Pricing guide · billed in tokens
Bolt.new pricing & tokens, explained (2026)
Short answer: Bolt Pro is $25/mo for 10 million tokens — $2.50 per million. Tokens are the chunks of text the AI reads and writes, roughly three-quarters of a word each. The free tier gives you about 1M tokens a month, which is roughly one good afternoon.
Tokens are priced by how much work a request takes. A wording tweak barely registers; a whole feature can eat a meaningful slice of a million. The number that ruins budgets isn't the feature — it's the loop you get stuck in when the feature doesn't work.
Bolt.new plans
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | About 1M tokens per month. Enough to build a prototype and decide whether the tool suits you. |
| Pro | $25 per month | 10M tokens per month. The plan most solo builders land on. |
| Teams | About $30 per user per month | Per-seat token allowances — they are not pooled across the team (as of Aug 2026). |
We don't have a verified top-up rate for Bolt as of Aug 2026, so treat the monthly token allowance as a hard budget and plan the build inside it. If you're topping up twice, you're on the wrong plan.
What you get on Bolt.new
The nine things people find out late — read off Bolt.new’s own pages, with the page linked under each answer.
Does it put your app online for you?
Otherwise you need somewhere to host it and a way to get it there.
YesYes — publishes free to a bolt.host address, though busy free sites stop serving.
Bolt support — Publish ↗Can you use your own domain name?
A name like yourapp.com instead of an address with the builder's name in it.
Can you get your code out?
It decides whether you can leave later, or hand the project to a developer.
YesYes — syncs both ways with GitHub, and you can download the whole project as a zip file.
Bolt support — GitHub ↗Is somewhere to store data included?
Almost any real app has to remember things between visits.
YesYes — created automatically when your app needs one. Supabase is a paid-plan alternative.
Bolt support — Database ↗Are user accounts and logins included?
Sign-up and sign-in are fiddly to build and most apps need them.
YesYes — signups, logins and password resets are built in, with Google sign-in available.
Bolt support — Authentication ↗Can you change things by clicking on them?
The alternative is describing every tweak in words and waiting for a rebuild.
PartlyPartly — you click the part you mean, then still type the change as a prompt.
Bolt support — Chat tools ↗Can you try it without paying?
How far you get before a card is needed.
Can other people work on it with you?
Matters the moment a co-founder, designer or client joins in.
YesYes, on every plan, editing together live. Each person spends their own tokens.
Bolt support — Collaborate ↗Can it make a real phone-store app?
The kind people download from the App Store, not a website that looks like one.
PartlyThrough Expo, but you download the code and do the app-store build yourself.
Bolt support — Expo ↗
How Bolt.new tokens actually work
Every prompt spends tokens on two things: what Bolt reads of your project, and what it writes back. The reading half grows as the project grows, so the same prompt costs more in week three than it did on day one.
There's no flat price per message. One request can cost a rounding error; another can cost a serious fraction of a million tokens, because the AI decided it needed to read more of your project before answering (as of Aug 2026).
This is why a month's tokens feel generous right up until they don't. Watch how fast they drain across a whole session rather than the price of any single prompt.
What features cost on Bolt.new
Base cost per feature in tokens, before the iteration tax (the extra rounds nobody escapes) and the debug surcharge (fixing what breaks). These are the ranges our estimator adds up.
| Line item | Cost in tokens |
|---|---|
| Core app — simple | 1.2–2.5M tokens |
| Core app — standard | 2.5–5.0M tokens |
| Core app — complex | 4.0–8.0M tokens |
| User accounts & login | 0.7–1.5M tokens |
| Payments / subscriptions | 1.0–2.0M tokens |
| Admin panel | 0.8–1.6M tokens |
| File & image uploads | 0.5–1.0M tokens |
| AI features | 0.8–1.8M tokens |
| Connections to other services | 0.7–1.4M tokens |
| Multi-user roles | 0.5–1.0M tokens |
Multiply by your prompting style (×1.2 to ×8), then add 40% for debugging. See the full formula →
The gotcha
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.
Bug-fixing loops are the classic Bolt budget killer. Each “still broken, here's the error” round re-reads a growing project and re-writes a chunk of it, so the fifth attempt costs more than the first.
Community reports of 2M+ tokens burned in a single day chasing one bug are not unusual, and single projects passing $1,000 have been documented.
The defence is boring and effective: stop the loop. After two failed fixes, roll the project back to the last version that worked, describe the problem again from scratch, and aim the prompt at one file.
Who Bolt.new is for
Builders who want a fast first version of the whole app — the screens plus the data behind them — put together in the browser, and who are comfortable reading the code when it goes sideways. Excellent first draft; the second draft is where the meter runs.
See real numbers
Printed receipts for three common builds on Bolt.new:
Get your build’s receipt
Pick what you’re building, pick how you prompt, and see the bill in Bolt.new tokens before you spend any.
A plain link to the platform. Nothing on this page changes which one we call cheapest.
How it compares
Same build, same assumptions, two platforms side by side — with the gap left uncalled wherever the ranges overlap.