Replit Gets Visa Investment, Brings Payments to AI Coding Platform

Replit and Visa announced a strategic investment and partnership that brings Visa’s payment infrastructure inside Replit’s AI-native development platform PRNewswire reports. The deal lets developers initiate secure transactions and accept payments directly within Replit workflows.

The partnership extends beyond payments. Visa is exploring having Replit agents join its Trusted Agent Protocol registry, enabling AI agents to be recognized as “Visa-trusted” and transact across merchant endpoints on behalf of consumers. The two companies are also exploring machine-to-machine payments — high-frequency, low-value transactions between autonomous services.

Enterprise Push With Visa Investment

Visa has made a financial investment in Replit, though the amount was not disclosed. The investment comes as Replit claims users in 85% of Fortune 500 companies and over 50 million developers on its platform. Enterprise customers include Atlassian, Adobe, Databricks, Okta, Zillow, and Accenture.

Replit recently introduced Agent 4, its most powerful AI coding agent yet, and launched self-serve enterprise access — letting teams go from first sign-up to production deployment in minutes without a sales conversation. Enterprise features include SSO, RBAC, audit logs, and SOC-2 compliance.

“The next generation of builders and companies is emerging within ecosystems like Replit has developed,” said Rubail Birwadker, SVP at Visa. “Our investment and partnership reflect a shared view that card payments should be native, secure and integrated directly into those experiences.”

Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol and AI Payments

The Trusted Agent Protocol is a key piece of Visa’s strategy for agentic commerce. By allowing agents to register as trusted entities, Visa opens a path for AI systems to initiate payments, manage subscriptions, and execute financial transactions without human intervention on every step.

Meanwhile, Replit launched a Solution Partner Program with Accenture, Slalom, and Hexaware as founding partners. The program helps enterprises adopt AI-powered software creation at scale, extending Replit’s existing tech partnerships with Google, Microsoft, Databricks, and Stripe per the announcement.

The self-serve enterprise tier, launched earlier this month, supports contract values up to $200,000 without a sales rep. Contract values for higher-touch enterprise deals were not disclosed. Replit CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad framed the Visa deal as validation of Replit’s enterprise trajectory: “Visa coming on board underscores our mission of making coding available to anyone in a secure and robust manner,” he said.

The deal marks a rare direct integration between a card network and an AI coding platform — and signals where Visa sees the next wave of commerce volume coming from. With 1,000+ Visa employees already using Replit internally, the partnership started as a dogfooding experiment before evolving into a strategic bet.

FAQ

What does the Replit-Visa partnership involve?

Visa invested in Replit and is integrating its payment infrastructure into the platform, enabling developers to accept payments and initiate secure transactions directly within Replit workflows. The companies are also exploring a Trusted Agent Protocol for AI agents.

How many users does Replit have?

Replit has over 50 million users worldwide, with presence in 85% of Fortune 500 companies.

Who are the founding partners of Replit’s Solution Partner Program?

Accenture, Slalom, and Hexaware are the founding partners, helping enterprises adopt AI-powered software creation.

What is Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol?

A Visa initiative that lets AI agents register as trusted entities, enabling them to transact across merchant and service endpoints on behalf of consumers.

Visa has 1,000+ employees using Replit internally for prototyping.