Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says
Amjad Masad cited cost, partnership and performance, but a person familiar with the deal said it was still in place.
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Revenue share from enterprise contracts this year
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15%Revenue share from enterprise contracts this year
The short version
- Replit CEO Amjad Masad said onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt on Thursday that the company is no longer working with Anthropic.
- Masad said the decision was based on cost, partnership and performance, and that a public benchmark showed OpenAI's models performing better at building vibe-coded applications from scratch.
- Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, and it had used Anthropic's Claude models to run its platform.
- One person familiar with the partnership said it was still in place, and Replit materials from late September cited Anthropic models.
Why it matters
The dispute shows how AI coding platforms can switch model providers based on cost and benchmark results. For developers, model choice may change quickly even for products built on one provider. The conflicting accounts also show how hard it is to confirm partner status from public signals.
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