Replit pricing: is it free, what Core and Pro cost, how credits work

The short answer

Yes, Replit has a free plan, Starter. Three caveats: it does not appear on the pricing page, its quotas are not given anywhere on the pages read, and the app you publish goes offline after 30 days. The first paid plan, Core, costs $20 per month, or $18 per month billed annually, and includes 20 dollars of credits per month. So the unit is money: a dollar amount that the AI agent, publishing, the database, and storage all draw on.

This page reads Replit’s pricing page and documentation, as recorded on the date shown. It does not draw on any use of the tool.

What the free Starter plan allows

According to the documentation (Replit documentation, Starter plan (accessed November 11, 2026)):

• daily Agent credits, up to a monthly cap; neither amount is published;
• an agent limited to “Lite build”, with a “Free Mode” capped each day and no access to “Power” and “Max” modes;
• a single free published app, taken offline automatically after 30 days (you can republish it), with a Replit badge that takes the Core plan to remove;
• a production database limited to 1 GiB.

Starter is for getting to know the agent and showing a prototype, not for keeping an app online.

How to read the price list

Core. Billed monthly, Core’s price equals the credit amount it contains. You are not paying for software with an allowance thrown in: you are funding a usage account, and the plan’s features (unlimited published apps, up to 5 collaborators, “Free Mode” with up to 30 hours of chat and 60 projects) come along with it. Billed annually, the monthly price is 10% below the credits you receive.

Pro. The first tier follows the same rule: monthly price equals credits. The higher tiers, as shown in the tier table above, give you more credits than you pay for:

Pro credit tier (per month)	Monthly price below credit value	Annual-billing price below credit value
100	0%	10%
250	10%	14%
500	12%	15%
1,000	15%	17.5%
2,500	18%	20%

These gaps are calculated from the tiers recorded; the vendor does not display them. Pro also adds more “Free Mode”, premium support, credits pooled across collaborators with no per-user fee, database restore up to 28 days, and up to 10 parallel tasks.

Enterprise. Custom pricing.

Why the price does not tell you how many apps

Because the agent is billed by effort: the longer it works on a request, the more that request costs, and you read the cost in the Agent tab once the checkpoint exists. The vendor publishes no price per checkpoint. Two projects that look alike can use very different amounts, and no public figure lets you calculate it ahead of time. The Replit profile walks through the four reasons.

What publishing takes out of your credits

A live app uses credits every month, even if you ask the agent for nothing more. Measured against Core’s monthly credits, the publishing rates recorded come to:

• Static hosting: free, apart from data transfer billed by volume.
• “Autoscale”: the base fee equals one tenth of Core’s credits, before compute and requests.
• Shared reserved VM: three quarters of Core’s credits. One quarter is left for the agent.
• Dedicated reserved VM: 1.75 to 6.5 times Core’s credits, depending on size. Core cannot cover it; on the first Pro tier, it takes at least a third of the credits.

The exact amounts are listed in the notes on the Replit profile, with their source. The production database (compute time and storage) and object storage (bandwidth and volume) come on top.

Past your credits

Replit does not cut the service when the allowance is empty: usage continues and is billed pay-as-you-go. Two controls exist, according to the documentation:

• Alerts and a budget cap. Once the budget is reached, usage-billed services are suspended until you raise it or the next cycle starts. With no cap, the bill follows usage.
• Credit packs. Valid for six months, on the Core and Pro plans; their prices are in the box at the top of this page. Measured against their value, the discount runs from 0% on the smallest to 5% on the largest.

Compare that with the table above: a higher Pro tier is priced 10 to 18% below its credit value, a pack 0 to 5% below. If you go over every month, moving up a tier costs less per credit than buying packs. If the overage is a one-off, a pack has the advantage of lasting six months.

Credit rollover: the vendor contradicts itself

The vendor’s pages contradict each other on this point. The pricing page says credits reset each month, on the renewal date. The Pro plan documentation says unused credits roll over for two months (Replit documentation, Pro plan (accessed November 11, 2026)). Nothing is said about rollover on Core. Before you pick a high tier counting on rollover, check what your own account shows.

What uses credits when you do not expect it

• The agent’s “Power” and “Max” modes, paid from credits; “Free Mode” is not, within its allowance, which renews every five hours on Core and Pro.
• Other providers’ APIs called by some agent features: billed at the provider’s public rate and deducted from your credits.
• The production database, billed on compute time and storage. Development databases are not billed.
• Forgotten apps: a paid deployment keeps charging its base fee every month.

The agent’s “Plan” mode reduces consumption, and a confirmation is requested before any paid action.

Comparing with other tools

The site’s cost simulator compares automation tools, whose units come down to a number of runs; it does not cover Replit, whose usage cannot be calculated ahead of time. To put these prices in context, see the head-to-heads Replit vs Lovable and Base44 vs Replit, the comparison of AI app builders, and the page on Lovable alternatives.