Replit pricing: what you pay for the Agent, the app and the database

The plans

Prices checked on 12 November 2026, in US dollars, without tax. Pro has bigger credit tiers at higher prices, with a discount on the larger ones. Enterprise is priced on request.

One thing does not add up. The pricing page shows Core at $18 a month billed yearly, which is $216 a year. Replit's help page on pricing and plans says Core is $204 a year. Check the checkout screen before you pay for the year.

On Starter the Agent gets daily credits, but only up to a monthly cap. In our test of the free plan, the monthly quota ran out after about 12 minutes of Agent work, spread over two days. What the free Replit plan stops you from doing has the details.

What the credits pay for

On Core, the $20 is not an Agent budget. Replit applies the monthly credits on its own to "Agent, publishing, network transfer, database storage, and Replit AI Integrations". Credit packs cover the same things. Whatever you use first, uses them up.

The Agent

The Agent has three modes, plus Auto:

• Free Mode: no cost, within an allowance. On Core and Pro the allowance resets every five hours and has a weekly limit.
• Power: paid, and uses fewer credits per task. Replit calls it the best default when you do not need the most capable models.
• Max: paid, with more capable models for complex work.
• Auto: in Power or Max, Replit picks the model for each task.

Paid work uses what Replit calls effort-based pricing. Each request ends in one checkpoint, and the price depends on how much work it took. A bug fix usually costs less than a whole feature. Replit asks you to confirm before a paid action starts. In the Agent tab, hover over the usage icon to see what a checkpoint cost.

Two things catch people:

• Plan mode is not always free. In the paid path it "can perform billable reasoning" even when it does not change any code.
• Some Agent features call Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini in the background. Replit bills those at the provider's public API rate, from your credits.

Hosting

Replit cut its cloud prices on 1 August 2026. The new prices start with your first billing cycle on or after that date. The prices now:

Autoscale also has a monthly base fee, and here two Replit pages disagree. The Publishing costs page says $2 a month. The page about the August 2026 price update lists $1, unchanged.

A compute unit is a mix of CPU and memory: 1 CPU second is 18 units, 1 GB of RAM for one second is 2 units. An Autoscale app goes idle after 15 minutes without requests, and compute and requests cost nothing while it is idle.

Replit's own example: a small business site with 500 visitors a day, 75,000 requests a month, costs about $2.39 a month on Autoscale, with the $2 base fee. For a small app, hosting barely touches the $20.

The database

The development database is free. You pay only for the production database, which Replit creates when you first publish. Two prices:

• Compute time: $0.16 per compute hour.
• Storage: $0.35 per GiB per month.

Storage is cheap. Compute time is the line to watch. The database counts as active while it gets requests and for 5 more minutes after the last one, then it is suspended. A database that never gets 5 quiet minutes is active all month, about 730 hours. At $0.16 an hour that is about $117 a month for the database alone. That is our math from Replit's price, not a Replit example. By the same rule, anything that queries the database at least every 5 minutes, like a background job, keeps it active all month.

App Storage

Uploaded files cost $0.015 per GiB per month, $0.05 per GiB of transfer, $0.0004 per thousand basic operations and $0.005 per thousand advanced operations. Stored files are billed for at least seven days. For most small apps this is cents.

When the credits run out

Core credits reset at the start of each billing cycle and do not roll over. After they are gone, Replit keeps going and bills the usage on top. Replit sells this as "Avoid interruptions in service with pay-as-you-go billing".

You have three ways to control it:

• A usage limit. Go to Settings, Usage and select Manage limits in the Account usage section. When you reach it, usage-based services are blocked until the next billing cycle or until you raise the limit.
• A service shutdown limit, in the same Manage limits dialog. When you reach it, services are suspended.
• Credit packs. Go to Settings, Billing and select Purchase credit pack. They expire six months after you buy them, and auto-reload can buy a new one when the balance gets low.

If you want to spend only the credits you already bought, Replit says to set the limits to $0.01.

Be careful with this. Replit bills publishing and the production database by usage too, and usage-based services are blocked at the limit. So a limit that protects your wallet can also stop your published app in the middle of the month. If real people use the app, pick a limit you can live with, not $0.01.

What changes when you move the code to Claude Code or Codex

On Replit, the AI and the app share one balance. When you move the code to an AI tool on your computer, they split into separate bills.

The AI part:

Claude Pro and Max have a five-hour limit and a weekly limit, and they are shared between Claude and Claude Code. Neither tool charges you per task while you stay inside the plan limits. When you hit a limit, you wait for the reset or pay for more usage. Claude Code pricing has the Claude plans in detail. To pick between the two tools, read Codex vs Claude Code.

The app part has two options.

You keep Replit hosting

This is the small move. The code goes to GitHub, you edit it in Claude Code or Codex, then pull the changes in Replit and publish from there. The database and Replit Auth stay as they are.

A Starter app goes down after 30 days, so for an app people use you need Core. Your bill is then $20 for Core plus $20 for the AI tool, and the Core credits go to hosting and the database instead of the Agent.

You leave Replit

This is the big move. Replit Auth and App Storage are Replit services, so the database, the logins and the files move to a Supabase project you own, and the app needs another host. Can you self-host a Replit app? explains what moves and what needs a replacement. Move a Replit database to Supabase covers the data.

When the new app works, turn off the old one. In our test on the free plan, both options were in Publishing, under Adjust settings, Manage your app. Pause keeps the billing running. Unpublish ends it and removes the published app. Then you can cancel Core.

Which way to go

• Stay on Core if the Agent is how you build and you never want to open a terminal. Set a usage limit on the first day and check Usage every week.
• Keep Replit hosting and move the editing if most of your credits go to Agent checkpoints. A $20 Claude or ChatGPT plan has no price per task, and your Core credits then go to the app.
• Leave Replit completely if the database is the biggest line on your bill, or if you want the app on a server you control. That move takes more work, because the logins and the files have to be rebuilt somewhere else.

Look at your own numbers first

Before you change anything, look at where your credits actually go. Open Usage in Settings and filter by date, resource, project, workspace, group or member. The same page shows how much of your Free Mode allowance is left. For a breakdown of past charges, go to Account usage in Settings and select See previous invoices.

If the Agent is the big number, the editing is what to move. If it is the database or the hosting, the hosting is what to move. If it is both, plan for the full move.

The step-by-step guides for Claude Code and Codex start where your app is and skip what you do not need, in 8 to 18 steps. Both start with getting the project out of Replit, which Export a Replit project explains.

Sources

1. Replit: Pricing
2. Replit docs: Pricing and plans
3. Replit docs: Replit Core
4. Replit docs: Starter Plan
5. Replit docs: Replit Pro
6. Replit docs: Replit AI Billing
7. Replit docs: Agent modes
8. Replit docs: Managing Your Spend
9. Replit docs: Publishing costs
10. Replit docs: Publishing and Database Billing
11. Replit docs: Cloud Aug 2026 Pricing Updates
12. Replit docs: App Storage Billing
13. Claude: Pricing
14. Claude Help Center: Use Claude Code with your Pro or Max plan
15. Codex docs: Pricing

• Replit to Claude Code
• Replit to Codex
• What the free Replit plan stops you from doing
• Claude Code pricing
• Codex vs Claude Code
• Can you self-host a Replit app?
• Replit to Claude Code: keep the project, drop the workspace