How do Lovable and Bolt bill AI usage?

Lovable: vendor credits. Bolt: free tier; vendor credits.

Which models can I use?

Lovable: not published. Bolt: not published. (Provider families from each vendor's published model list.)

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Lovable vs Bolt: what each really costs

Lovable: $25–$50/month (cheapest paid: Pro (100 credits) $25). Bolt: $0–$27/month (cheapest paid: Pro $18). Bolt has the lower entry price. Which one is cheaper for you depends on your usage and preferred model; use the calculator below.

At a glance

	Lovable	Bolt
Price range / month	$25–$50	$0–$27
Cheapest paid plan	Pro (100 credits) ($25)	Pro ($18)
How usage is billed	vendor credits	free tier · vendor credits
Model families	not published	not published
Category	App builder	App builder

Verdicts

Lovable

Lovable prices by credits with a long ladder (100 to 10,000 credits per month). Pro credits cost $0.25 each at the base tier. Example prompts on its pricing page cost 0.5 to 1.7 credits, which is the best guide to real cost.

Bolt

Bolt is one of the few app builders that meters in tokens (10M per month on Pro, with rollover). Token use grows with project size because Bolt syncs your file system to the model.

Estimate both for your usage

What will my AI coding cost per month?

Coding sessions per week

Hours per session

Preferred model

How you work

Agent-heavy (multi-file tasks) Mixed chat + agent Mostly autocomplete + quick chat

Include team / business plans

Assumptions (editable)

Model requests per hour

Input tokens per request

Output tokens per request

Share of input served from cache (%)

Presets are rough editorial assumptions, not vendor data: agent-heavy = 20 requests/h × 40k input (70% cached) × 1.5k output; mixed = 12/h × 15k (50% cached) × 800; light = 6/h × 4k (20% cached) × 500. Autocomplete is free on most paid plans and isn't counted. A month is 52/12 weeks.

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Tool · plan	List price	Est. monthly cost	How we estimate

Estimates only. Quota-based plans (Claude, Codex, Windsurf) don't publish limits in tokens, so we can't tell whether your usage fits; we show the flat price and say so. Prices come from the snapshot dated 2026-10-21; each row links its source.

Lovable plans

Plan	Price / month	Key limits	Models	Source
Pro (100 credits)	$25	100 credits/mo + 5 daily build credits; tiers to 10,000 credits ($2,250)	Not published	docs.lovable.dev checked Oct 21, 2026
Business (100 credits)	$50 per user / from	100 credits/mo; SSO etc.	Not published	docs.lovable.dev checked Oct 21, 2026

Bolt plans

Plan	Price / month	Key limits	Models	Source
Free	$0	1M tokens/mo, 300K/day	Not published	bolt.new checked Oct 21, 2026
Pro price likely annual-billed equivalent	$18	10M tokens/mo with rollover ($216/yr shown; asterisked price)	Not published	bolt.new checked Oct 21, 2026
Teams	$27 per user / from	per member; 10M tokens/member	Not published	bolt.new checked Oct 21, 2026

FAQ

Is Lovable cheaper than Bolt?: Lovable: $25–$50/month (cheapest paid: Pro (100 credits) $25). Bolt: $0–$27/month (cheapest paid: Pro $18). Bolt has the lower entry price. Which one is cheaper for you depends on your usage and preferred model; use the calculator below.
How do Lovable and Bolt bill AI usage?: Lovable: vendor credits. Bolt: free tier; vendor credits.
Which models can I use?: Lovable: not published. Bolt: not published. (Provider families from each vendor's published model list.)