Replit, the AI coding platform that has become a favorite of startup founders and developers, is no longer working with Anthropic, the company’s CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad said Thursday while onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt. Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that its was no longer with Anthropic.
It was it was a decision based on both cost, you know, partnership, and performance. And for all these reasons, we just felt like they were a better partner for now.” Replit sells a cloud-based software development platform where users can develop and deploy apps directly from inside their browser. Under its partnership with Anthropic, Replit used the AI lab’s Claude models to run its platform.
That partnership was said to have helped the company grow its revenue significantly. Masad’s comments were met with some pushback from insiders familiar with the partnership between the Anthropic and Replit, however. One person familiar, who asked not to be named, said the partnership was still in place.
There is some evidence that Replit was using Anthropic products as recently as September. For instance, a blog post in September cites Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Claude Fable 5.1 as models running in Replit Agent’s production environment. TechCrunch reached back out to Replit for clarification and will update this story if we hear back.
Masad shared insights about the company’s growth while onstage at Disrupt, noting that enterprise is starting to provide a larger slice of revenue. And once you figure all of that out, then you can deploy AI safely.”
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