Replit CEO Amjad Masad said onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt that the AI coding platform is no longer working with Anthropic, then clarified his remarks over the weekend. TechCrunch published the report on October 16 and updated it on October 17 for context and a new title.
What he said onstage
Masad said Replit stopped working with Anthropic for reasons of cost, partnership and performance. On performance, he said: “I think ChatGPT is better now.” He said Replit's benchmarks show “Sol and Astra perform better on building vibe-coded applications from scratch.” Replit announced an OpenAI partnership in August, and the article says there had been no earlier indication that the Anthropic partnership had ended.
The clarification
Replit told TechCrunch afterward that it “remains model agnostic” and that users can still choose Anthropic's Claude. Masad said: “OpenAI is now our preferred partner for powering Replit Agent.” ChatGPT is now the default model, and since most customers keep the default, TechCrunch infers that Replit's spending with Anthropic could drop significantly. Masad said Replit had recently been a top-five Anthropic customer.
What is disputed
An unnamed insider familiar with the partnership said it was still in place. TechCrunch cites a late-September Replit blog post naming Claude Fable 5 and 5.1 in Replit Agent's production environment, and a Replit product employee's X post around the same time promoting Anthropic's Opus 5.5. The article reports no response from Anthropic, does not publish the benchmark data, and treats the claim about reduced spending as its own inference, not a reported figure.
Enterprise growth
Onstage, Masad said enterprise was about 2% of Replit's revenue last year and is about 15% this year, with more than 50% of revenue from B2B. Backstage, he expected over half of revenue to come from enterprise and government customers in 2027. On safety he said: “agents need a habitat for them to exist and do good work.”
Source: TechCrunch. This is an AI Business Watch summary of the original report.