---
name: Replicate
domain: replicate.com
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: AI Development and Deployment Infrastructure
descGrounded: 0.33
---

# Replicate

A cloud API service selling access to open-source and proprietary AI models for image, speech, and music generation.

**Route:** surfaced by the AI Development and Deployment Infrastructure lane's de-branded queries → competitor to vercel.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Sells the same capability (run AI models via API) to the same frontend and AI/developer buyers who shortlist Vercel for deploying AI-powered web apps, making it a viable alternative for the inference runtime part of the stack.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> Run AI with an API

> Run and fine-tune models. Deploy custom models. All with one line of code.

> Generate images Generate speech Generate music Restore images Generate videos from images Caption Images Large Language Models (LLMs)

**Edges:**

- competitor [[aws-amazon-com]]
- competitor [[pgedge-com]]
- competitor [[influxdata-com]]
