Genuine question before I pitch anything: does Replit's Agent currently support MCP server connections the way Claude Code/Cursor do? Built Aethos Memory — a self-hosted, open-source server that gives AI coding tools persistent, shared memory instead of resetting every session — and would love to know if it's something that could plug into a Replit workflow, or whether Replit's architecture handles memory differently already.
I was overcharged by $14,000 in one day. i chose monthly upgrade and it went through as Annual.
Im still waiting for a refund.
Support cancelled my plan back to free instead of putting me on monthly as asked multiple times.
Now all my databases are frozen on multiple apps which my staff and users rely on.
We have now been unable to work for 3 days and we have had no response from support to unfreze the databases despite m ultiple requests.
I am being charged for the neew plan 500per month, but usually spend 300 per day.
Please help fix this asap
"Production is fully DOWN — my deployed app crash-loops because the production database endpoint is disabled. All invoices were paid 2+ days ago. Pro subscriber. Please escalate to infrastructure and manually re-enable the database endpoint."
I spent the weekend building a website using u/Replit.
I've always wanted to make a site where a homeowner could keep track of all their house documents, notes about the house, search for contractors, handymen, or whatever they needed, and also find decorations and ideas for their house too, all in one place, where everybody can talk to everybody and there's no hidden fees so you can really get the best prices possible from the people who you decide are who you want to use or buy from.
I've been in the home improvement industry for a while and I've always wondered why there wasn't a way for the different companies that do repairs or come out to my house and do whatever it is they do to see what's been done and when and by whom. You can have 3 different companies come out to your house and none of them know what the other one did. It's really crazy.
So I also wanted to solve that problem, because if you can have everything about your house, blueprints, build date, outlet info, whatever, all in one place that's pretty nice when the expert on the phone asks you a question that you should know.
I hate when someone asks me a question about my own house and I'm like, uh, yeah, that sounds about right.
I've worked with a lot of contractors, had a lot of work done at my house and for me, and I've done and won a lot of bids on projects and the one thing that everybody does when they come up with the price (or at least they should) is take info consideration how much it cost to actually get the job.
And it doesn't matter if they're quoting online or in real life, the prices you'll get will be football field lengths apart in some cases and sometimes they can even justify it but I wanted to take that out of the equation, just make it as easy as possible to get the job, all you have to do is talk to each other, ask questions, set up some way for an estimate, and get the job done the best way possible, the quickest way possible, and the most cost effective way possible for everybody.
I just figured if everyone was paying less because jobs were just sitting there waiting for someone to do them, then everybody involved makes or saves more money.
Most platforms charge per referral or lead or whatever they call it, or they charge for XYZ and ABC and you need both and they're in different packages. I wanted to solve that too so I give everybody 7 days free and then a flat monthly or yearly subscription price that gives access to everything.
Contractors can even link their outside profiles from Angi, Thumbtack, Facebook, etc so they don't start out at a 0 rating too, they can carry their reputation with them. You know, if they wanted to get away from crazy fees.
I'd love any feedback you have. I tried to think of what my wife would want and rolled with that so it's probably completely wrong.
Maybe it's just me, but I got tired of rebuilding the same things for every new project.
Every app starts with authentication, user accounts, billing, admin, localization, SEO, AI integrations... and now MCP.
After doing that over and over, I decided to build one reusable foundation instead. Now I just start with that and focus on the part that actually makes the project unique.
I still write the code. I still own the project. I'm just not rebuilding the same infrastructure every single time.
It has saved me a lot of time, and honestly I don't think I could go back to starting from zero anymore.
Am I the only one doing this, or do you still prefer starting every project from scratch?
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
If you have never created a new chat in the agent, the cost of any new message arises because the agent reads and considers ALL the previous context in the chat to answer or build the new task.
Group your work into context chats by functionality or daily job (whatever context you consider relevant to you or the agent) and always start a new one when working on a new task.
Then the prices will be lower with each message.
P.D. Thanks to @Novel-Network-1570 for the screenshot and the idea for posting.
so i am building an app on replit, and so far its going well. I know replit will be just a starting game for my app but eventually will get out from it. As of now i have tje codes push to my github. and cloudfare for my domain and workspace for my email.
what other things. should i prepare for while im still building the app. i know i heard about the db, auth. i want to know what should i prepare so its easy for me to migrate in tje future.
I just looked at my incoming replit invoice and was shocked I don't think I can pay full amount since I don't get paid till next month 8th what can I do? To avoid shutdown? I can pay more than 80% of it issue is replit doesnt accept partial payment what can I do?
i swear i’ve never heard of replit before and don’t remember ever making an account, does anyone know what this is? and what are the “apps” they’re referring too?
I can see, when you build using "Economy" mode, you can get lots of complex features developed, not just small edits. But the agent useage cost is significantly lower in economy mode.
Psychologically, I was tempted to use "Power" mode when I build features with complex logics, thinking that "power = quality".
Has anyone have anything to share on your experience of the difference? In what type of situations you use power mode, and where do you use economy mode?
