Replit brings your repository into its workspace. MakeThemCode brings your collaborators to your repository.

Both can run an existing GitHub project in the cloud and let an AI agent change it. The difference is who it is built for, and who stays in control.

Side by side

ReplitMakeThemCode

Replit:Builders, from beginners to developers, working in Replit's workspace.

MakeThemCode:Non-tech collaborators invited by a developer, in a chat next to the running app.

Replit:Each person connects GitHub and needs write access to the repository.

MakeThemCode:No GitHub account needed: commits go through your GitHub App installation, in the collaborator's name.

Replit:Whatever the repository's own branch protections enforce.

MakeThemCode:Forbidden files, paths that require a review, monthly spending limits per member.

Replit:Imported into a Replit app, where the agent installs dependencies and asks for missing configuration.

MakeThemCode:Done once by the developer: every collaborator's session starts from the same environment.

Replit:A subscription, plus agent usage billed by effort.

MakeThemCode:Pay as you go, no subscription.

These tools do not compete as often as it looks. They answer different moments.

Reach for Replit when

you want to build and host something new end to end, or the people changing the code are comfortable in a full development workspace.

Reach for MakeThemCode when

the app already exists, the people asking for changes are not developers, and you want to choose what they can change.

Connect a GitHub repository, set the files nobody may touch, and send your first invitation.