Lovable pricing: the free plan, credits and what Pro and Business cost

The short answer

• Is it free? Yes, with no credit card: 30 build credits per month, at most 5 per day.
• First paid price. Pro, at $25 per month billed monthly or $21 per month billed annually, for 100 credits per month.
• What a credit counts. The agent’s work on each message, at a variable cost, but also the running of the backend and the AI inside published apps.

How to read the price list

Lovable sells two things at once: a feature level (Free, Pro, Business, Enterprise) and a monthly volume of credits, picked from a selector that runs from 100 to 10,000. Members are unlimited on every plan: the price does not depend on headcount.

Pro and Business start at the same volume but not at the same price: a Business credit costs twice as much as a Pro credit. Business adds team features (team workspace, single sign-on or SSO, workspace-only publishing), not credits.

The tier table also shows a volume discount the vendor does not spell out. Up to 800 credits, price is proportional to volume. From 1,200 credits up, the price per credit drops: at the 10,000-credit tier it is 10% lower than at the 100-credit tier on Pro, and 14% lower on Business.

Monthly or annual billing

Billed annually, Pro at 100 credits comes to $21 per month instead of $25. The vendor presents the gap as two months free (Lovable pricing page (accessed November 11, 2026)). The monthly figure shown for annual billing is rounded: the documentation gives the yearly total.

Prices on this page are in dollars, as published in the vendor’s documentation.

How many credits for what: three scenarios

The vendor publishes three cost examples for the default mode (“Build”): 0.50 credits to change a button color, 0.90 to remove a footer, 1.20 to add authentication. Taking them as a small, a medium and a large request gives:

Scenario	Math	Credits	What that means
Touch up an existing page: 20 small requests	20 × 0.50	10	Two days of free credits (5 per day)
Build a small app in 40 messages: 20 small, 15 medium, 5 large	10 + 13.5 + 6	29.5	The whole free month (30 credits), over at least 6 days
Keep a project moving: 150 messages in the month, same mix	150 × 0.74	111	A little more than the 100 monthly credits of the first Pro tier

In the third case, the Pro plan’s 5 daily credits can cover the gap, provided the work is spread over several days.

These figures are orders of magnitude. Your messages will not necessarily look like the examples, and the vendor’s pages contradict each other on one of them: a landing page with images costs 1.70 credits on the pricing page and 2.00 credits in the documentation. The actual cost of each message is shown in the project history.

What rolls over and what expires

Type of credit	Rollover	Expiration
Monthly Pro and Business credits	Yes, while the subscription is active	2 months after they were granted (monthly subscription) or 1 month after the end of the annual period
Daily credits (5 per day)	No	Every day, renewed at midnight UTC
Monthly “Cloud”, AI and connector allowances	No	Every month
Top-ups	Not applicable	12 months after purchase

Credits are non-refundable.

When the balance runs out

According to the documentation, three things stop: building (the current message is paused), the AI features of published apps (they return an error) and the “Cloud” backend, paused with its data retained. The published site stays online.

• On the Free plan, there is no top-up: you wait for the renewal or move to a paid plan.
• On Pro and Business, a one-time or automatic top-up, from 50 to 10,000 credits, refills the balance. Its price is in the box at the top of the page.

The math the vendor does not do: a top-up credit costs 20% more than a subscription credit on the first tier, on Pro and on Business alike. If you go over your volume once in a while, a top-up is enough, all the more since it stays valid for 12 months. If you go over every month, moving up a tier costs less per credit.

What uses credits when you do not expect it

• “Plan” mode costs 1 credit per message, plus any research by subagents: more than a small request in “Build” mode.
• An app that uses AI consumes credits when its visitors use that feature, without you sending a single message.
• The Enterprise plan includes neither the daily credits nor the monthly “Cloud” and AI allowances.

The reverse also holds: a live site does not consume credits by itself, and no visitor or bandwidth cap is tied to the plan.

What the free plan really allows

• Publishing: yes, to a lovable.app address (5 lovable.app domains). On visibility, the vendor’s pages contradict each other: invite-only publishing according to the pricing page; public or invite-only, with 10 guests per project, according to the documentation.
• Badge: the “Edit with Lovable” badge stays on; removing it requires a paid plan.
• Domain name: no custom domain. After a return to the Free plan, custom domains already connected keep working, but no new one can be connected.
• Code: no code editing or download; GitHub sync, however, is available on every plan.
• Lifespan: an inactive free project may be unpublished.
• Team: unlimited collaborators.

Comparing with other tools

The site’s cost calculator prices workflow automation tools (Make, Zapier, n8n and the others), not app builders: Lovable’s credits are not in it. For Lovable, the math is done with the tiers and examples on this page. The guide to operations, credits, tasks and executions explains why these units cannot be compared at a glance.

Direct competitors change the unit again: tokens at Bolt (Lovable vs Bolt, Bolt pricing), two credit meters at Base44 (Lovable vs Base44). The Lovable alternatives comparison lines them up in one table, and the Lovable profile describes what the tool builds and hosts.