Lovable pricing in 2026: plans, credits and hosting

Lovable pricing starts with a free plan. Pro and Business are each sold in credit sizes from 100 a month upward, and Enterprise is priced by contract. Pro's smallest size is $25 a month for 100 credits, or $250 a year, which works out at $21 a month. One credit balance pays for building your app, running it on Lovable Cloud and any AI features your app calls at runtime. We read every figure on Lovable's pricing page and in its subscription plans and credits and usage docs on 27 September 2026, in US dollars, and checked each one again on 10 October 2026, when none had moved. The parts on hosting come from Lovable's hosting and Cloud settings docs, read on 10 October 2026.

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Lovable pricing plans

Pro and Business are both sold in credit tiers, so the price below is each plan's smallest tier. Larger tiers cost more and give you more credits a month, up to 10,000.

Free, Pro and Business all include a daily chat allowance, a monthly Cloud grant of 20 credits and a monthly AI grant of 4 credits, on top of whatever plan credits you're paying for. Lovable calls the Cloud and AI grants a temporary offering that may change. Every plan takes as many workspace members as you like, since Lovable prices plans by credits, not seats, so a bigger team only uses the shared credits faster.

Students and teachers get 50% off Pro's 100-credit tier, billed monthly, for up to 12 months. Lovable checks your account's email domain against its list of academic institutions on its students page, and only a workspace on Free can claim it, once per person.

Business costs about twice Pro for the same tier of credits. Lovable's own FAQ puts that down to the features Business adds for teams, and says running your app and its AI features costs no more there. A Business credit is priced higher, so the same Cloud and AI usage takes fewer of them. The FAQ adds that what a credit buys "depend[s] on your subscription plan and the feature used", so treat the example costs below as a guide rather than a fixed price.

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Lovable's free credits per day

Lovable's free credits are 5 build credits a day, on Free, Pro and Business alike. They reset at 00:00 UTC, and what you don't use that day is gone, since daily credits never roll over. Lovable spends them before any credits you've paid for.

• On Free, daily build credits stop at 30 a calendar month. Lovable's own example is that a Free workspace gets them on the first 6 days of each month, 6 times 5 making 30, and then none until the 1st.
• On Pro and Business, there's no monthly cap, so 5 a day adds up to about 150 a month on top of your plan credits. Lovable's pricing FAQ adds that some regional plans cap them at 30 a month.
• The daily chat allowance is separate. It covers Chat mode and Lovable's Chats, resets at 00:00 UTC too, and is larger on Pro and Business than on Free.
• On Enterprise, there are no daily credits, no chat allowance and no Cloud or AI grants, so building and chatting spend the workspace's credits from the first message.

What a credit buys, and what burns them

Lovable's project chat has three modes, and only two of them are billed as building.

• Plan mode costs 1 credit a message, plus the cost of any research Lovable runs while planning. It never changes your code, so it's for thinking an idea through first.
• Build mode is the one that changes your app, and its cost depends on how complex the request is. By Lovable's own examples, making a button grey costs 0.50 credits, removing a footer 0.90, adding sign up and login 1.20, and a landing page with generated images 1.70 on its pricing page or 2.00 in its credits docs.
• Chat mode, like messages in Lovable's separate Chats feature and in Slack or Telegram, is priced per message, at "typically a fraction of a credit". It draws on a daily chat allowance first, then your daily build credits, then your general credits. Lovable calls this pricing a temporary offering that runs through 31 October 2026.

Lovable's single balance covers building, hosting and AI features together, so a busy live app and a busy afternoon of building draw on the same credits. Base44 keeps building and running apart in two separate credit types, and Base44 pricing has the split.

How much Lovable Cloud and hosting cost

Publishing puts your app on a public address with HTTPS on every plan, and Lovable's hosting docs say a live site uses no credits on its own. Your plan doesn't cap visitors or bandwidth either. The one exception is Free, where apps created from 13 May 2026 are limited to 1,000 server requests per project every 10 seconds. What costs credits is the work your app does while it runs, its backend and its AI features, and both spend from the same balance you build with.

