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Replicate vs Inngest

Run and fine-tune AI models in the cloud — pay-per-second GPU
vs. Durable functions + event-driven workflows for modern apps

Replicate websiteInngest website

Pricing tiers

Replicate

Pay-as-you-go
Per-second GPU billing. No minimum. Public models billed by processing time or tokens.
$0 base (usage-based)
Enterprise
Custom. Dedicated capacity, private deployments, SOC2, HIPAA on request.
Custom
Replicate website

Inngest

Free
$0. 50K steps/mo + 1K concurrent executions. 7-day log retention. 1 environment.
Free
OSS (self-host)
Free forever. Inngest Dev Server + self-hosted Inngest runtime. Apache 2.0.
$0 base (usage-based)
Starter
$20/mo. 250K steps/mo. 5K concurrency. 14-day retention. 3 envs.
$20/mo
Pro
$75/mo. 1M steps/mo. 10K concurrency. 30-day retention. Priority support.
$75/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SSO, HIPAA, dedicated clusters, self-host with Inngest Enterprise.
Custom
Inngest website

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing payg on Replicate vs free on Inngest.

MetricReplicateInngest
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Replicate · 11 features

  • 10k+ ModelsPublic catalog of image, video, audio, LLM, embedding, speech models.
  • Batch PredictionsParallel batch execution.
  • CogOSS tool to containerize ML models. Standard for Replicate.
  • DeploymentsPrivate model endpoints with dedicated GPUs.
  • File StorageTemporary output file hosting.
  • Fine-TuningFine-tune FLUX, SDXL, Llama 2/3 with your data.
  • Per-Second BillingPay only while model runs. No idle cost for public models.
  • PlaygroundInteractive UI for every public model.
  • Predictions APIAsync + sync + streaming predictions.
  • Streaming OutputsSSE streaming for LLMs + audio.
  • WebhooksNotify when predictions complete.

Inngest · 14 features

  • AgentKitBuild AI agents as durable Inngest functions.
  • Auto RetriesConfigurable retries with exponential backoff.
  • Concurrency ControlsPer-function and per-user concurrency limits.
  • Cron TriggersScheduled functions via cron syntax.
  • DebounceCoalesce rapid-fire events into one execution.
  • Dev ServerLocal Inngest runtime for dev.
  • Durable Stepsstep.run, step.sleep, step.waitForEvent.
  • Event SystemTyped events with schemas.
  • Fan Out / BatchingProcess many events in parallel with batch control.
  • Priority LanesRoute premium customers to faster execution.
  • Rate LimitingThrottle events per key.
  • RealtimeStream function output to clients.
  • ReplayRe-run past functions with new code.
  • Self-HostOSS runtime — run your own Inngest.

Developer interfaces

KindReplicateInngest
CLICog (package models)inngest-cli (dev server)
SDKreplicate-go, replicate (Node), replicate-pythoninngestgo, inngest (Python), inngest (TS/Node)
RESTReplicate REST APIInngest REST API
MCPReplicate MCPInngest MCP
OTHERWebhooksInngest Cloud Dashboard
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