Replicate

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.\n\nInfrastructure-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.\n\nIn 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.

Replicate has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Replicate builds physical robots.

No. Replicate is privately held and not publicly traded, per the DEPLOY registry.

Ben Firshman is the founder of Replicate, per the DEPLOY registry.

Replicate is a private company; its shares are not available on public markets, so retail investors cannot buy the stock today. It has raised $58M in disclosed funding.

Replicate is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Replicate has raised approximately $58M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

Replicate is privately held and venture-backed ($58M raised); ownership sits with its founders and private investors.

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Replicate ranks in roughly the top 10% of companies tracked by the registry.

Replicate was founded in 2019.

Replicate has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.