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Morning Edition · Thursday, August 20, 2026Published at 2:25 AM EDT · New York
Replit Stopped Charging Credits for Everyday Agent Work by Routing It to OpenAI's Cheapest Model
GPT-5.6 Luna runs about 80 percent cheaper than the Sol variant, and Replit escalates to Sol only when a task needs heavier reasoning, then returns to Luna with project context intact.
Replit introduced Free Mode, which lets subscribers on its 20 dollar Core and 100 dollar Pro plans chat, brainstorm, and run light agent tasks without consuming their allocated AI credits, powered by OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna. Replit described…
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