Archie vs Bolt.new

Two fact sheets from our own research, side by side — pricing, platforms, API access and status re-checked by us rather than quoted from the vendors.

The short answer

Entry price: Archie from $24/seat/mo, Bolt.new from $25/mo — different billing units, so no direct winner
Free plan: Both have one
Higher Trust score: Archie — 91 vs 85 for Bolt.new
Best fit: Archie: Developers who want to start in a prompt and finish in their IDE · Bolt.new: Founders and designers who want a clickable prototype or landing page the same afternoon
Status: Both up at our last check (Sep 6, 2026)

From our own records as of each tool's last check. Anything we have not confirmed is left out rather than guessed. How we verify

ArchieAI app builder with separate architecture and design agents, driven by prompt, canvas or IDE.

Bolt.newIn-browser agent that builds and runs web apps

Side by side

Fact	Archie	Bolt.new
Category	Vibe Coding & App Generators	Vibe Coding & App Generators
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Starts at	$24/seat/mo	$25/mo
Trust score	91 / 100	85 / 100
Platforms	Web	Web
Company	Archie.com, Inc.	StackBlitz, Inc.
Launched	2026	—
Last verified	Sep 6, 2026	Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

Archie

Archie's differentiator is splitting the work between an architecture agent and a design agent, and letting you switch between prompting, a visual canvas and your own IDE on the same project. That suits people who start conversationally and finish in code. It only reached general availability in August 2026, though, and the pricing page is visibly broken - the Pro tier shows $0 a month.

Pros

Distinct architecture and design agents rather than one generalist generator
Three ways to drive the same project: prompt, visual editor, or IDE
Free Starter tier with 50 credits a month and no card required
Pooled team credits instead of per-seat allowances that expire unused
Top-up packs get cheaper per credit at volume, down to about $0.088

Cons

The Pro tier's price renders as $0/mo on the live pricing page, so the real mid-tier cost is unknown
Team billing requires a minimum of five seats, which prices out individuals
General availability only in August 2026 - almost no track record
Credits are the unit of work and the page does not say what one credit buys

Bolt.new

Bolt is the quickest way to get from a sentence to a running web app you can click, and Bolt Cloud now removes the usual 'where does this deploy' problem for small projects. Treat the token meter as the real price: a complex app burns through the entry allowance fast, and the free tier is for trying the product, not shipping from it.

Pros

Whole toolchain runs in the browser, so there is no environment to set up or keep alive
Starts from a prompt, Figma design, GitHub repo or template, and exports back to GitHub
Bolt Cloud bundles hosting, databases and auth, which most prompt-to-app tools leave to you
Unused Pro tokens roll over, unlike most rivals' monthly allowances

Cons

Token-based pricing is hard to forecast; one long debugging session can eat days of allowance
Free tier is throttled daily (300K tokens) and carries Bolt branding
Yearly discount is advertised without the actual yearly prices on the page
No public API found, so Bolt cannot be driven from a script or CI

Which one fits

Choose Archie if you need

Developers who want to start in a prompt and finish in their IDE
Small product teams that need architecture and UI generated together
Teams of five or more, which is where Team pricing starts

Choose Bolt.new if you need

Founders and designers who want a clickable prototype or landing page the same afternoon
Developers scaffolding a front end or internal tool before taking it into their own editor
Teams turning a Figma mock into a working front end without hand-coding the first pass