Replicate free tier: quotas, limits and gotchas
Replicate Free Tier
Last verified: 2026-09-27
What you get for free
| Feature | Free tier | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free tier | None | The official website's pricing page does not provide information on the Free quota. |
| Minimum consumption | — | Pay-as-you-go, only charge for what you use |
Limits at a glance
- Commercial use: Allowed
- Conditions: Requires registration and binding a payment method
Watch out for this
It **doesn't have a Free quota**, but is billed by the second, so you only pay for what you use, making it cheaper for occasional use than a monthly subscription — generating 100 FLUX Dev images costs around US$2.5. What you really need to pay attention to is "private models": dedicated hardware will **charge you for idle waiting time**, not just actual computation.
When the free quota is insufficient, how much does it cost to pay for it?
| Plan | pricing | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Public model - Pay-as-you-go | API pay-as-you-go (usage-based) | Varies by model: FLUX Pro US$0.04/image, FLUX Dev US$0.025/image, Ideogram v3 Quality US$0.09/image, WAN 2.1 video (720p) US$0.25/second, Claude 3.7 Sonnet US$3.00 per million input tokens (Checked on official website as of 2026-07-31) |
| Public model - Charged by execution seconds | API pay-as-you-go (usage-based) | Only the actual processing time is calculated. GPU per-second rate: CPU Small US$0.000025 (US$0.09/hour), CPU US$0.0001 (US$0.36/hour), T4 US$0.000225 (US$0.81/hour), L40S US$0.000975 (US$3.51/hour), A100 80GB US$0.0014 (US$5.04/hour), H100 US$0.001525 (US$5.49/hour) (Checked on 2026-07-31 from the official website) |
| Private model (Dedicated hardware) | API pay-as-you-go (usage-based) | Dedicated instances are billed based on "total uptime", including startup and idle waiting time, not just actual computation time; fine-tuned models with fast startup are exceptions, only actual processing time is counted (Checked 2026-07-31 from official website) |
Checked 2026-09-27
Information for Taiwanese users
- Payment method:Payable; Credit card
- Chinese support: none
- Available platforms:web
Related
Sources: Official pricing page (as of 2026-07-31)
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