[amasad]

Yes, in fact we recently made the free plan more powerful with non-preemptible VMs, premium networking, and package caching for everyone. And working on an AI free tier coming soon. Will likely invest more in the free plan once the abuse from unlimited hosting go away.

Also — the title is slightly misleading. Static hosting is still free, and autoscale (with scale to zero) will effectively cost next to nothing for most users. Especially new programmers get very little traffic that according to our historic data it will cost $0.2 / month.

Finally beginners who cannot afford to pay but learned enough coding can make money on the site. eg, a story earlier today: https://x.com/replit/status/1709577707435274414?s=46

[wendyshu]

Really? The pricing page doesn't say anything about free private repls.