// At a glance
Free Tier
$5 credits · no card
Category
Image
Credit Card
Not required
Last Verified
2m ago
// Free tier details
Available Models
Community models (largest catalog)
Monthly Requests
$5 free credits
No credit card needed
No phone verification
// Quick start
300">"text-purple-400">import replicate
output = replicate.run(
300">"stability-ai/sdxl",
input={300">"prompt": 300">"a cyberpunk owl, neon, 4k"},
)
print(output)// Overview
Cog-powered cloud for running community models. Largest model variety but cold starts can be slow on free tier.
// Pros
- Largest model community
- Supports niche models
- Audio + Video + Image
// Cons
- Cold starts on free models
- Free credit runs out fast
// Score breakdown
Reliability (35%) (from 2m ago health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)85/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)90/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)92/100
Methodology: apivault.dev/methodology
// Best for
Niche fine-tunesAudio cloningVideo generation
// Recent changes
May 25, 2026Reduced free public model quotafree tier changed