How Replicate is used
Replicate is a dependency in 8 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 41 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is OpenAI (284 projects). Projects that use it most often also use OpenAI (53.7%), Next.js (61.0%), Lucide React (63.4%).
Replicate popularity over time
Gid Score 39: downloads 55, use in agent projects 38, GitHub stars 3, downloads trend 63 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Replicate
| OpenAI | 53.7% of Replicate projects · 11.7× more than average |
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| Next.js | 61.0% of Replicate projects · 3.4× more than average |
| Lucide React | 63.4% of Replicate projects · 3.2× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS Animate | 48.8% of Replicate projects · 7.2× more than average |
| Radix UI | 48.8% of Replicate projects · 3.7× more than average |
| dotenv | 51.2% of Replicate projects · 3.3× more than average |
| Zod | 63.4% of Replicate projects · 2.5× more than average |
| LangChain.js | 36.6% of Replicate projects · 61.4× more than average |
From all 41 projects in our scan that use Replicate, including the dependency samples.
By coding agent
| Cursor | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
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| Claude Code | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Replicate as a dependency.
Agent Skills for Replicate
| replicate from brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills | Build and verify replication packages — routes to reproducibility-auditor agentnpx skills add brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills --skill replicate |
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Skills teach your coding agent how to use Replicate well. Official means the pack comes from the same GitHub account as Replicate. Read a skill before installing it: it can include scripts. All Agent Skills
Install
| Package | npm install replicate |
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| Main stacks | Next.js (24), TypeScript / JavaScript (15), Python (2) |
| Example projects | i-am-alice/3rd-devs, AimeBox/aime-box, akuya-ekorot/notebooklm-mastra, LastBotInc/nextjs-supabase-ai-webapp, Aschen/web-classification |
Alternatives to Replicate
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Replicate are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI npm Official TypeScript SDK for accessing OpenAI APIs including GPT and embeddings. |
76 | 284 (5.9%) | 25.3M | 11.2K | Apache-2.0 |
| Anthropic SDK npm Official TypeScript SDK for calling Claude API and building agent applications. |
69 | 232 (4.8%) | 28.3M | 2,145 | MIT |
| Google Generative AI npm Official SDK for Google Gemini API to build AI-powered applications. |
64 | 169 (3.5%) | 14.7M | 1,691 | Apache-2.0 |
| Ollama JavaScript Library npm Official JavaScript client library for Ollama to run and interact with local language models. |
50 | 29 (0.6%) | 454K | 4,392 | MIT |
| Transformers.js npm Run Hugging Face transformer models directly in browser without servers. |
64 | 25 (0.5%) | 2.4M | 16.4K | Apache-2.0 |
| Groq SDK npm Official TypeScript SDK for calling Groq's fast language models API. |
42 | 20 (0.4%) | 511K | 267 | Apache-2.0 |
| Mistral AI npm Official TypeScript SDK for calling Mistral's language models and APIs. |
42 | 11 (0.2%) | 4M | 157 | Apache-2.0 |
| Genkit Google AI npm · no longer maintained Genkit AI framework plugin for Google Gemini and other Google AI APIs. |
34 | 9 (0.2%) | 29.9K | 6,533 | Apache-2.0 |
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