Pricing guideUpdated

Lovable pricing in 2026, explained

Every Lovable plan, what a credit buys, and what hosting on Lovable Cloud and AI inside your app add to the bill, with Fabricate's prices beside them.

Lovable's free plan gives 5 build credits a day, up to 30 a month; Pro costs $25 a month for 100 credits and Business $50, or $21 and $42 billed yearly. One credit balance pays for building, for hosting on Lovable Cloud and for the AI your app uses.

By the Fabricate teamWe make Fabricate6 min readPrices checked

One app, one month

On Fabricate
First build
about 23 credits
30 changes in chat
about 267 credits
People visiting the live app
Not billed

About 290 credits

Pro at $25 covers it

350 credits a monthEnough for about 15 new apps or 40 changes

Medians from real Fabricate builds: a first build uses about 23 credits and a change about 9.

The short answer

Lovable

$25a month for Pro

  • One credit balance for building, hosting on Lovable Cloud and AI in your app
  • Free: 5 build credits a day, up to 30 a month, and 5 lovable.app addresses
  • Unused monthly credits roll over, and expire two months after they are issued

Fabricate

We make this

$25a month for 350 credits

  • Enough for about 15 new apps or 40 changes
  • Free: 60 credits a month to build and preview. Going live needs Pro.
  • Visitors to your live app use no credits, unless the app uses AI for them
  • Extra credits from $10 for 100, and they never expire

Lovable's plans

Billed monthly, as listed on Lovable's own pricing page. Billed yearly, Pro costs $21 a month and Business $42, and both come in larger credit sizes.

lovable.dev/pricing, checked (opens in a new tab)

  • Free

    $0

    5 build credits a day, up to 30 a month, plus 20 Cloud and 4 AI credits a month

    Any number of collaborators, Lovable Cloud, and 5 lovable.app addresses for what you publish, public or invite-only, with the Lovable badge.

  • Pro

    $25a month

    $21 a month billed yearly

    100 credits a month plus 5 build credits a day, in sizes up to 10,000 credits

    Your own domains, credits that roll over, top-ups, code editing, roles and per-member credit limits, and no Lovable badge.

  • Business

    $50a month

    $42 a month billed yearly

    100 credits a month plus 5 build credits a day, in sizes up to 10,000 credits

    Adds single sign-on, a team workspace with role-based access, publishing to just your workspace, a security center and design templates.

  • Enterprise

    Custom

    Volume-based credit pricing on top of a platform fee

    SCIM, audit logs, control over who publishes and invites, EU inference, and GitHub Enterprise.

How Lovable counts credits

Lovable bills from one credit balance. Building costs what the work behind it costs: a message in Plan mode is 1 credit, and a Build mode message is priced on the work done. Lovable's own examples are 0.50 credits to make a button gray, 0.90 to remove a footer, 1.20 to add sign-up and login, and 1.70 to 2.00 for a landing page with generated images. A long Build mode message checks in when it has cost 20 credits, by default, and can run for up to 10 hours, and a message set as a goal with /goal costs noticeably more for the same work.

The same balance pays to run your app. Hosting it on Lovable Cloud, with its database, storage, compute and realtime updates, uses credits as people use the app, and so does the AI your app calls, priced on the model and the tokens. Every plan but Enterprise has grants that are spent first: 5 build credits a day (up to 30 a month on Free), 20 Cloud credits, 4 AI credits and 1 connector credit a month, and a daily chat allowance. Lovable says most small apps' hosting fits inside the grant; the grants and its chat pricing are temporary, with the chat pricing set through October 31, 2026.

Pro and Business add 100 credits a month, more in larger sizes, and unused ones roll over while you stay subscribed: monthly plan credits expire two months after they are issued, and on a yearly plan one month after the year ends. Top-ups cost $15 for 50 credits on Pro and $30 on Business, and last 12 months. There is no price per seat: everyone in a workspace shares its credits. Business credits are priced higher than Pro's, but hosting and AI in your app cost the same in dollars on both, so they use fewer Business credits.

