Replit builds software. Cordango adds a capability to a company that already exists.
This page used to say that ten Replit apps meant ten logins and no audit trail. That is not true, and it has not been for a while. Replit ships managed authentication the agent can install with almost no setup, with Clerk-backed options alongside it. Enterprise adds SAML SSO, SCIM, organisation roles and groups, and audit logs covering more than fifty event types that can stream into your own SIEM.
What Replit hands you is infrastructure, and a lot of it. What it does not hand you, by design, is an opinion about your business. Replit’s own guidance tells developers to enforce server-side authorisation and data-access rules, because each application still decides for itself what a customer is and who is allowed to see one. Cordango answers that question once, on the platform, before the first capability exists.
Feature availability and pricing change. Every row is checked against the vendor's own current documentation, linked at the foot of this page.
Default means it is there without anyone setting it up. Available means the vendor supports it, sometimes only on a particular plan. Build or configure means it is possible and it is your work. Not a focus means the product is aimed somewhere else.
| Cordango | Replit | |
|---|---|---|
| Building an app by describing it | Defaultthe normal way in, alongside ready-made capabilities | Defaultthe agent writes and runs real software |
| What you can build | Not a focusinternal operational capabilities. Cordango is not a general-purpose software platform. | Defaultmore or less anything you can write |
| Shared company records across every app | Defaultorganizations, people and teams are there before the first app | Build or configureeach project starts with an empty schema unless you deliberately design a shared one |
| Organisation-level identity and roles | DefaultMicrosoft and Google sign-in on every plan, SAML and SCIM higher up | AvailableSAML SSO, SCIM, roles and groups on Enterprise |
| Sign-in for the app you just built | Defaultone sign-in for the whole platform, nothing to install | Availablemanaged Replit Auth, or Clerk, installed per project |
| Authorisation inside the app | Defaultenforced below the application, per entity, per field and per command | Build or configureReplit’s own guidance is to write server-side authorisation into each application |
| Audit across every app | Defaultfield-level history produced by the runtime, nothing to model | Availableorganisation audit logs on Enterprise, 50+ event types, SIEM streaming |
| Data architecture | Defaultone company model, one schema per tenant, every capability reads it | Not a focusa database per project, which is what general-purpose software needs |
| Managed hosting | Defaultbackups, updates and patching are ours | Defaultdatabases, hosting and deployment are managed for you |
| German or EU data residency | DefaultGerman data centres, sub-processors published | Unclearwe could not find a documented customer-selectable German or EU region. Ask Replit rather than assuming either way. |
| Taking the result elsewhere | Not a focusyour data exports. The app is a definition on the platform. The compiler and CLI are Apache-2.0, the platform is not. | Defaultit is your code, in a repository, and it leaves with you |
| Who has to build it | Defaultyou describe it, or you ask us to build it on the same core | Availablethe agent gets you a long way. Hardening it for real data still wants someone technical. |
| One contract for the whole platform | Defaultapps are not priced separately. The tenth capability does not add a line item. | Defaultone Replit contract, with seats and usage published |
Replit’s unit is the project, and a project is real software. It gets its own schema, its own routes and its own idea of who may do what. Replit gives that project good scaffolding: managed authentication, a database, hosting, and at the organisation level the SSO, SCIM and audit logging that let you administer a lot of projects at once.
Administering many projects is not the same as those projects sharing a model. Replit says as much in its own guidance, where responsibility for server-side authorisation and data access sits with the application. So the tenth internal app still has to be told what an employee is, and which employees may see a salary.
Cordango settles that once. The trade is that Replit will build you general-purpose software and Cordango will not.
Replit is the better choice when the output should be unrestricted general-purpose software, when you want the code and the repository, or when what you are building is not an internal operational process at all.
What we can show you, and what we cannot. Cordango holds no ISO 27001, SOC 2 or C5 certification today, and has not commissioned an external penetration test yet. We would rather you read that here than find it in procurement. Security and permissions at Cordango, and the data processing agreement in full.
Bring the prompt you would give Replit. We will build it in the demo, so you can see what changes when it is a capability on an existing company rather than a new project.