If you have opened Lovable in the last month you probably noticed the pricing page got cleaner, the credit limits shifted, and the Teams plan grew up. This guide walks through every plan in 2026, explains how credits really work, and shows you which tier actually fits the kind of project you are building.
Quick answer up front. Free is enough to test the product and ship one tiny app. Pro at twenty five dollars a month is the sweet spot for solo builders, indie hackers, and side project people. Teams starts at thirty dollars per seat and is built for small companies that want shared projects, roles, and centralized billing.
The plans at a glance
Lovable keeps the structure simple. Three public tiers plus a custom Enterprise track for larger orgs. Here is the short version before we go deep on each one.
- Free. Zero dollars. Five daily credits up to roughly thirty per month. Public projects only. Perfect for learning the workflow.
- Pro. Twenty five dollars per month. One hundred monthly credits, private projects, custom domains, and the full editor. This is what most solo builders actually use.
- Teams. Thirty dollars per seat per month. Everything in Pro plus shared workspaces, roles, centralized billing, and pooled credits across the team.
- Enterprise. Custom pricing. SSO, audit logs, dedicated support, security review, and volume credit packs.
Annual billing usually shaves around twenty percent off the monthly rate. If you already know you are sticking with Lovable for a quarter or longer, switching to yearly is the cheapest single optimization you can make.
What a credit actually is
Before comparing plans you need to understand the unit. A credit in Lovable is roughly one AI generation request. Writing a new component, refactoring a file, wiring a Supabase table, or asking the agent to debug an error each consume credits. Simple prompts cost one credit. Bigger tasks that touch many files or run agents can cost more.
A handful of things do not burn credits. Editing code yourself in the inline editor is free. Hitting the visual edits panel to tweak text, color, or layout is free. Publishing, connecting a domain, browsing your project history, and previewing your app are all free. You only spend credits when the AI does real work for you.
Think of a credit as one round trip with the assistant. If you batch your asks into clear, specific prompts you get more out of every one.
The Free plan
Free is genuinely useful, not a teaser. You get five credits per day with a soft monthly ceiling, full access to the editor, hosting on a lovable.app subdomain, and the same AI models that paid users get. The catch is that all projects on Free are public, which is fine for portfolios and demos but not for client work or anything with secrets.
You will outgrow Free fast if you do any of these things.
- Build more than one real product at a time.
- Need a custom domain like yourbrand.com.
- Want a private project for a client or a startup idea.
- Hit the daily limit before you finish your build session.
If you only want to learn how AI app building feels, start here for a week. Once you ship your first tiny app and want to keep iterating without watching a daily counter, upgrade.
The Pro plan, where most people land
Pro is twenty five dollars per month and includes one hundred credits. It unlocks everything that turns Lovable from a demo into a real tool. Private projects, custom domains, GitHub sync, Supabase integration with full database access, and the ability to publish to your own URL with one click.
One hundred credits sounds modest but it goes further than you think. A normal session for me looks like this. Spin up a landing page in three prompts. Wire a Supabase form in two. Add auth in two. Fix a styling bug in one. That is a real, deployable mini product for under ten credits. The rest of the month is iteration money.
For solo founders, indie hackers, freelancers, and anyone building marketing pages or internal tools, Pro is the obvious pick. If you want to compare what an upgrade unlocks before committing, my full Lovable review for 2026 walks through every feature in practice.
The Teams plan
Teams starts at thirty dollars per seat per month and is what you want the moment a second human touches the project. It adds a shared workspace, role based access, member invites, centralized billing under one card, and pooled credits across every seat.
Pooled credits is the part people miss. On Teams you do not get fixed credits per seat that go to waste when one person is on vacation. The whole team shares a budget. So a three seat team with one heavy builder and two reviewers gets way more usable capacity than three solo Pro accounts.
Pick Teams when any of these are true.
- You and a co founder are both building inside the same workspace.
- You run an agency and want client projects under one bill.
- A designer reviews and a developer ships, both on the same project.
- You need to remove access when someone leaves without losing the project.
Enterprise, and when to even ask
Enterprise is custom priced and gated through a sales conversation. You only need it if your company requires SSO, audit logs, a signed DPA, security questionnaires, or volume credit packs that go well past what Teams sells off the shelf. If you are a solo or a small startup, ignore this tier completely. Pro or Teams will cover you.
