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Replicate

shipSteady momentum

Run any community model via API — pay per second, no GPU wrangling.

replicate.com

journal entry · observed by @whysanesanders · verified 2026-08-15

The fastest way to ship a model you do not want to host: thousands of community models behind one API with per-second billing. Perfect for prototyping and spiky workloads.

Known limitations

  • Per-second pricing gets expensive at steady volume.
  • Cold starts on less-popular models.
  • Model quality and maintenance vary by community author.

Facts

pricing
paid
price note
pay per run; image models from ~$0.003/image
free tier
no
open source
no
api
yes
self-host
no
category
dev-infra

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