Replit CEO Amjad Masad said during an onstage interview at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 that the company is no longer working with Anthropic, framing the decision around cost, partnership, and performance. The session recording was published by TechCrunch on October 16, 2026. Onstage Confirmation and Rationale The exchange began when the interviewer asked whether the OpenAI partnership Replit announced in August 2026 meant the company was no longer working with Anthropic. "Yeah. I mean, yeah," Masad…
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How OpenSmartRoute helps
For a team that routes through the router, a release like this is one catalogue entry. The new model competes on the next request against what the team already runs, on quality, cost and speed. If it answers well it earns more traffic; if it fails it gets less, with no code change in the app.
Any OpenAI-compatible provider works, as do open-weight models served locally. The catalogue at https://opensmartroute.ai lists models with their prices and live rankings, and the savings ledger shows what the routing saved against always using the most expensive option.