CEO says Replit no longer works with Anthropic

Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Massad made these comments during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.

Last day to save $200 on the TechCrunch Founders Summit on October 16th. Register now.

Disrupt the doors opening on October 13th. Get your card and bring someone with you with a 50% discount. Register now.

Replit, the AI coding platform favored by startup founders and developers, is no longer working with Entropic, the company's CEO and co-founder Amjad Massad said Thursday while on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt.

Massad said that this decision was made for various reasons, including cost. Replit announced its partnership with OpenAI back in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer with Anthropic.

"I think ChatGPT is better right now," Massad said, adding that the company uses an internal benchmark to help evaluate metrics like performance. We also publish a public benchmark, and consistently, Sol and Astra perform better in building applications with jitter code from scratch. It was a decision based on cost, participation and performance. "And for all those reasons, we just felt like they were a better partner right now."

Replit sells a cloud-based software development platform where users can develop and run applications directly from within their browser. Under its partnership with Anthropic, Replit used AI Lab's Claude models to implement its platform. This partnership is said to have helped the company's revenue growth.

Repeat Mossad's statement with a reaction from people aware of the inter-entropic partnership and yet. A person familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the partnership is still ongoing.

There is evidence that Replit was using Anthropic products in September. For example, a September blog post mentioned Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 and Claude Fable 5.1 as models running in the Replit Agent production environment.

TechCrunch has reached out to Replit for clarification and will update this story if we hear back.

While at Disrupt, Massad shared insights on the company's growth, noting that the company is starting to deliver a larger share of revenue.

"We're not sharing the ARR numbers yet, but in terms of growth, like, I'd say, companies had 2 percent of revenue last year," Massad said. This year, I'd say 15% of our revenue is from enterprise contracts and over 50% of our revenue is B2B.

Massad also commented on the need for good AI safety measures.

"Just as we humans need a certain environment to work - you need a good office, maybe good office food, air conditioning, computers - agents need a habitat to exist and do good work," he said. "So that habitat has good orchestration, good error recovery, good safety and security and sandboxing, good networking, good identity and authorization. And once you understand all of that, you can deploy AI safely."

When you make a purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This does not affect our editorial independence

Get 50% off second pass. Cover more ground with your co-founder or partner at TechCrunch's Ultimate Founder Bootcamp of the Year. 50% discount for the second pass. Meet scale and investment leaders, ask questions, find solutions and more. Last day to save October 16

Tesla unveils SpaceX Roadster that flies and crashes Sean O'Kin's style.

The FBI arrested an OpenAI employee accused of planting a secret recording device in Zack Whittaker's conference room

Google Play now lets anyone build private, coded apps that run on Android Sarah Perez

Bumble agrees to $1.3 billion acquisition deal as online dating faces Lauren Forrestal reset