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Replicate

Replicate lets you run machine learning models in the cloud with a simple API. Thousands of open-source models are available, and you can run your own custom models at scale. Run image generation, language models, audio synthesis, video generation, and more with a few lines of code. Replicate makes AI accessible to every software engineer.

agent native

Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Replicate the way a machine reads it — 73 machine-readable artifacts across 16 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Replicate scores 70.7/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 70/100 (agent native). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 70.7/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 18.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 11.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 16.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 8.9 / 13
Governance 6.3 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 70/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Replicate

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Replicate. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 16

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Replicate Accounts API

The Accounts API from Replicate — 1 operation(s) for accounts.

Replicate Cancel API

The Cancel API from Replicate — 2 operation(s) for cancel.

Replicate Collections API

The Collections API from Replicate — 2 operation(s) for collections.

Replicate Deployments API

The Deployments API from Replicate — 3 operation(s) for deployments.

Replicate Hardware API

The Hardware API from Replicate — 1 operation(s) for hardware.

Replicate Model API

The Model API from Replicate — 5 operation(s) for model.

Replicate Models API

The Models API from Replicate — 1 operation(s) for models.

Replicate Name API

The Name API from Replicate — 7 operation(s) for name.

Replicate Owner API

The Owner API from Replicate — 7 operation(s) for owner.

Replicate Predictions API

The Predictions API from Replicate — 5 operation(s) for predictions.

Replicate Secrets API

The Secrets API from Replicate — 1 operation(s) for secrets.

Replicate Slug API

The Slug API from Replicate — 1 operation(s) for slug.

Replicate Training API

The Training API from Replicate — 2 operation(s) for training.

Replicate Trainings API

The Trainings API from Replicate — 1 operation(s) for trainings.

Replicate Version API

The Version API from Replicate — 2 operation(s) for version.

Replicate Webhooks API

The Webhooks API from Replicate — 1 operation(s) for webhooks.

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Postman Collections 1

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Replicate

POSTMAN

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Replicate

OPEN COLLECTION

Arazzo Workflows 10

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Replicate Pick a Model from a Collection and Predict

Read a curated collection, confirm a chosen model, run its latest version, and poll the prediction.

ARAZZO

Replicate Create a Deployment and Run a Prediction Through It

Pick hardware, create a deployment for a model version, then run a prediction via the deployment.

ARAZZO

Replicate Resolve Latest Version and Predict

Look up a model, pick its latest version, run a prediction, and poll to completion.

ARAZZO

Replicate Run an Official Model and Poll

Run a prediction against an official model by name, then poll until complete.

ARAZZO

Replicate Create Prediction and Poll Until Complete

Run a model version, then poll the prediction until it reaches a terminal state.

ARAZZO

Replicate Run a Prediction with Bounded Wait and Cancel

Create a prediction, poll a bounded number of times, and cancel it if it has not finished.

ARAZZO

Replicate Scale a Deployment and Run a Prediction

Read a deployment, update its version and instance bounds, then run a prediction through it.

ARAZZO

Replicate Search for a Model and Run a Prediction

Search public models by query, run a prediction on the top match's latest version, and poll it.

ARAZZO

Replicate Start a Training and Poll Until Complete

Start a fine-tuning run from a base model version, then poll until the training finishes.

ARAZZO

Replicate Fetch Webhook Secret and Run a Webhook Prediction

Retrieve the default webhook signing secret, then create a prediction that posts to a webhook.

ARAZZO

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 7

An agent skill packages the how-to for driving these APIs from an assistant — the prompts, the sequence, the guardrails — so the knowledge to use the API travels with it.

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

build-models

AGENT SKILL

compare-models

AGENT SKILL

find-models

AGENT SKILL

prompt-images

AGENT SKILL

prompt-videos

AGENT SKILL

publish-models

AGENT SKILL

run-models

AGENT SKILL

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GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Replicate GraphQL

Replicate does not currently expose a public GraphQL endpoint. The platform's primary API is a REST HTTP API available at `https://api.replicate.com/v1`. This GraphQL schema is ...

GRAPHQL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Replicate Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 16

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

T4 GPU at $0.000225/sec (cheapest)
L40S GPU at $0.000975/sec
A100 80GB at $0.00140/sec
H100 at $0.001525/sec (highest performance)
Pay only for execution time (per second)
Default 10 predictions/sec; can be raised to 100 on paid
Other endpoints: 60 req/sec
Public model library with thousands of models
Cog framework for packaging your own models
Deployments for low-latency inference (charges idle time)
Webhooks for prediction completion
OAuth 2.0 and API tokens
Streaming output for LLM models
Files input via signed URLs
Training service for fine-tuning
Trainings billed at hardware rate

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Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Replicate Streaming and Webhooks API

AsyncAPI definition for Replicate's event-driven surfaces: - Server-Sent Events (SSE) stream returned for predictions where the model supports streaming output. The stream URL i...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Replicate Context

2 classes · 32 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Replicate API Rules

7 rules · 1 errors · 6 warnings

SPECTRAL

Replicate API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Replicate API Rules

10 rules · 2 errors · 6 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 5

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Replicate Model

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Replicate Prediction

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

schemas_prediction_request

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

schemas_training_request

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

schemas_version_prediction_request

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 2

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Replicate Prediction Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Replicate Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Replicate Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Replicate Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Replicate Agentic Access

27 operations · 12 acting

27 operations · 12 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Replicate — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 10

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

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Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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