Replit pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Replit (replit.com) is a AI app builder. Flat monthly plans (Core, Pro) that include a dollar allowance of AI and cloud usage, with pay-as-you-go usage beyond it; Enterprise by quote.. No free plan.
What Replit costs
- 1 builder: $20/mo (Core $20/mo billed monthly ($18/mo billed annually); includes $20/mo of usage credits plus capped Free Mode (up to 30 hours of chat, 60 projects). Publishing/hosting is paid from the credits; custom domains with Replit-issued TLS are supported (domain bought from your registrar). The free Starter plan was removed in Sep 2026.)
- 5 builders: $100/mo (Pro $100/mo flat billed monthly ($90/mo billed annually), up to 15 collaborators and 50 viewers, $100/mo of credits shared by the workspace. The pricing page lists collaborators only on Pro, so Core is not used; the per-seat Teams plan ($35/user) was retired in Apr 2026.)
Plan compared: Core. Cheapest paid plan, billed monthly, that lets one person build with the AI and publish an app on their own domain, and the total for 5 people co-editing in one workspace. AI credit allowances differ by vendor and are listed next to each price rather than normalized; free plans and separately billed hosting are not counted.
What Replit does
Core: Prompt-to-app generation, Autonomous build agent, Built-in database & backend, In-browser code editor, Agentic coding tool, Web and mobile access.
Important: Native mobile apps, End-user sign-up & login, Managed site hosting, Code export & GitHub sync, Design to code, Payments & subscriptions (partly), Connectors & API integrations, AI features inside your app, Security checks on apps, Team workspaces, AI-native code editor (partly), Background cloud agents, Plan and spec mode, Built-in browser testing.
Also has: Visual point-and-click edits, SSO & compliance (partly), Templates & community gallery, Built-in analytics & SEO (partly), Build from your phone, Codebase indexing (partly), Multi-lab model choice, MCP tool connections (partly), Rules, commands and subagents (partly), Team admin and analytics (partly), Privacy and compliance (partly).
Replit price hikes
- 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. - 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.
Alternatives to Replit
Replit is the cheapest AI app builder we track at 1 builder. The others:
Replit alternatives: 3 AI app builders compared, at every size.
Other kinds of products that cover part of Replit
- Cursor (AI coding): covers 59% of Replit; missing or partial: Built-in database & backend, Native mobile apps (partly), End-user sign-up & login, Managed site hosting, Connectors & API integrations (partly)
Every change we logged
- Sep 2026 · Free tier cut: 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.
- Apr 2026 · Repriced: The per-seat Teams plan ($35/user/mo) was replaced by Pro at $100/mo flat with up to 15 collaborators; Core's included monthly credits went from $25 to $20 as its price was lowered.
- Jun 2025 · Repriced: Agent usage moved from a flat $0.25 per checkpoint to effort-based pricing, where complex tasks are billed as single, larger checkpoints; many users reported higher bills.
- Feb 2025 · Price increase: 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.
Sources
Pricing page: replit.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Prices from replit.com/pricing (monthly/yearly toggle shows $20/$18 Core and $100/$90 Pro) and PricingSaaS diffs. The pricing page does not state Core's collaborator limit or say whether Pro credits are pooled; PricingSaaS 2025 entries (Core $15 to $30, then $20) are contradictory and were not used.