Lovable
Describe the web app or site you want in plain English and it writes, hosts and deploys a working version you can keep editing by conversation.
What you'd use it for
Turning a plain-English description of an internal tool -- a booking form, a staff portal, a dashboard -- into a working, hosted web app without commissioning custom software.
- Generate a working web application, including database and backend logic, from a natural-language description
- Publish it to a live, hosted URL immediately with no separate deploy step
- Keep refining the app by describing changes in chat rather than editing code directly
- Sync the generated codebase to GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket to take over development yourself
- Connect your own Supabase project for the database, authentication and file storage instead of Lovable's built-in backend
The verdict
Lovable is genuinely fast at turning a plain-English description into a working, hosted application, and the free tier lets you test that claim without a credit card. It suits internal tools and small business apps -- booking forms, staff portals, dashboards -- better than customer-facing products, because credit costs scale with task complexity rather than time and are hard to forecast before a real month of use. The code is yours, which means you can hand it to a developer later, but it also means the maintenance is yours too, and that does not go away because a model wrote the first version.
What it costs
| Tier | Price | For | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/month | Finding out whether the thing you have in mind is buildable this way. | A daily grant of 5 build credits (up to 30 a month) plus 20 monthly Cloud credits. Projects are workspace-private. |
| Pro | $25/month | One person or a small team building something they intend to use. | 100 monthly credits plus free grants, credit rollover for one month, on-demand top-ups, per-member credit limits. |
| Business | $50/month | Teams that need private projects and tighter workspace controls. | Everything in Pro, 100 Business credits, personal projects not visible to other workspace members. |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing, quoted on volume | Organisations with security, compliance or self-hosting requirements. | Everything in Business, GitHub Enterprise (cloud or self-hosted), enterprise security and compliance certifications, volume credit pricing. |
Read from Lovable's own pricing page on 25 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
What you need to start
- A free Lovable account, created with email, Google, GitHub or Apple -- no credit card needed to start
- A GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket account, only if you want to sync and own the generated codebase
- A Supabase account, only if you want your own backend instead of Lovable's built-in Cloud backend
About ten minutes from first prompt to a published app with a live URL, per Lovable's own quickstart guide.
Your first run The first plain-language prompt produces a working, previewable app in the browser within minutes; Lovable's own quickstart guide puts a published app with a live URL at about ten minutes.
Where it breaks
Credits are the unit of cost and they are consumed at rates that vary by task and by plan, so a month's usage is genuinely hard to forecast before the first month. Monthly plan credits expire two months after they are issued; annual credits expire one month after the annual period ends; credits are not refundable. Hosting is free at small scale but starts drawing on the credit balance once an app gets real traffic. And an app that was conversationally generated is still an app somebody has to maintain — the build is the cheap part.
Entirely browser-based. Plans are priced by credits, not seats — a workspace supports unlimited members on every tier, and inviting people does not raise the subscription, it raises how fast the shared credit pool drains. You own the code it produces.
First entry in this reference. There is no previous check to compare it against.
When not to use it
Not for a brochure site with no logic behind it -- Wix does that job better and more predictably. Not for teams that need a fixed monthly cost, since credits are consumed at rates that vary by task and are genuinely hard to forecast in the first month. Not for anyone expecting the app to run itself once built -- the maintenance work starts after the build, not before it.
The claim is large and mostly true: type what you want and get a working web application, hosted, in minutes. The place to be careful is what “working” means at the point you hand it to a customer.
For internal tools, it is remarkable. A booking form that writes to a database, a dashboard for the numbers you keep re-pulling by hand, a portal three staff need and no supplier sells — these are the jobs where custom software was never worth commissioning and a spreadsheet was never quite enough. Lovable makes that middle ground reachable in an afternoon.
Where the cost hides
Not in the subscription. Credits are consumed per message and per action at rates that depend on complexity, and the pricing page’s own examples run from 0.5 credits for a styling tweak to 1.7 for a landing page. A hundred credits a month is more than it sounds for tinkering and less than it sounds for building something substantial.
Credits also expire. Monthly credits last two months; annual credits last one month past the annual period. They are not refundable.
The part nobody puts on the pricing page
Generating the application is the cheap half. Keeping it alive — the dependency that breaks, the customer who finds the edge case, the change you need in six months — is the expensive half, and it does not go away because a model wrote the first version. You own the code, which is the right arrangement, and it means you own the maintenance too.
If you want a marketing site rather than an application, Wix is the better-worn path. Lovable is for the thing that has logic in it.
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