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Replit will offer its flagship AI Agent for free to all active customers for 24 hours starting May 2. The move removes the subscription barrier for autonomous app development during a global buildathon hosted in partnership with Anthropic.
Replit, an AI-powered software platform, plans to make its Replit Agent free for 24 hours starting May 2, 2026. The Replit Agent is an autonomous tool that plans and deploys applications from plain-English descriptions. This offer celebrates the company's tenth anniversary and excludes the high-performance Turbo mode.
This follows updates like Replit's autonomous app monitoring. By opening the paywall, Replit is inviting mass adoption while competing against OpenAI's agentic coding pilots. It signals a shift where the primary barrier to software creation is no longer technical skill, but the speed of iteration.
Log in between 5:00 AM PT on May 2 and 5:00 PM PT on May 3 to access the free agent. You can also enter a buildathon hosted with Anthropic for a $100,000 prize pool. Use this window to leverage Replit Agent 4's parallel builds and ship production-ready apps in a single day.
Still wondering? A few quick answers below.
Replit Agent is free for a limited window to celebrate the company's 10th anniversary. The offer begins on May 2, 2026, at 5:00 AM Pacific Time and concludes on May 3, 2026, at 5:00 PM Pacific Time. Users must log in and access the agent through their Replit account during this specific period to qualify.
The free access offer is open to all active Replit customers who log in during the designated 36-hour period. No special credits, discount codes, or plan changes are required to participate. However, the high-performance Turbo mode is specifically excluded from this promotion, and the offer is void where prohibited by law.
The Replit 10 Buildathon is a 24-hour global competition held in partnership with Anthropic to mark Replit's tenth anniversary. Participants compete for a prize pool exceeding $100,000, with sponsorship from RevenueCat and support from Google Cloud. It encourages creators to use the free agent access to build and ship new applications during the event.
Replit Agent is an autonomous AI tool designed to build and deploy software from natural language descriptions. Unlike standard coding assistants that only provide autocomplete suggestions, this agent can reason through complex tasks, write code across multiple files, and handle the end-to-end deployment process to turn an idea into a working application.
To get free access, you must log in to your Replit account and use the Replit Agent during the offer period between May 2 and May 3, 2026. No credits, promo codes, or subscription plan changes are required. The system will automatically grant access to eligible active customers who use the tool during the window.
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