Replit pricing, plans and what credits buy

Replit pricing starts with a free Starter plan, then Core at $20 a month, or $18 a month billed yearly, and Pro from $100 a month, or $90 billed yearly. On Core and Pro, one monthly credit pays for building and running an app, covering Replit's Agent, publishing, network transfer and database storage. We read every figure on Replit's pricing page and its billing docs on 27 September 2026.

Replit's prices move. Its cloud prices dropped on 1 August 2026. Database storage fell from $1.50 to $0.35 a GiB a month, and autoscale compute from $3.20 to $0.60 per million units, while database compute stayed the same. Check the date above before you budget.

Deacon is ours. It's an AI customer support agent for founders who answer support themselves. It answers your Replit app's visitors in seconds from your own docs, with no chatbot for Agent to build, and the same script shows you where they came from. Its answers come from its own plan rather than your Replit credit, and there's a free plan that needs no card.

Replit pricing plans

On Core and Pro, one monthly balance is shared by Agent's paid work, published apps, network transfer and database usage, and Pro's carries unused credit forward. Starter's allowance comes in two parts, daily Agent credits that reset each day up to a monthly cap, and a monthly credit for databases, storage and publishing. The features are from the pricing page and Replit's guides to the Starter plan, Core and Pro.

Core is where most of Replit's building features start. Full build lets Agent work with more autonomy than Starter's Lite build. Core is also needed to turn a Design Canvas layout into a working app. Third-party connectors, to services such as Google and Stripe, and Replit AI Integrations, which let Agent call outside models without your own key, both start on Core. Pro adds capacity rather than features, with more collaborators, more Agent tasks running at once and a longer window to recover a deleted database.

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How Replit's Agent bills you

Replit calls its Agent pricing effort-based. Every subscriber gets some one-time free checkpoints to try Agent, and after that, Free Mode covers everyday Agent work at no cost, within your plan's allowance. Starter's Free Mode has a daily cap, and Pro gets more Free Mode than Core.

Paid work happens in Build Mode, in Power or Max mode, and Replit asks you to confirm before it starts. Agent then bundles the whole job into one checkpoint when it finishes, rather than billing each step, so what you pay follows the effort.

• A simple request, such as a bug fix or a small change, typically costs less.
• A complex build, such as a full feature or an integration, can cost more.
• Plan Mode, where Agent maps out the work without touching your code, can also be billed once you're on the paid path.

Some of that paid work calls outside AI models, and Replit bills those at the model provider's public rate, deducted from your credits alongside everything else. You can watch the running cost on the Agent tab and the usage dashboard, and set spending alerts or a hard budget limit in Settings.

Past your monthly credit, Core and Pro pay as they go. They can also buy credit packs, in four sizes with a bigger discount on a bigger pack, or turn on auto-reload to buy one automatically when the balance runs low. A pack expires 6 months after purchase, and what's left then is lost. If you'd rather stop spending than keep paying, a usage limit blocks anything usage-based until your next billing cycle or until you raise it.

What deployments and databases cost on top

Publishing an app is paid from the same monthly credit first. Each deployment type has its own meter, and most of those rates were cut on 1 August 2026.

• Autoscale, for apps with unpredictable traffic, charges a monthly base fee of $1 or $2, since Replit's own pages give both, plus $0.60 per million compute units and $0.40 per million requests. It charges nothing for compute while your app is idle.
• Reserved VM, for steady traffic, runs at a fixed hourly rate for the vCPU and RAM you choose, billed by the month.
• Scheduled, for background jobs, bills the same compute-unit rate as Autoscale with no request charge.
• Static, for a site with no backend, is free to host, and you pay only for data transfer past a free allowance.

A production database is billed by compute time, $0.16 an hour while it's active, and by storage, $0.35 a GiB a month, up to a 10 GiB limit per database. The development database you build against is always free, with 20 GiB of storage included. Core includes 100 GiB of outbound data transfer a month.

What a Replit app costs in practice

These use Replit's own published rates and one of its own traffic examples.

The third row is our sum, not Replit's, and almost all of the deployment's cost is Autoscale's base fee. Replit's own worked example for a small site has 50 visitors a day at 3 page views each, which comes to 4,500 requests and 13,500 compute units a month. At the new per-unit rates, that's $0.0081 for the compute units and $0.0018 for the requests. The base fee is $1 a month by Replit's August price list, or $2 by its publishing costs page. Replit takes publishing costs from your monthly credit first, so this app fits inside Core's $20 as long as Agent leaves room for it. A busier app, or one that leans on Agent's paid modes, spends that credit faster and moves into pay-as-you-go sooner.

