Quick answer
For the same prompt-to-app experience, Lovable is the closest switch, counting credits per message instead of tokens and syncing your code to GitHub on every plan. Replit adds a full code workspace and mobile apps, and Base44 has the cheapest entry plan. Capacity, which we make, builds a working app with hosting from a description or straight from Claude or ChatGPT, with native mobile apps; Floot also builds from inside Claude or ChatGPT.
If you write code, Cursor and Claude Code put an agent on your own repository, and Dyad is a free, open-source builder that runs on your computer.
| Tool | Best for | Paid plans from | Free plan | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity | non-technical founders who want a working app online, built from a description or from Claude or ChatGPT. | $25/month | Web app: no. Desktop: 1 project | No free plan on the web; login via Clerk, Auth0 or Supabase |
 Lovable | the closest switch: credits per message instead of tokens, and GitHub sync on every plan. | €25/month | Yes, 5 credits a day (up to 30 a month) | Builds web apps, not native ones |
 Replit | people who want an AI agent, a real code workspace and hosting in one place. | $20/month | None listed | Heavier Agent work billed by effort |
 Base44 | non-technical builders who want an all-in-one app with the backend handled. | $16/month (yearly) | Yes, 25 message credits a month | Two kinds of credits to track |
 v0 by Vercel | React and Next.js teams who want polished UI and deploy on Vercel. | $30/user/month | Yes, 7 messages a day | Cost depends on the model and tokens |
 Floot | building from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, with hosting and a database included. | $25/month | Yes, 100 building actions a day | Daily action caps and a hosting allowance |
 Bubble | apps with heavy business logic that need to scale, built visually. | $29/month (yearly) | Yes | Steeper learning curve |
 Cursor | developers who want an AI coding agent in their own codebase. | $8/month | Yes, limited | You need to be comfortable with code |
| Claude Code | developers who want Anthropic's coding agent in their terminal, IDE or browser. | Claude Pro (€18/month) | No | No hosting; built for developers |
 Dyad | a free, open-source builder that runs on your own computer. | $20/month (Pro) | Yes, free forever | You bring your own AI keys |
Why people look for a Bolt.new alternative. The reasons that come back most often.
Tokens go faster on bigger projects
Bolt counts tokens, and a large project uses more of them per change. The free plan stops at 300K tokens a day and 1M a month; Pro starts at 10M a month.
Branding and your domain need Pro
The free plan puts Bolt branding on your sites; a custom domain and private sharing come with Pro, $25 a month.
They want to build from Claude or ChatGPT
Some people would rather describe the app in the AI they already use and let their subscription do the work. Capacity and Floot connect to Claude and ChatGPT for that.
Developers want their own setup
Teams with an existing codebase often prefer an agent in their editor or terminal, working on their repository, over a builder in the browser.
How we compared them. The same questions for every tool.
- What you get from one sentence: a page, a front end, or a full app with its data and login.
- Whether hosting, a database and a custom domain are included, and from which plan.
- How you pay: tokens, credits, daily actions, or a subscription you already have.
- Where the code lives, and whether you can take it with you.
- Native mobile apps for iOS and Android.
App builders
01 · our product
Capacity
Best for non-technical founders who want a working app online, built from a description or from Claude or ChatGPT.
Capacity turns a plain-language description into a working app: a React front end, a server and its own database, published at a capacity.studio address or on your own domain. You change it by chatting and watch each change in the preview. You choose the model (Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Fable 5.1, Mistral Large 4 or Kimi K3) or leave it on Auto.
Why pick Capacity over Bolt.new
- A fixed monthly price: each plan comes with a set number of credits, and building from Claude, ChatGPT or Mistral is unlimited on every paid plan, because your own subscription writes the code while Capacity hosts the app.
- Native mobile apps: Expo projects that you submit to TestFlight and Google Play from the publish dialog, with your own store accounts.
- Hosting, a database and a custom domain are part of every paid plan, with a full version history to roll back any change.
