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91 year old vibe coders, $100m ARR and effort-based pricing

A look at everything going on in the world of Replit.

June 26, 2025

It’s been a busy couple of weeks for Replit.

First up came the announcement that Agent’s $0.25 per checkpoint-pricing is being replaced with effort-based pricing.

Replit — Introducing Effort-Based Pricing for Replit Agent

We’re updating how pricing works for Replit Agent to better reflect the effort—measured in terms of time and computation—the Agent uses to fulfill each request.

blog.replit.com/effort-based-pricing

And, Agent now comes with two new modes which should help us all build harder stuff.

Massive revenue growth

There’s no denying that Agent has been a gamechanger for Replit, who’ve 10xed their revenue in just 6 months.

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Partnership with Saudi Arabia

TLDR; there will be a localised version of Replit, an Arabic-first LLM integrated into it, and some co-authored education programs for the Middle East market.

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Let’s pixelate!

Another fun build-along tutorial from Matt.

You’re never too old to vibe code

This was proved this week by 91 year old John Blackman, who built a church event management app with Replit.

Watch the whole interview here.

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Bring GitHub to Replit

It got a little buried under the hype around Figma/Bolt/Lovable, but the new import feature also lets you bring Github projects into Replit and, crucially, keep building them with Agent.

Bye bye Upwork?

One can only hope…

Building in the real world

I thought this was pretty cool.