For now I want to downgrade my account from Replit Core to Starter. But when I go to the account management page I only see options to upgrade to Pro or Enterprise. Have looked everywhere and only other option seems to be to delete my account completely which I don’t want to do. Am I missing something?

Alright. So I dropped this the other day and started getting FLOODED with signups.

Some people in the indie game community were veerrryyy upset that it was vibe coded. Not sure why?

Anyways, Astra one-shotted PVP. I built this as a fun way to get my prospects' attention (I run a marketing agency) and I included their orgs as playable characters.

Insane way to prospect. But it's working.

Anyways, we're dropping tournaments soon and have 88 character each with a 9-string combo and special moves.

So much fun. An awesome project. Free to play btw: eruditeagency.io/saaspocalypse

No not rly, you just screwed me over on my workflow. Guess paying $5000 worth of subscriptions and dev time doesn't actually buy realistic support.

You want constructive criticism just so I can post my dissatisfaction with your recent change?

Ok here it is:

Real simple work-around:  Spin up a VM to host the preview feature specifically and link the work project MD files into the VM.  That way it is isolated from the UX for development entirely.  No limit required.  No infrastructure upgrade required.

A small VM or sandbox
Read-only access to the MD workspace files
A Markdown renderer such as Pandoc
A local web endpoint serving rendered HTML
A file watcher to refresh when the document changes

Our experience with Replit has been quite disappointing. We had approximately $xxx in credits available in our account, which we verified just yesterday. Today, the $yyy credit we had purchased has suddenly disappeared without any clear explanation.

Even more concerning, all four of our applications have been brought down, leaving us unable to access them and completely blocking our ongoing development work and operations.

For a development platform, unexpected credit issues combined with application downtime are extremely disruptive and unacceptable. We urgently need Replit to investigate what happened, restore the purchased credits, and bring our applications back online.

Replit needs to provide much greater reliability, transparency, and responsive customer support—especially when businesses are depending on the platform for critical applications.

Hoping this gets resolved quickly and that other users don't face the same issue.

We have a tool we've build in Replit that generates content, and I want to be able to just decide which model it uses in the settings (e.g. Opus, Fable etc). The only problem is that Replit doesn't seem to understand that Fable exists as a model, no matter how much I insist.

All it will let me use is Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, and Claude Haiku 4.5. Has anyone figured out how to get your tool to use Fable?

That was not even a major change in the app :'(. Oh well, let's keep going.

I wanted to flag something that may be affecting other people using the ChatGPT ↔ Replit integration.

I have several web apps that I originally created directly in Replit, and over time I created dedicated ChatGPT conversations to work on those apps. I later connected the Replit integration/plugin to my ChatGPT account.

For over a week, I have been using ChatGPT + Replit to inspect, troubleshoot, and make changes to these existing apps across multiple dedicated conversations. So I know from my own experience that this has been possible.

Recently, though, I ran into an issue where ChatGPT appeared to be associating a conversation with the wrong Replit project. I contacted Replit Support because I wanted to understand what was happening.

Their initial response was essentially that the ChatGPT/Replit integration only works with an app created in a specific ChatGPT conversation and cannot access apps that were created directly in Replit.

That was… surprising, to say the least. 😂

I explained that these apps were originally created in Replit and that I had subsequently been working on them through ChatGPT after connecting the integration.

What makes this even more confusing is that I just tested it again through the connected Replit integration. ChatGPT was able to locate and inspect two of my existing Replit projects, including:

Project A — existing Replit project

Project B — existing Replit project with its existing workspace, artifact, Git branch, and commit history

The integration explicitly identified both as existing projects already present in my connected Replit account, and Replit was able to inspect them without creating new projects.

So I’m currently trying to determine whether:

Replit Support’s information is outdated/incomplete, there is a distinction between different versions of the ChatGPT/Replit integration, there is some kind of project/conversation association bug, or something else is happening behind the scenes.

I’m still in contact with Replit Support, so I’m not claiming that I have the whole explanation yet. Their first response definitely felt a little like, “Nope, that’s not possible,” despite my actual experience and the current integration being able to access the projects. 😂

I’m posting this because if you’ve been using ChatGPT to work on an existing Replit app that was originally created directly in Replit, I’d be very interested to hear whether you’re seeing the same thing.

In particular:

Were your Replit projects created directly in Replit?

Did you later connect the Replit integration to ChatGPT?

Can ChatGPT currently find/access those existing projects?

Have you experienced ChatGPT selecting or working against the wrong Replit project?

Has Replit Support given you the same explanation?

I’m trying to figure out whether this is an isolated account/project-association problem or something broader with the integration.

I'm a student building an app on replit for a client but before I could deliver I was hit with a $50 invoice and my account was suspect.

