Best LLM Inference Providers

Vendor profileChecked Nov 8, 2026

Replicate

Replicate, Inc. · replicate.com · Last checked:

  • Serverless model API (per output, per token, or per second)
  • Dedicated hardware deployments
  • Bring-your-own-model (Cog)

Company status

Active. Cloudflare completed its acquisition of Replicate on December 1, 2025; Cloudflare owns 100%, and Replicate is now part of Cloudflare.

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Capabilities

  • Hosted catalog of open-weight and proprietary models across language, image, video, and audio; some LLMs billed per token
  • Deploy custom or fine-tuned models packaged with the open-source Cog tool on dedicated hardware billed per second
  • API prediction inputs, outputs, files, and logs removed after one hour by default

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Who it tends to fit

  • Teams that need LLMs alongside image, video, and audio models in one API
  • Teams packaging their own models with Cog

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Pricing

Published pricing on https://replicate.com/pricing (per output, per token, or per second of hardware; for example, Nvidia A100 80GB listed at $0.001400 per second).

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Published certifications

None found / not verified. This is not a finding that Replicate lacks certifications; ask the vendor for documentation.

No certification found on replicate.com pages checked on 2026-11-08 (replicate.com/security returned 404). Ask the vendor for security documentation.

Listed as stated by the vendor. Scope can differ by product or subsidiary; request current reports.

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Limitations to check

  • No published certifications or trust center found
  • Private models on dedicated hardware bill for all online time, including idle and setup
  • Web-interface predictions are kept indefinitely unless deleted
  • OpenAI-compatible endpoint not found in docs checked; uses its own predictions API
  • Ownership change: confirm contract entity and terms after the Cloudflare acquisition

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Sources

  1. Pricing: per-output, per-token, and per-second hardware pricing (A100 80GB $0.001400/sec); custom models with Cog billed for online timereplicate.com/pricingChecked 2026-11-08
  2. API prediction data removed after an hour by default; web predictions kept indefinitelyreplicate.com/docs/topics/predictions/data-retentionChecked 2026-11-08
  3. Cloudflare press release: Cloudflare to acquire Replicate (Nov 17, 2025)www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2025/cloudflare-to-acquire-replicate-to-build-the-most-seamless-ai-cloud-for-developers/Checked 2026-11-08
  4. Homepage refers to building with Replicate and Cloudflarereplicate.com/Checked 2026-11-08
  5. Cloudflare blog (December 1, 2025): 'as of today Replicate is officially part of Cloudflare'blog.cloudflare.com/why-replicate-joining-cloudflare/Checked 2026-11-08

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