Bolt.new vs Lovable

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
Best fit: Bolt.new: Founders and designers who want a clickable prototype or landing page the same afternoon · Lovable: Founders and designers shipping a working prototype without a developer
Trust score: About even — Bolt.new 85, Lovable 81
Status: We could not check Lovable — its site turns automated checks away; Bolt.new was up on 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

LovableDescribe an app and get a deployed full-stack project

Side by side

Fact	Bolt.new	Lovable
Category	Vibe Coding & App Generators	Vibe Coding & App Generators
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Starts at	$25/mo	$25/mo
Trust score	85 / 100	81 / 100
Platforms	Web	Web
Company	StackBlitz, Inc.	Lovable
Launched	—	2023
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

Lovable

The cleanest prompt-to-app experience for someone who cannot write React, and GitHub sync means you are not locked in — but 100 credits a month is less runway than it sounds once the app gets real.

Pros

Live preview after each change keeps iteration legible to non-developers
GitHub sync and Supabase mean the output is real, portable code
The free tier is enough to find out whether the idea works
Per-action credit costs are published, so estimating is possible

Cons

Free tier caps at 30 credits a month regardless of the daily grant
Debugging a bad generation can cost more credits than the original build
Opinionated stack — React front end, Supabase back end, little room to differ
No API for driving builds programmatically

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 Lovable if you need

Founders and designers shipping a working prototype without a developer
Anyone who wants generated code exported to GitHub rather than held hostage
Small internal tools needing authentication and a database on day one