Quick answer
For a working MVP with its data and hosting from a description, Lovable is the one most guides name first, Bolt.new has the most generous free plan, Base44 has the lowest entry price with login and payments built in, and Replit adds a code workspace. Capacity, which we make, gives each app its own database and a custom domain on every plan, adds Stripe and login as extensions, and builds from Claude or ChatGPT without limits on every paid plan.
Floot also builds from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, with login, a database and Stripe built in, and Rocket puts market research next to the builder. To test demand with a polished front end first, use v0. For complex logic built visually, Bubble.
When a developer takes over, they'll work in an editor like Cursor on the code your builder hands over, so check how each one does it (the last row of the comparison table) before you start.
| Tool | Best for | Paid plans from | Free plan | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity | founders who want a working MVP online with its own database, domain and payments, built from a description or from Claude or ChatGPT. | $25/month | Web app: no. Desktop: 1 project | No free plan on the web; login is an extension |
 Lovable | founders who want the most-recommended prompt builder, with login, data and payments handled and the code in GitHub. | €25/month | Yes, 5 credits a day (up to 30 a month) | Credits per message; domains from Pro |
 Bolt.new | trying an idea on a free plan before paying, with hosting and a database included. | $25/month | Yes, 1M tokens a month | Token use grows; domains from Pro |
 Replit | founders who want the agent, a code workspace and hosting in one place, with Stripe and login ready. | $20/month | None listed | Heavier Agent work billed by effort |
 Base44 | the lowest entry price for an MVP with login, data, payments and analytics built in. | $16/month (yearly) | Yes, 25 message credits a month | Two kinds of credits to track |
 Floot | building the MVP from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, with login, a database, Stripe and analytics built in. | $25/month | Yes, 100 building actions a day | Daily action caps and a hosting allowance |
 Rocket | founders who want market research and the build in one place, with unlimited team members. | $25/month | Yes, 20 credits | One credit pool for research, building and tracking |
 v0 by Vercel | a polished front end or clickable demo to test demand before you build the rest. | $30/user/month | Yes, 7 messages a day | Cost depends on the model and tokens |
 Bubble | an MVP with complex logic you expect to keep growing on the same platform, built visually. | $29/month (yearly) | Yes | Steeper learning curve |
 Cursor | the developer who takes over your MVP's code, or a founder who can code. | $8/month | Yes, limited | You need to be comfortable with code |
What an MVP needs. And what the first month costs.
Testable beats complete
The point of an MVP is to learn, so the best tool is the one that puts a real version in front of users soonest: a working sign-up, the one feature that matters, and a way to pay. Everything else can wait for the second version.
Login and a database
If people sign up and save anything, you need accounts and a database. Lovable, Bolt.new, Base44, Floot and Bubble build login in, and Replit offers Replit Auth or Clerk. Capacity gives each app its own database and adds login through Clerk, Auth0 or Supabase; Rocket uses a Supabase connection.
A way to get paid
Most builders connect Stripe, which charges 2.9% + 30¢ per successful US card payment with no monthly fee. Subscriptions run on Stripe Billing, which adds 0.7% of billing volume on pay-as-you-go. Base44 builds payments in, and Lovable can set up payments for you on its paid plans.
A domain and analytics
A custom domain usually needs a paid plan: Capacity includes one on every plan, Bolt.new and Lovable from Pro, Floot from Pro with one free domain through IONOS, Base44 from Starter with a free domain for the first year. For analytics, Base44 and Floot have it built in, Bolt.new shows visitor analytics on paid plans, Capacity adds Google Analytics 4, Hotjar or DataFast, and Rocket connects GA4 or Mixpanel.
The first month's bill
Entry plans run from $16 a month (Base44, billed yearly) to $30 per user (v0), and most sit at $20 to $25. On top come a domain if the plan doesn't include one, Stripe's fees once you sell, and extra credits if the first weeks are busy.
