Replit CEO Says It Has Dropped Anthropic, but an Insider and a September Blog Post Dispute That
Summary
- • Replit CEO says the company no longer works with Anthropic, citing cost, partnership and performance
- • Masad says benchmarks show 'Sol and Astra' build vibe-coded apps from scratch better
- • An unnamed insider says the Anthropic partnership is still in place, contradicting the CEO
- • Enterprise grew from about 2% to about 15% of Replit revenue in a year
Details
Replit CEO Amjad Masad said onstage that Replit is no longer working with Anthropic
Said at TechCrunch Disrupt, citing cost, partnership and performance. Claude models previously ran the Replit platform and helped grow its revenue.
Masad said 'I think ChatGPT is better now' in explaining the move
The CEO's own assessment of model quality, not an independent finding.
Masad said internal and public benchmarks show 'Sol and Astra' beat rivals at building vibe-coded apps from scratch
The benchmarks were cited by the CEO and not detailed or independently verified in the reporting.
Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August
The announcement preceded Masad's statement by about two months, with no earlier indication that Anthropic was out.
An unnamed insider says the Anthropic partnership is still in place
This contradicts the CEO's statement. The insider is anonymous and unconfirmed, so the relationship's actual status is unclear.
A September Replit blog post cited Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and 5.1 running in Replit Agent production
This puts Claude in live use about a month before the remarks. TechCrunch asked Replit for clarification; no response was included.
Enterprise grew from about 2% of Replit revenue last year to about 15% this year
Masad gave the figures onstage; absolute revenue was not disclosed.
More than 50% of Replit revenue is now B2B, and ARR was not disclosed
A majority-B2B mix shows the shift toward commercial customers; the scale of the business remains unknown.
Industry Update = business move, Insight = opinion, Research = benchmark claims, Partnership = vendor deal, Context = disputed reporting, Financials = revenue mix
What This Means
If Masad's account is accurate, a prominent AI coding platform has moved away from Anthropic toward OpenAI, a win for OpenAI in supplying models for AI app building. The picture is unsettled: an insider and Replit's own September blog point to Claude still being in use, and the benchmark claims are the CEO's and unverified.