What changed
Starting August 1, 2026, Replit lowered Cloud pricing across all plans. Autoscale and scheduled compute units fell from $3.20 to $0.60 per million units; autoscale requests from $1.20 to $0.40 per million; outbound data from $0.10 to $0.05 per GiB; App Storage data from $0.03 to $0.015 per GiB-month; and database storage from $1.50 to $0.35 per GiB-month. Database compute remains $0.16 per compute hour.
Why it matters
For builders hosting production apps on Replit, the changes materially alter workload economics without requiring a migration. But headline percentages can mislead: some fixed charges do not change, reserved VM movements vary by size, and one legacy 1 vCPU/4 GiB configuration rises rather than falls.
Autoscale gets the largest compute cut
Replit's live comparison table reduces autoscale and scheduled compute-unit prices by more than 80%, while request and egress charges also fall. The $1 monthly autoscale base fee is unchanged.
Database storage falls sharply, compute does not
Database storage drops from $1.50 to $0.35 per GiB-month, but database compute remains $0.16 per compute hour. Storage-heavy workloads therefore benefit more than compute-heavy database workloads.
Reserved VMs are mixed
Most dedicated reserved configurations get cheaper and new larger sizes appear, but the legacy 1 vCPU/4 GiB configuration rises from $0.042 to $0.0486 per hour. Builders should compare their exact SKU instead of applying an across-the-board discount assumption.
The switch is automatic by billing cycle
Replit says new rates apply at the start of the first billing cycle beginning on or after August 1, with no application changes required.