Bolt.new vs Rocket

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 80 for Rocket
Best fit: Bolt.new: Founders and designers who want a clickable prototype or landing page the same afternoon · Rocket: Founders who want market validation before committing to building a product
Status: Both up at our last check — Bolt.new Sep 6, 2026, Rocket Sep 1, 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

RocketGenerates production-ready web and mobile apps from a prompt, with market research and competitor tracking bundled in.

Side by side

Fact	Bolt.new	Rocket
Category	Vibe Coding & App Generators	Vibe Coding & App Generators
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Starts at	$25/mo	$25/mo
Trust score	85 / 100	80 / 100
Platforms	Web	Web
Company	StackBlitz, Inc.	Rocket USA Inc.
Last verified	Sep 6, 2026	Sep 1, 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

Rocket

Rocket's pitch is bundling the 'should I build this' research step with the actual app generation, which differs from most vibe-coding tools that assume you already know what to build. The generation side looks like standard prompt-to-app tooling with templates and Figma import; whether the research and competitive-intelligence layers are genuinely useful will depend heavily on your market, and credits can run out fast once you're iterating on a real app.

Pros

Bundles problem research and competitive tracking alongside the app generator instead of selling them separately
Large template library of more than 25,000 templates and Figma import speed up starting a new app
One-click staging and deployment once an app is generated
Free plan available to try generation before paying

Cons

Credit-based usage means active building can burn through a monthly allotment quickly
Generated apps rely on templates, so highly custom requirements may need manual code changes afterward
The research and intelligence features are unusual additions that are harder to evaluate than plain app generation

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 Rocket if you need

Founders who want market validation before committing to building a product
Non-developers who want a working app from a prompt plus ready deployment