Replicate

About Replicate

Replicate is a leading AI model hosting and inference platform that lets developers run open-source machine learning models with a single API, founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded by Ben Firshman and Andreas Jansson, Replicate operates a marketplace of thousands of community-hosted AI models including FLUX, SDXL, Whisper, Llama, and many specialized image, video, audio, and language models. The platform features Cog (an open-source containerization tool for ML), automatic GPU autoscaling, billing only for compute time used, and the Replicate API serving millions of developers building AI applications without managing infrastructure or model deployment.