Fireworks AI vs Replicate

Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.

Fireworks AI

Inference and fine-tuning platform for open AI models, for developers and teams

From $8/moVisit site

Replicate

Run, fine-tune and deploy open-source ML models through a cloud API

PaidVisit site

Choose Fireworks AI if…

you're in its core audience: ai application developers, ml engineers

Choose Replicate if…

you're in its core audience: software developers, ml engineers

Side by side

FeatureF

Fireworks AIR

Replicate

Pricing modelPaidPaid

Starting price$8/mo—

Free plan

Free trial

API

Open source

Data retention—Retained as long as necessary to provide Services; backups kept limited period

PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API

CategoryLLM APIs & Model HostingDeveloper Tools & APIs

CompanyFireworks AIReplicate · part of Cloudflare

Full feature lists

F Fireworks AI

Serverless per-token inference for open models
Single endpoint across 30+ regions
Model ensembling that routes each task by accuracy and cost
Dedicated GPU deployments from H100 to GB300
Managed fine-tuning and training APIs
Discounted cached input and 50%-off batch jobs
Data residency controls and region-restricted deployments
SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001/27701/42001 certifications

R Replicate

Thousands of public models for image, video, audio and text
Python, JavaScript and HTTP API clients
Fine-tune models such as SDXL on your own data
Deploy custom models packaged with open-source Cog
Autoscaling that scales to zero when idle
Per-second billing across CPU and Nvidia GPUs
Logging and monitoring of predictions

Their home pages

What each vendor shows first: the pitch, the plans and the sign-up.

Fireworks AI home page — F Fireworks AI · fireworks.ai

Replicate home page — R Replicate · replicate.com

What you'd pay

The cheapest plan that fits, per month, billed yearly where the plan offers it.

Fireworks AI

ServerlessFrom $0.05 per 1M input tokens

Reserved ThroughputServerless rates, committed

Fireworks SovereignContract

Nexus Pro$8/mo

Nexus Team$10/seat/mo

Nexus EnterpriseCustom

Dedicated GPUsFrom $8.00/GPU-hour (H100)

Managed TrainingFrom $0.50 per 1M training tokens

Replicate

Pay-as-you-go (hardware)From $0.000025/sec (CPU Small, $0.09/hr); Nvidia T4 $0.81/hr; H100 $5.49/hr

Pay-as-you-go (per-model)e.g. flux-dev $0.025/image, flux-1.1-pro $0.04/image

EnterpriseCustom

Price changes we've recorded

We re-read each pricing page every month and log what changed.

Fireworks AI

Nov 8, 2026Starting price: none → $8/mo; Reserved Throughput: Custom → Serverless rates, committed; New plan: Nexus Pro ($8); New plan: Nexus Team ($10); New plan: Nexus Enterprise (Custom); New plan: Dedicated GPUs ($8); Plan dropped: Dedicated Training API

Replicate

No changes since we started tracking.