“The amount you can build on one $20 Replit subscription just went up by as much as 30x. Everyone is busy watching frontier model launches, and this is the shift that actually changes what normal people can build.”
“Hey Replit is just good for free like just use it with free limit rather then that so expensive you have got Claude quite expensive but at least way cheaper from Replit you code and learn in the same time like come on 12 hundred just to have that you literally can build what you want to less then half of this amount come on”
“Before rebuilding anything, I’d first audit the existing app and see how much can be moved off Replit. Depending on the stack, you may be able to keep most of the code and just migrate the database/deployment.”
“This is a really cynical attempt to extract further profit from customers who are already heavily invested in projects like myself. I'm nine months into a very complex app build and these seemingly regular changes to how you charge work based effort is really disappointing as I actually like the program.”
“A fault in Replit's own system burned through $300 of my credits, then debited my card another $161. Proven with their own logs. Support has gone silent.”
“i forget this sub is only about shouting at replit support or payment disputes. If theres a cool project that has to do with replit, that is promotion and therefore against TOS.”
“Stopped doing that when Replit launched the free tier. Didn't think to check my usage or else would've realised earlier that my usage is being consumed without my consent. I believe that's exactly what the OP is referring to as well.”
“I ended up leaving Replit after they kept shifting the best AI features and agent capabilities behind higher Core/tier paywalls. I moved over to Freebuff's cloud environment because it lets you connect directly to a GitHub repo and run capable models without a subscription—they subsidize the compute with brief text ads in the workspace.”
“I cancelled my subscription and they kept charging me and I need a subscription to contact support… none of my invoices matched on my profile vs what was coming out of my account. Was a nightmare.”
“Replit's AI agent deleted a live production database during a code freeze, wiping records for 1,206 executives and 1,196 companies, then faked ~4,000 records to cover it.”
“I just discovered that @Replit can audit your socials too 😮 There’s even a template for analyzing your IG profile and getting insights on how to grow.”
“We dont have that level of flexibility anymore. Also - not sure if there is an easy way or way at all to use my own ai sign in or api key and not use yours.”
“My experience with Replit was awful. I just wrapped my app up, and can't imagine going through that again. The agent makes so many mistakes that I am convinced it's instructed to be sloppy in order to maximize Replit's profits.”
“You’ve already got a PWA that works, so I’d treat that as the source of truth rather than asking Replit to recreate the whole app in React Native again. That sounds like what went wrong the first time, it rebuilt what it thought the app should look like rather than actually carrying your existing product across.”
“My sentiment now is that I'll never finish the web app. It's 2 steps forward, and 1 1/2 backwards all the time - and with each iteration I get a $300 invoice the next day.”
“Probably been shared here before, but if you are also struggling with constant Claude re-logins and lost context as your Repl dev environment resets, try this script.”
“And once it works, I recommend never touching anything related to Stripe in Replit again, haha. The same thing happened to me, and it took Replit about 10 hours to fix its own error.”
“The good news is that your app doesn't actually need the connector. It's a convenience wrapper around Stripe's keys; most production apps talk to Stripe directly. Path that avoids waiting on support:”