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Replit CEO Masad said the company has made OpenAI its default model provider over Anthropic, citing several reasons including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but had given no indication it was no longer working with Anthropic.
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OpenAI
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- $30B · 31 Oct 2026
- Newest model on the API
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Anthropic
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- Growth · $65B · 28 May 2026
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- Claude Haiku 5.5 · 7 Oct 2026 · $0.1 in / $0.5 out per million tokens
Source
“Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer partnering with Anthropic.”
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