Minute Verdict
Lovable turns a written description into a working web app, with the database, the user accounts, the file storage and the hosting already wired, from $25 a month for 100 credits. It is a fair buy for a founder, a designer or a small team that needs a real app with logins in days and has no server to run, because the front end, the back end and the deploy come out of one conversation. It is not for a buyer who needs a fixed cost per project: building, chatting and running the app all draw on the same balance.
Best for: a small team shipping an app with logins and stored data. Not for: a buyer who needs a cost per project agreed before the work starts. From: $25/mo billed monthly, or $21/mo billed yearly, checked November 6, 2026
What Lovable does
You describe the app you want and Lovable writes it: the screens, the data model, the sign in, and the deploy. The company calls it a full-stack development platform, and the output is not a mockup. Every project produces a codebase that can be opened in the Code tab, edited by hand, or downloaded, and it syncs to GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket on every plan, the free one included.
The part that separates Lovable from a website builder is the back end. The built-in back end, sold as Cloud, runs on Supabase’s open-source foundation and brings a database, user authentication, file storage, realtime updates, edge functions, scheduled jobs, secrets and logs. Those tools sit in the More menu of a project, which is where a team that has never run a server will spend its second week.
Publishing takes two clicks. A project goes to a lovable.app address over HTTPS, only the current version is deployed, and a custom domain can be attached on a paid plan. Around the builder, Lovable sells design systems, AI features for the app itself such as text, images, search and speech, an analytics panel, SEO tools and payments. What it does not sell is a price per seat, per project or per app: everything is metered in credits, and the credits belong to the workspace.
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What you get for the money
The prices below are the dollar rates published for each plan, read November 6, 2026.
| Plan | Price | What is included | The limit that matters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | No charge | 5 build credits a day capped at 30 a month, 20 Cloud and 4 AI credits a month, unlimited collaborators, 5 lovable.app domains, invite-only publishing | The build credits stop after 30 in a calendar month |
| Pro | $25 a month, or $250 a year ($21 a month) | 100 monthly credits, custom domains, remove the Lovable badge, roles and per member limits, credit rollovers, top-ups, design systems, email support | 100 credits pay for building and chatting in the same pot |
| Business | $50 a month, or $500 a year ($42 a month) | 100 monthly credits, team workspace, role-based access, SSO, security center, design templates, workspace publish, Lovable API, priority support | Same 100 credits as Pro, at twice the price |
| Enterprise | Platform fee plus volume pricing, quoted | Everything in Business, plus SCIM, audit logs, EU inference, a named account team and a custom SLA | No published figure |
At $25, a credit costs 25 cents on Pro, and a top-up costs 30 cents, so the plan is the cheaper way to buy the first hundred. Twelve months at the monthly rate come to $300, against $250 paid a year up front, which is the two months free the grid advertises.
Where it falls short
- One balance pays for everything: building, chatting, hosting and the AI calls the deployed app makes. A workspace with a live app and nobody at the keyboard still spends credits.
- Business carries the same 100 credits as Pro at $50 a month. The second tier buys governance, meaning SSO, role-based access and the security center, not capacity, and a team that only needs more room should take a higher credit tier on Pro instead.
- Custom domains and code download are paid features. A free project stays on a lovable.app address and its code stays in the platform.
- On the Free plan the build credits stop after 30 in a calendar month, so the last part of the month runs on chat and the monthly grant alone.
- The plan grid is localised in the visitor’s currency. A visitor in the euro zone sees euro amounts including VAT on lovable.dev/pricing, while the dollar rates are published in the documentation, so two buyers can quote different numbers for the same tier.
Lovable alternatives
Lovable sits in the family of builders that generate a whole app from a chat, next to the editors where an agent writes code beside you.
- Base44 builds the same kind of full-stack app from a description, for $20 a month or $16 billed yearly, with 25 message credits on its free plan (Base44 review).
