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ZNo-code workflow automation and AI agents across 9,000+ apps for businesses
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Pipedream vs Replicate
Pricing, features, platforms and who each one suits — side by side.
P
Choose Pipedream if…
- you want a free plan to start with
- you're in its core audience: ai agent developers, saas product teams
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Choose Replicate if…
- you're in its core audience: software developers, ml engineers
Side by side
Feature Pipedream Replicate
Pricing modelFreemiumPaid
Starting price$99/mo—
Free plan
Free trial
API
Open source
Data retentionCustomer event data automatically deleted from subprocessors; account deletion removes personal dataRetained as long as necessary to provide Services; backups kept limited period
Security and complianceSOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA—
MCP server
Webhooks—
Official SDKs
Bring your own key—
Custom code steps—
SSO & RBAC—
SOC 2 / HIPAA—
PlatformsWeb, APIWeb, API
CategoryDeveloper Tools & APIsDeveloper Tools & APIs
CompanyPipedream, Inc.Replicate
Based in——
Founded——
Part of—Cloudflare
Key features
P Pipedream
- Managed OAuth and token refresh for 3,000+ APIs
- 10,000+ prebuilt actions and triggers
- Remote MCP server with built-in tool discovery
- Connect proxy for calling any API endpoint
- Hosted Connect Link or embeddable browser SDK
- SDKs for TypeScript, Python and Java, plus REST
- Bring your own OAuth clients
- Credentials encrypted at rest, scoped per project
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
Plans and prices
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Pipedream
Free$0
Startup$99/mo billed annually ($150 monthly)
BusinessCustom
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
Strengths and limitations
Pipedream
- Free plan includes every feature in development, with no credit card required
- Unlimited team members on all plans
- Prebuilt tools are public on GitHub and can be extended
- SOC 2 Type 2 and GDPR on all plans
- Production use requires at least the $99/month Startup plan
- Usage beyond included credits and users costs extra
- SSO, SCIM and HIPAA are only on the custom Business plan
- Conduit is still in early access
Replicate
- Pay only for the compute time or outputs you use
- Wide range of hardware, from CPU to 8x H100
- Cog packaging tool is open source
- Model pages show cost estimates
- No free plan listed on the pricing page
- Private models are billed for idle and setup time
- Larger multi-GPU capacity requires committed spend contracts
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