• Cloud costs pay for Lovable's built-in backend, which covers your database's size and instance, storage for files, network traffic, background compute and any realtime features such as chat or live updates. They draw on the monthly 20-credit Cloud grant first, then your general credits. Lovable's pricing page says most small or new apps stay inside the included grant, and that an app may start costing more once it reaches significant traffic or size.
• Your database's size sets much of the Cloud bill. Free runs on the smallest instance, Tiny. Paid plans can pick Mini, Small, Medium, Large or X-Large, and each larger size costs more credits per hour while your app runs. Lovable's Manage instance dialog shows an estimated monthly cost under each size, worked out from your app's last 30 days of use, and the estimate is in credits.
• An idle project is paused by Lovable after a while, unless it runs scheduled jobs or other background work. A paused project stops spending credits on everything but storage, since your data stays in place.
• AI gateway costs cover AI features your published app calls at runtime, such as a chatbot you built inside it. Each call is priced by the model and the tokens it uses, drawing on the monthly 4-credit AI grant first, then general credits.
• Custom domains need Pro or Business. On Free, your app stays on a lovable.app address.

You own your code and data, and Lovable's docs say you can host part or all of your app somewhere else. Git sync is on every plan, so the code can live in your own repository from day one.

Which Lovable plan to choose

For most founders the choice comes down to four steps, taken in this order.

1. Start on Free while you're trying an idea. By Lovable's own example, its 30 build credits a month all arrive in the first 6 days of the month, and your app stays on a lovable.app address with the "Edit with Lovable" badge.
2. Move to Pro once you want a custom domain, to edit or download the code, or to drop the badge. Pick the smallest tier, 100 credits for $25, and move up a tier only when you've run short for a month or two, since unused credits roll over while you stay subscribed.
3. Pick Business only if your team needs single sign-on, role-based access, design templates or a published app only your workspace can open. It costs twice as much per tier, and Lovable says running your app and its AI features costs the same on it. Without those needs, Pro does the same job.
4. Pay yearly once you know you're staying. Lovable says yearly billing gives you two months free, so Pro's smallest tier comes to $250 a year rather than $300.

Enterprise is for larger companies that need SCIM, audit logs, EU inference or dedicated support, and it's priced by contract.

Three months on Lovable, worked out

These are our estimates, from Lovable's own example costs and grants, not a guarantee of what you'll spend.

A weekend MVP, on Free. Free's build credits are a daily grant, not a pool, so a weekend in the first 6 days of the month gives you two days of it, 10 credits. That's enough for one landing page with images (up to 2.00), a sign up and login flow (1.20), and half a dozen smaller changes at 0.50 to 0.90 each, roughly 3 to 5 credits more. Push past that and building pauses until the next day's grant lands. By Lovable's own example, a weekend later in the month brings no build credits on Free at all, because the month's 30 were granted on its first 6 days.

A month of steady building, on Pro. 100 credits a month, at $25, covers roughly 60 to 80 Build mode messages at Lovable's own middle example cost of 1.20, plus a Plan mode message here and there at 1 credit each. Pro's 5 daily build credits come on top, so building every day adds up to about 150 more. Unused credits roll over to next month as long as you stay subscribed, so a quiet month banks credit for a busier one.

A live app with a support chatbot, on Pro. Once you publish, the monthly 20-credit Cloud grant and 4-credit AI grant cover a small app's hosting and its first 4 credits of AI calls each month. A chatbot answering real volumes uses more than those 4 credits in a month, so its replies start drawing on your general credits, the same balance you build with. A busy week of questions can leave you short of credits to keep building.

What happens when Lovable credits run out

When the balance reaches zero, each thing it pays for stops in its own way.

• Building stops. Lovable shows a blocking dialog until you add credits, and pauses any message it was mid-way through so you can resume it later.
• Chats and Chat mode keep working until the daily chat allowance runs out for the day, since that allowance doesn't depend on your credit balance.
• AI features in your published app stop working, because they need credits at the moment they run.
• Backend services such as your database, storage and sign-in pause shortly after your workspace has no credits left at all.
• Your published site and its address stay in place. A paused backend may not restart by itself when credits come back, so check it's running again.

A Pro top-up costs $15 for 50 credits, $0.30 a credit. On Business it's $30 for 50, $0.60 a credit. Auto top-up can buy more automatically at a threshold you set.

What a launched Lovable app still needs

Once people use what you built, they'll have questions, and you'll want to know where they came from. Lovable's guide to building a chatbot has you write the fallback, the alert for when someone needs a person and the review of what people asked. Every reply that chatbot writes spends the same credits you build with, and what a Lovable chatbot costs to run has the sums.

