Saleor vs Replicate
Open-source, GraphQL-first commerce for composable brands
vs. Run and fine-tune AI models in the cloud — pay-per-second GPU
Pricing tiers
Saleor
OSS (self-host)
$0. BSD-3-Clause. Self-host Saleor Core + Dashboard.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud — Development
$0. Dev tier for sandbox projects. Shared infra. Community.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud — Staging
$179/mo. Staging tier with dedicated env.
$179/mo
Cloud — Production
$1,999/mo. Production tier with SLA + support.
$1999/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Multi-region, SAML, dedicated clusters, PCI.
Custom
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
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing oss on Saleor vs payg on Replicate.
| Metric | Saleor | Replicate |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Saleor · 17 features
- Channels — Per-channel pricing/shipping/currency.
- Checkout — Multi-step checkout mutation set.
- Customers + B2B — Customer records + B2B permissions.
- Dashboard — Next.js admin dashboard.
- Gift Cards — First-class gift-card flow.
- Orders — Full lifecycle.
- Permissions + Roles — Granular RBAC.
- Pricing + Promotions — Rule-based promos, catalog pricing.
- Products + Attributes — Full PIM features.
- Saleor Apps — External extensions.
- Shipping Zones + Methods — Multi-zone shipping rules.
- Tax Providers — Pluggable tax (Avalara, etc.).
- Translations — Multi-language product content.
- Variants + Configurable — Deep variant system.
- Vouchers — Discount codes + gift cards.
- Warehouses + Stock — Multi-warehouse inventory.
- Webhooks — Async subscription to events.
Replicate · 11 features
- 10k+ Models — Public catalog of image, video, audio, LLM, embedding, speech models.
- Batch Predictions — Parallel batch execution.
- Cog — OSS tool to containerize ML models. Standard for Replicate.
- Deployments — Private model endpoints with dedicated GPUs.
- File Storage — Temporary output file hosting.
- Fine-Tuning — Fine-tune FLUX, SDXL, Llama 2/3 with your data.
- Per-Second Billing — Pay only while model runs. No idle cost for public models.
- Playground — Interactive UI for every public model.
- Predictions API — Async + sync + streaming predictions.
- Streaming Outputs — SSE streaming for LLMs + audio.
- Webhooks — Notify when predictions complete.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Saleor | Replicate |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | saleor CLI | Cog (package models) |
| SDK | @saleor/app-sdk, @saleor/sdk | replicate-go, replicate (Node), replicate-python |
| REST | — | Replicate REST API |
| GRAPHQL | Saleor GraphQL API | — |
| MCP | — | Replicate MCP |
| OTHER | Saleor App Store, Saleor Dashboard, Saleor Webhooks | Webhooks |
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