Founder of a listed tool
Ben Firshman
Named behind 4 listings on Anchor Terminal.
What Ben builds
Replicate Deployments B · GPU & serverless compute
Replicate's service for deploying and running custom models.
Co-founder, Replicate, researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Replicate image models D · Image generation
Model platform running official and community image models through one predictions API.
Co-founder and former CEO; now Anthropic Labs, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
MusicGen on Replicate C · Music generation
Replicate's hosted copy of Meta's open-weights MusicGen (stereo-melody-large, stereo-large, melody-large, large), prompted with text or a melody clip.
Co-founder, Replicate (Cloudflare), researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Replicate video models B · Video generation
Replicate runs third-party and open video models, among them Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Runway Gen-4.5, Seedance 2.0 and Wan, through one predictions API with Python and JavaScript clients and an MCP server.
Co-founder, Replicate (Cloudflare), researched 26 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Andreas Jansson Co-founder, Replicate
- Shridhar Athinarayanan Models Engineer
Questions
Who is Ben Firshman?
Ben Firshman co-founded Replicate, a platform for running machine learning models through an API, in Y Combinator's Winter 2020 batch. He previously worked on product at Docker, where he created Docker Compose. In November 2025 he announced that Replicate was joining Cloudflare.
What does Replicate, Replicate (Cloudflare) make?
Anchor Terminal lists Replicate Deployments, Replicate image models, MusicGen on Replicate and Replicate video models from Replicate, Replicate (Cloudflare). Replicate's service for deploying and running custom models.
How are Ben's tools graded?
Replicate Deployments is graded B, 63.7 out of 100; Replicate image models is graded D, 50.3 out of 100; MusicGen on Replicate is graded C, 54.4 out of 100; Replicate video models is graded B, 62.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (19)
- https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/replicate
- https://replicate.com/
- https://replicate.com/about
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/35139-ben-firshman
- https://replicate.com/blog/replicate-cloudflare
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/bfirsh/
- https://x.com/bfirsh
- https://www.ycombinator.com/founders/421489-andreas-jansson
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/janssonandreas
- https://shridharathi.com
- https://replicate.com/shridharathi
- https://replicate.com/blog/flux-kontext-optimization
- https://replicate.com/blog/how-to-prompt-seedream-5
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/shridhar-athinarayanan-638493199/
- https://x.com/shridharathi
- https://replicate.com
- https://replicate.com/stability-ai/stable-diffusion-3.5-large/readme
- https://replicate.com/docs/topics/models/hardware
- https://replicate.com/support
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