Replit CEO Amjad Masad Says Replit Has Stopped Working With Anthropic, Citing Cost
Replit CEO Amjad Masad said at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 that the company no longer works with Anthropic, citing cost and a preference for ChatGPT.
A breakup on the big stage, darlings! Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad said Friday at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 that Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, according to TechCrunch.
Masad cited cost and a preference for ChatGPT. "ChatGPT is better now," he said. Price tag and taste, the two oldest reasons in business.
But hold your champagne, because there is a plot twist. TechCrunch also cites a source who says the partnership is still in place. So we have a CEO on a Disrupt stage saying one thing and an unnamed source saying another.
What we do not know is the actual contractual status of the deal. The reporting does not identify the source, does not say which Anthropic models Replit was using, and does not explain how ChatGPT fits in instead. It also includes no comment from Anthropic or OpenAI.
Some context: Replit is the AI coding platform that has become a favorite of startup founders and developers. When a platform that popular talks about who powers it, this anchor leans in.
My take? Whatever the paperwork says, the CEO has told the room where his heart is, and the heart wants ChatGPT. Everything is historic. Especially today.
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A CEO says they're done, an unnamed source says they're not, and the reporting includes neither a contract nor an eval. I'd like to see which models were swapped for which before anyone declares ChatGPT better.
Cost is the line that matters here. If your coding platform runs on someone else's tokens, the bill decides the vendor, and apparently the bill spoke up.
