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Onlook vs Replit Agent

A side-by-side look at pricing, capabilities, pros, cons, and our editorial scores.

 
Onlook
Coding
Replit Agent
Coding
TaglineCursor for Designers — visually edit your React codebase with AI.Build & deploy a full app from a single prompt.
CategoryCodingCoding
PricingFreemium· Free self-hosted (open source on GitHub); Cloud version pricing custom — contact sales / book a demo.Freemium· Basic: $10 · Pro: $20 · Enterprise: Contact sales
Model—Multi-model (Claude / GPT configurable)
Editorial score—8.7 / 10
Use cases
Visual editing of a Next.js marketing siteDesigner-driven component refactors in a shared React repoApplying brand tokens across a Tailwind codebasePrototyping new UI sections from natural-language promptsStorybook-driven component library maintenanceHandoff-free design-to-production for small product teamsPublishing landing pages to a custom domain without a dev deploy
prototypesinternal toolsfull-stack agent
Pros
  • Edits the real React/Next.js codebase — no Figma-to-code translation step or drifting design files.
  • Open source with 25k+ GitHub stars and a self-hosted option, so teams can bring their own model keys and keep code private.
  • Visual canvas with drag/resize/restyle that maps cleanly to JSX + Tailwind, making the diff readable to engineers.
  • AI chat can generate components, apply brand tokens, and refactor layouts from natural-language prompts.
  • First-class support for the modern React stack: Next.js, Vite, Storybook, and component reuse across the tree.
  • Publish/export flow with custom domains means designers can ship without waiting on a dev deploy.
  • One-prompt → live app
  • Auto-deploys
  • Great for non-engineers
  • Self-corrects errors
Cons
  • Cloud pricing is not published — teams have to book a demo to get numbers, which slows evaluation.
  • Locked to the React ecosystem; Vue, Svelte, Angular, or plain HTML projects are not supported.
  • Underlying model provider is not disclosed on the marketing site, so cost and quality of AI features are opaque until you try it.
  • Still a young product — self-hosted setup and multi-user collaboration are less battle-tested than incumbent design tools.
  • Non-technical designers on legacy codebases with hand-rolled CSS or older React patterns may find AI edits produce noisy diffs.
  • Quality drops on complex apps
  • Iteration loop slower than local IDE
Websiteonlook.comreplit.com
Pick Onlook if
  • ✅ Edits the real React/Next.js codebase — no Figma-to-code translation step or drifting design files.
  • ✅ Open source with 25k+ GitHub stars and a self-hosted option, so teams can bring their own model keys and keep code private.
  • ✅ Visual canvas with drag/resize/restyle that maps cleanly to JSX + Tailwind, making the diff readable to engineers.
  • ✅ AI chat can generate components, apply brand tokens, and refactor layouts from natural-language prompts.
Pick Replit Agent if
  • ✅ One-prompt → live app
  • ✅ Auto-deploys
  • ✅ Great for non-engineers
  • ✅ Self-corrects errors
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