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Replicate Pricing in 2026
Plans & cost breakdown — find the right Replicate plan for your needs.
Starting at Pay-per-use
paid
8.5
CPU
From $0.000025/sec
- Lightweight models
- Per-second billing
- No minimum
Most Popular
GPU (Public)
From $0.000225/sec
- T4 to H100 GPUs
- Pay only for active time
- No idle charges
Official Models
Per-output pricing
- FLUX: $0.003-0.04/image
- Stable, predictable costs
- Always-on availability
GPU (Private)
From $0.000225/sec
- Dedicated hardware
- No queue wait
- Charges include idle time
Is Replicate Worth It?
Pros
- Thousands of community-contributed models
- Run any model with a single API call
- No setup time for public models
- Strong for image and video generation
- FLUX image generation from $0.003/image
- Official models with stable, predictable pricing
Cons
- No free credits for new users
- Private models charge for idle time
- Cold start latency on public models
- Less cost-effective than self-hosting at scale
How Replicate Pricing Compares
| Tool | Rating | Starting Price | Pro Plan | Model |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Replicate | 8.5 | Pay-per-use | Pay-per-use | paid |
| Together AI | 8.7 | Free ($25 credits) | Pay-per-token | freemium |
| Fireworks AI | 8.3 | Free ($1 credits) | Pay-per-token | freemium |
| Hugging Face | 9 | Free | $9/mo Pro | freemium |
| RunPod | 8.4 | $0.34/hr (RTX 4090) | $1.99/hr (H100) | paid |