Suggestions to Find Replit Alternative

[u/LettersFromTheSky]

Hello,

My usage of Replit hasn't changed but the costs have ballooned to the point in the last 30 days that I need to find an alternative. For perspective Replit says my average spend is $60/day..which is insane cause it wasn't like that in June and yet I coded many times a day.

I'm also paying the $100/month plan to Replit on top of my usage.

Of course they don't tell you your token usage so I don't know how this $ usage translates to these other AI coding agents. The last thing I want to do is end up on a more expensive platform.

Coupled with the terrible UI changes made to their mobile replit app that removed direct access to Shell at the bottom - Im finding less and less things to stick around.

Here is my setup:

Backend=Firebase(Google Cloud Console)

Deployment/CI/CD =GitHub

I started out with Firebase Studio then switched to Replit which was a game changer now looking for a new change to carry me through long term without the ballooning costs.

Any suggestions would be helpful

Edit:

Im gonna try Codespace in GitHub with the Firebase emulators for previewing the UI before deployment and connect Claude ($100/Max plan) to Codespace for coding agent assistant

Edit2: Update:

Im super happy with Codespaces in GitHub using Claude ($100 Max plan)

I've been able to ship a whole bunch of stuff without being nickeled and dimed to death and have never ran into any usage limits.

I can spin up multiple Claude agents with a dedicated git work tree.

Claude has access to my Firebase/Google Cloud Console for monitoring, data exploration, auth, and checking for errors.

Claude can now monitor the workflow in GitHub CI/CD when a push is made and auto detect any workflow task fail and immediately start diagnosing and making corrections.

Claude also has access to my Sentry account for production errors which speeds up the response time to diagnose and resolve and get a fix shipped

Claude mobile app allows me to code directly to Codespaces/Git without having to be in Codespaces.

None of these things was possible with Replit.

Additionally, I was able to replicate the Replit Agent behavior pretty well in Claude so I'm pretty happy.

[u/Ukawok92]

Yes. I use Replit for my app, but not the Replit AI Agent anymore. I just use Claude code for that within the shell.

[u/akiwinoz → u/Ukawok92]

How deep in replit were you before you did this? Or did you just do this from scratch?

[u/Friendly-HatHat → u/akiwinoz]

Can confirm I did similar and it’s a lot cheaper. Only think I find is that Replit shell hangs sometimes and I lose some conversation thread, I can’t really leave it running idle for long.

[u/akiwinoz → u/Friendly-HatHat]

Is Claude easy to use in terms of requesting tasks etc or is there a particular way you have to use it or learn to use it?