Replicate MCP: Documentation

Connection

• Remote (recommended): https://mcp.replicate.com — no local install needed, browser auth on first connection.
• Local: npx -y replicate-mcp (stdio), REPLICATE_API_TOKEN env var — a token from your Replicate account.
• Ready-made configs for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and GitHub Copilot.

Tools

Natural-language search and execution of Replicate's AI models: search models by task description, compare options against each other, fetch a specific model's metadata (inputs/outputs, run cost), run a prediction and retrieve the result.

Agent flow

"Find a model for upscaling photos and run it on this image", "compare image-generation models by price and quality", "show what parameters model X takes before running it", "generate a voiceover for this text with a suitable TTS model".

Pricing

The MCP itself is free; billing follows actual usage of specific Replicate models (pay-as-you-go, rates depend on the model and its compute cost).