Side by side at each price

Each of Lovable's plans beside Fabricate's plan closest in price. Each tool counts credits its own way, so compare what a month buys, not the number on the plan.

  1. A month: $0

    Lovable

    Free · $0

    5 build credits a day, up to 30 a month, plus 20 Cloud and 4 AI credits a month

    Fabricate

    Free · $0

    60 credits a month

    Enough for about 1 new app or 6 changes. Build and preview apps.

  2. A month: $25

    Lovable

    Pro · $25

    100 credits a month plus 5 build credits a day, in sizes up to 10,000 credits

    Fabricate

    Pro · $25

    350 credits a month

    Enough for about 15 new apps or 40 changes. Any number of apps online, up to 5 of your own domains.

  3. A month: $50

    Lovable

    Business · $50

    100 credits a month plus 5 build credits a day, in sizes up to 10,000 credits

    Fabricate

    Pro 750 · $50

    750 credits a month

    Enough for about 35 new apps or 85 changes. Any number of apps online, up to 5 of your own domains.

What one app costs on Fabricate

Most of a month's credits go on changes, not the first build. Here is an example month on one app, drawn against Pro's 350 credits, and a way to price your own.

An example month: one app and 30 changes

First build
about 23
30 changes
about 267
People using the live app
Not billed
In all
Inside Pro's 350, with about 60 to spare
about 290

One exception: on Pro and Max, when your app uses AI for its visitors, answering them or reading documents they upload, each use is paid from your credits. Serving the app itself never is.

Estimate your month

New apps1
Changes30

New apps: 1, Changes: 30. About 290 credits a month

Pro at $25 covers it

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Costs people miss

The plan price is the easy part. These four decide what a month really comes to.

  • Running out mid-month

    • LovableBuilding stops and the AI features in your apps stop; the published site stays live, though apps that run on Lovable Cloud can pause until you add credits. Top-ups, on Pro and Business only, cost $15 or $30 for 50 credits and last 12 months.

    • FabricateOn Pro and Max, extra credits start at $10 for 100 and never expire, and apps on a paid plan stay online when credits run out.

  • Your own domain

    • LovableFrom Pro, at $25 a month. On Free, what you publish lives at lovable.app addresses, 5 at most, with the Lovable badge.

    • FabricatePro connects up to 5 domains you own and Max up to 20, with the secure padlock set up for you.

  • Traffic to the live app

    • LovableBilled in credits as people use the app: hosting on Lovable Cloud draws on a grant of 20 Cloud credits a month, then on your balance, by the database, storage, network and compute the app uses.

    • FabricateNot billed. Serving your published app never touches your credits.

  • AI inside your app

    • LovableEach AI call your app makes uses credits, priced on the model and the tokens, after a grant of 4 AI credits a month.

    • FabricateOn Pro and Max, each AI answer your app gives and each document it reads is paid from your credits, and "Where your credits went" lists them for each app.

When Lovable is the better buy

Lovable's Free plan puts what you build online at up to 5 lovable.app addresses, public or invite-only, with the Lovable badge, and syncs your code with GitHub. On Fabricate, Free builds and previews, and going live needs Pro. Every Lovable plan also takes any number of collaborators, who share one balance, where Fabricate's Pro has room for you and 3 people you invite.

Its credits can go further on small edits, too. By Lovable's own examples a small change costs under a credit, so Pro's 100 credits a month may cover more small changes than Fabricate's Pro, where a change uses about 9 credits at the median and 350 credits cover about 40. On Lovable, hosting and the AI in your app draw on the same balance, so add them to the sum. We make Fabricate, so we say this part plainly.

Questions people ask

Lovable's answers come from its own pages, read October 26, 2026. Fabricate's come from our live plans.