- Capacity Desktop ($249 once, macOS and Windows) runs the same builder on your computer with your Claude Code or ChatGPT plan, and pushes the code to your own GitHub.
Watch out for
- The web app has no free plan for building: paid plans start at $25 a month. Capacity Desktop has a free plan with one project.
- Login isn't built in: you add it with the Clerk or Auth0 extension, or a Supabase connection.
- In the web app, your code downloads as a zip; pushing to your own GitHub is a Desktop feature.
- A smaller community and template library than Bolt's or Lovable's.
Pricing
Starter $25/month (100 credits), Growth $69/month (250 credits), Professional $129/month (500 credits), Business $299/month (1,000 credits). Every plan includes unlimited projects, custom domains and unlimited building from Claude and ChatGPT.
02
Lovable
Best for the closest switch: credits per message instead of tokens, and GitHub sync on every plan.
Lovable builds web apps from a chat with a live preview beside it. Lovable Cloud adds the backend, with a database, user login, file storage and server functions on a Supabase foundation, and your code syncs both ways with GitHub on every plan.
Why pick it over Bolt.new
- The tool most 2026 guides name first for non-technical founders building a web app.
- The chat and the preview are the whole interface, and Lovable Cloud adds the database, login and storage.
- Two-way GitHub sync on every plan, including Free, so a developer can take over later.
Watch out for
- Each message uses credits, and Lovable Cloud usage is billed in credits too once its monthly grant is used.
- For the App Store or Google Play, Lovable points you to a PWA or a Capacitor wrapper you set up yourself.
Pricing
Free: 5 build credits a day, up to 30 a month. Pro: €25/month for 100 monthly credits, with rollovers, top-ups and custom domains. Business: €50/month, adding a team workspace and SSO. Prices shown in euros from France.
03
Replit
Best for people who want an AI agent, a real code workspace and hosting in one place.
Replit Agent builds web and mobile apps from a chat, sets up the database and user login, tests its own work in a browser, and publishes the app with hosting, monitoring and custom domains. The code sits in a full cloud workspace you can open whenever you want.
Why pick it over Bolt.new
- Everything from the first prompt to hosting lives in one product.
- The Agent tests and fixes its own work in a browser while it builds.
- Up to ten agents working in parallel on the Pro plan.
Watch out for
- Plans include monthly credits ($20 on Core); beyond them, usage is billed by effort, so a long build is hard to price in advance.
- The workspace shows the technical side, which can be a lot for non-technical founders.
Pricing
Core: $20/month ($18/month billed yearly), with up to 30 hours of chat on Free Mode and $20 of usage for the more powerful models. Pro: $100/month ($90/month billed yearly). Enterprise on request. No free plan is listed on the pricing page.
04
Base44
Best for non-technical builders who want an all-in-one app with the backend handled.
Base44, owned by Wix since 2025, builds the front end, backend, database, user login and payments from a plain-language description, runs the apps on its own infrastructure, and connects to tools like Gmail, Slack, Notion and HubSpot. It makes websites, internal tools, online stores and mobile apps.
Why pick it over Bolt.new
- The lowest entry price for an app builder on this list: Starter is $16 a month billed yearly.
- Login and payments are part of what it builds, not an add-on.
- It wraps your app for the App Store and Google Play and helps you submit it.
Watch out for
- Plans count two kinds of credits, message credits and integration credits, so check both before a busy month.
- GitHub integration starts on the Builder plan ($40 a month billed yearly).
- Store apps are your web app in a native web view, not a native rebuild.
Pricing
Free: 25 message credits a month. Billed yearly: Starter $16/month (100 message credits), Builder $40 (250), Pro $80 (500), Elite $160 (1,200). Monthly billing costs about 20% more.
05
v0 by Vercel
Best for React and Next.js teams who want polished UI and deploy on Vercel.
Vercel's v0 builds web apps and interfaces from a prompt, with a visual Design Mode, GitHub sync and one-click deploys to Vercel. It's known for clean React and Tailwind output that developers can drop into an existing codebase.
Why pick it over Bolt.new
- Some of the most polished interface code of any tool here.
