Bolt alternatives
AI Coding & App Builders · bolt.new
Bolt is an AI-powered website and app builder that generates and hosts web projects from prompts.
Switching to Lovable saves $300 / year and covers 60% of the compared capabilities.
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Top Bolt alternatives
We compared 10 products and found 9 cheaper options (3 of them cover at least half the compared features) · vs Bolt Pro at $25/mo · scenario: single user, monthly billing, USD.
Bolt’s own free plan covers this scenario. If you’re paying for features you don’t use, downgrading beats switching. The paid comparison below is for when you’ve outgrown free tiers — the “Free plans” view shows alternatives if you want free with different limits.
Bolt costs $25/mo on the Pro plan at single user, monthly billing. We found 9 assessed alternatives that are cheaper in this scenario; 0 of them cover at least 75% of the 5 compared capabilities. Bolt's own free plan covers this scenario, so downgrading may beat switching.
| Product | Match | Price | Annual savings | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cursor Plus plan · missing: Custom domains, Built-in database & backend, Private projects, One-click app deployment ai code editor — adjacent | 20% | $8/mo how? ⓘ | $204 / year 68% cheaper | |
GitHub Copilot Pro plan · missing: Custom domains, Built-in database & backend, Private projects, One-click app deployment ai code editor — adjacent | 20% | $10/mo how? ⓘ | $180 / year 60% cheaper | |
Base44 Starter plan · missing: Autonomous coding agent, Private projects, One-click app deployment | 40% | $16/mo how? ⓘ | $108 / year 36% cheaper | |
TOP PICK Replit Core plan · missing: Custom domains, Private projects | 60% | $20/mo how? ⓘ | $60 / year 20% cheaper | |
Devin Pro plan · missing: Custom domains, Built-in database & backend, Private projects ai code editor — adjacent | 40% | $20/mo how? ⓘ | $60 / year 20% cheaper | |
Create Pro 20k plan · missing: Autonomous coding agent, One-click app deployment | 60% | $24/mo how? ⓘ | $12 / year 4% cheaper |
Which Bolt alternative for which situation
Picked by the numbers in this scenario — same subtype unless stated, assessed products only.
- Best free plan
- Lovable — $0/mo (Free plan) · covers 60%
- Best open source or self-hosted
- Cline — $0/mo (Open Source plan) · covers 20%
- Best paid drop-in
- Replit — $20/mo (Core plan) · covers 60%
- Need custom domains or private projects?
- Create — from $24/mo (Pro 20k plan)
- Need built-in database & backend, autonomous coding agent or one-click app deployment?
- Lovable — from $0/mo (Free plan)
What you give up
Capabilities Bolt has that the top alternatives lack.
- Custom domains — Host a deployed app on your own domain.Missing from Lovable, Devin, v0 by Vercel, Base44.
- Built-in database & backend — Use a built-in database and backend without setting one up separately.Missing from Devin, v0 by Vercel.
- Autonomous coding agent — Let an AI agent write and modify code autonomously.Missing from Base44.
- Private projects — Keep a project private instead of publicly visible.Missing from Lovable, Devin, v0 by Vercel, Base44.
- One-click app deployment — Deploy an app with one click.Missing from Base44.
Feature comparison
Bolt vs the top alternatives, on the 5 compared capabilities.
| Capability | Bolt | Lovable | Devin | v0 by Vercel | Base44 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Custom domains from Pro | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Built-in database & backend from Free | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Autonomous coding agent | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Private projects from Free | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| One-click app deployment from Free | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Scenario price cheapest qualifying plan | $25/mo Pro | $0/mo Free | $0/mo Free | $0/mo Free | $0/mo Free |
✓ means the product offers the capability — possibly only on a higher tier than the plan priced below it. The price row shows the cheapest plan that qualifies for our comparison scenario, with its plan name; a $0 free plan may not include every checked capability.
What Bolt covers
The capability set used for comparison. Grey entries are not available on self-serve plans.
- ✓ Custom domains — from Pro
- ✓ Built-in database & backend — from Free
- ✓ Autonomous coding agent
- ✓ Private projects — from Free
- ✓ One-click app deployment — from Free
- ↑ SSO (SAML/OIDC) — only from Teams, not compared
- ↑ Team collaboration — only from Teams, not compared
Price ladder
Observed prices from the official pricing page.
Who switched
Anonymous: no account, no email, no IP stored. Reports are shown once a switch has 3 or more and never change ranking or order — alternatives are computed from prices and capabilities only.
Sources
Every claim traces to an official source and a check date.
- https://bolt.new/pricing (official_pricing, checked 2026-10-29)
Frequently asked
How much does Bolt cost?
Bolt's Pro plan costs $25/mo in our scenario (single user, monthly billing). A free plan exists.
Is there a free Bolt alternative?
Yes. Lovable has a free plan that covers 60% of the 5 capabilities we compared against Bolt.
What is the cheapest Bolt alternative?
In our scenario (single user, monthly billing), Lovable is the cheapest assessed alternative at $0/mo (Free plan).
What is the cheapest Bolt alternative with Custom domains?
Create covers Custom domains and costs $24/mo (Pro 20k plan) in our scenario.
Does Bolt have a free plan?
Yes. Bolt's free plan exists; its limits are not stated on the pricing page.
When were these prices checked?
Between 2026-10-26 and 2026-10-30, on the vendors' official pricing pages.