Sat, Jul 12, 2025Effort-Based Pricing Recap
On June 18th, we enabled a new pricing feature called Effort-Based Pricing for all newly signed up Replit users. After monitoring usage for two weeks, we began rolling this feature out to the remaining users last week on July 2nd. In this post, we would like to share more about the rationale for the change, what we have observed so far, address some of our users’ concerns, and share how we are continuing to improve pricing. We are confident that the new Effort-Based pricing is the model that will best serve our users and enable more powerful AI tools to Replit members, however the transition to the new pricing model did not meet our standards for how we like to roll out major changes (we will discuss some examples of areas where we fell short). Therefore, we would like to offer $10 in free Replit credits to all Replit members who used the new pricing model as a way to show that we appreciate your feedback and your patience during this transition. This will automatically be applied to all active accounts that have used the new pricing model. There is nothing that users need to do to claim this credit. July 11th Incident: One example of where we fell short in our rollout of the pricing happened on July 11th between the hours of 11:26AM PDT - 5:43PM PDT. During this time, and due to an error in cost calculation, Replit checkpoint charges were being incorrectly computed and were often much larger than they should have been. After 5:43PM the fix was rolled out to production. This impacted approximately 6% of paying users. We have performed a thorough incident analysis, ensured that all charges related to the incident are refunded/credited, and have applied additional guardrails to make sure that this doesn’t happen again. We apologize for this July 11th incident and we thank our community members for helping us identify this issue. We were able to determine exactly who was impacted, by how much, and will automatically issue refunds or credits to any user that was impacted by this error. There is nothing that these users need to do to initiate the refund. The total cost of all impacted checkpoints will be reimbursed. Impacted users will also receive an email explaining what has happened. These refunds will be in addition to the additional $10 in credits that we are offering to all active Replit members who have been using the new Effort-Based Pricing.
Tue, Jul 1, 2025Introducing Dynamic Intelligence for Replit Agent
Today, we're excited to introduce three new capabilities that bring Dynamic Intelligence to Replit Agent. With this advancement, the Agent gains enhanced context awareness, iterative reasoning, and autonomous, goal-driven behavior—enabling it to adapt in real time, navigate complex tasks, and deliver complete solutions with minimal guidance. These three new capabilities are: Extended thinking: Instructs the Agent to slow down and think more deeply, producing more thorough solutions—while showing parts of its step-by-step reasoning before giving the final result. High power model: Increases the Agent’s accuracy by using a more capable AI model Web Search: Enables the Agent to perform intelligent web searches based on your request to fill knowledge gaps
Wed, Jun 18, 2025Introducing Effort-Based Pricing for Replit Agent
We’re updating how pricing works for Replit Agent to better reflect the effort—measured in terms of time and computation—the Agent uses to fulfill each request. Previously, the Agent charged $0.25 per checkpoint. This meant small edits would cost $0.25, while larger tasks could trigger multiple $0.25 checkpoints. With our new Effort-Based pricing model, simple changes still result in a single checkpoint—typically costing less than $0.25. Larger or more complex tasks are no longer split across multiple $0.25 checkpoints. Instead, they will be bundled into one checkpoint, which may cost more than $0.25 but reflects the total effort involved. This means you’ll pay less for simple requests and may pay more for complex requests—ensuring pricing aligns better with the actual work the Agent performs on your behalf. The new pricing model is effective immediately for new Replit users and will start rolling out to existing Core and Teams subscribers starting July 1st.
Tue, Jun 10, 2025Import Figma and Other Design Tools into Agent with Replit Import
Today we're launching Replit Import — a new way for creators to import their designs into Replit and transform them into secure, production-ready applications with Replit Agent. Now you can import projects from design tools such as Figma, Lovable, and Bolt. Import your designs from Figma in a couple clicks — no technical expertise required
Thu, May 22, 2025Click, Edit, Ship — Introducing Element Editor
What's new and improved: Direct text editing — You can now simply click on any text element and start typing to change it directly! It works just like editing in a design tool — no coding required and no need for an agent. Before, you needed additional steps to make changes, but now it's as simple as point, click, and type. Enhanced color editing — You can now edit colors even more intuitively! Instead of navigating through menus or remembering color codes, you can make color changes with fewer clicks and see the results instantly. Type in the color name, hex or even use the eyedropper to pick a color. New style controls — We've added even more powerful styling options: Font size adjustments Font weight modifications
Thu, May 15, 2025Replit: The Safest Place for Vibe Coding
We’re beefing up security. We’re launching the world’s best vibe coding history feature. And for those of you bringing Replit to work, we’re improving our Enterprise readiness. Vibe coding makes software creation accessible to everyone, entirely through natural language. Whether it’s personal software for yourself and family, a new business coming to life, or internal tools at your workplace, Replit is the best place for anybody to build. AI coding is powerful but can be nerve wracking if you're building something for the first time. Is my user information safe? Is my API key exposed? Will my app be vulnerable to attackers? Maybe you didn't even know you had to consider these things to begin with! These challenges can lead users to stumble into vibe coding tragedies. They put too much burden on users to utilize external services, track their own history, or validate the security of their code. We hate hearing stories of users on other platforms who lost months of work, accidentally exposed secret API keys, or even exposed user data.
