EST. 2026 · ESTIMATES ARE RANGES
How much to vibe code?
Describe what you want to build. AI suggests the features, you correct the plan, and get a quick range for active build time and initial spend—separately for visual builders and coding agents.
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Tell us what you want to make
AI will suggest the app type and features you are likely to need. You can correct every assumption before seeing time and cost.
Mention who uses it and what they do. If you are unsure about payments, accounts, uploads, or permissions, say so—the AI can make an assumption and you can correct it.
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Time + money
Your estimate starts with an idea
Describe what people should be able to do. AI will suggest the features, then show active build time and initial spend.
Why trust these numbers
Idea to scope
AI suggests the app type and features you are likely to need. You can correct every assumption before it changes the estimate.
Time and money
See the hours you spend separately from the money the tool costs. Time means prompting, reviewing, testing and fixing—not sitting around waiting.
Ranges, not quotes
The prices come from each platform's own pricing page; the build effort is our model. Broad ranges and visible assumptions beat a precise-looking guess.
Read the methodology →The platforms, one line each
Each one charges in its own units. Credits are prepaid units of work you get every month; tokens are the chunks of text the AI reads and writes; the rest simply bill in dollars.
- Lovable
billed in credits
Paid monthly credits roll over but expire after two months, and free daily credits never roll over. Once the free hosting and AI allowances run out, your live app starts spending the same credits you were saving to build with.
Lovable pricing guide → - Bolt.new
billed in tokens
Tokens are priced by how much work a request takes, and bug-fixing loops are the killer — people have burned 2M+ tokens in a day chasing one bug. Unused tokens roll over one month only, so they last two months at most.
Bolt.new pricing guide → - Replit Agent
billed in dollars of credits
You are charged for how hard the agent worked, so a request that looks simple can cost more than one that looks hard. The credits in your plan are shared across the agent, publishing your app, storing its data and everything else Replit does; once they run out, the extra is added to your bill.
Replit Agent pricing guide → - v0 by Vercel
billed in dollars of credits
Excellent at the screens people see, weaker at everything behind them — anything driven by data, accounts or rules tends to need extra rounds or a second tool. Paying for Business does not buy more credits, only seats and controls.
v0 by Vercel pricing guide → - Cursor + Claude
billed in dollars of AI usage
What you spend depends on which AI model you pick. Cursor warns you near the included limit, and you can buy more or move up a plan. The learning curve is the real cost: you have to review the code and fix it when the agent goes wrong.
Cursor + Claude pricing guide → - Claude Code
billed in dollars of AI usage
There is no published allowance to count down: Claude uses rolling 5-hour windows plus weekly limits. When a paid plan hits its limit you can keep going by buying usage credits, charged at direct pay-as-you-go AI prices. The capacity shown here is our estimate, not a number Anthropic publishes.
Claude Code pricing guide →
What does it cost to build…
A printed receipt for every build type, on every platform.