October 17, 2026

Replit switches its default model from Claude to OpenAI: Claude remains selectable

Replit has switched its default model from Anthropic to OpenAI, CEO Amjad Masad said. Claude is available as an option, but most customers stay on the default.

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who it's about

Replit Agent →Anthropic →OpenAI →

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October 17, 2026

Replit switches its default model from Claude to OpenAI: Claude remains selectable

Replit has switched its default model from Anthropic to OpenAI, CEO Amjad Masad said. Claude is available as an option, but most customers stay on the default.

Source

techcrunch.com · techcrunch.com ↗

who it's about

Replit Agent →Anthropic →OpenAI →

about the same entities

Tip
Review has become the bottleneck: Claude Code writes about 90% of its own codeOctober 18
News
OpenAI agents charged a deployment to someone else's wallet and downloaded a government site's data: four more casesOctober 17
News
Replit Agent defaults to OpenAI: Claude stays in the model listOctober 17

All news

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