Lovable Pricing 2026: Free, Pro, Business & Credit Costs Explained
A transparent breakdown of Lovable's Free, Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers — what a credit actually buys, why two people on the same plan get wildly different mileage, and when the $25/month Pro plan stops being enough.
💰 Quick Pricing Summary
Free: $0/mo (a daily grant of 5 build credits, up to about 30 a month, plus 20 monthly Cloud credits). Pro: $25/mo (100 Pro credits, credit rollover, custom domains, unlimited collaborators). Business: $50/mo (100 Business credits plus team workspace, SSO, role-based access, and a security center). Enterprise: platform fee with volume-based credit pricing.
The headline price is the smaller half of the story. Lovable meters by credit, not by seat — a Pro subscription is $25/month plus whatever top-ups your build velocity forces you to buy.
Not sure if Lovable is right for you?
Lovable, Bolt, and v0 all sell the same promise at similar prices. The differences show up in what a credit buys and how far the generated app gets before you need a real developer.
Lovable Plans Compared
| Feature | Free | Pro | Business | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly Price | $0 | $25 | $50 | Platform fee |
| Monthly Credits | Grants only | 100 Pro credits | 100 Business credits | Volume-based |
| Daily Build Grant | 5 credits/day | 5 credits/day | 5 credits/day | Custom |
| Credit Rollover | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| On-Demand Top-Ups | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Custom Domains | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Remove Lovable Badge | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Team Workspace | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| SSO | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| SCIM & Audit Logs | No | No | No | Yes |
| Support | Community | Priority | Dedicated |
Pricing as of July 2026. Lovable revises plan limits periodically — check lovable.dev/pricing for the current numbers before you subscribe.
Understanding Each Plan
Free Plan — $0/month
A daily allowance rather than a monthly one. You get 5 build credits a day (roughly 30 a month if you show up most days) plus 20 Cloud credits a month, which is enough to build and host a small prototype.
What you get:
- 5 build credits granted daily, capped at roughly 30 a month
- 20 Cloud credits a month for hosting deployed projects
- Up to 5 lovable.app subdomains
- Unlimited collaborators on workspace-private projects
- 4 credits of in-app AI features so you can try them before paying
What you don't get:
- Custom domains — free projects live on lovable.app
- Credit rollover: unused daily grants expire at the end of the day
- The ability to top up when you run out mid-build
- Removing the Lovable badge from your published app
Best for: Deciding whether prompt-to-app actually works for the thing you want to build. The daily reset makes it viable for a slow weekend project — just not for a deadline.
Pro Plan — $25/month
The tier nearly every individual builder lands on. 100 credits a month that roll over, plus the two things the free plan withholds that matter commercially: custom domains and no Lovable badge.
What you get:
- 100 Pro credits per month, added to a balance you can spend flexibly
- Credit rollover, so an unused month is not entirely wasted
- On-demand top-ups when a build runs long
- Unlimited lovable.app domains plus custom domains
- User roles, permissions, and per-member credit limits
- The Lovable badge removed from published apps
- Email support
Best for: Anyone shipping something real — a client site, a landing page, an internal tool. If you plan to point a domain you own at the result, this is the entry price.
Business Plan — $50/month
Note what this tier does and does not buy: it is the same 100 monthly credits as Pro. The extra $25 is governance, not capacity.
What you get:
- 100 Business credits per month
- A shared team workspace with role-based access control
- Internal publish, so builds can ship to the team without going public
- Personal projects alongside the team workspace
- SSO and a security center
- Design templates and priority support
Best for: Teams where more than one person builds and someone has to answer for access control. If you are a solo builder who just wants more credits, buy top-ups on Pro instead — Business does not give you more of them.
Enterprise — Custom platform fee
Volume-based credit pricing on top of a platform fee, aimed at orgs standardising on Lovable across departments.
What you get:
- Volume-based credit pricing rather than a fixed monthly allowance
- SCIM provisioning, audit logs, publishing and sharing controls
- Support for custom connectors and design systems
- Dedicated support and onboarding services
Best for: Organisations that need procurement-friendly terms and audit trails. Everyone else is better served by Pro or Business.
How Lovable Credits Actually Work
Lovable's single most misread pricing detail: one credit is not one message. Credits are consumed by task complexity, and the same balance pays for building, Cloud hosting, and any AI features your app exposes to its own users.
✅ Doesn't Cost You
- Plan Mode: a flat 1 credit per message, regardless of how big the plan is
- Reading and navigating your existing project does not itself draw credits
- Daily build grants (5/day) arrive on every plan, free and paid alike
💳 Draws Down Your Plan
- Default Mode: cost scales with task complexity, not message count
- Lovable's own published examples: a button restyle ~0.50 credits, removing a footer ~0.90, adding auth with signup and login ~1.20, a full landing page with generated images ~1.70
- Cloud hosting draws from the same balance your builds do
- AI features you ship inside your app burn your credits when your users trigger them
How to Stop Burning Lovable Credits
Use Plan Mode for anything ambiguous
Plan Mode is a flat 1 credit per message. If you are still figuring out what you want, thinking out loud in Plan Mode is cheaper and produces a better prompt than three vague Default Mode attempts that each cost more than a credit.
Batch related changes into one prompt
Complexity pricing rewards a single well-scoped request over five small ones. "Add auth with signup, login, and a password reset" costs meaningfully less than three separate rounds.
Watch the per-message cost in your history
Hovering the three-dot menu on any message shows what it cost. Ten minutes reading your own history teaches you more about your burn rate than any pricing page.
Mind the expiry dates
Monthly plan credits expire two months after issue. Annual plan credits expire one month after the annual period ends. Top-up credits last twelve months. Daily build grants expire the same day and never roll over — if you are on a paid plan, using the daily grant first is free money.
Set per-member credit limits before inviting the team
Pro and above let you cap individual spend. On a shared balance, one enthusiastic teammate can drain a month in an afternoon.
Which Lovable Plan Should You Choose?
Choose Free if:
- You are testing whether prompt-to-app works for your idea
- A lovable.app subdomain and a visible badge are fine
- You can live with roughly 5 credits a day and no rollover
Choose Pro ($25/mo) if:
- You want a custom domain and no Lovable badge
- You are shipping something a client or customer will see
- You want credits to roll over and to be able to top up mid-build
- This is the right default for almost every individual builder
Choose Business ($50/mo) if:
- More than one person builds in the same workspace
- You need SSO, role-based access, and internal publishing
- You understand it is the same 100 credits as Pro — you are buying governance
Choose Enterprise if:
- You need SCIM, audit logs, and publishing controls
- Credit consumption is high enough that volume pricing beats a flat allowance
- Procurement requires a custom agreement
Not sure? Spend a week on the free daily grant and track what your typical request costs. If 30 credits a month gets you nowhere, Pro at $25 plus occasional top-ups is the realistic budget — not $25 flat.
Frequently Asked Questions
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