- GitHub sync and deploys to Vercel on every plan, including the free one.
- Teams share chats and billing on vercel.com.
Watch out for
- The free plan gives $5 of one-time credits, then 7 messages a day.
- Usage is billed by tokens at each model's rate, so cost depends on the model you pick.
- It assumes you're comfortable around React and Vercel.
Pricing
Free: $5 of one-time credits, 7 messages a day. Plus: $30 per user per month, with $30 of monthly credits and $2 of free daily credits. Business: $100 per user per month.
06
Floot
Best for building from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, with hosting and a database included.
Floot builds apps from the AI you already use: you add it to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor as a connector, describe the app in the chat, and Floot builds it with its backend, database and hosting, live at its own link. It publishes to the web, and converts the app for the App Store and Google Play.
Why pick it over Bolt.new
- Works from Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, with no git and no terminal.
- Backend, database and hosting are included; paid plans add custom domains, with one free domain through IONOS.
- Every plan includes mobile app builds: 2 a month on Free, 12 on Pro, unlimited on Power.
Watch out for
- Plans cap building actions per day (100 on Free, 1,000 on Pro) and include a monthly hosting allowance ($10 on Pro, $25 on Power).
- Connecting Google Play needs a paid plan, and the stores need your own Apple and Google developer accounts.
Pricing
Free: 100 building actions a day, 2 mobile app builds a month. Pro: $25/month with 1,000 actions a day, $10 of hosting and 5,000 AI credits a month, custom domains. Power: $100/month with 5,000 actions a day, $25 of hosting and 15,000 AI credits. Yearly billing gives two months free.
Bubble is the long-standing visual app builder. It now starts from an AI prompt and lets you switch between prompting and editing visually, for web, iOS and Android apps, with its own database and workflows.
Why pick it over Bolt.new
- Deep control over data, workflows and permissions, which suits complex products.
- Web and native mobile apps from the same plan.
- Generating an app from a prompt doesn't use AI credits.
Watch out for
- It takes longer to learn than prompt-only builders.
- Usage is measured in workload units, which grow with your app's traffic.
Pricing
Free plan to build. Billed yearly: Starter $29/month, Growth $119/month, Team $349/month, each with more AI credits and workload units.
If you write code
Cursor is a code editor built around AI agents. You open your project, describe the change, and the agent edits the files; you review and keep what works. Its plans now bundle Grok models and features from X.
Why pick it over Bolt.new
- Your code stays on your machine and in your repository.
- Works on any stack, not only the ones a hosted builder supports.
- Cloud agents and automations on the higher plans.
Watch out for
- It's a developer tool: there's no hosting, and you deploy the app yourself.
- The plans mix AI usage with Grok and X features, so read what each tier includes.
Pricing
Free with limited AI usage. Plus $8/month, Premium $30/month (4x more usage than Plus), Super $100/month, Ultra $200/month. Teams from $30 per user per month.
09
Claude Code
Best for developers who want Anthropic's coding agent in their terminal, IDE or browser.
Claude Code is Anthropic's coding agent. You give it a task, from a bug fix to a multi-day migration, and steer it from your terminal, your IDE, Slack or the web. It runs on macOS, Linux and Windows and comes with a Claude subscription.
Why pick it over Bolt.new
- Included in Claude Pro and Max, so the price is a flat subscription rather than a meter per task.
- Works on any codebase, with the code on your machine and in your repository.
- If you'd rather not run it yourself, Capacity Desktop runs Claude Code for you on macOS or Windows, and Capacity's web app builds from Claude.ai.
Watch out for
- There's no hosting or database: you deploy and run the app yourself.
- It's built for developers and expects you to review code.
Pricing
Included in Claude Pro: €18/month, or €15/month billed yearly (prices shown in Europe). Max from €90/month for 5x or 20x more usage.
Dyad is an open-source app builder you install on your desktop. You describe the app, it builds it locally with the AI models you choose, and the code stays yours with no lock-in.
Why pick it over Bolt.new
- Free forever if you use your own API keys from an AI provider.