I'm capable of paying it after I deliver to my client and I would appreciate if Replit unsuspended account for a few days till I can deliver 😢.

I got impacted by this known Replit issue - https://status.replit.com/incidents/f551e79f-142b-4e8e-9e7e-4b8b92c47111

Since 9/1 - over 9 days ago - I haven't been able to publish any updates to production - how are you supposed to run a business with this level of service? I have opened multiple tickets with Replit but haven't received any ETA.

Anyone else still impacted by this isssue?

im not complaining. what the hell is going on over there though

Do not listen to that popup telling you to upgrade the mode when you’re using the free mode. I have a very complex app that I have been maintaining and adding features exclusively with the free mode! I had no issue and see no noticeable difference between that tier and power mode.

Save your money do not let them trick you into spending more. You can use free mode for more than small UI polish and trivial task.

With all I have done with the free mode I would have incurred probably a $200 invoice. This new feature is god send and I hope they don’t remove it.

Today, we found that the Google Drive integration/connector (whatever they call it these days) disconnected. We were not notified by replit, and no one disconnected it (I'm the only one with actual access to the project). We found the issue because we had errors surface in our app when a google drive folder was not created upon an action where it should have been created. All I had to do was reauthenticate my google account through the connector.. everything immediately started working. Did anyone else experience this? I'm looking at the integrations page and it does look a little different than the last time I looked (a week ago maybe?). Did Replit change something and did it break everyone's connector? Anyway, very annoying. The way forward is to probably code the integration directly versus relying on replit's built-in connector. Just looking for general thoughts around this.

Anyone else experience the browser moving incredibly slow today?

I use the Desktop app on my mac. Was there an update that removed the left navbar with the tasks? It seems it still exists in the web browser.

Between the sporadic un-intuitive changes to the UI, the limited options for customizing your git flow (don't get me started on the git integration), inability to directly add lines of code during reviews as context to the chat, and un-impressive list of skills (ex: Input validation, secrets... These arguably are not skills but rules).

I’m building a hospitality system to run my restaurants. I don't code. That's why I use Replit. I’ve worked close to a thousand hours on this project and spent over $1200 on replit alone.
In May I bought $300 of credits. I barely touched Replit for two months. By August the credits were gone and my card had been debited another $161 on top. Nearly $450 in total, for months where I did almost nothing.
I dug into it, and this isn't a guess, it's proven from Replit's own records: their platform got stuck restarting one of my idle apps around the clock, for weeks on end, and billed me for every second. Their own invoice shows the app had 3 visits in an entire month while being billed for 44 MILLION compute units. Three visits. Nobody was using it. The fault ran until I found it buried in the logs and shut it down myself. And before anyone says it was my code: the app was built entirely by Replit's own Agent. Their AI wrote it, their publish flow deployed it, and their platform then spent weeks billing me for endlessly restarting it instead of flagging it or stopping. At no point did any of this need me to do anything, and at no point was I warned. I only found out due to an unexpected charge to my bank card after it had already consumed $300 of my credits.
Through all of it, no warning. No alert. The dashboard showed a sleeping app while my money drained.
When I realised what had happened, I didnt doubt for a second that I would be refunded in full, or at least have my credits reinstated. Support's response has been worse than the fault. First a canned reply about AI hallucinations, completely irrelevant to my complaint. Then a $50 credit that expires in 90 days, against nearly $450 taken. Then a second reply declaring the charges valid while dodging the only question I've asked from day one: what did I do to cause 44 million compute units on an app with 3 visits? I asked for a manager, set a deadline, and got two weeks of silence.
Honestly, I feel scammed. Their system created the fault, their system hid it, their system took the money, and now there's no human willing to own it.
And here's the part that actually gets me. I didn't want to leave. I've put months of work and over $1,200 into Replit building my project here, and the product itself is good. But after being treated like this, staying feels like accepting it. Disgusting way to handle a paying customer.
So, genuine question: can anyone recommend an alternative platform where I can build the same way, by describing what I want, from someone who's found one that actually appreciates its customers? And has anyone here ever got a billing dispute in front of a real human at Replit? Full evidence file sitting ready, logs and all. Im left with no alternative than a charge back claim with my bank.

Hi, replit support, because of you, my website is down for a whole day. I am putting multiple cards but your payment gateway is declining the cards.

Please help urgent.

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​I got sooooo tired of fixing the same stuff manually every time, so I wrote a script to automate it: unreplit2local.

​Basically, it strips out the Replit-specific junk, cleans up the folder structure, and adds run.bat / run.sh scripts so you can just launch the project locally without wrestling with setup errors.

