Is Lovable free? What it actually costs in 2026
Yes, there is a free tier — with limits.
Verified on Lovable's subscription-plan and credits documentation and lovable.dev/pricing 2026-10-06. Free is $0 with 5 build credits a day (capped at 30 a month), 20 Cloud credits and 4 AI credits a month. Pro starts at $25/month for 100 monthly credits ($250 a year billed annually) and scales in tiers to $2,250/month for 10,000 credits; Business starts at $50/month for 100 credits and runs to $4,300 for 10,000; Enterprise is volume-priced. Plans are priced by credits, not seats, and a whole workspace shares one pool. One balance pays for building, for hosting and the built-in backend, and for AI features inside your app. In Default mode a message costs according to its complexity (Lovable's examples run from 0.50 to 1.70 credits); Plan mode is 1 credit a message. Top-ups cost $15 per 50 credits on Pro and $30 per 50 on Business. Monthly credits expire two months after issue, and credits are not refundable. Lovable labels the monthly Cloud and AI grants and its chat pricing as temporary, with the current chat pricing running through 31 October 2026.
When paying is still the right call
Often, if you are not a developer. Lovable runs everything for you (hosting, database, authentication, security scanning and custom domains) and says its infrastructure is SOC 2 Type 2 and ISO 27001 certified; switching means operating those pieces yourself, a list Lovable sets out plainly in its own migration guide. Stay if your team builds together, since plans are priced by credits rather than seats and every plan allows unlimited workspace members. And if model training on your data is the concern, the opt-out in account settings, or a Business plan where workspace data is excluded by default, may settle it without moving anything.
What you are locked into
Low on code, moderate on the backend, and Lovable documents the way out. Git sync, available on every plan, keeps the code in your own repository; editing and downloading code inside Lovable need a paid plan. The frontend can move to any static host (older Vite apps) or a host that runs server code (TanStack Start apps). The built-in backend takes real work: Lovable supports moving it to managed or self-hosted Supabase, and notes that moving the PostgreSQL database alone does not move authentication, storage, realtime or edge functions, and that other databases are not supported destinations. Calls that run through Lovable's services, such as AI features in your app, need replacing after a move.
If you would rather not pay: Dyad
Dyad
A free desktop app builder with Supabase built in, any model, and your code on your own disk.
Free and open source; bring your own API key or a ChatGPT subscription, or run a local model. The free Basic Agent is listed at 20 messages a day. Optional Dyad Pro is $20/month with 200 AI credits, and Dyad Max $79/month with 900. Verified on dyad.sh/pro 2026-10-06.
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