Deacon does both from one script tag, and its answers come from its own plan, so a busy week of questions never touches your Lovable credits. It answers your app's visitors in seconds from your own docs, at any hour, and in whatever language they write in. When your docs don't cover a question, it says it doesn't know instead of guessing and asks for their email. When someone leaves an address or asks for a person, Deacon emails you a few minutes later unless someone on your team is already in its dashboard, and whatever you type back there appears in their chat while they still have it open. Questions it couldn't answer wait for you with an Answer this button, and what you write becomes part of what Deacon knows, so it needs you less over time.

Deacon also shows you what your app's users are asking for. Topics group the questions across conversations, count the people behind each and label most of them, for example as a bug report or a feature ask, so the next credits you spend in Lovable go on what people actually asked for. That one script tag also counts your visitors, the sites that sent them and the sign-ups you track as goals, so analytics needs nothing extra on your Lovable app.

Deacon on a Lovable app

Adding Deacon costs no Lovable credits beyond the one message that asks Lovable to paste the tag. On the Install page, list the address your app is published on, a lovable.app address on Free, since custom domains need Pro or Business. Copy your script tag, paste it into the Lovable project chat and ask Lovable to add it just before the closing body tag on every page, then publish. Deacon and Lovable has the full steps.

Deacon's plans differ only in answers, knowledge, pages and seats, so Free has every feature too. Free is 50 answers a month and 1 seat, with no card and no end date. Starter is $50 a month, or $40 a month billed yearly, for 1,000 answers a month and 3 seats. Growth is $150 a month, or $120 a month billed yearly, for 4,000 answers a month and 10 seats. No plan bills past its answers or upgrades itself, and none of them carries a "powered by" line.

Questions about Lovable pricing

Is Lovable free?

Yes. Lovable's Free plan gives you 5 build credits a day, up to 30 a month, plus 20 Cloud credits and 4 AI feature credits a month. What it holds back is editing code directly, a custom domain, downloading your code and removing the "Edit with Lovable" badge.

How much does Lovable cost a month?

Pro starts at $25 a month for 100 credits, or $21 a month billed yearly, and goes up to 10,000 credits at $2,250 a month. Business starts at $50 a month for 100 credits, or $42 billed yearly, up to 10,000 credits at $4,300 a month. Enterprise is priced by contract.

Do Lovable credits roll over?

Monthly plan credits do, automatically, as long as you keep paying. They expire 2 months after they're issued on monthly billing, or 1 month after your annual period ends. Daily build credits, the monthly Cloud grant and the monthly AI grant don't roll over. Each expires at the end of its own day or month.

Can I buy more Lovable credits?

Yes, on Pro or Business. A one-time top-up is $15 for 50 credits on Pro or $30 for 50 on Business, and top-up credits last 12 months. Free workspaces can't buy top-ups and wait for the next day's or month's grant instead.

How many free credits does Lovable give per day?

5 build credits a day, on Free, Pro and Business, reset at 00:00 UTC, plus a separate daily allowance for Chat mode. On Free they stop at 30 a month, which by Lovable's own example means the first 6 days of each month. Pro and Business have no monthly cap on them, apart from some regional plans.

How much does Lovable Cloud cost?

Lovable Cloud has no price of its own. It's paid in credits, first from the 20-credit Cloud grant that Free, Pro and Business get each month, then from your general credits. Lovable says most small or new apps stay inside the grant. A larger database instance costs more credits per hour, and Lovable shows an estimated monthly cost for each size before you switch. Past the grant, a Pro top-up of $15 for 50 credits works out at $0.30 a credit.

Does Lovable charge for hosting?

Not on its own. Publishing is included on every plan, a live site uses no credits by itself, and no plan caps visitors or bandwidth, though newer apps on Free have a limit on server requests. What costs credits is your app's backend and AI features as they run, and a custom domain needs Pro or Business.

Who owns the code Lovable writes?

You do. Lovable's pricing FAQ says you own the apps, websites and other projects you build, along with any AI output. Git sync to GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket is on every plan, Free included, and downloading your code outright needs Pro or Business.

Will Deacon spend my Lovable credits?

No. Deacon counts only its own answers, on its own plan, and adding its script tag costs no more than the one Lovable message it takes to paste it in. Deacon's free plan has 50 answers a month with no card, and it works on a lovable.app address, so you don't need a paid Lovable plan to add it.