- Open source, and the project lives on your machine.
- Pro adds an agent that tests and fixes bugs on its own.
Watch out for
- Setting up API keys and publishing the app is on you.
- Like any local tool, it runs only on the computer where it's installed.
Pricing
Free with your own API keys. Pro: $20/month (200 AI credits). Max: $79/month (900 AI credits).
Bolt.new and its alternatives, side by side. From each official site, October 15, 2026.
| Feature |  Bolt.new | Capacity | Lovable | Replit | Base44 | v0 by Vercel | Floot | Bubble | Cursor | Claude Code | Dyad |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paid plans from | $25/month | $25/month | €25/month | $20/month ($18 yearly) | $16/month (yearly) | $30/user/month | $25/month | $29/month (yearly) | $8/month | €18/month (Claude Pro) | $20/month |
| Free plan | Yes, 1M tokens a month | Desktop only (1 project) | Yes | None listed | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes, with your own keys |
| How usage is billed | Tokens; unused tokens roll over on Pro | Monthly credits; building from Claude or ChatGPT unlimited | Monthly credits | Plan credits, then effort-based pay-as-you-go | Message and integration credits | Credits spent at each model's token rate | Daily building actions, hosting allowance | AI credits and workload units | AI usage pools, bundled with Grok and X | Your Claude subscription | Your own API keys, or credits |
| Hosting included | Yes, Bolt Cloud | Yes, custom domain on every paid plan | Yes | Yes, metered deployments | Yes | Yes, on Vercel | Yes, monthly allowance | Yes | No | No | No |
| Mobile apps | – | Native (Expo, TestFlight and Google Play) | PWA or Capacitor, set up yourself | Yes, from Agent | Web view wrapper for the stores | No | Web app converted for the stores | Yes (iOS and Android) | If you code it | If you code it | No |
| Where the code lives | In Bolt; start from GitHub | Zip download; GitHub push from Desktop | Two-way GitHub sync | Your Replit workspace | GitHub from the Builder plan | GitHub sync on every plan | – | No code export | Your own repository | Your own repository | On your computer |
How to choose. Start from what you need, not from the ranking.
The same experience, billed by messageLovable
Agent, code workspace and hosting in one placeReplit
The lowest entry priceBase44
Polished React interfaces on Vercelv0 by Vercel
Complex logic, built visuallyBubble
An agent on your own codebaseCursor or Claude Code
Free, local and open sourceDyadWhen to stay on Bolt.new
If you like starting from a Figma file or a GitHub repository, want generous free tokens to explore, and your project's token use fits your plan, Bolt remains one of the fastest ways from a prompt to a hosted app, with Bolt Cloud's databases and authentication included.
Questions people ask. Short answers, with the details above.
What is the best alternative to Bolt.new?
Lovable is the closest: the same prompt-to-app experience, billed per message, with GitHub sync on every plan. Replit adds a code workspace and mobile apps, Base44 has the lowest entry price, and Capacity builds from a description or from Claude or ChatGPT with native mobile apps. Developers often move to Cursor or Claude Code.
Is there a free Bolt alternative?
Yes, with limits: Lovable, Base44, v0, Floot and Bubble have free plans, Cursor has a limited free plan, and Dyad is free and open source with your own API keys. The Capacity web app has no free plan; Capacity Desktop has one with a single project.
Lovable vs Bolt: which should I use?
They're close. Lovable counts credits per message and syncs your code to GitHub on every plan; Bolt counts tokens, has the larger free plan and rolls unused tokens over on Pro. Our Lovable vs Bolt comparison goes through both.
Why do people leave Bolt?
Token use is the most common reason: large projects use more tokens per change, and the free plan caps at 300K a day. Others want their code in their own repository, a native mobile app, or to build from Claude or ChatGPT.
Can I move my Bolt project to another tool?
If the code is in a GitHub repository, a tool that works from a repository (Cursor or Claude Code) can pick it up. Hosted builders like Capacity or Base44 usually rebuild the app from a description.
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