- Emergent runs a chat that builds and hosts a full-stack app from $20 a month, or $17 billed yearly, with 10 credits a month on the free tier (Emergent review).
- Cursor is the code first route, at $8 a month on Plus, for a builder who wants an agent inside an editor rather than a generated app (Cursor review).
Who it is for: Lovable
Lovable fits the person who has an app in their head and no developer to build it: a consultant who wants a client portal with logins, an operations lead who needs an internal tool for a field team, a founder testing a product before raising money. The three things that usually stop a first build, accounts, a database and a place to host, come with the plan, and the credit meter keeps the first month cheap.
It fits less well a team that needs a fixed cost per project, since a build with several rounds of changes can spend the monthly allowance in a week. It also fits less well a company that needs single sign on at the entry price, because SSO starts on Business at $50 a month. A developer who wants an agent inside an existing repository will be happier in an editor, and the app builder category lists the rest of the field.
How we checked
We read the pricing grid on lovable.dev, the plan comparison, the credits and top-ups pages, and the pages on the built-in back end and publishing, all on November 6, 2026. Every price, quota and feature on this page comes from those pages. We did not buy a plan or build an app, so nothing here is a test of what Lovable ships. A hands-on review will follow once Pro has been paid for and one app with logins built on it and on its alternatives.
What to do next
Start on the free plan and spend the 30 monthly build credits on one small app with a login and a table, which is enough to see how far the first version lands from the description. If it holds, take Pro at $25 a month rather than the $250 year: the monthly plan can be left after one cycle, and it is the cheaper way to find out whether 100 credits cover a month of work. Move to a higher credit tier, not to Business, when the allowance runs out, and look at Business only when SSO or per member limits become the reason. The glossary entry on credits explains how a metered plan of this kind is billed, and the deals page lists the tools with a code tested at checkout, which Lovable does not publish.
FAQ
How much does Lovable cost? Pro starts at $25 a month for 100 credits, or $250 a year billed yearly, which works out at $21 a month. Business starts at $50 a month, or $500 a year. The Free plan costs nothing. Prices checked November 6, 2026.
Does Lovable have a free plan? Yes. It needs no card, carries 5 build credits a day capped at 30 a month, plus 20 Cloud credits and 4 AI credits a month, and allows 5 lovable.app domains with invite-only publishing.
Do I pay per user? No. Plans are priced by credits, and the Free, Pro and Business plans carry unlimited workspace members. The credits belong to the workspace, so a heavy user spends from the same pool as the rest of the team.
Can I export an app built on Lovable? Yes. The Code tab opens the project files for reading and manual edits, the codebase can be downloaded, and Git sync pushes it to GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket on every plan.
Does Lovable host the app? Yes. Publishing deploys the current version to a lovable.app address with HTTPS included, and a custom domain can be connected on a paid plan.
What is a credit worth? On Pro the plan sells 100 credits for $25, so 25 cents each. A top-up on Pro costs $15 for 50 credits, so 30 cents each, and top-up credits stay valid for 12 months.
Sources
Sources
- lovable.dev/pricing (checked November 6, 2026). The four plans, the two billing views, the feature split and the student discount.
- docs.lovable.dev/introduction/subscription-plans (checked November 6, 2026). The dollar tables for the Pro and Business credit tiers in both billing views, and the credit grants by plan.
- docs.lovable.dev/introduction/credit-top-ups (checked November 6, 2026). Top-up prices on Pro and Business, and the 12 month validity.
- docs.lovable.dev/features/cloud (checked November 6, 2026). The built-in back end, its Supabase foundation and the tools it exposes.
- docs.lovable.dev/features/publish (checked November 6, 2026). What publishing deploys and who can publish.
- Cursor review, Emergent review and Base44 review (checked November 4 and 5, 2026). The entry prices quoted for the three alternatives.
Update log
- Published November 6, 2026. Prices last checked November 6, 2026.
- Next price check due by January 5, 2027.
