Visa Invests in Replit to Embed Payments in AI Apps

Visa invested in Replit to integrate Visa Intelligent Commerce into Replit’s development platform, enabling developers and AI agents to initiate secure Visa payments and accept transactions within the Replit environment, the companies announced.

The integration will let builders accept and process Visa transactions without leaving their development workflow. Applications and autonomous agents built on Replit will be able to initiate transactions and route payments through Visa’s global network while staying inside the platform.

Replit and Visa are exploring how agents on the platform could be listed in Visa’s Trusted Agent Protocol registry, which identifies agents Visa recognizes as authorized to transact on behalf of users and businesses.

More than 1,000 Visa employees use Replit for prototyping and development, the companies noted. Visa and Replit are researching machine-to-machine and agent-driven payment patterns that could support high-frequency, low-value exchanges between services as software automates more tasks.

Rubail Birwadker, Visa’s senior vice president and head of growth products and partnerships, described the investment as rooted in a shared view: “Our investment and partnership reflect a shared view that card payments should be native, secure, and integrated directly into those experiences from the start, so developers can easily build commerce into applications and agents from day one.”

Replit has been expanding its enterprise offerings while deepening partnerships. Earlier this month the company launched self-serve enterprise access that allows organizations to buy Replit Enterprise directly for contracts up to $200,000 without speaking to a sales representative. Enterprise features include single sign-on, SCIM directory synchronization, role-based access controls, audit logs, advanced permissions, SOC 2 compliance, and enterprise connectors. Replit said each self-serve enterprise customer is assigned a dedicated account manager from day one.

Replit CEO Amjad Masad described Visa’s investment as validation of the company’s work to combine accessibility with enterprise-grade security: “Our continued customer and partner additions in the enterprise bring us closer to a world where any team can go from idea to production-ready software quickly and securely.”

Visa’s involvement brings payments infrastructure into the developer toolchain and will enable further testing of agent-driven commerce across merchant and service endpoints when agents are registered as Visa-trusted.