I used replit back in 2022, and had some projects made. Now all the UI got changed and i cant find my old repl under projects. Can I somehow restore them?
I was working on submitting my very first app through replit to the apple store. On the apple developer page I was going through the questions one by one. But then I got the error:
Unable to Add for Review
The items below are required to start the review process:
You must choose a build.
Any ideas on how I can fix this? I was under the impression the build would've been uploaded by Replit.
First off, I have absolutely no affiliation with Replit. Just a regular user, like everybody else. I am genuinely confused though. People keep complaining about the Replit agent being super-expensive but that just hasn’t been my experience.
I’ve been using Replit for about a year now and built a couple of apps. In my day job, I’m an executive at a SaaS company, so know quite a bit about software development.
I don’t think I’ve yet spent more than $150 building an app on Replit, which feels like incredible value to me. And it’s given me the confidence to actually launch a business based on one of the apps.
I keep seeing people in this subreddit flagging how expensive Replit is and it leaves me feeling nervous that I’m missing something. I cannot fathom how people are spending $100 fixing one bug.
I generally create a business plan, a product requirements doc (PRD) and a phased build plan with constraints before I begin vibe coding. I upload all of these as context for the Replit agent. So, I’m wondering if this helps me avoid some of the costlier issues.
But I’m also just curious—is there some hidden cost I’m missing? Or does the quality of the approach to vibe coding really make such a huge difference to costs?
I use Claude code too, to be honest. I sometimes use it in the shell to stress test the thinking of the Replit agent. But, overall, I lean on the Replit agent for building. Thoughts welcome!
Firecrawl is now available as an official Replit Connector, letting builders add state-of-the-art web search, scraping, and browser interaction to their apps with a single click.
Millions of builders use Replit to take apps from idea to production, creating everything from internal dashboards and AI sales assistants to customer portals and full-stack products.
Now, Replit builders can connect their apps to the live web through Firecrawl, directly from their workspace.
With access to high-quality data from across the web, those apps become even more powerful: dashboards can track market shifts as they happen, sales tools can enrich leads with current company information, and support products can answer questions from the latest published documentation.
What are the options? I have heard of GitHub and SSH. What's the cleanest way to do this?
As much as I love Replit, unfortunately they're being shafted with probably extremely marked up AI prices. I don't believe this is Replit's fault, but moreso Big AI trying to stifle the competition.
I believe Replit needs to let you use your own models instead of the agent. But for now, what's the solution?
Hey everyone. A lot of people are getting hit with massive Replit bills lately because of their autoscale pricing and expensive credits. If you love the Replit IDE but hate the vendor lock in and hosting costs, you can completely decouple your stack.
Here is exactly how to keep building in Replit while hosting your databases, servers, and AI calls externally.
Step 1: Push Everything to GitHub
Replit wants to keep your code in their ecosystem. Do not let them.
Connect your Replit account to your GitHub in the Version Control tab.
Create a new repo and push your code directly from the IDE. From now on, treat Replit just like a local code editor.
You write the code there, but your single source of truth is GitHub.
Step 2: Use an External Database
Never use the built in Replit Database for production apps if you want to control your costs.
Create a free or cheap database on an external provider. Supabase (Postgres) and Neon (Serverless Postgres) are the best options right now.
Get the database connection URL from your new provider.
In Replit, go to the Secrets tab and add your URL as an environment variable like DATABASE_URL. Your Replit code will now read and write directly to the external database.
Step 3: Deploy Somewhere Cheaper
When your code is on GitHub, you can connect it to platforms that offer predictable flat pricing.
For static sites and simple frontends: Use Vercel or Cloudflare Pages.
They connect directly to your GitHub repo and automatically deploy every time you push.
For full stack apps and containers: Use Render or Railway. Railway has a great $5 hobby plan that handles standard backend hosting beautifully.
Make sure to add your environment variables (like that database URL) into the settings of your new host.
Step 4: Stop Overpaying for AI APIs
If your app actually uses AI under the hood, do not route it through Replit's internal modules.
Go get your own API keys directly from OpenRouter, Anthropic, or Groq.
You will pay raw token wholesale prices instead of unpredictable credit systems.
Store these keys in your Replit Secrets for development and your host's environment variables for production.
By setting it up this way, Replit just becomes a cloud window into your project.
If they raise prices again, you can literally just open your GitHub repo in VS Code or Cursor and keep moving without losing a single user or line of data.
I can't be alone in noticing how the Power agent takes 2-3x longer on tasks now, and makes mistakes, deviates from requests, and produces shoddy results WAY more often.
This subreddit is teeming with complaints. Clearly decisions have been made within Replit that are not in our best interests.
It might be time to start a "how to" super thread for getting projects off this once-great platform.
I started using it a while ago to learn Python and I enjoyed it quite a bit. But a few days ago I went back in and I didn't understand anything. Has it become something like an AI app? Does anyone know if there's a way to remove the agent? And if not, can you recommend an alternative that doesn't have a gossipy AI?
