# Replicate: physical AI company

Canonical ID: `d80176c1-8a95-4c1c-90cd-1a110b1d60da`

## Key facts

- **Positioning:** Inference-focused model marketplace and serverless deployment platform; long-tail developer segment rather than hyperscale training
- **Cog runtime:** Author of Cog, an open-source containerization format for ML models that generates a production HTTP API and is now the packaging layer for the platform
- **Announced hourly pricing:** Nvidia T4 $0.81/hr; L40S $3.51/hr; A100 80GB $5.04/hr; H100 $5.49/hr; H200 $5.49/hr. Multi-GPU 2x/4x/8x priced proportionally; 8x H100/H200 available via committed spend
- **Billing granularity:** Per-second billing with scale-to-zero for public models; private Cog deployments charge for all online time unless configured as fast-booting fine-tunes
- **Silicon partnerships:** Nvidia-only fleet (T4, L40S, A100, H100, H200). No disclosed AMD, Cerebras, Intel, or custom-silicon capacity
- **Datacenter footprint:** None owned or disclosed. Replicate brokers GPU capacity from underlying cloud providers rather than operating datacenters, so it is a software-layer neocloud rather than a facility operator
- **Funding history:** ~$17.8M seed in 2021; ~$40M Series B in December 2022 led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Sequoia and Y Combinator participating. No priced round disclosed after 2022
- **Acquisition by Cloudflare:** Announced November 17, 2025 on the Replicate blog as "Replicate is joining Cloudflare." Financial terms were not disclosed. Hiring now routes through the Cloudflare careers page
- **Founders:** [Ben Firshman](/people/ben-firshman.md) (previously Docker Compose product lead) and [Andreas Jansson](/people/andreas-jansson.md) (previously Spotify ML engineer), co-founded in 2019
- **Model catalog:** Thousands of community-contributed models spanning image generation (Flux, Imagen, GPT image), video (Seedance, Grok Imagine, Happy Horse), music (Minimax Music), and open language models
- **Public / private status:** Private company through Nov 2025; now a wholly-owned unit of Cloudflare (NYSE: NET)
- **GPU count:** Not disclosed. Replicate has never published fleet size and, as a broker of underlying cloud capacity, likely does not own a fixed inventory
- **Capacity in MW:** Not applicable; no owned datacenter or colocation footprint disclosed

- **Slug:** replicate
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2019
- **HQ:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Funding total (USD):** 57500000

## Models

_No models registered._

## Current leadership (2)

- [Ben Firshman](/people/ben-firshman.md) Co-founder and CEO (_reported, not verified_)
- [Andreas Jansson](/people/andreas-jansson.md) Co-founder and CTO (_reported, not verified_)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Common questions

### What is 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.

### What does Replicate make?

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

### Is Replicate publicly traded?

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

### How can I invest in Replicate?

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.

### Where is Replicate headquartered?

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

### How much funding has Replicate raised?

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

### Who owns Replicate?

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

### Is Replicate a top robotics company?

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.

### When was Replicate founded?

Replicate was founded in 2019.


## Sources (4)

1. https://replicate.com/
2. https://replicate.com/pricing
3. https://replicate.com/about
4. https://replicate.com/blog

## The verified answers

- [Which companies have the most robots deployed](/which-companies-have-the-most-robots-deployed.md)
- [Which operators run the most robots](/which-operators-run-the-most-robots.md)
- [Which robot operators cover the most countries](/which-robot-operators-cover-the-most-countries.md)

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