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Baseten vs Replicate

Baseten or Replicate? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.

In short

  • Both: Choice of models, API, Runs models for you
  • Only Baseten states: Self-hosted
  • Only Replicate states: Official SDKs, Traces and evaluates

Baseten

Baseten provides managed infrastructure to deploy, serve, train, and distribute open-source, custom, and fine-tuned AI models.

Plans

Basic

Free

  • Dedicated deployments
  • Model APIs
  • Training
  • Fast cold starts
  • SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant
  • Email and in-app chat support

Dedicated Deployments — T4

  • $0.01052 per minute
  • 16 GiB VM

Dedicated Deployments — L4

  • $0.01414 per minute
  • 24 GiB VRAM

Dedicated Deployments — A10G

  • $0.02012 per minute
  • 24 GiB VM

Dedicated Deployments — A100

  • $0.06667 per minute
  • 80 GiB VRAM

Dedicated Deployments — H100 MIG

  • $0.0625 per minute
  • 40 GiB VRAM

Dedicated Deployments — H100

  • $0.10833 per minute
  • 80 GiB VRAM

Dedicated Deployments — B200

  • $0.16633 per minute
  • 180 GiB VRAM

Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

  • Choice of models — “You can deploy open source and custom models on Baseten.” source
  • Self-hosted — “Yes, you can self-host Baseten in order to manage security and use your own cloud commitments.” source
  • API — “Model APIs” source
  • Runs models for you — “Instant access to pre-optimized models running on the Baseten Inference Stack.” source

Security

  • SOC 2 Type II — “Baseten Labs, Inc. SOC 2 Type 2 Report 5.31.26.pdf” source
  • SOC 2 — “Baseten Labs, Inc. SOC 2 Type 2 Report 5.31.26.pdf” source
  • ISO 27001 — “Baseten Labs, Inc. ISO 27001 Certificate.pdf” source
  • GDPR — “SOC 2 ISO 27001:2022 HIPAA CCPA GDPR PCI DSS - SAQ D” source
  • HIPAA — “Baseten Labs, Inc. HIPAA Report 5.31.26.pdf” source

Latest updates

About Baseten

Replicate

Replicate lets developers run, deploy, and scale machine learning models through a web interface or cloud API.

Plans

black-forest-labs / flux-1.1-pro

  • $0.04 / output image
  • Text-to-image model
  • Excellent image quality, prompt adherence, and output diversity

black-forest-labs / flux-dev

  • $0.025 / output image
  • 12 billion parameter rectified flow transformer
  • Generates images from text descriptions

black-forest-labs / flux-schnell

  • $3.00 / thousand output images
  • Fast image generation
  • Tailored for local development and personal use

deepseek-ai / deepseek-r1

  • $0.01 / thousand output tokens
  • $3.75 / million input tokens
  • Reasoning model trained with reinforcement learning
  • On par with OpenAI o1

ideogram-ai / ideogram-v3-quality

  • $0.09 / output image
  • Highest quality Ideogram v3 model
  • Creates images with realism, creative designs, and consistent styles

recraft-ai / recraft-v3

  • $0.04 / output image
  • Text-to-image model
  • Generates long texts and images in a wide list of styles

wavespeedai / wan-2.1-i2v-480p

  • $0.09 / second of output video
  • Accelerated inference for Wan 2.1 14B image to video

wavespeedai / wan-2.1-i2v-720p

  • $0.25 / second of output video
  • Accelerated inference for Wan 2.1 14B image to video with high resolution

CPU (Small)

  • $ 0.000025 /sec
  • $ 0.09 /hr
  • cpu-small
  • CPU 1x
  • RAM 2GB

CPU

  • $ 0.36 /hr
  • cpu
  • CPU 4x
  • RAM 8GB

Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

  • Choice of models — “Compare models in the Playground” source
  • API — “Replicate - Run AI with an API” source
  • Official SDKs — “import Replicate from "replicate"” source
  • Runs models for you — “Cog takes care of generating an API server and deploying it on a big cluster in the cloud.” source
  • Traces and evaluates — “Metrics let you keep an eye on how your models are performing, and logs let you zoom in on particular predictions to debug how your model is behaving.” source

Latest updates

  • Agent skills for Replicate

    Replicate now publishes agent skills, markdown instruction files that give coding assistants knowledge about working with AI models on Replicate.

  • Fallback model for Nano Banana Pro

    Nano Banana Pro can fall back to Seedream 5.0 lite when Google’s API is at capacity.

  • MCP server auto-discovery

    Replicate’s MCP server can now be discovered automatically through the official MCP Registry.

About Replicate