Fireworks AI vs Replicate
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Fireworks AI is cheaper on 6 of 7 shared models (input or output price), Replicate on 0.
Fireworks AI
Speed-focused open-model inference with FireAttention serving stack, function-calling models and image generation. Strong latency SLAs for production apps.
- Very low latency serving
- Function-calling optimized
- Enterprise SLAs
Replicate
Run thousands of community models (LLMs, image, audio, video) behind one API with per-second GPU billing: the fastest path from 'found a model on GitHub' to production endpoint..
- Massive community model zoo
- Per-second billing, scale to zero
- Custom models via Cog
Shared models, priced by both
List prices refreshed 2026-08-23 ยท input $/1M tokens| Model | Fireworks AI in/out | Replicate in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-OSS 20B | $0.070 / $0.300 | $0.090 / $0.360 | Fireworks AI |
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.150 / $0.600 | $0.180 / $0.720 | Fireworks AI |
| Mistral-7b-Instruct-V0.2 | $0.200 / $0.200 | $0.050 / $0.250 | Replicate |
| Qwen3 235B A22B | $0.220 / $0.880 | $0.264 / $1.06 | Fireworks AI |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 | $0.560 / $1.68 | $0.672 / $2.02 | Fireworks AI |
| DeepSeek V3 | $0.900 / $0.900 | $1.45 / $1.45 | Fireworks AI |
| DeepSeek R1 | $3.00 / $8.00 | $3.75 / $10.00 | Fireworks AI |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.