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Croft vs Replit

Replit is a powerful cloud coding environment with an AI agent and built-in deployments — a great place to build and launch a public product. Croft is built on a different dream: the software is small, the people using it all know each other, and the app should quietly work for years. Different dream, different design decisions all the way down.

	Replit	Croft
Built for	Developers shipping public products	Running your actual life and work
Who uses your apps	Anyone on the internet who signs up	People you invite by name
Login & security	You build and wire it up per app	Built into the platform — apps can't get it wrong
The AI	Replit's agent, metered as you go	Your own Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok — no tokens resold
Pricing	Usage-based — credits, compute, checkpoints	One flat price
Where it runs	Replit's managed cloud	Your own private server
When you leave	Export your code, then find hosting	A single export that runs anywhere Docker does
Best when	You're building and launching a startup	You're running a small business, team, club, or home

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What Croft actually is.

Croft is a home for the small apps you build with Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok. Your assistant writes the app; Croft runs it on your own private server — with a database, one login for the people you invite, HTTPS, and backups all handled. One flat price, bring your own AI, no lock-in.

How it works Connect an assistant, describe an app, invite your people. Under the hood The stack, the security model, and how your data is handled. Pricing One flat price. 7-day free trial, no card to start. Prompt library Copy-paste prompts to build your first app in minutes. Connect an assistant Point Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok at your croft over MCP. The full picture See everything Croft does on the home page.

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