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Replit CEO says company has stopped working with Anthropic
Replit CEO Amjad Masad said the company had stopped working with Anthropic, the maker of Claude AI models.
Replit offers a cloud-based platform where people build and launch apps, and it had used Claude to power parts of the service.
Masad cited cost, performance and partnership reasons for the decision, and said Replit now considers ChatGPT better.
But people familiar with the partnership said it was still in place, and Replit’s own posts recently named Anthropic models used in its service.
The two accounts leave the partnership’s status unclear, and Replit was asked to clarify.
Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, while Masad said enterprise contracts grew from about 2% of revenue last year to about 15% this year.
More than half of Replit’s revenue now comes from business customers, according to Masad; he also said safe AI deployment depends on safeguards such as security and error recovery.
Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad said the company is no longer working with Anthropic.
Masad said cost, partnership and performance influenced the decision.
He said Replit judged other models to perform better on its benchmark for building applications from scratch.
People familiar with the partnership disputed that it had ended, and Replit’s website and posts indicated recent use of Anthropic models.
Masad said enterprise contracts made up about 15% of Replit’s revenue this year, up from about 2% last year.
- Who
- Replit, an AI coding platform, and Anthropic, an AI company.
- What
- Replit CEO Amjad Masad said the company had stopped working with Anthropic. People familiar with the partnership said it was still in place.
- When
- Masad made the comments on Thursday. The article was published on October 16, 2026.
- Where
- Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt.
- Why
- Masad cited cost, partnership and performance.
Replit CEO Amjad Masad
People familiar with the Replit-Anthropic partnership
Partnership status
Replit CEO Amjad Masad
Masad said Replit was no longer working with Anthropic.
People familiar with the Replit-Anthropic partnership
One person familiar with the partnership said it was still in place.
Reasoning and performance
Replit CEO Amjad Masad
Masad said cost, partnership and performance led Replit to prefer other models for now.
People familiar with the Replit-Anthropic partnership
The sources do not state the insiders’ view on the reasons or model performance.
Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI.
A Replit blog post cited Anthropic models as running in Replit Agent’s production environment.
Masad said at TechCrunch Disrupt that Replit was no longer working with Anthropic.
- CEO
- Amjad Masad
- Revenue from enterprise contracts this year
- About 15%
- Revenue from enterprise contracts last year
- About 2%
- OpenAI partnership
- Announced in August
- Anthropic models cited in Replit Agent
- Claude Fable 5 and Claude Fable 5.1
2 sources
What people are saying
I think ChatGPT is better now
It was a decision based on both cost, partnership, and performance. And for all these reasons, we just felt like they were a better partner for now.
the partnership was still in place