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Bolt.new Pricing 2026: Free Tier, Pro Plans & What Tokens Actually Cost

Bolt.new bills in tokens, not seats — which means your monthly cost is driven by how large your project gets, not how many times you prompt it. Here is what each tier includes, what actually drains the meter, and the point at which the next band up is cheaper than the top-ups you keep buying.

Updated August 20268 min read

💰 Quick Pricing Summary

Free: $0/mo with a daily token grant that resets and a monthly ceiling. Pro: from around $20/mo, stepping up through roughly $50, $100, and $200 bands — each buying a larger token pool. Teams: per-seat billing with a pooled allowance. Enterprise: custom.

Every paid tier ships the identical product. You are not buying features up the ladder — you are buying the right to keep going when the meter runs out.

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Bolt.new Plans Compared

FeatureFreeProPro (higher bands)Teams / Enterprise
Monthly Price$0from ~$20~$50 / $100 / $200Per seat / custom
Token AllowanceDaily grantMonthly poolLarger pool per bandPooled / negotiated
Tokens Roll OverNoResets monthlyResets monthlyContract terms
Buy Top-Ups Mid-MonthNoYesYesYes
Private ProjectsNoYesYesYes
Shared Team PoolNoNoNoYes
Feature DifferencesNoneNoneNoneAdmin & SSO
SupportCommunityStandardStandardPriority

Bands and allowances as of August 2026. Bolt has revised its token bands more than once — confirm the current numbers on Bolt's pricing page before you subscribe.

Understanding Each Plan

Free — $0

A daily token grant that resets — and a monthly ceiling on top of it.

What you get:

  • A daily token allowance that refills every 24 hours
  • A monthly cap that sits above the daily grant
  • Full access to the same builder paid users get
  • Deploy to a Bolt-hosted preview URL
  • Public project sharing

What you don't get:

  • Token rollover — unused daily grants vanish at midnight
  • The ability to buy more tokens when you run dry mid-build
  • Sustained sessions: a real refactor will hit the wall
  • Priority throughput when the platform is busy

Best for: Answering one question: can prompt-to-app build the thing you have in mind? The daily reset makes it viable for a slow side project and impossible for a deadline.

Pro (entry) — from $20/mo

The tier almost every solo builder lands on. Capacity, not features.

What you get:

  • A monthly token pool roughly an order of magnitude above the free grant
  • The ability to purchase token top-ups mid-month
  • Sessions long enough to finish a feature without stopping
  • Private projects
  • Standard support

What you don't get:

  • Any capability the free tier lacks — the product is identical
  • Pooled team billing or seat management
  • Centralised admin, SSO, or procurement paperwork

Best for: Anyone shipping something a client or customer will see. If you are pointing a domain you own at the result, this is the realistic entry price.

Pro (higher bands) — ~$50 / $100 / $200 per mo

Same product, larger token pool. Pure capacity ladder.

What you get:

  • Progressively larger monthly token pools at each band
  • Better effective cost per token than buying top-ups repeatedly
  • Everything in entry Pro

What you don't get:

  • Any new feature — do not upgrade expecting one
  • Team seat management (that is the Teams plan)

Best for: Builders who consistently exhaust entry Pro. If you bought top-ups two months running, the next band up is cheaper than the habit.

Teams / Enterprise — Per seat / custom

Pooled tokens, seat management, and procurement-friendly terms.

What you get:

  • Per-seat billing with a shared token pool across the team
  • Centralised member and access management
  • Enterprise adds custom contracts, security review, and dedicated support

What you don't get:

  • A reason to be here if you are one person — pooling is the whole point

Best for: Two or more people building in the same workspace, or an org that needs one invoice and an admin who can see usage.

Why Your Bolt Bill Grows With Your Project

This is the part the pricing page does not say plainly. A Bolt token is the same unit a language model bills on, and the model has to read your project before it can change it. So the cost of a request is roughly (size of your codebase + length of the chat thread + size of the change) — not a flat per-prompt fee.

The practical consequence: the same sentence — “add a settings page” — is cheap on day one and expensive on day ten. People who budget by counting prompts consistently underestimate, because their prompt count stayed flat while their per-prompt cost quietly tripled.

It also means a failed generation is not free. If Bolt produces something broken and you immediately regenerate, you paid for both. Across a frustrating afternoon that is often where the majority of a month's tokens went.

Six Ways to Cut Your Token Burn

Start a new chat per feature

Long threads re-send their entire history on every turn. A fresh chat for a new feature is the single biggest saving available, and it costs you nothing but the habit.

Scope the request

“Change the header background to slate” costs a fraction of “modernise the design.” Vague prompts make the model touch more files, and every touched file is billed.

