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Replicate pricing
Replicate publishes 2 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Usage-based
- Tiers
- 2
- Free tier
- Yes
Replicate plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 2 | Entry tier |
| Pay-per-use | $0.000225/per-second | 2 | +$0.000225/per-second, 2 more features |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers limited free credits, public models.
Pay-per-use
$0.000225/per-secondOver Free, this tier adds:
- All models
- Private models
Where Replicate stops being free
Free, Free
- Limited free credits
- Public models
Pay-per-use, $0.000225/per-second
The first thing you pay for:
- All models
- Private models
What the product covers
The full Replicate feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Model hosting
- Simple API
- Auto-scaling
- Custom models
Integrations
- REST API
- Python client
- JavaScript client
Platform
- Api support
- Cloud support
People bring Replicate in for running open source machine learning models through a hosted api without managing gpus, deploying and serving a custom or fine tuned model on rented gpu hardware, per second billed batch image, video and language model inference. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Replicate are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in AI Tools
Too few ai tools tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Replicate (this page) | Free | usage-based | - | |
| Voiceflow | Free | freemium | - | vs Replicate |
| Chatbase | On request | subscription | - | vs Replicate |
| CoreWeave | $0.35/per-hour | usage-based | - | vs Replicate |
| Anthropic API | $3/per-million-tokens | usage-based | - | vs Replicate |
| Character.AI | Free, then $9.99/month | - | - | vs Replicate |
| Claude | Free, then $1/per million input tokens | - | - | vs Replicate |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Replicate badges page.
Before you pay for Replicate
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 2 tiers between Free and $0.000225/per-second, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Replicate runs on api, cloud, and is published by Replicate of San Francisco, California. The full record is on the Replicate review, and the rest of the category is under best ai tools tools.
Replicate pricing questions
- How much does Replicate cost?
- Replicate publishes 2 tiers, from Free for Free up to $0.000225/per-second for Pay-per-use. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Replicate have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers limited free credits, public models. Paying starts at $0.000225/per-second for Pay-per-use.
- What is the difference between Free and Pay-per-use on Replicate?
- Pay-per-use costs $0.000225/per-second against Free, and adds all models, private models.
- Which ai tools tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 ai tools tools listed alongside Replicate have a free tier: Voiceflow, Character.AI, Claude, AI21 Labs.
- What am I actually paying for with Replicate?
- The record lists 9 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for running open source machine learning models through a hosted api without managing gpus, deploying and serving a custom or fine tuned model on rented gpu hardware, per second billed batch image, video and language model inference.
- Does Replicate charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 2 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Replicate prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Replicate against before paying?
- The closest ai tools tools in this directory are Voiceflow, Chatbase, CoreWeave, Anthropic API. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Replicate covering price, platforms and features.