Thu, May 8, 2025Introducing Replit Auth: add secure login to your app
User login, social sign-in, and user management — all from a single prompt with Replit Auth We’ve heard from users that user login can be one of the hardest features to add. There are many places you can get stuck: configuring external services, managing callbacks, integrating new login providers, and storing user information. Even if you get through all of that, you might be left wondering: is my app actually secure? That’s why today we’re excited to announce Replit Auth. With just a simple modification to your prompt, adding “use Replit Auth”, you’ll get:
Tue, Apr 22, 2025Secure Vibe Coding: The Tools and Fundamentals to Vibe Code Securely
Nothing is more exciting than realizing your vision. Nothing is worse than realizing you had a major security flaw. The good news? While security is crucial, it doesn't have to be an obstacle, especially when you're building on Replit. We integrate many security features directly into the platform, and our AI tools can handle much of the heavy lifting, letting you focus on building. This post is your practical guide to navigating security essentials. We'll walk through the key fundamentals to secure vibe coding, provide a security checklis, and give 16 practical tips for how you can vibe code more secure apps (and how to do so simply). Replit's five fundamentals for secure vibe coding Up to 40% of AI suggestions may contain vulnerabilities. At Replit, we've taken a unique approach: making security automatic and integrated for the most secure vibe coding possible.
Tue, Apr 15, 2025How Zinus Saves $140,000+ and Cuts Development Time by 50% with Replit
The Zinus team turned a costly, time-consuming process into an efficient, automated system by developing internally with Replit. Company: Zinus, Inc. Industry: E-commerce, Home Goods Team: Mason Kim (Global DevOps Engineer) and Joshua Cortez (Software Engineer) Stack: Replit for frontend, custom backend API Impact: $40,000 annual recurring savings on license fees + $112,050 one-time development cost savings, with 50% reduction in development time
Wed, Mar 26, 2025Secure Vibe Coding Made Simple
As vibe coding revolutionizes app development, security can't be an afterthought—it needs to be a core part of the creation process. Recent Stanford research shows that developers using AI assistants wrote less secure code in 80% of tasks compared to those coding manually, while being 3.5 times more likely to overestimate their code's security. And that's professional developers, we've seen an even more concerning trend among vibe coded apps. At Replit, we don't just take this seriously, we build security into every app you create with Agent, by default—something Replit CEO Amjad Masad has called "the Pit of Success". That's why our apps are secure, by default. We bake security in to the process of building with Agent—so you can focus on creating.
Wed, Mar 26, 2025What is Vibe Coding?
From idea to app, fast—that's always been our mission at Replit. But what if you could turn your ideas into working apps without knowing how to code at all? Enter vibe coding: a term that's democratizing app creation for everyone, regardless of technical background. What is vibe coding? Vibe coding refers to the practice of instructing AI agents to write code based on natural language prompts. It's not about being lazy—it's about focusing your time and energy on the creative aspects of app development rather than getting stuck in technical details.
Thu, Mar 13, 2025Agent Just Got Eyes — Click. Describe. Done.
Making changes to your app should be as fast as possible. Instead of manually describing what to edit, what if you could just click? Now you can. Meet Element Selector, a simple yet powerful way to select any UI element in your app and modify it instantly with Agent or Assistant. No need to type out descriptions or search through files — just Click. Describe. Done. How It Works Toggle the Element Selector — You can find it alongside the chat input tools in Agent and Assistant. Click to select — Want to edit a button? Change a heading? Just click it. Describe changes — Assistant updates text, colors, or styles in seconds. Use Agent to add features like turning a static list into a searchable one.
Sat, Mar 8, 2025Everything you need to know about MCP
You can find the 3-min quickstart from the video here What is MCP? MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standard way to connect AI models to data sources and tools. It allows AI to access information and capabilities beyond what they were originally trained on. MCP works like a universal connector for AI systems. Just as standard ports let different devices work together, MCP lets different AI models connect to the same tools and data sources. This means developers can build a tool once and have it work with any AI model that supports MCP. It's like the USB-C port of AI applications.
Wed, Mar 5, 2025Using Tvix Store to Reduce Nix Storage Costs by 90%
For the past few years, Replit has been using Nix to serve packages/dependencies and provide consistent development environments to our users. Nix on Replit allows users to have access to a large number of packages and libraries that can be seamlessly integrated into a user's project. Motivation In order to quickly serve thousands of packages to our users, we attach a large Nix store persistent disk to all development containers serving Replit apps. While this approach has worked well for a while, this persistent disk grows with every subsequent NixOS release (eventually reaching a size of 20Tb). When considering ways to reduce the size of this disk, one important constraint was to never remove store paths from the cache. Project that depend on packages in older Nix channel releases could still link to these store paths, so in order to maintain backwards compatibility those store paths must remain. Tvix Store Tvix is a new modular implementation of Nix that contains a series of components that can be used individually. One of these components is the Tvix store. tvix-store is a Nix store implementation backed by the tvix-castore. The tvix-castore manages blobs (file contents) and directory info (file metadata, like names, permissions, etc). tvix-store manages nix path info metadata, effectively creating a mapping of Nix store paths to tvix-castore contents.
Thu, Feb 27, 2025Introducing Workflows
With Workflows, you can easily save your development processes and organize them as a sequence of Tasks. Instead of having to repetitively type commands into your shell and remember them, Workflows provide an intuitive interface to configure your frequently used commands and execute them with the click of a button. Simplifying development with Workflows Workflows give you the ability to better organize your project execution pipeline, while offering an accessible interface to reuse them. Using the Workflows pane, you can easily configure specific buttons to run specific commands, and even link multiple Workflows together in a chain. Instead of copy pasting "cd ./client && npm run dev && cd ../server && node server.js", you can define the procedure as a Workflow with multiple Tasks. Let's see how it works with an example.