Fix small things yourself

Editing a string or a Tailwind class by hand is free. Asking the model to do it costs a full context read. Reserve the meter for work that actually needs generation.

Spend the daily free grant first

On the free plan the daily allowance expires nightly. Doing your cheap exploratory prompts early in the day, before dipping into anything you paid for, is pure recovered value.

Prune dead files

Abandoned components still sit in the context the model reads. Deleting the experiment you gave up on last week makes every future request cheaper.

Buy top-ups before jumping a band

One busy month is a top-up. Two busy months in a row is a signal that the next band up has a better effective rate. Do not upgrade on a single spike.

Which Bolt.new Plan Should You Choose?

Choose Free if:

  • You are still deciding whether prompt-to-app suits your project
  • A Bolt-hosted preview URL and a public project are fine
  • You can work in daily bursts rather than long sessions

Choose entry Pro if:

  • You have hit the daily wall mid-refactor even once
  • You are building something a client or customer will see
  • You want the option to top up rather than stop

Choose a higher band if:

  • You bought top-ups two months running
  • Your project is large enough that every turn is expensive
  • You understand you are buying capacity only — there is no feature unlock

Choose Teams / Enterprise if:

  • More than one person builds in the same workspace
  • You want one invoice and visibility into who is consuming the pool
  • Procurement or security review requires a custom agreement

Not sure? Spend a week on the free daily grant and note how far a typical request gets you. If the grant evaporates before lunch, entry Pro plus the occasional top-up is your real budget — not $20 flat.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does Bolt.new cost per month?
Bolt.new is free to start and then sells token capacity in steps. The Free plan grants a small daily token allowance that resets every day with a monthly ceiling on top of it. Paid Pro tiers begin around $20/month and scale up through roughly $50, $100, and $200/month bands — each band buying a larger monthly token pool rather than new features. Teams billing is per seat with pooled tokens, and Enterprise is a custom contract. Annual billing carries a discount. The important detail: every paid tier is the same product. You are buying capacity, not capability.
Is Bolt.new free to use?
Yes, with a meaningful catch. The free plan issues a daily token grant that resets each day and is also capped monthly, so you can build small things indefinitely but cannot sustain a long session. Free tokens do not roll over — an unused day is simply gone. In practice the free tier is enough to answer the question 'can Bolt build the kind of app I have in mind?' and not enough to finish that app on a deadline.
What is a Bolt token and how fast do they burn?
A Bolt token is the same unit an LLM bills on: it covers the model reading your project context and writing code back. That means cost scales with the size of your codebase, not just the size of your request. The first prompt on an empty project is cheap. The same prompt against a 40-file app costs several times more, because the model re-reads context every turn. This is the single biggest surprise on the bill — people budget by number of prompts and get charged by project size.
Do Bolt.new tokens roll over or expire?
The daily free grant does not roll over — it expires at the end of the day. Monthly tokens included with a paid plan are tied to your billing period and reset when it renews. Separately purchased token top-ups behave differently from plan tokens and generally persist longer, which is why buying a top-up is usually the better move than jumping a plan tier for one busy month.
Why did my Bolt.new tokens disappear so fast?
Almost always one of four things. (1) Failed builds still cost tokens — a broken generation you immediately regenerate charges you twice. (2) Your project grew, so every turn now sends more context. (3) You asked for a sweeping change ('make the whole app dark mode') instead of a scoped one. (4) You kept a long chat thread alive instead of starting fresh, so the entire conversation history rides along on every request. Starting a new chat for a new feature is the cheapest habit you can build.
Bolt.new vs Lovable pricing — which is cheaper?
The entry prices are close enough that the metering model decides it. Lovable bills in credits where a credit roughly maps to a message, so cost tracks how many times you ask. Bolt bills in tokens, so cost tracks how large your project is. If you make many small requests against a small app, Lovable's model tends to be more predictable. If you make few large requests, Bolt's token model can be cheaper. The honest test is to build the same small project on both free tiers and see which one got further before running dry.
Is Bolt.new Pro worth it over the free tier?
If you are shipping anything real, yes — but not for the features. Pro buys you the ability to finish a session without hitting a wall mid-refactor, which is the actual failure mode of the free plan. A half-built app you cannot iterate on for another 18 hours is worth less than nothing. Pro also unlocks buying more tokens when a build runs long, which the free plan does not permit at any price.
Can I use my own API key with Bolt.new?
Bolt has offered bring-your-own-key style arrangements in parts of the product, but it is not the default billing path and availability has shifted between releases. Do not budget around it. Assume you are paying Bolt's token rate, and if BYOK is available when you sign up, treat it as a bonus rather than the plan.

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