The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Replicate: $57.5M raised. 7 sources back the record.
Overview
Replicate is a San Francisco AI inference platform that lets developers run, fine-tune, and deploy machine-learning models with a single API call, and is best known for Cog, its open-source packaging format that turns any model into a production-grade container with an auto-generated HTTP interface. Founded in 2019 by Ben Firshman (previously product lead on Docker Compose at Docker) and Andreas Jansson (ex-Spotify ML engineer), the company sits at the long-tail end of the neocloud spectrum: rather than selling raw GPU capacity by the hour like CoreWeave or Lambda, it fans out per-second, scale-to-zero inference across a marketplace of thousands of community-contributed models, including image generators (Flux, Imagen), video (Seedance, Grok Imagine), and open language models.
Infrastructure-wise Replicate is not a datacenter operator. It brokers Nvidia GPU capacity (T4, L40S, A100 80GB, H100, H200, and multi-GPU 2x/4x/8x configurations) from underlying cloud providers and bills customers per second of run time, with published rates starting at $0.81 per hour for a T4 and $5.49 per hour for a single H100 or H200. Its commercial pitch is speed to production for individual developers and product teams: bring a model, wrap it in Cog, get an autoscaling endpoint. That positioning is what attracted roughly $57M in venture funding across a 2021 seed and a 2022 Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Sequoia and Y Combinator.
In November 2025 Replicate announced it was being acquired by Cloudflare, folding the model catalog and Cog runtime into Cloudflare's Workers AI stack. Terms were not disclosed. The team continues to operate the replicate.com product under the Cloudflare umbrella, and the About page now routes hiring through Cloudflare careers, marking the effective end of Replicate's independent-company phase.
Reality check
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Positioning
Cog runtime
Billing granularity
GPU fleet
Datacenter footprint
Founder backgrounds
Other Series B backers
Data & sources
News coverage
2
Web sources
5
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Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- Ben Firshman Co-founder and CEOreported, not verified
- Andreas Jansson Co-founder and CTOreported, not verified
Founders (2)
- Ben Firshmancofounder
- Andreas Janssoncofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Replicate.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Replicate in third-party press
Mentioned on (1)
Registry pages whose text names Replicate.
Companies (1)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $57.5M
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Funding rounds (2)
Replicate’s 2 disclosed rounds, $53M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series B2023-12-05
$40M(reported)
Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) (lead), NVentures (NVIDIA), Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator
- Series A2023-02-21
$13M(reported)
Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) (lead)
Acquisitions (1)
- acquired by Cloudflarefull acquisition2025-11-17
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 28, 2026
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Sources (7)
- https://replicate.com/
- https://replicate.com/pricing
- https://replicate.com/about
- https://replicate.com/blog
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2023/12/05/replicate-raises-40-million-for-its-library-of-open-source-ai-models/ · 2023-12-05
- https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/21/replicate-wants-to-take-the-pain-out-of-running-and-hosting-ml-models/ · 2023-02-21
- https://www.cloudflare.com/press/press-releases/2025/cloudflare-to-acquire-replicate-to-build-the-most-seamless-ai-cloud-for-developers/ · 2025-11-17
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Methodology: Verified · 7 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-12
Verification posture
Verified
Medium confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-12
Sources by quality tier
- 5
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- secondary-established-publication
- Established publication
- 1
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Replicate.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Replicate from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/replicate.md
- RSS feed: /companies/replicate/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/d80176c1-8a95-4c1c-90cd-1a110b1d60da
- Revision history: /companies/replicate/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Replicate against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Funding runway warrants monitoring: last known round 35 months ago.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 18, 2026