What was claimed
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Replit CEO Amjad Masad said his company no longer works with Anthropic. His reasons: cost, partnership and performance. He added that "ChatGPT is better now" and that OpenAI is "a better partner for now." Headlines read it as a clean break.
What is actually there
The claim is a spoken statement with no document behind it. Replit gave no figures: no cost comparison, no benchmark scores, no ARR. Masad only said that an internal and a public benchmark favor OpenAI models on building apps from scratch, without naming the tests or results.
Meanwhile the facts around it point the other way. A person familiar with the partnership says it is still in place. A Replit blog post from late September described Claude models running in the production environment of Replit Agent, and a Replit product employee posted about using Opus around the same time. Replit announced its OpenAI partnership only in August, and nothing publicly suggested a departure from Anthropic before this talk.
Why the headline overreaches
"No longer working with" can mean a full contract end, a reduced share of traffic, or a negotiating position. A CEO on stage has every reason to praise a new partner. Until Replit clarifies, the accurate reading is this: the company is shifting toward OpenAI and says so loudly, while the scale of the Anthropic exit is unproven. Treat it as a signal about vendor mix, not as a verdict on which model is better.