Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says

Replit, the AI coding platform that has become a favorite of startup founders and developers, is no longer working with Anthropic, the company’s CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad said Thursday while onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt. Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost.

深受初创公司创始人和开发者喜爱的 AI 编程平台 Replit 已不再与 Anthropic 合作，该公司首席执行官兼联合创始人 Amjad Masad 周四在 TechCrunch Disrupt 大会上表示。Masad 称，这一决定是出于多种原因，其中包括成本考量。

Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer with Anthropic. “I think ChatGPT is better now,” Masad said, adding that the company uses an internal benchmark to help assess metrics like performance. “We publish a public benchmark as well, and consistently, Sol and Astra perform better on building vibe-coded applications from scratch. 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.”

Replit 在 8 月宣布与 OpenAI 建立合作伙伴关系，但此前从未有迹象表明它已停止与 Anthropic 的合作。“我认为 ChatGPT 现在更好了，”Masad 说道，并补充称公司使用内部基准来评估性能等指标。“我们也发布了公开基准，结果显示 Sol 和 Astra 在从零开始构建‘氛围编码’（vibe-coded）应用程序方面表现始终更好。这是一个基于成本、合作伙伴关系和性能的综合决定。出于这些原因，我们认为他们目前是更好的合作伙伴。”

Replit sells a cloud-based software development platform where users can develop and deploy apps directly from inside their browser. Under its partnership with Anthropic, Replit used the AI lab’s Claude models to run its platform. That partnership was said to have helped the company grow its revenue significantly.

Replit 出售一个基于云的软件开发平台，用户可以直接在浏览器内开发和部署应用程序。在与 Anthropic 的合作下，Replit 使用该 AI 实验室的 Claude 模型来运行其平台。据称，这一合作关系帮助该公司实现了收入的显著增长。

Masad’s comments were rejected by insiders familiar with the partnership between the Anthropic and Replit, however. One person familiar, who asked not to be named, said the partnership was still in place. There is evidence on the company’s website, blog posts, and social media posts that Replit was using Anthropic products as recently as a few weeks ago. For instance, a blog post in late September cites Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Claude Fable 5.1 as models running in Replit Agent’s production environment. Around the same time, one of Replit’s product employees posted on X about using Anthropic’s flagship model Opus 5.5 and promoting its capabilities. TechCrunch reached back out to Replit for clarification and will update this story if we hear back.

然而，熟悉 Anthropic 与 Replit 合作关系的内部人士反驳了 Masad 的说法。一位不愿透露姓名的知情人士表示，合作关系依然存在。公司网站、博客文章和社交媒体帖子中的证据显示，Replit 在几周前仍在使用 Anthropic 的产品。例如，9 月下旬的一篇博客文章提到 Anthropic 的 Claude Fable 5 和 Claude Fable 5.1 是在 Replit Agent 生产环境中运行的模型。大约在同一时间，Replit 的一名产品员工在 X 上发帖称正在使用 Anthropic 的旗舰模型 Opus 5.5 并宣传其功能。TechCrunch 已再次联系 Replit 请求澄清，如有回复将更新此报道。

Masad shared insights about the company’s growth while onstage at Disrupt, noting that enterprise is starting to provide a larger slice of revenue. “We’re not sharing ARR numbers just yet, but in terms of growth, like, I would say, enterprise was like 2% of revenue last year,” Masad said. “This year, I would say like 15% of our revenue is enterprise contracts, and more than 50% of our revenue is B2B.”

Masad 在 Disrupt 大会上分享了关于公司增长的见解，指出企业业务开始贡献更大比例的收入。“我们暂时不会分享年度经常性收入（ARR）数据，但就增长而言，去年企业业务约占收入的 2%，”Masad 说，“今年，我认为约 15% 的收入来自企业合同，超过 50% 的收入来自 B2B。”

Masad also commented on the necessity for good AI safety measures. “In the same way that us humans need a certain environment to work — you need a nice office, maybe nice good food in the office, air-conditioning, computer — agents need a habitat for them 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 figure all of that out, then you can deploy AI safely.”

Masad 还评论了建立良好 AI 安全措施的必要性。“就像我们人类需要特定的环境来工作一样——你需要一个舒适的办公室、办公室里可能有不错的食物、空调、电脑——智能体也需要一个栖息地来生存并出色地完成工作，”他说，“因此，这个栖息地需要良好的编排、良好的错误恢复、良好的安全与沙箱机制、良好的网络连接以及良好的身份验证和授权。一旦你解决了所有这些问题，你就可以安全地部署 AI。”