When to hand over to a developer
A developer becomes worth paying once customers rely on the app every day. The handover goes smoothly when the code is already in GitHub or downloadable, and happens inside Bubble on Bubble, which doesn't export code.
How we compared them. The same questions for every tool.
- How fast you get from a sentence to something a user can try.
- Whether login, a database and payments are built in or have to be connected.
- Whether a custom domain and analytics are included, and from which plan.
- What the first month costs on the entry plan, and what makes it go up.
- How easily a developer can take over the code later.
- A dash in the comparison table means the tool's site doesn't list it.
Build from a description
01 · our product
Capacity
Best for founders who want a working MVP online with its own database, domain and payments, 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. Examples built with Capacity, from a SaaS site to an invoicing app and a booking app, are live on its Discover page.
Why pick Capacity
- Each app comes with a server and its own database, and every plan includes a custom domain.
- Extensions cover what an MVP needs: Stripe payments, Clerk or Auth0 login, Resend, Brevo or SendGrid email, and Google Analytics 4, Hotjar or DataFast.
- Building from Claude, ChatGPT or Mistral is unlimited on every paid plan: your own subscription writes the code, Capacity hosts the app.
- The code downloads as a zip on any paid plan, and Capacity Desktop (macOS and Windows) pushes it to your own GitHub, so a developer can take over.
Watch out for
- The web app has no free plan: 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.
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 founders who want the most-recommended prompt builder, with login, data and payments handled and the code in GitHub.
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
- Sign-in with email, phone, Google, Apple or Microsoft, set up by Lovable Cloud.
- Payments two ways: built-in payments Lovable sets up for you on a paid plan, or your own Stripe account for one-time payments and subscriptions.
- Every change is saved as a version you can preview and revert to.
Watch out for
- Each message uses credits, and Lovable Cloud usage is billed in credits too once its monthly grant is used.
- Your own domain starts on Pro (€25 a month); the Free plan publishes on lovable.app addresses.
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
Bolt.new
Best for trying an idea on a free plan before paying, with hosting and a database included.
Bolt, from StackBlitz, builds websites and web apps from a chat in your browser and publishes them on Bolt Cloud, its built-in hosting and backend, at a bolt.host address or on your own domain.
Why pick it
- One of the most generous free plans here: 300K tokens a day, 1M a month.
- Sign-up with email or Google, a database and file storage come with Bolt Cloud, so there's no outside account to create.
- Stripe for one-time payments and subscriptions, and visitor analytics once you publish on a paid plan.
Watch out for
- Billing is in tokens, and long fix-and-retry sessions on a large project use them up faster.
- A custom domain and removing the Bolt branding need Pro ($25 a month).
Pricing
Free: 300K tokens a day, 1M a month. Pro: $25/month, no daily limit, from 10M tokens a month, unused tokens roll over. Teams: $30 per member per month.
04
Replit
Best for founders who want the agent, a code workspace and hosting in one place, with Stripe and login ready.
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
- Everything from the first prompt to hosting lives in one product.
- Stripe through Replit's connector or your own keys, and login with Replit Auth or Clerk.
- The Agent tests and fixes its own work in a browser while it builds.
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.
05
Base44
Best for the lowest entry price for an MVP with login, data, payments and analytics built in.
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
- 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.
- An analytics dashboard on every plan, and from Starter you connect your own domain, with a free one for the first year.
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).
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.
06
Floot
Best for building the MVP from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, with login, a database, Stripe and analytics built in.
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
- Works from Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, with no git and no terminal.
- Login (email, Google, Microsoft), a Postgres database, Stripe for payments and subscriptions, and visitor analytics are built in.
- Paid plans add custom domains, with one free domain through IONOS, and download the code as a zip.
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).
- There's no Git sync: a developer gets the code as a zip or through a synced local folder.
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.
07
Rocket
Best for founders who want market research and the build in one place, with unlimited team members.
