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 at $100 a month, or $90 billed yearly. Every plan shares one meter for building and running an app: monthly credits that cover Replit's Agent, publishing, network transfer and database storage. We read every figure on Replit's pricing page and its billing docs on 25 September 2026.

Replit changes its prices without much notice. Its cloud prices dropped across every plan on 1 August 2026, so a compute hour on a database still costs the same but its storage fell from $1.50 to $0.35 a GiB a month, and autoscale compute fell from $3.20 to $0.60 per million units. 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, and the same script shows you where they came from. It spends none of your Replit credits, and there's a free plan that needs no card.

Replit pricing plans

Every plan's credit is shared by the same things: Agent's paid work, published apps, network transfer and database usage. Starter's credit is a daily allowance that resets each day, capped over the month. Core and Pro get one monthly balance instead, and Pro's balance carries unused credit forward. The features are from the pricing page and Replit's guides to the Starter plan, Core and Pro.

Core lifts Starter's limits rather than adding new ones. Full build lets Agent work with more autonomy than Starter's Lite build, and it's needed to convert a Design Canvas layout into a working app with a backend. 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: more collaborators, more Agent tasks running at once and a longer window to recover a deleted database.

If you're weighing Replit against an app builder, Replit vs Lovable sets the two side by side, and Replit alternatives covers the rest.

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 chat and small edits at no cost, within your plan's allowance. Starter's Free Mode has a daily cap; Core and Pro's is larger.

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

• 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, is bundled into one checkpoint that can cost more, reflecting the total effort.
• Plan Mode, where Agent maps out the work without touching your code, can also be billed once you're in 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 can 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 doesn't roll over itself. If you'd rather stop spending than keep buying, 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 billed from the same monthly credit, and past it, each deployment type has its own meter, all at prices Replit cut on 1 August 2026.

• Autoscale, for apps with unpredictable traffic, charges a $1 a month base fee, $0.60 per million compute units and $0.40 per million requests, and nothing 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; Pro's allowance is larger.

What a Replit app costs in practice

These are Replit's own published rates and one of its own traffic examples, not a rival's estimate, so a bigger or smaller app costs proportionally more or less.

The third row is our sum, not Replit's. By Replit's own worked example for a small site, 50 visitors a day at 3 page views each comes to 4,500 requests and 13,500 compute units a month. At the new per-unit rates, that's a $1 base fee plus $0.0081 for the compute units and $0.0018 for the requests, so about $1.01 a month on top of Core's $20 subscription, all covered by the same monthly credit. 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 the app is live, two jobs arrive that Agent didn't build. People who try it have questions, and you need to know where they came from.

Replit's answer to the first is Agent itself: it can build you a chatbot for your users, with your own AI provider key or Replit AI Integrations on Core and above, plus a database to hold your docs and a scraper to search them. Every reply then spends from the same credit as your deployments and databases, so a busy week of questions can slow down the app you're building. Replit's Core plan adds built-in logging and analytics for a published app, but nothing purpose-built for support: no honest "I don't know", no email when a visitor wants a person, and no log of what people asked, grouped and counted, unless you build those parts yourself.

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 database or scraper of your own to run. 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, and every answer you write becomes part of what Deacon knows, so it needs you less over time. Topics group the questions, count the people asking and label most of them, as a feature ask, a bug report, a how-to and so on, so you know what to fix and what to build next.

Deacon's replies count against its own allowance, so they spend none of your Replit credits. The same script counts your visitors, where they came from, your goals and your funnels, with ranges up to all time.

It's one script tag on your Replit app's replit.app address or your own domain. On the Install page, "Copy the prompt for your agent" gives Replit's own Agent a prompt that reads Deacon's install guide, adds the tag and checks it's live, so you don't have to place it by hand. 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. 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 is $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 bundled into a single feature. Free Mode covers everyday chat and small edits 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?

Usage-based services, such as a busy deployment or Agent's paid modes, pause until your next billing cycle, until you buy a credit pack, or until you raise your usage limit. Free Mode and your daily Agent credits keep working, since they're a separate allowance from your monthly credit.

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. Its 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.