Replit CEO: No Longer Working With Anthropic — SkimNews
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- Replit CEO Amjad Masad said onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt that his company is no longer working with Anthropic, framing it as a decision driven by cost, partnership terms, and performance.
- Masad said "ChatGPT is better now," pointing to Replit's benchmarks—where models he called Sol and Astra "consistently" outperform alternatives on building "vibe-coded applications from scratch."
- Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, yet late-September blog posts and Replit staff social media were still citing Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, Claude Fable 5.1, and Opus 5.5 as running in the Agent production environment.
- Insiders familiar with the Replit-Anthropic relationship rejected Masad's remarks, with one source telling TechCrunch the partnership is still in place—an immediate contradiction with the CEO's stage statement.
- Masad also disclosed that Replit's enterprise share of revenue climbed from 2% last year to 15% this year, with more than 50% of revenue now coming from B2B contracts.
Why it matters: Replit publicly credited its Anthropic partnership with significant revenue growth, so the CEO's stage announcement—if accurate—deprives Anthropic of a distribution channel just as Replit's enterprise mix is scaling (2% to 15% of revenue). The on-record pushback from insiders familiar with the deal, plus Replit's own recent Claude promotion, makes the announcement look premature or improvised rather than a clean transition.
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