Replicate API key setup
Cloud for running open-source models. Easy API for hosted open-source language and image models.
Get your key
- Open the Replicate site: replicate.com
- Create an account and generate an API key.
- Paste it into the Dracon BYOK provider keys — stored encrypted (AES-256-GCM), used browser-direct, works in every Dracon tool.
Free tier
No recurring free tier advertised as of the last check. Usage is billed per the provider's listed pricing — you pay them directly, no Dracon markup.
Rate limits: 6 req/min free, 3K RPM with payment
Connection details
- Env var
REPLICATE_API_TOKEN- Model lineup
- Llama 3.1 405B, Qwen 2.5 72B Coder, Mistral Large, FLUX.1 Pro, DeepSeek R1
Gotchas
Browser-direct chat is not available for this provider: This provider exposes an image-generation API, not a chat endpoint.. Dracon provider keys still cover it for tools that run elsewhere (for example a LiteLLM chain from the Dracon Router builder).
Our verdicts on this kind of provider
Independent comparisons we keep current as pricing and free tiers shift. A guide is setup; a verdict is whether it's worth setting up.