Rocket calls itself a vibe solutioning platform. Solve researches a market or a decision and recommends what to build; Build turns a prompt, or that research, into web apps, mobile apps, landing pages, SaaS and internal tools, with staging and production environments and one-click deploys; Intelligence watches what your competitors change.
Why pick it
- Research and competitor tracking sit next to the builder and share its context.
- Stripe for one-time checkout and subscriptions, Supabase for the database and login, and Google Analytics 4 or Mixpanel, each added from a prompt.
- Pushes the code to your GitHub, with two-way sync for Next.js projects.
- No per-seat pricing: every plan, including Free, has unlimited team members.
Watch out for
- Building, research and tracking draw on the same credits, so a plan's credits cover more than the app.
- Pro includes 100 credits a month and essential research; the full suite starts on the $50 Rocket plan.
Pricing
Free: 20 credits. Billed monthly: Pro $25 (100 credits a month), Rocket $50 (250 credits, the full suite), Booster $250 (1,500 credits). Unlimited team members on every plan, and credits never expire. Yearly billing saves 20%.
08
v0 by Vercel
Best for a polished front end or clickable demo to test demand before you build the rest.
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
- Some of the most polished interface code of any tool here.
- GitHub sync and deploys to Vercel on every plan, including the free one.
- Databases such as Neon, Supabase and Upstash connect through Vercel Marketplace integrations.
Watch out for
- 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.
Visual builder with AI
09
Bubble
Best for an MVP with complex logic you expect to keep growing on the same platform, built visually.
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
- User accounts are built in: sign-up, login and sessions are handled for you.
- Deep control over data, workflows and permissions, which suits complex products.
- Its manual walks through one-time payments and subscriptions with Stripe.
- 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.
- The free plan doesn't publish a live site, and Bubble doesn't export code, so a developer takes over inside Bubble.
Pricing
Free plan to build. Billed yearly: Starter $29/month, Growth $119/month, Team $349/month, each with more AI credits and workload units.
When a developer takes over
10
Cursor
Best for the developer who takes over your MVP's code, or a founder who can 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
- 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.
The 10 MVP tools, side by side. From each official site, October 17, 2026.
| Feature | Capacity | Lovable | Bolt.new | Replit | Base44 | Floot | Rocket | v0 by Vercel | Bubble | Cursor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paid plans from | $25/month | €25/month | $25/month | $20/month ($18 yearly) | $16/month (yearly) | $25/month | $25/month | $30/user/month | $29/month (yearly) | $8/month |
| Free plan | Desktop only (1 project) | Yes, 5 credits a day | Yes, 1M tokens a month | None listed | Yes, 25 message credits | Yes, 100 actions a day | Yes, 20 credits | Yes, 7 messages a day | Yes, no live site | Yes, limited |
| Login | Clerk, Auth0 or Supabase extension | Built in (Lovable Cloud) | Built in: email and Google | Replit Auth or Clerk | Built in | Built in: email, Google, Microsoft | Through Supabase | – | Built in | You code it |
| Database | Its own SQLite database | Built in (Supabase-based) | Built in | Built in | Built in | Postgres, built in | Supabase, Airtable and others | Neon, Supabase or Upstash via Vercel | Built in | You set it up |
| Payments | Stripe extension | Built-in payments or your Stripe | Stripe, incl. subscriptions | Stripe connector or your keys | Built in | Stripe, incl. subscriptions | Stripe or Razorpay | – | Stripe, guided in its manual | You code it |
| Custom domain | Every plan | From Pro | From Pro | Yes, connect or buy one | From Starter, free for a year | From Pro, one free via IONOS | Yes, connect or buy one | – | From Starter | Wherever you host |
| Code for a developer | Zip; GitHub push from Desktop | Two-way GitHub sync | GitHub integration, project export | Your Replit workspace | GitHub from the Builder plan | Zip on paid plans | GitHub push and sync | GitHub sync on every plan | No code export | Your own repository |
How to choose. Start from what you need, not from the ranking.