What a launched Replit app still needs

Once your Replit app is live, the people who try it have questions, and you'll want to know where they came from. On Replit, the first is a job for Agent and the second for Replit's own analytics.

For questions, Agent can build you a chatbot for your users, with your own AI provider key or, on Core and above, Replit AI Integrations. It also needs a database to hold your docs and a scraper to search them. With Replit AI Integrations, every reply spends from the same credit as your deployments and databases, so a busy week of questions eats into the credit you build with. The chatbot does only what you build into it, so saying "I don't know" instead of guessing, emailing you when someone wants a person and counting what people asked are all parts you'd build too.

For where they came from, Replit's Growth pane shows a published app's visitors and top referrers once you turn on Enable analytics, and from Core, Agent can add custom events. A published app can also show a feedback button that sends visitors' reports and ideas to your inbox, though it doesn't answer their questions.

What to do after you launch covers the rest of the first few weeks.

Deacon on a Replit app

Deacon is an AI customer support agent that sits beside your Replit app rather than inside it. It answers your visitors in seconds from your own docs, at any hour and in the language they write in, with no AI key, database or scraper of your own to run. The parts you'd otherwise build come with it. When your docs don't cover a question, it says it doesn't know instead of guessing and asks for the visitor's email. You get an email when they leave one or ask for a person, and your reply from Deacon's dashboard appears in their chat while it's open.

Each question your docs didn't cover gets an Answer this button. Write the answer once, and Save & check shows you the reply Deacon now gives and how many other open questions your answer covers, so Deacon needs you less over time. Replit's feedback button collects the reports people choose to send. Topics group the questions people ask, count the people asking and label most of them, as a feature ask, a bug report or a how-to, so you know what to fix and what to ask Agent to build next.

Deacon's replies count against its own allowance, so a busy week of questions leaves your Replit credit for Agent and your deployments. The same script counts your visitors, where they came from, your goals and your funnels, with ranges up to all time, on every Deacon plan. On Replit, custom events and Agent's answers about your analytics start on Core.

It's one script tag on your Replit app's replit.app address or your own domain. Copy your tag from Deacon's Install page, paste it into the Agent chat and ask Agent to put it on every page, so you don't have to place it by hand. Republish afterwards, since changes in the workspace don't reach your live app until you do. Deacon and Replit has every step.

Every feature is on every Deacon plan. Free is 50 answers a month and 1 seat, with no card and no end date. Deacon's Starter is $50 a month, or $40 a month billed yearly, for 1,000 answers a month and 3 seats. Growth is $150 a month, or $120 a month billed yearly, for 4,000 answers a month and 10 seats. Nothing is billed past a plan's answers, no plan upgrades itself, and there's no "powered by" line to pay to remove.

Questions about Replit pricing

Is Replit free?

Yes. The Starter plan costs nothing and gives you daily Agent credits, a monthly cloud credit for databases and storage, Lite build, and one published app that goes down after 30 days and carries a "Made with Replit" badge. Full build, Plan Mode, connectors and unlimited published apps need Core.

How much does Replit cost a month?

Core is $20 a month billed monthly, or $18 billed yearly. Pro starts at $100 a month, or $90 billed yearly, for a bigger, rolling credit balance and room for a team.

What is effort-based pricing on Replit?

It's how Replit bills Agent's paid work. Agent bundles what it did on your request into one checkpoint once the work is finished, and a simple change typically costs less than a complex build such as a full feature. Free Mode covers everyday Agent work within your plan's allowance at no cost, so effort-based pricing only applies once you move into a paid mode.

What happens when Replit credits run out?

On Core and Pro, usage past your monthly credit comes out of any credit pack you've bought, then is billed as you go. If you've set a usage limit, reaching it blocks usage-based services, such as deployments and Agent's paid modes, until your next billing cycle or until you raise the limit. Free Mode costs nothing, within its own allowance.

Does Replit have a free published app?

Yes, one, on the Starter plan. It runs on a replit.app address, carries a "Made with Replit" badge and goes down after 30 days, though you can republish it. Core removes both limits.

Does Deacon use my Replit credits?

No. Deacon counts only its own answers, and a page view never uses one. The only Replit usage is placing the tag, which is one small request to Agent, or none if you paste it in yourself. Deacon's free plan has 50 answers a month with no card, and it works on your replit.app address, so you don't need a paid Replit plan to add it.