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Bolt.new vs Hal9

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

Cheaper paid plan
Bolt.new — $25/mo vs $2000/mo for Hal9
Free plan
Bolt.new has one; Hal9 prices on request
Public API
Hal9 has one; not confirmed by us for Bolt.new
Higher Trust score
Hal9 — 94 vs 85 for Bolt.new
Best fit
Bolt.new: Founders and designers who want a clickable prototype or landing page the same afternoon · Hal9: non-technical founders shipping a first AI product

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 appsHal9Managed platform plus in-house engineers that take a founder's AI demo to a deployed product.

Side by side

FactBolt.newHal9
CategoryVibe Coding & App GeneratorsVibe Coding & App Generators
Pricing modelFreemiumContact
Starts at$25/mo$2000/mo
Public APINot confirmedYes
Trust score85 / 10094 / 100
PlatformsWebWeb, API, Slack app
CompanyStackBlitz, Inc.Hal9 Inc.
Launched—2021
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

Hal9

Hal9 is closest to a fractional AI team with a build tool attached: you get generated scaffolding, but the reason the pitch works is the humans doing the deployment. That suits non-technical founders and disappoints anyone who just wants a self-serve builder. Pricing is opaque and the entry point sits far above hobby tier.

Pros

  • Generated projects stay editable in Python
  • Isolated Kubernetes runtime per project
  • Model-agnostic across hosted and open-weight LLMs
  • Deploys to web, Slack and API endpoints

Cons

  • No published pricing table; the pricing page does not resolve
  • Stated entry budget of roughly $2,000 a month
  • Value depends on bundled expert hours, not software alone

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 Hal9 if you need

  • non-technical founders shipping a first AI product
  • teams that want Python-level control over generated apps
  • companies needing private, cloud-deployable runtimes

Bolt.new vs Hal9: the questions people ask

Is Bolt.new cheaper than Hal9?

On published entry prices, Bolt.new starts lower — $25/mo against $2000/mo for Hal9. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it; what each plan includes differs.

Does Bolt.new or Hal9 have a free tier?

Bolt.new has a free tier; Hal9 prices on request.

Which has a public API, Bolt.new or Hal9?

Hal9 ships a public API, as of our last verification. A public API for Bolt.new is not confirmed by us — check its developer docs before you plan an integration.

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