Novita AI vs Replicate
Same workloads, both price lists, refreshed daily. On shared line items today: Novita AI is cheaper on 8 of 8 shared models (input or output price), Replicate on 0.
Novita AI
Combines a serverless LLM API (DeepSeek, Llama, Qwen at aggressive per-token prices) with GPU instances and template deployments, one of the few providers covering both sides of the hosting equation..
- Both LLM API and GPU rental under one account
- Aggressive open-weight model pricing
- Template marketplace for common stacks
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 | Novita AI in/out | Replicate in/out | Cheaper input |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-OSS 20B | $0.040 / $0.150 | $0.090 / $0.360 | Novita AI |
| Llama-3-8b | $0.040 / $0.040 | $0.050 / $0.250 | Novita AI |
| GPT-OSS 120B | $0.050 / $0.250 | $0.180 / $0.720 | Novita AI |
| Qwen3 235B A22B | $0.200 / $0.800 | $0.264 / $1.06 | Novita AI |
| DeepSeek V3 | $0.270 / $1.12 | $1.45 / $1.45 | Novita AI |
| DeepSeek-V3.1 | $0.270 / $1.00 | $0.672 / $2.02 | Novita AI |
| Llama-3-70b | $0.510 / $0.740 | $0.650 / $2.75 | Novita AI |
| DeepSeek R1 | $0.700 / $2.50 | $3.75 / $10.00 | Novita AI |
Cheaper-on-count is a tally of listed prices, not a quality verdict: throughput, reliability and quantization differ between providers. Disclosure.