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Bolt.new vs Floot

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
Floot — 94 vs 85 for Bolt.new
Best fit
Bolt.new: Founders and designers who want a clickable prototype or landing page the same afternoon · Floot: Non-developers who already work inside Claude or ChatGPT
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 appsFlootDescribe an app to Claude or ChatGPT and Floot builds, hosts and deploys the full stack.

Side by side

FactBolt.newFloot
CategoryVibe Coding & App GeneratorsVibe Coding & App Generators
Pricing modelFreemiumFreemium
Starts at$25/mo$25/mo
Trust score85 / 10094 / 100
PlatformsWebWeb
CompanyStackBlitz, Inc.Floot, Inc.
Launched—2025
Last verifiedSep 6, 2026Sep 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

Floot

Floot's angle is that you never leave your chat assistant: it plugs in over MCP, so Claude or ChatGPT does the talking and Floot does the building, hosting and deploying. That makes it approachable for non-developers who already live in a chat window. The cost is opacity - you do not see the code path the way you would in a code-first builder, and the free tier deletes your app after two weeks.

Pros

  • Connects as an MCP server to Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and Zed rather than being another separate editor
  • Provisions database, auth, cron jobs and email automatically instead of leaving them as homework
  • Flat plans rather than per-token billing, with credits only for optional features
  • Free tier is generous at 5,000 credits a month for trying the flow

Cons

  • Free-tier apps carry Floot branding and unpublish themselves after 14 days
  • The pricing page does not render for crawlers, so published figures are hard to verify
  • No documented public API - MCP is the integration path
  • Enterprise is reported to start around a $20,000 annual minimum

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 Floot if you need

  • Non-developers who already work inside Claude or ChatGPT
  • Quick internal tools that need a database and logins without infrastructure work
  • Founders validating an idea before committing engineering time

Bolt.new vs Floot: the questions people ask

Is Bolt.new cheaper than Floot?

Both publish the same entry price, $25/mo. The difference is what each plan includes, which the fact table above sets side by side.

Does Bolt.new or Floot have a free tier?

Both: Bolt.new has a free tier, and Floot has a free tier.

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