Comparisons · 4 builders · 6 head-to-heads

Lovable vs Bolt vs Replit vs v0

Four tools that turn a description into something you can click on, and four different ways of charging you for it. Each page below prices the same build on two of them: the units burned, the plan you would end up on, the cash, and the hours. Every figure is a range, because that is what an estimate is — and when two ranges overlap, the page says the two are too close to call rather than crowning one on a rounding error.

Some of these pairs are genuine alternatives. Some are not — v0 draws the screens people look at, while Replit hands you the whole workshop, and no amount of arithmetic makes those the same purchase. The pages say which is which.

The four, in one table

Platform	What it counts	Entry plan	How you pay	The catch
Lovable	credits — Credits are prepaid units of work: you get a bundle each month and every prompt spends a slice of it.	Pro 100, $25/mo — 100 credits.	Whole months of a plan. No overage: when the allowance is gone you wait or move up a tier.	Paid monthly credits roll over but expire after two months, and free daily credits never roll over.
Bolt.new	tokens — Tokens are the chunks of text the AI reads and writes — roughly three-quarters of a word each. You get a bundle every month.	Pro 10M, $25/mo — 10M tokens.	Whole months of a plan. No overage: when the allowance is gone you wait or move up a tier.	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.
Replit Agent	dollars of credits — Credits here are counted in plain dollars: $1 of credit buys $1 of agent work.	Core, $25/mo — $25 of credits.	A monthly allowance, then usage added to the bill as it accrues. No wall, no brake.	You are charged for how hard the agent worked, so a request that looks simple can cost more than one that looks hard.
v0 by Vercel	dollars of credits — Credits here are counted in plain dollars: $1 of credit buys $1 of generated screens.	Plus, $30/mo — $30 of credits.	A monthly allowance, then usage added to the bill as it accrues. No wall, no brake.	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.

Six head-to-heads

The line under each is the reference build — SaaS dashboard, standard features, a normal amount of iteration — priced on both platforms and compared on plan spend, the cash you actually hand over.

Lovable vs Bolt.newToo close to call — the ranges overlapThese two are genuine alternatives.Lovable vs Replit AgentToo close to call — the ranges overlapBoth turn a description into a working app, but they sit at opposite ends of the same job.Lovable vs v0 by VercelToo close to call — the ranges overlapThese two are not the same product, and comparing them credit for credit would be the whole problem with comparison pages.Bolt.new vs Replit AgentBolt.new — about $100 lessThis is the closest thing to a like-for-like fight on the site.Bolt.new vs v0 by VercelBolt.new — about $105 lessDifferent jobs, sold in the same shop.Replit Agent vs v0 by VercelToo close to call — the ranges overlapThese two are aimed at quite different jobs, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.

How each one bills

One guide per platform: the published plans, what a prompt actually costs, where the money goes, and the gotcha nobody puts on the pricing page.

Lovable pricing guide →billed in credits Bolt.new pricing guide →billed in tokens Replit Agent pricing guide →billed in dollars of credits v0 by Vercel pricing guide →billed in dollars of credits

None of these is your app

Fair. The calculator takes the same numbers, lets you tick your own features and pick how badly you iterate, and prints the receipt for all six platforms rather than two.

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Estimates are ranges, not quotes. Prices verified 2026-08-10. Prices change — see the changelog.