The most-recommended builder, code in GitHubLovable
Trying the idea free before payingBolt.new
Agent, code workspace and hosting togetherReplit
The lowest entry price with login and paymentsBase44
Login, Stripe and analytics built in, from your AI chatFloot
Market research, then the buildRocket
A front end to test demand firstv0 by Vercel
Complex logic, built visuallyBubble
Handing the code to a developerCursorQuestions people ask. Short answers, with the details above.
What is the best AI tool to build an MVP in 2026?
For a working MVP with login, data and hosting from a description: Lovable (€25 a month) if you want the most-recommended builder and GitHub sync, Bolt.new for its free plan, Base44 for the lowest entry price ($16 a month billed yearly) with payments built in, and Capacity ($25) for a custom domain on every plan and building from Claude or ChatGPT. Floot builds from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, Rocket adds market research, v0 makes a polished front end, and Bubble suits complex logic built visually.
How fast can I build an MVP with AI?
The first version is the quick part: Bolt.new's quickstart guide writes a first app, adds a database, tests it and publishes it in one session, and the other prompt builders work the same way, by description and preview. What takes longer is connecting Stripe and testing a real payment, pointing your domain, and, for a mobile app, store review and Google Play's 14-day closed test for new personal accounts.
How much does it cost to build an MVP with AI?
The first month is usually the builder's entry plan: $16 a month billed yearly on Base44, $20 on Replit Core, $25 on Capacity, Bolt.new, Floot or Rocket, €25 on Lovable. Then add a domain if the plan doesn't include one (Capacity's plans all do), extra credits if you build a lot, and Stripe's fees once you sell: 2.9% + 30¢ per US card payment, plus 0.7% for subscriptions on Stripe Billing.
What does an MVP need to be testable?
A sign-up and login so you know who your users are, a database so their work is saved, the one feature that proves the idea, a way to pay, your own domain, and analytics to see what people do. Base44 and Floot include login, data and analytics; Lovable, Bolt.new and Bubble include login and data; Capacity includes the database and domain and adds login, Stripe and analytics as extensions.
Can an AI-built MVP take payments?
Yes. Base44 builds payments in, Lovable sets up payments for you on paid plans or connects your own Stripe account, and Bolt.new, Floot and Rocket connect Stripe with subscriptions. Replit has a Stripe connector, Capacity a Stripe extension, and Bubble's manual walks through Stripe subscriptions. You open the Stripe account yourself, and Stripe charges per transaction.
When should I hand my MVP over to a developer?
When paying customers depend on it, when you need something the builder can't do, or when credits cost more than a freelancer's hours. Before that day, make sure the code can leave: Lovable, v0 and Rocket sync with GitHub, Base44 from its Builder plan, Capacity and Floot download a zip, and Bubble keeps the app on Bubble. The developer will usually continue in an editor like Cursor ($8 a month for Plus).
Can I build an MVP for free?
You can build one: Bolt.new's free plan gives 1M tokens a month with hosting, Lovable 5 credits a day, Floot 100 building actions a day, Base44 25 message credits a month and Rocket 20 credits. Publishing on your own domain needs a paid plan almost everywhere, and Bubble's free plan doesn't publish a live site. Capacity's web app has no free plan; Capacity Desktop has one with a single project.
AI app builder or no-code tool for an MVP?
A prompt builder (Capacity, Lovable, Bolt.new, Base44, Floot, Rocket) gets a first version up faster because you describe it instead of assembling it. A visual tool like Bubble takes longer to learn but gives fine control over logic and permissions. If you think a developer will take over within a year, prefer a tool that hands over the code.
Related comparisons
Build your MVP with Capacity.
Describe your app in a sentence and Capacity builds it, or connect it to Claude or ChatGPT and build from the chat. Plans from $25 a month.