Bolt.new vs Fabricate

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: The same for both — $25/mo
Free plan: Both have one
Higher Trust score: Bolt.new — 85 vs 79 for Fabricate
Best fit: Bolt.new: Founders and designers who want a clickable prototype or landing page the same afternoon · Fabricate: Founders shipping a paid MVP without setting up auth and Stripe themselves
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

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

FabricatePrompt-to-app builder that ships a React app on Cloudflare Workers with database, auth and Stripe wired in.

Side by side

Fact	Bolt.new	Fabricate
Category	Vibe Coding & App Generators	Vibe Coding & App Generators
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Starts at	$25/mo	$25/mo
Trust score	85 / 100	79 / 100
Platforms	Web	Web
Company	StackBlitz, Inc.	Fabricate, LLC
Launched	—	2025
Last verified	Sep 6, 2026	Sep 6, 2026

What our research says

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

Fabricate

Most prompt-to-app tools stop at generated code; Fabricate's pitch is that the boring parts - database, login, payments, hosting - are already connected when the app appears. Pinning it to Cloudflare Workers and D1 is what makes that possible and also what makes it awkward to leave. Sixty free credits a month is enough to see whether the generator understands your idea before paying.

Pros

Generated apps arrive deployed at a live URL with D1, authentication and Stripe already connected
Version history with one-click restore, so a bad generation is recoverable
Code exports to GitHub or a ZIP on paid plans, so you are not locked out of your own source
Free plan is 60 credits a month and one published project with no card required

Cons

Everything targets Cloudflare Workers and D1 - moving to another host means rewriting the runtime layer
Code export, private projects and custom domains are paid-only, so the free plan cannot ship a real product
Credits, not projects, are the unit, and a broad rewrite consumes them unpredictably
Company founded in 2025 with no track record to check

Which one fits

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

Choose Fabricate if you need

Founders shipping a paid MVP without setting up auth and Stripe themselves
Internal tools that need a login and a database but not a team
Testing an idea end to end before committing engineering time