Quick answer
For a full app from a description with its data and hosting handled, Lovable and Bolt.new are the closest, Replit adds a code workspace, and Base44 has the cheapest entry plan. Capacity, which we make, builds a working app from a description or straight from Claude or ChatGPT, with native mobile apps; Floot also builds from inside Claude or ChatGPT.
For a design-led marketing site, Framer pairs a site builder with an AI design agent. If you write code and want the agent on your own repository, Cursor, Claude Code and OpenAI Codex are the usual picks.
| Tool | Best for | Paid plans from | Free plan | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capacity | people who don't code and want the whole 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 | a web app from a chat, with the code synced to GitHub. | €25/month | Yes, 5 credits a day (up to 30 a month) | Builds web apps, not native ones |
 Bolt.new | building in the browser with a free plan generous enough to try a real idea. | $25/month | Yes, 1M tokens a month | Token use grows with the project |
 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 |
 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 |
 Framer | fast, design-led sites made with an AI design agent. | €10/month (yearly) | Yes, 500 AI credits | AI credits and CMS collections by plan |
 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 |
 OpenAI Codex | developers who already pay for ChatGPT and want an agent in the cloud, the terminal and the IDE. | ChatGPT Plus (€23/month) | Limited, on ChatGPT Free | Limits follow your ChatGPT plan |
Why people look for a v0 alternative. The reasons that come back most often.
Usage priced by model and tokens
v0 spends credits at each model's token rate, so the same request costs more on a bigger model. The free plan gives $5 of one-time credits, then 7 messages a day.
Priced per user
Plus is $30 per user per month and Business $100 per user, which adds up for a team that only needs one builder seat or two.
Built around React and Vercel
v0 assumes you're comfortable around React, Next.js and Vercel. People who don't work in that stack often prefer a builder that hides it.
They want the whole app handled in a chat
Builders like Lovable, Base44 and Capacity set up the database, login and hosting as part of the app from the first sentence, which suits people who never want to see the code.
How we compared them. The same questions for every tool.
- What you get from one sentence: an interface, or a full app with its data, login and hosting.
- Whether hosting, a database and a custom domain are included.
- How you pay: per user, credits, tokens, or a subscription you already have.
- Where the code lives, and whether you can take it with you.
- Who it's built for: developers and designers, or people who don't code.
Full app builders
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Capacity
Best for people who don't code and want the whole 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 v0
- 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.
- Its interface output is less specialised than v0's React and shadcn polish.
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.
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 v0
- 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.
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Bolt.new
Best for building in the browser with a free plan generous enough to try a real idea.
Bolt, from StackBlitz, builds websites and web apps from a chat in your browser and deploys them. Like Replit, the code sits right there if you want it; unlike Replit, the chat and the preview stay in front.
Why pick it over v0
- One of the most generous free plans here: 300K tokens a day, 1M a month.
- You can start from a prompt, a Figma file, a GitHub repository or a team template.
- On Pro, unused tokens roll over to the next month.
Watch out for
- Billing is in tokens, and long fix-and-retry sessions on a large project use them up faster.
- Teams pay per member, $30 a month each.
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.
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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 v0
- 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.
05
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 v0
- 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.
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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 v0
- 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.
For design-led sites
Framer is a website builder with an AI design agent: you design and publish sites on its hosting, with a CMS, a free custom domain on paid plans, and monthly AI credits to generate and edit pages.
Why pick it over v0
- An AI design agent built into the editor.
- A free custom domain on paid plans.
- Generous bandwidth: 50 GB on Basic, 100 GB on Pro.
Watch out for
- AI credits are monthly (1,000 on Basic, 3,000 on Pro) and CMS collections are limited (2 on Basic, 10 on Pro).
- Prices are shown in euros from France and billed yearly.
Pricing
Free: 500 AI credits to try, a Framer domain, 1 GB bandwidth. Billed yearly: Basic €10/month (1,000 AI credits a month, custom domain, 2 CMS collections, 50 GB), Pro €30/month (3,000 credits, 10 CMS collections, 100 GB).
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 v0
- 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.
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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 v0
- 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.
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OpenAI Codex
Best for developers who already pay for ChatGPT and want an agent in the cloud, the terminal and the IDE.