Is Lovable free?
Yes, to start. Lovable's Free plan costs $0, with 5 build credits a day, up to 30 a month, plus 20 Cloud and 4 AI credits a month, and it puts what you build online at up to 5 lovable.app addresses with the Lovable badge. Pro costs $25 a month, or $21 billed yearly.
How much does Lovable cost?
Pro is $25 a month for 100 credits and Business $50, or $21 and $42 a month billed yearly. Both come in larger sizes: Pro up to 10,000 credits for $2,250 a month, and Business up to 10,000 for $4,300. Enterprise has a platform fee and volume-based pricing.
Does Lovable have a free trial?
Lovable's pricing page offers a Free plan rather than a trial, with no credit card needed: 5 build credits a day, up to 30 a month. Students can get up to 50% off Pro.
How do Lovable credits work?
One balance pays for building, chatting with Lovable, hosting your app on Lovable Cloud and the AI features your app uses. The grants for each kind of use are spent first, then your general credits, the ones closest to expiry first. A Plan mode message costs 1 credit, and a Build mode message what its work costs, from 0.50 credits for a small change in Lovable's examples.
Do Lovable credits roll over?
Yes, while you stay subscribed, but they expire: monthly plan credits two months after they are issued, and yearly plan credits one month after the year ends. Top-up credits last 12 months, and the daily build credits expire at the end of each day.
When do Lovable credits reset?
Plan credits arrive at the start of each billing period. The daily build credits and chat allowance refresh every day at midnight UTC, and the monthly Cloud and AI grants on the 1st of each month on Free, or with your billing cycle on Pro and Business.
What happens when Lovable credits run out?
Building stops and the AI features in your apps stop, and apps on Lovable Cloud can pause until you add credits, though the published site stays live. Pro and Business can buy top-ups, $15 for 50 credits on Pro and $30 on Business, once or automatically, and they last 12 months.
Does Lovable charge per user?
No. Workspaces take any number of members on every plan, and everyone shares the workspace's credits, so adding people costs nothing in itself; from Pro, owners and admins can cap each member's monthly use.
How much does it cost to host an app on Lovable?
For most small or new apps, nothing beyond the plan, says Lovable: the monthly grant of 20 Cloud credits covers publishing and running them. Apps with significant traffic or size use credits from your balance for their database, storage, network and compute.
What happens when Fabricate credits run out?
Nothing is lost: your apps stay in your account, and apps on a paid plan stay online. You can upgrade, or wait until your credits refill next month. On Pro and Max you can also buy extra credits, which never expire: 100 for $10, 300 for $27, 600 for $51, 1,000 for $80, 2,500 for $185, 5,000 for $350 or 10,000 for $650.
Is there a cheaper Lovable alternative?
It depends on what you build. Lovable Pro costs $25 a month, $5 more than Base44 Starter, Emergent Standard and Replit Core, and the same as Bolt.new Pro and Fabricate Pro. How far each tool's credits go on your app decides what a month costs, so compare what a month buys, not the price on the plan.

Sources

The pages this guide quotes, each with the day it was read.

  1. lovable.dev/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  2. Lovable docs: credits and usage (opens in a new tab), checked
  3. Lovable docs: subscription plans (opens in a new tab), checked
  4. Lovable docs: credit top-ups (opens in a new tab), checked
  5. Lovable docs: project usage and costs (opens in a new tab), checked
  6. Lovable docs: publishing (opens in a new tab), checked
  7. Lovable docs: Lovable Cloud (opens in a new tab), checked
  8. base44.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  9. emergent.sh/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  10. replit.com/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  11. bolt.new/pricing (opens in a new tab), checked
  12. fabricate.build/pricing, from our live plans
  13. Fabricate's credit medians, measured from real builds, September 1 to 18, 2026

About this guide

Fabricate wrote this guide, and we make one of the two tools in it. Lovable's prices are copied from its own pages with the day we read them; Fabricate's come from the same settings that bill you.

The pages we read about each tool are listed here, each with the day we read it. We compared the tools from their own pricing pages and documentation, not by signing up for them. Spotted something out of date? Write to info@fabricate.build.

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