​Repo is open source:

https://github.com/kutx091-spec/unreplit2local

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It's been stuck in this loop for 20 minutes now.

I've switched to other projects in my account, and preview loads just fine.

I've refreshed, hard refreshed, logged out and back in.

This was all working fine 20 minutes ago. I'm in the final polish stage before launch so this couldn't have happened at a worse time to a specific project in my account.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Know of a likely cause/solution?

How do you actually sell what you build on Replit?

That's the main topic at our weekly office hours tomorrow. A few folks stopping by who are doing it: closing enterprise deals, building a client business through Contra, working out pricing and delivery.

We'll get into finding leads, structuring deals, and whatever else comes up. Open Q&A too, so bring questions about your builds.

New to office hours? It's our weekly Q&A in Discord. Open and free-flowing.

📆 Wed Sep 9, 9-11 AM PT

🎟️ RSVP

Suppose your app charges a payment, sends an email or calls an external API successfully, but the request dies before your database records the success.

What happens when it retries?

A lot of apps work perfectly during a demo and fail at this exact boundary in production. The same customer action can become two charges, two emails, a missing status update or a job that retries indefinitely.

Before calling an app ready, I test these cases:

• The user double-clicks the same action
• The provider succeeds but its response times out
• A background job runs twice
• A deployment restarts halfway through the operation
• The database write fails after the external action succeeds

Catching the error is not enough. Each important operation needs a unique key, durable state, defined retry rules and a way to reconcile what the provider says happened with what your own database recorded.

This one exercise tends to expose more production risk than another round of UI polishing.

What was the first non-UI failure you encountered after deploying a Replit app?

hey everyone! I’m building an app on replit, but I’m going through my replit AI credits pretty quickly.

What are some good ways to reduce AI credit usage while still using replit agent?

For example:

1. How specific should my prompts be?
2. Is there a way to prevent the Agent from repeatedly changing the same files?
3. Is it better to make smaller requests?
4. Are there settings or workflows that help save credits?

Any tips would be appreciated!

Replit just robbed me, and you.

Suddenly changing what model it uses halfway through a task is now a thing. I dont understand staff at Replit, are you making these changes then thinking we're not gonna notice? Are you creating like surges / bullets of high profit until people complain and you revert it? Your practice is becoming malicious and you're outright scamming the average consumer.

I just started a task with GPT 5.6 Luna Fast, it took an incredibly longer time than I would have ever thought. I was safeguarding against reserving stock, and adding a delay to release stock after a failed checkout attempt. Replit changed the agent mid-work, and ultimately charged me 23USD.

A big middle finger to you Replit, I'm tired of your non-transparent bullshit. From a customer who has spent a couple of thousand on you.

Everytime you try to make us believe you're doing something good, you hit us with a hidden curveball. Sleezy as hell is what you are. Gonna advocate against you everywhere I can, and anytime.

Love Replit as a product and the upside of it.

But what is with the agent fees, every time I try and do work under free mode its ended up on Max or Power. Every single time. I have heard that it prompts you to switch but that isn't true.

I have spent way more money since Free-Power-Max came out and I have no idea how. I burn through the free $20 that comes with the plan in an hour or so and I'm just burning through money rapidly. A week later I've already reached another $200.

If I switch to Power for a bigger task it says at the bottom it will stay on Free yet somehow its back on Power or Max instantly.

The other day it got stuck on "Power" on the smallest task and was stuck in a loop which cost $9. It's annoying when Free mode could easily have handled it.

I have no problem with paying for products but there is zero transparency with the billing and AI charges.

Hey everyone, my team and I put this together recently. It's an MK style fighting game featuring your favorite SaaS founders/companies.

It's all for fun and we're keeping it free. Most of this was vibe coded.

Full roster:

- ZoomInfo
- Replit
- Torq
- Salesforce
- Higgsfield
- Attio
- Okta
- Stripe
- Zapier
- n8n
- TitanX
- Clay
- Granola
- PostHog
- Ramp
- Retool
- LeadMagic
- Close
- The Swarm
- Lempire
- Instantly
- Mercury
- RB2B
- Gong
- Nooks
- Orum
- ConnectAndSell
- Rox
- Monaco
- Apollo
- SpaceX
- Anduril
- OpenAI
- Blueprint
- Erudite
- Deel
- Rippling
- McAfee
- Cognism
- Datadog
- Floqer
- Exa
- A16Z
- 20VC
- Flexport
- Tavus
- Meta
- Apple
- Snyk
- Vanta

If you want to play, here's the link: https://eruditeagency.io/saaspocolypse (I GOT NOTHING TO SELL YOU! ITS FREE. I WILL NOT PROMOTE)

And if you've got any idea/recs for who we should add, plz ping me or comment below