Replit vs Durable: which one makes better websites?
We measured 114 public Replit sites (median score 40/100) but did not have a sample for Durable, so the numbers below cover one side only. The rest of the page compares how each builder can be recognised and what its sites usually get wrong.
Side by side
from our study of 780 public sites
Replit
Durable
Type
AI builder (site written from a prompt)
AI builder (site written from a prompt)
Default hosting
*.replit.app
durable.co
Sites in our sample
114
not measured
Median site score
40/100
not measured
Sites with a critical problem of their own
18.4%
not measured
Call a Supabase database from the browser
0%
not measured
No main heading (H1)
86.8%
not measured
No meta description
41.2%
not measured
Zoom disabled on phones
79.8%
not measured
Builder badge left on
3.5%
not measured
Highlighted: the better of the two on that row. Lower is better for every percentage.
Telling them apart
Replit
How to spot it: Look at the address: *.replit.app or *.replit.dev is Replit hosting.
What usually goes wrong: The default description is what people see in Google. If the description still says "Update this description to reflect the app", that is the sentence under your title in search results, and in every link preview.
How to spot it: Search the page source for a generator meta tag naming Durable.
What usually goes wrong: Copy that says nothing specific. Generated text is grammatical and generic. It rarely names the town you serve, what you charge, or what makes you different, which is exactly what a local customer is looking for.
Can you tell whether a site was built with Replit or Durable?
Usually, yes. Each leaves its own traces: Replit on *.replit.app and in its scripts, Durable on durable.co and in its own markers. Paste the URL in the scanner above and it names the builder with the evidence it found.
Which is better for SEO, Replit or Durable?
Neither decides it alone. In our sample the biggest SEO gaps were a missing main heading and a missing meta description, both fixable on either platform. Compare the rows above, then scan your own site to see which of them apply to it.
Is a Replit site worse than a hand-built one?
Not by being AI-built. The problems we see most are defaults nobody changed: titles, badges, blocked zoom, and database keys used without access rules. Each is a short fix once you know it is there.
Numbers from The AI-built web, October 2026: public sites on each builder's own hosting, scanned once. Read the method and its limits there.