Codex is OpenAI's coding agent, included in ChatGPT plans. It runs in the ChatGPT app on macOS, on the web as Codex cloud, as an extension in your IDE and as a command-line tool, all tied to the same ChatGPT account.
Why pick it over v0
- Included in ChatGPT Plus, Pro and Business, so you may already have it.
- Cloud tasks keep running when you close your laptop, with a reusable environment for each repository.
- It runs several agents in parallel and reviews pull requests automatically.
Watch out for
- It works on a repository: there's no hosting or database, and you deploy the app yourself.
- OpenAI sizes Plus for focused coding sessions each week; for full workdays it points to Pro, from €103 a month.
Pricing
Free: limited Codex access. Plus: €23/month. Pro: from €103/month, with three usage tiers. Business: €21 per user per month billed yearly, for 2 seats or more. Prices shown in euros from France.
v0 and its alternatives, side by side. From each official site, October 15, 2026.
| Feature |  v0 | Capacity | Lovable | Bolt.new | Replit | Base44 | Floot | Framer | Cursor | Claude Code | OpenAI Codex |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paid plans from | $30/user/month | $25/month | €25/month | $25/month | $20/month ($18 yearly) | $16/month (yearly) | $25/month | €10/month (yearly) | $8/month | €18/month (Claude Pro) | €23/month (ChatGPT Plus) |
| Free plan | $5 one-time credits, then 7 messages a day | Desktop only (1 project) | Yes | Yes | None listed | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Limited access |
| How usage is billed | Credits spent at each model's token rate, per user | Monthly credits; building from Claude or ChatGPT unlimited | Monthly credits | Tokens | Plan credits, then effort-based pay-as-you-go | Message and integration credits | Daily building actions, hosting allowance | Monthly AI credits | AI usage pools, bundled with Grok and X | Your Claude subscription | Your ChatGPT plan's limits |
| Hosting included | Yes, on Vercel | Yes, custom domain on every paid plan | Yes | Yes | Yes, metered deployments | Yes | Yes, monthly allowance | Yes | No | No | No |
| Where the code lives | GitHub sync on every plan | Zip download; GitHub push from Desktop | Two-way GitHub sync | In Bolt; start from GitHub | Your Replit workspace | GitHub from the Builder plan | – | – | Your own repository | Your own repository | Your own repository |
| Built for | React developers and designers | Non-technical founders, small businesses | Founders, designers, product teams | Makers and developers | Builders and developers | Non-technical builders | People building in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor | Designers and startups | Developers | Developers | Developers |
How to choose. Start from what you need, not from the ranking.
A web app from a chat, code synced to GitHubLovable
A generous free plan to try an ideaBolt.new
Agent, code workspace and hosting in one placeReplit
The lowest entry priceBase44
A design-led marketing siteFramer
An agent on your own codebaseCursor, Claude Code or CodexWhen to stay on v0
If you build in React and Next.js, want polished interfaces you can drop into an existing codebase, and deploy on Vercel, v0 is hard to beat, with GitHub sync and Vercel deploys on every plan, including the free one.
Questions people ask. Short answers, with the details above.
What is the best alternative to v0?
For a full app with its data and hosting handled, Lovable and Bolt.new are the closest, and Capacity builds from a description or from Claude or ChatGPT with native mobile apps. For design-led sites, Framer. For developers, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex on their own repository.
Is there a free v0 alternative?
Yes, with limits: Lovable, Bolt.new, Base44, Floot, Framer and Cursor have free plans, and ChatGPT Free includes limited Codex access. The Capacity web app has no free plan; Capacity Desktop has one with a single project.
v0 vs Bolt vs Lovable: which should I use?
v0 is strongest on React interfaces and Vercel deploys. Bolt.new and Lovable both build hosted web apps with a database and login from a prompt: Bolt counts tokens and has the larger free plan, Lovable counts messages and syncs to GitHub on every plan. Our Lovable vs Bolt comparison goes through those two.
Is v0 free?
v0's free plan gives $5 of one-time credits, then 7 messages a day. Plus is $30 per user per month with $30 of monthly credits and $2 of free daily credits, and Business $100 per user.
Can I keep my v0 code if I switch?
Yes. v0 syncs your code to GitHub on every plan, so a tool that works from a repository, like Cursor, Claude Code or Codex, can pick it up. Hosted builders usually rebuild the app from a description.
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