How to make your credits last
Most people who feel like Lovable is expensive are actually using it inefficiently. Three changes will dramatically lower your credit burn without lowering your output.
1. Write better prompts
One vague prompt that gets edited five times costs five credits. One clear prompt that lands the first time costs one. Spend ten seconds writing a real spec, name the file, the component, the props, and the desired behavior. My vibe coding prompt library has ready to paste prompts that are tuned for one shot accuracy.
2. Edit small things by hand
Typos, color swaps, padding tweaks, and renaming a button do not need the AI. Use the visual edits panel or open the code editor and change one line. That is zero credits and three seconds.
3. Batch your asks
Instead of three prompts that each touch the navbar, write one prompt that lists all three changes. The agent handles them in a single pass. One credit instead of three, and the result is more consistent because the AI sees the whole change at once.
Is Pro actually worth twenty five dollars
YES! Compare it to what you would otherwise pay. A junior developer on Upwork to spin up the same kind of landing page costs at least one hundred fifty dollars. A monthly Webflow plan with CMS sits around twenty nine dollars and does not write any code. A ChatGPT Plus subscription is twenty dollars and gives you text only, no live preview, no deploy.
For twenty five dollars you get a full code editor that ships real React apps to a real URL, with a database, with auth, and with your own domain. If you publish a single small project in a month that you would have otherwise paid a freelancer for, the plan paid for itself ten times over.
How Lovable pricing compares
The closest competitors right now are Bolt.new, Replit Agent, and v0 by Vercel. Pricing structures differ but the rough picture in 2026 looks like this.
- Lovable Pro. Twenty five dollars per month. Best for visual builders who want a real React app and a polished editor.
- Bolt Pro. Around twenty dollars per month. Strong for quick prototypes, weaker on long lived projects and team features. See the deep dive in my Lovable vs Bolt comparison.
- Replit Core. Around twenty five dollars per month plus usage based agent costs. Great if you also want a full cloud IDE for non AI work.
- v0 by Vercel. Twenty dollars per month. Excellent at UI generation, not a full app builder out of the box.
For a wider comparison with the AI coding assistants used inside IDEs, see my piece on Claude Code vs Cursor vs GitHub Copilot. Different tool category, similar money question.
Hidden costs to know about
The plan price is what you pay Lovable. There are a few extras that are not Lovable fees but show up on your card if you scale up.
- Custom domain. You buy it from a registrar like Namecheap or Cloudflare, usually around ten to fifteen dollars per year.
- Supabase. Free tier is generous. If your app grows past it, paid Supabase starts at twenty five dollars per month.
- External APIs. If your app calls OpenAI, Stripe, or other paid APIs, those bills go directly to those providers.
None of these are Lovable surprises, but you should plan for them if you are taking your project past the prototype stage.
FAQ
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Monthly plans cancel immediately at the end of the billing period. Annual plans run until the year ends. There is no contract.
Do unused credits roll over?
Credits reset every month on monthly plans. They do not stack. If you know you will not use them, downgrade for that month and upgrade again later.
Can I get a refund?
Lovable offers refunds within a reasonable window if you have not used the plan heavily. Email support and they tend to be fair. Annual plans are handled case by case.
What happens if I run out of credits?
You can still open and edit your projects manually, publish, and use visual edits. You just cannot ask the AI to write code until the next reset or until you top up.
Is there a student or nonprofit discount?
There is no public student plan in 2026, but Lovable has approved discounts for verified nonprofits and education projects on request. Contact support before paying.
Does Free have any restrictions on what I can build?
You can build almost anything. The two real limits are that projects are public and that you cannot use a custom domain. Functionality is the same as Pro.
So which plan should you pick
If you have never used Lovable, start on Free this week, ship one small thing, then decide. If you already know you want to build real projects, skip ahead and grab Pro. The twenty five dollars buys you everything you actually need as a solo builder.
If you are a two person team or an agency, Teams pays for itself the moment you stop juggling personal accounts and shared logins. Pooled credits alone usually justify the jump.
One last tip. If you sign up through my referral link you get ten free credits on top of the Free plan. That is two extra build sessions for zero dollars, which is plenty to decide whether Pro is worth it for your workflow. Use them on a real project, not a throwaway test, and you will know within an afternoon.
