract
- Not stated
- Refunds
- Not stated
- Auto renew
- Subscriptions renew automatically for successive periods of the same duration unless cancelled "will automatically renew for successive periods of the same duration as the Initial Subscription Period"
- Price change notice
- Reasonable prior notice of subscription fee changes "Replicate will provide you with a reasonable prior notice of any change in Subscription fees to give you an opportunity to terminate your Subscription before such change becomes ef"
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Replicate, LLC
- Online since
- May 26, 1998 Domain registration date
- Ships updates
- 10 in the last 12 months Last on Apr 21, 2026, from their changelog
- Customers
- "Thousands of businesses build AI products on Replicate" their claim
Replicate alternatives
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Questions
Is Replicate free?
No free plan is stated on Replicate's pricing page.
