# Replicate — Run Stable Diffusion with an API

- Company: Replicate (replicate.com)
- Announced: 2022-08-29
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://replicate.com/blog/run-stable-diffusion-with-an-api
- Record: https://forck.live/items/2579-run-stable-diffusion-with-an-api
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: Stable Diffusion, stability-ai/stable-diffusion
- Pricing: We only charge you by the second for the amount of time your requests are running

Replicate announces an API to run Stable Diffusion models without managing GPUs, including a Python client, authentication, and usage examples.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://replicate.com/blog/run-stable-diffusion-with-an-api:

> Replicate lets you run machine learning models from your own code without having to set up any infrastructure.

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