Replicate

About Replicate

Financials

Dated, source-cited figures. Estimates are marked.

Products by Replicate

All products by Replicate reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

ReplicateLLM Platforms

Cloud platform for running machine learning models via API

Free8.0/10

How Our Review Panel Scores Replicate

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Replicate's product on their own terms. They landed within 0.5 points of each other, an unusually strong consensus.

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Replicate competes with, and how they differ.

Hugging Face8.9/10

Hugging Face is built around its open model/dataset hub and community first, with Inference Endpoints as one of many products; Replicate is API-first, with per-second-billed GPU inference as its core product and a narrower focus on running models in production.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Together AI8.0/10

Together AI focuses on high-throughput inference and fine-tuning for a curated set of popular open-source LLMs at aggressive per-token pricing, whereas Replicate covers a broader long-tail catalog spanning image, video, and audio models, not just text LLMs.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Fireworks AI8.0/10

Fireworks AI specializes in speed-optimized serving of open-source and custom LLMs for enterprise customers with dedicated deployments, while Replicate's catalog is broader across modalities and geared toward developers calling one-off community models.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Modal8.2/10

Modal is a general-purpose serverless GPU/CPU compute platform where developers deploy arbitrary Python code, not just packaged models; Replicate is narrower and higher-level, offering pre-packaged models behind a simple prediction API via its own open-source Cog format.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

OpenRouter8.1/10

OpenRouter is a routing/aggregation layer that proxies requests to many third-party model providers under one API and billing account rather than hosting compute itself, whereas Replicate runs inference on its own GPU infrastructure.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Replicate's history, with sources.

1. Nov 17, 2025Acquisition

   Cloudflare announces acquisition of Replicate

   Cloudflare announced a definitive agreement to acquire Replicate to integrate its 50,000+ model catalog into Cloudflare Workers AI. Deal terms were undisclosed and the acquisition was expected to close within about two months, subject to customary closing conditions. Replicate co-founder/CEO Ben Firshman said the combination lets developers "seamlessly build and deploy tomorrow's next big AI applications."

   helpnetsecurity.com
2. May 25, 2024Milestone

   Wiz discloses critical RCE flaw in Cog model-packaging tool (patched)

   Cloud security firm Wiz responsibly disclosed a critical remote-code-execution vulnerability in Replicate's open-source Cog container-packaging tool that could have allowed cross-tenant access to other customers' AI prompts and model outputs via a shared Redis queue. Replicate patched the flaw; researchers found no evidence of in-the-wild exploitation.

   thehackernews.com
3. Dec 5, 2023Funding

   Raises $40M Series B led by a16z

   Replicate raised a $40 million Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from NVIDIA's NVentures, Sequoia Capital, Heavybit, and Y Combinator. The company cited 2 million signups and 30,000 paying customers at announcement.

   replicate.com
4. Feb 21, 2023Launch

   Emerges from stealth with $17.8M in seed + Series A funding

   Replicate publicly launched its ML model hosting platform out of stealth backed by $17.8 million in total venture funding, including a $12.5 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz with Y Combinator and Sequoia Capital participating, plus angel investment from Figma CEO Dylan Field and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch. Co-founders Ben Firshman (ex-Docker) and Andreas Jansson (ex-Spotify ML engineer) built the platform around the open-source Cog packaging tool.

   techcrunch.com