AI app builder price hikes
5 price hikes we tracked on AI app builders, newest first. Each one has its own page with before and after, sources, and what's cheaper now.
- v0 turned its $5 monthly free credits into a one-time grant · Oct 5, 2026
New Free users now get $5 of credits once instead of $5 every month; existing Free users keep the monthly allowance. - Replit ended its free Starter plan; Core at $20/mo is now the entry tier · Sep 2026
The free Starter plan (daily Agent credits and limited publishing at no cost) was removed from the pricing page in mid-September 2026, so building with Replit now starts at Core, $20/mo monthly or $18/mo billed annually. - v0 roughly doubled per-token rates, so credits buy less · Feb 2026
Per-model token rates roughly doubled (Mini $1/$5, Pro $3/$15, Max $5/$25 per 1M in/out), so the same included credits cover about half the usage. - v0 capped its free plan at 7 messages a day · Dec 2025
The Free plan gained a 7 messages/day cap on top of its $5 monthly credits. - Replit raised Autoscale and Scheduled deployment compute rates by 154% · Feb 2025
Deployment repricing raised the per-second compute rate for Autoscale and Scheduled deployments from $0.000024 to $0.000061 and added a $1/month base fee per deployment; Reserved VM pricing also rose.